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Gustephan

@ Gustephan @lemmy.world

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  • People who's entire life has been a lie, what is your story?

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  • Military brat growing up in various parts of the US/foreign military bases. Like, my dad had leaves on his shoulder and I was often expected to be a showpiece at various squadron events a promotions and whatnot. Bought into all of the propaganda about American exceptionalism and how the military was full of heroes and always did the right thing. Managed to get an undergrad in physics so I could work on making sure people like my dad were more likely to come home. Got a job doing radar jamming for bombers; I was proud out of my mind and conquering the nightmares about my dad not coming home from my childhood. Did that for 5 years, and given the clearance and the nature of the work I learned a much more accurate version of what the American military does/is. Slowly realized that my entire upbringing and worldview were toxic horseshit, and let depression and PTSD rage unchecked because I was afraid of losing my clearance for seeking help. Finally couldn't take it, quit, and went back to school. Got a masters in compsci and was working on a PhD when the PTSD started to get overwhelming and got kicked out. Probably for the better anyway, I was basically a glorified DHS intern as a phd student. I'm out of that situation now but I don't know what to do with my life. Everything I know and all of my skills feel like poison, I don't even believe in science anymore. Like in the sense that I don't believe it can be used for the benefit of humanity rather than building imperial militaries or police states. I am struggling

  • What feels illegal but isn't?

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  • This isn't an illegal thing but more of a tip for the thing you hate. Most credit card companies will let you open and close virtual credit cards tied to your main account, but with a new card number etc. I make a new virtual card for every subscription I have. If I want to cancel the service and it takes more than 5m to do so through the company that provides that service, I just turn off the virtual credit card they will try and fail to charge for the next payment.

  • The ring of fire

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  • Not familiar with the hellraiser IP, I totally thought you were making the joke about frank's red hot

  • Thousands of veterans face foreclosure after Trump's VA ends key mortgage program

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  • Thousands of veterans face foreclosure after Trump's VA ends key mortgage program

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  • It puts the frequency in the bucket or it gets the sigterm again

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  • From the moment I understood the weakness of my analytical math, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of numerical methods. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Statistics. Your kind cling to your transforms, as though they will not decay and fail you.

  • Are "AI" systems really tools?

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  • Are those supposed to be drywall anchors in the top left of the image? I've never seen them on a sprue like that

  • Modern horror short

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  • I usually get to the point of opening my flashlight app so I can search for my phone in dark places before I realize

  • This is how we do it

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  • Couldn't tell ya. Iirc SUSY based theories were pretty much all killed by data by the time the LHC reached 12TeV collisions, and I've been in a different field since then

  • He lepton the market trend

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  • Later, the bartender collected their Nobel prize for observing and writing about a meson that stayed stable for the duration of a short conversation

  • This is how we do it

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  • RIP in pieces, every supersymmetry based theory :(

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  • I wouldn't be too surprised if you could achieve that kind of density for a few fractions of a second with explosive powered compression. I'm thinking something like the electromagnetic flux compression technique used by Nakamura et al to make the 1200T magnetic field back in 2018. The package absolutely wouldn't exist for long though lol

  • AI sucks

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  • It gives people context for what kind of ai math I'm familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of "hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I'm talking about"

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  • Kilroy was here

  • AI sucks

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  • Not OP that you asked, but I've used ai before to examine netflow data at the head of a medium sized network and identify malicious traffic via netflow anomaly, rather than the signature based methods that are used by current network intrusion detection systems. It's effectiveness is contingent on having good data that contains labeled malicious packets to train on, but it was pretty dope in lab conditions to watch a graduate ethical hacking class try to compromise my testbed network and my best performing ai powered intrusion detection algorithms were able to accurately flag something like 90% of the malicious traffic.

    If we had an organization dedicated to creating like a modern version of the NSL-KDD dataset every 6 months or so I think this type of network intrusion detection system would be extremely effective.

  • TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gram

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  • Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.

    I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit

  • AI sucks

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  • This. I was a phd seeking cybersecurity researcher leaning heavily into AI up until last year, and it bothered me to no end that some of the most promising technology I have ever seen was being primarily used to enhance the police state or increase BP profits by a few %. AI is literally a step towards a utopian post scarcity future, but instead of being used that way it was immediately weaponized against the working class for the benefit of the parasite class.

  • 33 at the end of the month. Kill me.

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  • I feel this. My beard and hair have about half as much grey as the meme and I'm still a few years from 35. I want off Mr Bones' Wild Ride

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • Oh no! Did I hurt your feelings by clapping back when you insulted me on a shitpost comment chain? Your lack of self awareness is astounding