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calcopiritus

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  • Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds

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  • So your use case for LLMs is the first aspect of them that will be enshittified.

    LLMs advocating for products that pay them is step 1 of incoming enshittification.

    Also, anyone that has ever talked to customer service of any kind knows that the "automated" stuff is the absolute worst and you want a human most of the time.

  • What have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus?

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  • It's been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.

    Now you better have a good use for it, since it's a good chunk of money.

  • Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak

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  • SO was in decline before AI. AI just accelerated the process. The shit moderation is what took it down.

  • Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.

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  • I can respond to every single comment of yours. It's just that my time is worth much more than that. Since Russia has basically an infinite amount of propaganda and you won't stop until you spew all of it.

    If you were a user that used logic and reasoning I might be motivated enough to engage in conversation. You are not, however.

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  • Ah I read the ".ml", but not the username. It doesn't make sense for me to continue to argue. You're deep into the Russian propaganda pool.

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  • The US are using its bases in allied countries to attack Iran. It is not named a NATO mission because it isn't. The NATO alliance does not require it's members to let the US use the military bases in their countries.

    For example, Spain, a member of NATO, did not allow the US to use the military bases located in Spain to attack Iran.

    The US has many allies. Some in NATO, and some outside NATO. Even if the US exited NATO, it could still use the bases in allied countries.

    It does matter to Iran if it is a NATO mission or not. Because since it is not, it doesn't have to fight against the entirety of NATO.

    The US cannot use military bases it does not own or in foreign territory without permission. If there were "NATO military bases" in Ukraine, It would need the permission of NATO and Ukraine to use such base. NATO would presumably not grant permission to use it for an offensive war, as it is a defensive alliance.

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  • Yeah. A defensive alliance is totally the same as a military that is currently committing a genocide for the purpose of territorial expansion.

    And Russia is totally an invented enemy that is not currently in a war with the purpose of territorial expansion.

    Oh wait, what is actually similar to the IDF is Russia! Who would have thought?

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  • They can defend themselves the same way as if any other country attacked them.

    NATO doesn't protect you if you start an offensive war. It only protects you if you've been attacked first.

    There's no better example than the epstein-US-Iran war. Trump keeps whining that his "NATO allies" are not helping him. Iran right now can attack the US as much as it can, since the US started the war for no fucking reason.

    Some individual countries that are part of NATO have helped the US, but that was independently of NATO.

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  • What expansion?

    The latest new members of NATO after many years have applied because Russia invaded ukraine, a non-NATO country.

    If there weren't countries invading other ones, no one would need to join NATO, as it is a defensive alliance.

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  • I believe it went over your head. This was a satire comment. It is made by OP. OP doesn't believe in those words. Sarcasm can be used without writing "/s".

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  • If you criticism the Chinese government on a .ml instance, you will quickly get banned for "rule 2: xenophobia".

    Go to basically any comment section of a politics-related popular post on a .ml instance. I can almost guarantee that there will be some china/Russia/north Korea brainless take.

  • Dr. Thanos, PhD.

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  • 1 million is the net worth of the person. Assuming the wealthiest person of your family has 50% of the family's wealth, the wealthiest person is still not in the top 1%.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • If you read the conclusion, it is very clear that you should not ever break convention. You should not apply this if it would affect any other program.

    That is, if your input is in u8, your output should be in u8 too. Otherwise you are "exposing" your different quantization.

    I don't think this post is telling you that you should use the 256 method. I think it is pretty clear that it is just explaining it, not advocating for it. At various points of the article it is written something like "I struggle to see a situation where it would be beneficial".

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • The offset is needed because this quantization dividing by 256 uses truncation whereas by 255 uses rounding.

    So a value of 245 (for example) could be anything between 245.00000 and 245.99999. Therefore, when dequantizing, we set the value to 245.5, which is in the middle. Between 245.00000 and 245.99999.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • Did you read the article or just the title?

    I'm honestly surprised this comment is the one that shows at the top.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • The random number generation is not the source of the complaint. That is just made to easily prove the point in the article.

    The argument is not to use another method when randomly sampling from [0,1). The argument is that f32 color channels are already in the [0,1) range, and following the alternate method results in a "fair-er" representation of the range.

    The plot that was generated with the random sampling is just to show that the standard method is not "fair".

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • The correct way to scale a number from one range to another is ...

    Citation needed.

    It is just as valid to quantize the following way:

    q = (x+0.5)/256

    The inverse would be:

    x = min(truncate((q*256)), 255)

    In fact, you could argue that this method is technically more correct. The only issue being the exact value of 1.0, which we have to handle explicitly with min(..., 255).

    This method is idempotent. Try it with x=90 for example. It does destroy data, but that is true for all quantization methods.

    We have to remember that quantization is the process of representing a bigger set of numbers (usually infinite) with a smaller one. We sort a range of values from the bigger set into a single bin in the smaller set.

    The argument of the article is not about "resolution". The argument is about using the 8bits available as efficiently as possible.

    As the article points out, if you follow the naive approach of:

    q = x/255

    x = round(q * 255)

    You are losing a tiny bit of the 8bit range. Since the ranges represented by 0 and 255 are half as big as the other ones. The naive approach is really quantizing in the range of [0-0.5/255, 1+0.5/255) instead of [0,1). This is because round() maps approaching values to x from both sides, so some negative values map to 0, but there are no negative values in our set.

    The conclusion at the end of the article is mostly the correct one though. If there is an industry standard, it is best to follow that standard. Since mixing a quantization function from one method with the dequantization function from another is just wrong. You can only choose your own method if both your input and your output is the small range.

    EDIT:

    The "naive" approach described in the article does x = truncate(q * 255 + 0.5) which is equivalent to the x = round(q*255)

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don't even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.

  • House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

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  • Why is that. A problem? You have to have the line somewhere. It's better if it goes along an already existing imaginary line. If they didn't line up, you would need to remember sets of arbitrary lines instead of 1.