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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
roller coaster tycoon's overengineered puking system
remember the old days when people used to engineer stuff?
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
well shit this guy's got his mouth open it must be good
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sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:
And the posts, they keep on coming.
I hundred percent agree with @filippo here, the question is not whether we're certain that a quantum computer exists by 2029, it's whether we're certain that one doesn't exist. And things have progressed far enough that non-physicists, or even physicists working in different subfields, can no longer reliably tell what's going on.
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HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com wrote:
Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-discover-lab-gloves-are-skewing-microplastics-data/
#goodnews #goodearth #science #plastic #pollution #research #Michigan
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xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:
> Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon. Instead use https://forum.warthunder.com/
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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:
LLMs have no concept of "true" or "good." But they are trained to signal high-quality work. Meanwhile, bosses are pressuring workers: go faster, produce more, let the AI cook.
Study after study documents what this does to the human brain: cognitive surrender. We're "in the loop" but the bot calls the shots.
Read more in this week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter:
#LLM #AI #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment #software
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-mandates-are-a-demand-for-cognitive-surrender
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
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mathew@universeodon.com wrote:
(No, I very much am not.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
This is old news, but I just found out x86 picked up a crc32 machine instruction somewhere along the way (Nehalem?), but it uses a fixed polynomial, so... Why? I wonder what particular customer made the suggestion. 🤔
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
New post: ""How are you leveraging AI in your technical writing?"" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/leveraging-ai-in-writing/
It's a question I expect to be asked in the future. I have an answer, but I can't help suspect it's the wrong question.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
hmmm... wwdd?
if i were dysfun i would simply invent a new branch of maths on top of bayesian statistics to give a language to talk about such things in.
and i am dysfun, sooooooo.....
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i think the answer is bayesian statistics.
you know, the analytical alternative to neural networks?
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Another day, another annoying person to block
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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:
Scott Jensen's concern, in a nutshell, is the abuse and harrassment that AI propagandists have to face here, on Mastodon.
His concern about the unethical, immoral, and destructive externalities of yes, even "local AI models"? His concern about the deliberate, strategic conflation of ML applications like medicine and materials development? Protein folding? Physics modeling?
Apparently not urgent enough to even mention.
No, it's the propagandists receiving rudeness he finds alarming.
3/
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:
I try a new Fediverse client using only HTML and basic CSS (no JS). It is written in PHP
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dave@alvarado.social ("Dave Alvarado") wrote:
BYD is absolutely bonkers with proving they understand their entire process. If I could buy a BYD car, I would.
> When defective cells appeared, Wang asked: “Have you found the root cause?” If yes: “Can you reproduce it?” Then the demand: “Make one hundred cells with exactly the same defect. If you can reproduce the failure one hundred times, identically, then and only then have you understood the mechanism.”
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Rue89Strasbourg@mas.to ("Rue89 Strasbourg") wrote:
La ferme maraîchère Riedoasis devient une coopérative, reprise par ses salariés
À Obenheim en Centre-Alsace, Riedoasis est devenue une société coopérative d'intérêt collectif en 2025. Mathieu Fritz, à l’origine de la ferme maraîchère en agriculture biologique, a choisi de la transmettre progressivement à ses salariés. La plaine du Ried alsacien, terre de maraîchers, est gorgée d’eau, en cette clémente fin d’hiver. Patates douces, céleris, blettes, épinards, mesclun,…
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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼♀️🐈🐈⬛") wrote:
Putting accessibility features behind a paywall: amazing. A+.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
"what's vibe coding?"
"it's where you ask for something in english and you don't have to write the code"
"like having a trans computer toucher partner?"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I couldn't stand Sapiens, but I'll read Holly Dunsworth's critique.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/dr-dunsworth-is-good-at-this/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
@aredridel Yeah, he's become the oddest of ducks these days.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
@baldur I cannot figure out Steve Yegge. He can't even figure out himself. He's said some interesting and useful things but also whoa nelly is there a bunch of weird in there too. Definitely not a source to cite without care and context.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
okay please excuse the maths thoughts and bear with me here, takes hit on crack pipe
when you have an immutable data structure such as a tree map, you rewrite up the spine of the tree from where you make the change to the root, right? if you happen to query for the key you just inserted, you look up that path exactly.
if you're talking about on disk data structures, append only, you're thus looking at fewer seeks to read precisely that path because you'll have just written it in order. but by the same token you'll probably worsen literally every other path in the tree...
how do i even start to quantify this sort of effect?
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Vandacorp@aus.social wrote:
A rainbow lorikeet resting in a magnolia in the yard this arvo.
#Australia #Canberra #autumn #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #rainbow #lorikeet
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
let's have a go then.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I'm working in the movie business! Sort of. And not very well.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/im-in-show-business/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
why is my software shit dot com
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
crash investigator should be a software job and i should be able to go around telling people how to do better.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Steve Yegge is so bad that whenever I want to convince somebody on the fence on ”AI” that the biggest LLM boosters all seem to be having serious mental health episodes, I send them a link to one of his posts. Works every time.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
To those who aren’t “AI”-pilled, Steve Yegge on anything related to LLM coding makes about as much sense as the Roko’s Basilisk nonsense. If you want to be convincing to outsiders you need to stop citing what are effectively “AI” catechisms