FiniteBanjo

@ FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago
I'm telling you as a blanket statement that AI Translators are not reliable. That much is easily verifiable. You're the one speaking in riddles of a magical translator in the fogs of firefox that does work, with no evidence.

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I was only gone for a day or two...

I'm pretty sure energy drinks might use synthetic taurine on a large scale, have we tried feeding cats Monster Energy? /s

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

So you don't know the name of the model they use? Is it even accessible?

2y ago

don't have to charge

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

I used to think airpods were lame and dumb but now I love them.

Last month I bought a pair of padded headphones, analogue headphone jack with 2 sizes so it works for my interface too, with detachable cable. No bluetooth, no wifi, no special driver package, no LEDs: just headphones for only $18 while on sale.

Thank you, airpods. You've somehow made regular quality goods much more affordable by simply being the bigger gimmick.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

You want examples but you never disclosed which product you're asking about, and why should I give a damn in the first place? I shouldn't have to present an absence of evidence of it working to prove it doesn't work.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

LLM and ML generated translations generate a series of tokens individually. That's why AI Chatbots hallucinate so often, they decide the next most likely word in a sequence is "No" when the correct answer would be "Yes" and then the rest of the prompt devolves into convincing nonsense. Machines are incapable of any sort of critical thinking to discern correct from incorrect to decide whether to use contextual responses.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Sentences are a lot like math problems. An incorrect part changes the entire outcome.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

The Mozilla Corporation is a for profit entity owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which lets them claim to be a nonprofit, which is a sketchy looking way to set up and promote your business if nothing else. They get most of their money from Google and they've been riding AI like all the other unethical companies.

I see absolutely no reason to give them a chance, either. Just use an actual open source build instead of the mainstream one.

2y ago

Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

80% of AI projects so far...

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US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

It's an issue in many other countries as well and there are a great many contributing factors.

Race and "Tough on Crime" politics - Ever since the emancipation of slaves on the basis of race, there have been political figures passing discriminatory policy that allows police to pursue and harass people at their own discretion: black laws, Jim Crow era laws, forced segregation, the 1994 Crime Bill, etc.

“We have to strengthen our laws when it comes to mob violence, to make sure individuals are unequivocally dissuaded from committing violence when they’re in large groups,” Florida state Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin, a Republican, said during a hearing for an anti-riot bill that was enacted in April.

It's clear that you can convince people to deregulate and militarize the police if you convince those people they have a greater enemy. You can see these stances and policy directions mirrored across Europe as refugees and immigration from poorer countries have increased in the last decade.

Lack of Centralization - The FBI is in charge of investigating police departments, and sometimes you see jurisdiction overlaps which allows other agencies like the DEA, State Marshals, Sheriff's Department, etc to investigate each other, but in general a Police Department is held to no standard but their own until things have already escalated past a point of return.

Some federal programs have tried rewarding PDs that behave well and adhere to specific training or standards, but it's far from enforced.

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US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

TBF though, US use of force has been underreported and lacked nationwide statistics for most of the previous decades. If I'm not mistaken, one of the federal agencies who attempted to track it stopped giving annual reports in 2017? Idk I'm kind of fuzzy about that.

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Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Nah it ain't

Sometimes I watch Mystery Science Theatre 3000, I have literally no narrative standards.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Thank you for your explanation, tbat greatly clears up my confusion.

TBH, if a person's concern is being tracked by, for example, Facebook; then this just lets Facebook continue tracking them without directly allowing Facebook's anaylitics customers to track them to another site directly (but indirectly that information can still be provided). But I guess for all the people giving FB and Google those proviledges better to have this than not.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

I still much rather have it than not. It also lead to the spiritual successor GPC which does actually have regulatory requirements under the CCPA.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Client side incorrect translations*

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Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

I didn't, but I would have gone to see it if I knew.

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Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Because our metric for good and bad is whether or not a large number of people payed to see it.

Hollywood Accounting might see it as a loss, but sometimes they seem to want to kill a project for shits and giggles, like they did to Treasure Planet.

You want to know how to make almost every movie a good movie? Target the correct audiences.

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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

For supposed anarchists they seem to say exactly the same things as a CCP cuck would. They banned me for arguing on a meme they posted about how awful "Western Democracies" are.

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Anon plays Metro 2033

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Oh! Oh ho no, boohoo! Mr. Double-Shift-Back-to-Back isn't able to carry a charger to use at the 176 outlets in his building.

Sounds like you don't need a good PC, you need a union.

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If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?

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FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today 2y ago

Rather than number of unique applications, I meant amount of traffic when I said "most."

Stock exchanges, some but not all streaming services, gaming, and any form of direct human communication over internet would be heavily impacted. It could also potentially increase frequency of timeouts during authentication attempts which would make everything else slightly more annoying to use as well.