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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Most of the AI industry is currently stuck in a kind of uncanny valley where it’s close enough to fool people who don’t care about details or who so desperately want to make money that they deny the reality that these AIs aren’t actually good at very much.

    But there’s been so much money invested in it that they are desperate to make it generate some revenue and profit and keep shoving it into things, hoping that their thing will be the one the public finally latches on to.

    It’s also management types that really bought in to it. The kind of managers that don’t know shit and will make impossible requests, or think something simple is hard and something hard is simple because they don’t actually know much about the jobs they are managing. But they do have the power to direct those under them to use the AIs as well as get of or dismiss the opinions of those pointing out the emperor has no clothes.

    Right now, they are hoping to find that substance that will keep the AI bubble from popping. But IMO the problem is fundamental to the big data approach to AI of “throw a ton of data at a generic correlation engine and hope that it ends up smart”.



  • In Japanese, they don’t have R or L, but another sound that is between them (pay attention to your tongue position when you say either sound to see how close they are). So someone did, at some point, have to choose between Link and Rink, assuming the Japanese name is even similar and they didn’t just make up an entirely new name for the English version. The k is anglicised, too, so maybe (Japanese doesn’t have K without a vowel sound after, though if the vowel is U, it can be pronounced without vocalizing it, essentially making it silent).


  • Are there specific choices made by fedora that would have should have been done differently but were pushed by the large donor?

    Just asking because I’m on fedora but wasn’t aware of that relationship but this description hasn’t yet convinced me that the relationship is toxic for users, but my mind is open enough to believe it with specific examples.





  • Look at the way those bags are sitting. They aren’t weighed down at all. I can see TP in the one, my guess is the other is just full of styrofoam or something, but they seem to skip over the “Kevin gets ripped off by the grocer” arc of the story entirely. Probably didn’t have enough time for the “booby-trap the grocery store” revenge arc, or were maybe saving that for another sequel.







  • When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.

    The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.

    Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.

    The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.

    So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.

    Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.




  • Oh I get it now. Scorpion venom must be hallucinatory to frogs and what really happened is the scorpion stung the frog before the story even started, causing the frog to hallucinate the entire story as the scorpion was eating it.

    And OP is a reincarnation of the frog.

    Whew was worried for a second that someone was making up lies on the internet, which would open quite the Pandora’s box, so I’m glad it hasn’t happened yet.