Hamartiogonic

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still...

"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."

"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

You can totally have a "socialist worker's party" that is actually anti-Marxist. You can also privatize some state-owned enterprises to maximize profits while still calling it a socialist party. Might as well abolish the unions while you're at it. These labels are just marketing baits for luring in the working class.

The blueprint is out there, just look up the history of NSDAP, and you'll see what I mean.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

On the downside, they probably ended up spending more money and receiving less in return. If they bought their junk from Amazon, they also contributed to upholding poor labor practices. Nobody wins in this situation except for the corpos.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That is just amazing. How the human mind works is so bizarre at times. Even when there’s a good deal, people just don’t take it? Wasn’t it enticing enough?

Either way, some companies exploit the same mechanics to sell trash for a high price. It’s so weird and pretty dark.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When dealing with real world data, it’s always a good idea to check how normal it is. If that assumption is grossly violated, you have to work a bit harder and use more robust methods.

When it’s reasonably close to normal, you can take all sorts of nice shortcuts like z-scores and t-tests. I haven’t looked into this case yet, but I assume they knew what they were doing.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In many cases, a z-score between -2 and +2 is common. Anything outside that range is rare. Further away from zero you go, the rarer it gets.

In real life though, not all things follow the normal distribution, so z-scores aren’t always so easy to interpret. If the distribution is far from normal, z-scores are only marginally useful.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks. Now I can’t unsee it. All Concorde photos have been permanently ruined for me.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Others might call it straight-up lying, deception or even misleading. Calling it “Amazon sales policy” just makes it sound nicer.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

If you’re really good at customer service (i.e. manipulation), you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but you’ll get a discount of the same amount, because you’re such a great pal. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

That's just the result of spending hours diving into strange rabbit holes and later trying to justify the time and effort that went into it. Also, modern LLMs speed up the exploration phase. Imagine having to read a hundred wikipedia articles to reach this point. With LLMs, you can narrow down your search and focus on the things you find most interesting.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Here's another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let's say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.

Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It's a happy love triangle where everyone wins.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

That's how you play the game!

 

Would like to know more about what’s going on with the development of this app? Any plans? How are things going? What sort of things will be the primary focus in the near future?

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Spoiler, there’s more.

Location: Finland, Helsinki, Pukinmäki railway station

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz to c/coffee@lemmy.world
 

If you're not quite sure about getting into coffee, you can get started with a small budget, and you can make a nice cup of coffee that way. Probabaly not a great cup, but a cup of coffee you'll find enjoyable at the time. Once you start experimenting with different variables and digging a bit deeper into different flavors, you may notice that you're not getting the same cup every time. That's when you start pushing the limit of what's possible with the equipment you have available, and you'll realize that using a cheap grinder is sort of like making you play this game in the hard mode.

Examples: Using a cheap blender type grinder (blade grinder) means you can easily chop coffee to some unknown random particle size. You don’t pay much, but at least you can use recently roasted whole bean coffee, which is great. If you want to adjust the particle size in a specific way, that’s when it gets very tricky. Did you grind one second longer than last time? Too bad, now it’s way too fine and you’re getting a bitter cup as a result. Fortunately, you can easily fix that with milk, but as you start noticing more details in the taste profile, you start demanding more and more. Consequently, fixing mistakes with milk won’t be as appealing as it once was.

Using a cheap hand grinder is a lot better than an electric blender. Once you set the screw at a specific position, you’ll get the same particle size every time, which is great for consistency. What if you decide to use a french press today, but tomorrow you want to switch back to pour over, moka pot or AeroPress? Too bad, the grinder has no markings on it, so you’ll just have to eye-ball the setting and hope for the best. That’s obviously easier than timing your blender perfectly every time, but it’s still not exactly easy to get great results.

The solution: Eventually you’ll want to buy a burr grinder (electric or manual) with clear markings for different grind sizes.

When to invest? Don’t spend any more money on better gear until you’ve already “needed” better gear a few times in order to fix something you’ve noticed in your cup. As long as you’re relatively happy with your current gear and the cup it produces, there’s no need to spend more on this hobby. However, when you start noticing new things, that’s the right time to buy something that really addresses a specific thing you have in mind.

Summary: Get started with cheap gear and upgrade only when you think it’s necessary. Getting some random cup of coffee using cheap gear is easy, but getting a specific kind of cup with that gear is hard. Using more expensive gear will make it easier.

Something else? This is based on my personal experiences, and your experiences may differ. This rule of thumb might apply to grinders, but it is not guaranteed to apply to other types of equipment. For instance, I don’t own an espresso machine, so I have no idea how price is reflected on the end result in that case.

 

In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having.

You gotta be careful with that psycho!

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It’s approximately 2.652 × 10^32

 
 

 

Here's some context for the question. When image generating AIs became available, I tried them out and found that the results were often quite uncanny or even straight up horrible. I ended up seeing my fair share of twisted fingers, scary faces and mutated abominations of all kinds.

Some of those pictures made me think that since the AI really loves to create horror movie material, why not take advantage of this property. I started asking it to make all sorts of nightmare monsters that could have escaped from movies such as The Thing. Oh boy, did it work! I think I've found the ideal way to use an image generating AI. Obviously, it can do other stuff too, but with this particular category, the results are perfect nearly every time. Making other types of images usually requires some creative promptcrafting, editing, time and effort. When you ask for a "mutated abomination from Hell", it's pretty much guaranteed to work perfectly every time.

What about LLMs though? Have you noticed that LLMs like chatGPT tend to gravitate towards a specific style or genre? Is it longwinded business books with loads of unnecessary repetition or is it pointless self help books that struggle to squeeze even a single good idea in a hundred pages? Is it something even worse? What would be the ideal use for LLMs? What's the sort of thing where LLMs perform exceptionally well?

 

During covid times I heard many interesting conspiracy predictions such as the value is money will fall to zero, the whole society will collapse, the vaccine will kill 99% of the population etc. None of those things have happened yet, but can you add some other predicitons to the list?

Actually, long before covid hit, there were all sorts of predictions floating around. You know, things like the 2008 recession will cause the whole economy to collapse and then we’ll go straight to Mad Max style post-apocalyptic nightmare or 9/11 was supposed to start WW3. I can’t even remember all the predictions I’ve heard over the years, but I’m sure you can help me out. Oh, just remembered that someone said that paper and metal money will disappear completely by year xyz. At the time that date was like only a few years away, but now it’s more like 10 years ago or something. Still waiting for that one to come true…

 
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