maxwellfire

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[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Are there any two thoughts that are distinct from each other. Or is there only 1 unique thought (Choose any and then all others are a variation of it).

Also I disagree that thoughts and emotions are entirely distinct. Or does 'thoughts' refer just to language? Are visual thoughts thoughts? And if so, why not remembering the experience of pain?

Are memories thoughts? Or do I have to be commenting on the memory with language for it to be a thought? I feel like memories are 100% original too, since they're a re-experience of something that happened to you, not based on anything that someone else has previously thought.

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I would ask: is it possible for two thoughts to be completely distinct from each other (according to however you're defining original). If no, then by definition only your first thought is original because after that all thoughts can be thought of as a variations on that thought (and you said variations weren't allowed)

I think your definition of 100% original is so restrictive that it kinda loses all meaning.

To actually answer, I think emotional reactions are some of the most original thoughts that I have. Like the experience of pain is original even if you've heard words describing it before. And if it's not original, then it's not original only to your own previous experience. In fact, the experience of having all thoughts/sensations is original, even if some sense of the meaning of that thought is not.

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This is what I've been going through, sold as teaching rust to people who already know other languages. I'm not very far in at all, but it seems decent? https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a pet peeve of mine when reporters phrase things like this. I assume this means that < 50% of democrats want to move toward the middle and that >50% of Republicans are unhappy with their party (and thus want it to move somewhere?). If that's the case then wouldn't it imply that republicans are actually more unhappy with their party's position than democrats are? Or it would if the things they were discussing were comparable. Wanting to move right probably isn't the same stat as 'happy with their party'

Less than of 7 in 8 democrats reported liking facts, while more than 20% of republicans love them!

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The important thing is that the game itself uses vulkan. I believe that's entirely independent of whether your window manager uses vulkan. If your games work, then they're probably using vulkan. They won't work any better if sway does as well.

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's also funny is that there is a person asking exactly the same question in the screenshot that you shared

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This means that there's an update. If you go to the play store and install updates then restart the app it will go away. There seems to be a bug in voyager where it disables the update menu but not the red bubble if installed from the play store (instead of as a PWA)

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It looks like this was testing in tension? I image most of the improvements would happen in shear. Since that's where you make the crack more tortuous. In tension the increase in contact is very slight.

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I think the idea is that the larger society/city/culture is addicted, not the individual people

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the number of times you have upvoted that account

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This is a really fantastic explanation of the issue!

It's more like improv comedy with an extremely adaptable comic than a conversation with a real person.

One of the things that I've noticed is that the training/finetuning that's done in order to make it give good completions to the "helpful ai conversation scenario" is that it flattens a lot of the capabilities of the underlying language model for really interesting and specific completions. I remember playing around with gpt2 in it's native text completion mode, and even with that much weaker model, it was able to complete a much larger variety of text styles without sliding into the sameness and slickness of the current chat model fine-tuning.

A lot of the research that I read on LLMs is using them in the original token completion context, but pretty much the only way people interact with them is through a thick layer of ai chatbot improv. As an example for code, I imagine that one would have more success using an LLM to edit your code if the context that you give it starts out written like it is a review of a pull request for the code, or some other commentary of a form that matches the way that code is reviewed in the training data. But instead of having access to create that context directly, we have to ask for code review through the fogged window of a chat between an AI assistant and a person discussing code. And that form of chat likely isn't well represented in the training data.

 

We were in upstate NY, and got extremely lucky with a hole in the clouds right around the sun at totality.

The red at the bottom was unexpected and very cool to see. It's a solar prominence

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