Sludgehammer

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A handy reference guide for you in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Honey Bee

is the bee that needs help the most

I'd argue the opposite. There are thousands species of solitary native bees in small niches that need help way more. By contrast honey bees are either livestock or feral livestock that are competing with the native bees.

Iran war risks private credit crisis and AI bubble bursting, Bank of England warns in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'll admit, this isn't how I thought the AI bubble would pop.

A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

BTW this is one of the sites where if you quickly stop the page loading it will break the "subscribe nag" bit and the whole article will be shown.

Iran Shoots Down F-15 Fighter Jet After Trump Bragged They Had No Capability in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

April fools!

How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

TIL that I've been using "star crossed lovers" wrong my entire life. I thought it meant fated lovers.

How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's not so much "Yucking someones yum" so much as "I think such a large age gap is going to be a big strain on this relationship. But if you wanna... fine." Like, one of these people was born around when 9-11 occurred and the other was born around the time when Pac-Man was the new hot game in arcades and these "CD" things were starting to catch on for music storage. That's quite a generational gap.

However, they're both old enough to both know the what they're doing... and maybe it will all work out. Thus my "They’re both old enough to know better" comment. Maybe they're star crossed lovers and it will all work out... but in the end, it's a case of "Not my circus, not my monkeys".

How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Whatever. They're both old enough to know better.

Mission to the Cloud Server in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

There's something to be said for a computer that's as dumb as a calculator.

Trump: U.S. will bomb Iran "back to stone ages" over next 2-3 weeks in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 117 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Man, it sure didn't take long to pivot from "We need to invade Iran to protect those poor protestors from their evil government" to "Bomb 'em back to the stone age".

How strange. It's almost like Trump didn't have the best intentions of the Iranian people at heart from the get go.

Europe seeks to increase deportations as some warn of Trump-like tactics in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

As always, the United States' number one export is rightwing crazy.

Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean we've seen Alex Jones with a "Naughty tbabe" tab open on his phone.

Donald Trump cheers former special counsel Robert Mueller’s death in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I betcha you could find some quotes from Charlie talking shit about Trump from back before the Republicans bent knee to him.

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He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing (www.sciencenews.org)
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PH scientists push for healthier, climate-resilient rice varieties (www.gmanetwork.com)
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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria (www.science.org)
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Wouldn't a madlib generator be superior to a Markov chain for "poisoning" LLMs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

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RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook (arstechnica.com)
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US attorney for DC accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda’, threatens non-profit status (www.nzherald.co.nz)
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So there's a new homebrew app for Streetpasses over the internet. (gbatemp.net)
 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam? (lemmy.world)
 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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