OmnipotentEntity

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The university of potato ice is actually just daigaku imo ice cream. Other than that it seems accurate. Oppai ice is a real thing.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I did a course in photolithography, including a lab session where I literally made an unpackaged ASIC by hand, using technology that was current in the mid 90s. Etching silicon and doing photolithography is completely out of the reach for a hobbyist, even from scratch, even with 30 year old technology. Reusing a random chip and adding to it is simply impossible.

Essentially, you are looking at the following problems with simply creating a new chip:

  1. Need access to a large clean room
  2. Need a furnace that can heat up your silicon wafers to silly temperatures in order to do doping via sputtering.
  3. Need chemical handling equipment, including safety gear required for handling hydrofluoric acid.
  4. Need a photolithography device with your designs.
  5. Need to cut, test, and package chips after they are created.

And the additional problems with using an existing chip:

  1. Need to decapitate the existing chip and remove it from the package.
  2. Need to work with a single already sliced chip instead of a wafer.
  3. A completed chip will have metal vias that cover a large portion of the silicon, you would need to perform your chemical etching without harming these or any silicon that has been used.
  4. Generally, Asics don't have wasted space, but simply larger components. There would be no footprint available for your design, even if your hobbyist tooling was smaller than the one used for the components, which is probably wouldn't be.
[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Quest 64 exists despite Quest 63, Quest 62, ... Quest not existing.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suppose that the most likely scenario is that the evidence was something that Tesla provided to the police. Whether or not it was tampered with is an open question though. Teslas are equipped with a gorzillion cameras, but also Tesla has access to deep fake technology. Tesla says that the guy manually deactivated autopilot then slammed the accelerator and drove right into a house. But he wasn't intoxicated and it's not clear why he would intentionally do such a thing. It wasn't late enough that it was likely to be the guy simply falling asleep at the wheel.

Anyway, it would be very interesting if Tesla fabricated the driver turning off autopilot intentionally to save face/dodge consequences, but I don't know how likely that would be.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you floss regularly your gums won't bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.

For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn't going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Describing a phenomenon is different from endorsing it.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Mamdani signed an executive order (printed in comic sans) eliminating bed time for New Yorkers so that they can watch the Knicks in the playoffs.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Not to be contrarian, just running a Matrix server is awful, and Matrix has been plagued with security issues in the past, including basic crypto gaps due to lack of domain understanding in the implementation, which is shocking for what is touted as a security first project.

Moreover, I don't know of any acceptable alternatives.

I'm generally one of the first people on any FOSS bandwagon. I've been using Linux as my daily driver since 1999. Matrix is not simply "not as good" or "not up to feature parity" as alternatives. It is in my opinion unacceptably bad and the project leads seem to be actively hostile to efforts to make it better.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 13 points 2 months ago

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I miss Mitch Hedberg

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In English? Seems a little bit sus.

 

Abstract:

Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts have mostly been empirical so far, which cannot answer the fundamental question whether it can be completely eliminated. In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs. Specifically, we define a formal world where hallucina- tion is defined as inconsistencies between a computable LLM and a computable ground truth function. By employing results from learning theory, we show that LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hal- lucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs. Furthermore, for real world LLMs constrained by provable time complexity, we describe the hallucination-prone tasks and empirically validate our claims. Finally, using the formal world framework, we discuss the possible mechanisms and efficacies of existing hallucination mitigators as well as the practical implications on the safe deployment of LLMs.

 

You might know the game under the name Star Control 2. It's a wonderful game that involves wandering around deep space, meeting aliens, and navigating a sprawling galaxy while trying to save the people of Earth, who are being kept under a planetary shield.

 

Subverting Betteridge's law of headlines. Yes.

 

Sometimes, because I am ancient, I automatically type in www. before I type in beehaw.org into my address bar. It would be nice and comfy to have that give a CNAME redirect instead of just completely failing to DNS resolve.

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
 

the Logitech F710 is a solid controller to get if you’re on a tight budget, but perhaps not exactly the type of equipment you want to stake your life on. [...] Reviewers on sites like Amazon frequently mention issues with the wireless device's connection.

The reporter, who followed an expedition of the Titan from the launch ship, wrote that “it seems like this submersible has elements of MacGyver jerry-riggedness.”

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