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I need to know

I never understood how anyone found those remotely interesting. Maybe they're just supposed to be funny but... I don't know. I don't get it. Always just seemed like taking an assortment of questions and stretching the implications of one's answers to the point of incredulity in order to shoehorn them into one of the set outcomes.

Like a choose your own adventure book where the outcomes only have the faintest connection to your choices.

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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)

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From what I recall, particularly the younger generations that exclusively use mobile devices (though of course this is not limited to them) actually have terrible tech literacy across the board, primarily related to spending all of their time in apps that basically spoon-feed functionality in a closed ecosystem. In particular, these groups are particularly vulnerable to very basic scams and phishing attacks.

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Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.

sigh this isn't how any of this works. Repeat after me: LLMs. ARE. NOT. INTELLIGENT. They have no reasoning ability and have no intent. They are parroting statistically-likely sequences of words based on often those sequences of words appear in their training data. It is pure folly to assign any kind of agency to them. This is speculative nonsense with no basis in actual technology. It's purely in the realm of science fiction.

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The 1950s were wild...

As someone that has recently taken an infant and and family CPR class for my son who started solid foods a few months ago, this is pretty similar to how they teach it today and I'm pretty sure it would have the same effect. You can't perform a heimlich on a baby or very small child for a variety of reasons. This method or something similar to it is both safer and more effective, since it lets gravity help dislodge the food.

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As a senior engineer writing Haskell professionally, this just isn't really true. We just push side effects to the boundaries of the system and do as much logic and computation in pure functions.

It's basically just about minimizing external touch points and making your code easier to test and reason about. Which, incidentally, is also good design in non-FP languages. FP programmers are just generally more principled about it.

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Chuckles the Clown strikes again

Didn't know much about hilariouschaos, but it's definitely an instance I will be blocking after reading this thread. Any instance willing to put up with nazis should be shunned and other instances should defederate from them.

Edit: Apparently I already blocked the instance when I joined lemmy. Go figure.

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Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?

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For an adult? Nah. You can certainly kindly let them know that this isn't really gonna work and explain why (and let them know you appreciate the effort), but the rest of it is way overkill and could easily be seen as patronizing, imo. They're an adult, not a 13 year old.

Also, I interpreted the OP as finding it humorously absurd (which it is) rather than being frustrated or anything.

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Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

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Glad you got fired. Vaccines should always be mandatory save for legitimate, doctor-validated medical exemptions.

Anti-vaxxers are fucking stupid and should either be educated properly or, if they still refuse to do their civic duty after being de-programmed of misinformation, punished. You are only allowed to participate in society if you take the necessary steps that you are morally and ethically obligated to do in order to protect it from preventable, transmissible disease. We had eradicated polio until stupid motherfuckers like yourself decided that it would be a good idea to forgo the standard polio vaccine schedule that we've had for decades. Now, we saw the first case in 30 years in 2022 because someone selfishly thought that their personal beliefs were more important than the health and livelihood of everyone else.

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Very much smart people

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Yeah, I've trained a number of models (as part of actual CS research, before all of this LLM bullshit), and while I certainly understand the concepts behind training neural networks, I couldn't tell you the first thing about what a model I trained is doing. That's the whole thing about the black box approach.

Also why it's so absurd when "AI" gurus claim they "fixed" an issue in their model that resulted in output they didn't want.

No, no you didn't.