Xavienth
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XavienthtoToday I learned@lemmy.ml•TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire.
4·2 天前Alternatively, a more generous interpretation was he was trying to gain ground to topple it from within. That’s if you want to give him that much credit.
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technology@hexbear.net•NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like GarbageEnglish
9·4 天前Can confirm. I’ve been in a room exactly like that, where they had an antenna mounted on one wall like the above picture, an RF reflector mounted on the opposite wall, and RF dampening cones on every surface, so that they could measure the frequency curve at a distance twice that of the size of the room (the curve changes with distance)
Big Bounce is cool, but heat death isn’t such a bad thing after all because - and I’m no astrophysicist - I’ve always had a pet theory that a universe as complex as ours could emerge spontaneously from a void of nothing given quantum fluctuations and infinite time.
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Science@mander.xyz•Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
1·6 天前inb4 chatGPT secretly prompt injects “and you better be fucking correct you good-for-nothing fuckhead” into every user input to improve accuracy for GPT6
“Secret” nuclear tests aren’t a fucking thing.
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askchapo@hexbear.net•Anyone else notice that more conservative-leaning people are much more receptive to "AI"?English
4·11 天前You’re actually wrong about the specifics of energy usage. The vast majority of energy usage of a model comes from its usage, not from its training. But you are right that the energy usage of an individual prompt is relatively small, roughly comparable to 15 or so Google searches.
The problem is when you process billions of prompts every day.
two hundred thousand!
Right but the actual quantities are arbitrary. A metre is a fixed fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum, but it’s an arbitrary fraction chosen because it was convenient. We could just as well have chosen it to be half or twice as long. Same with the second. And the kilogram, etc.
Also the police showed a reckless disregard for the hostages’ lives while the captors didn’t.
Listen if you’re working for Meta you’re basically already set
Annulata and anus are cognates through that root.
“Sounds like it is working pretty well to me” when I spend multiple days trying to get Linux working for one purpose (to draw) and am unsuccessful.
This is why “current year is the year of the Linux desktop” is hilarious to anyone who doesn’t use Linux.
Well you can’t believe them because they’re brainwashed /s
The death penalty is not an effective punishment, it is a security measure and should only be used if confinement is unsuccessful and the risk is sufficient, which should be a high bar.














There’s Mayday/Air Crash Investigation, but it’s less drama and more documentary