I feel like too fast or too slow computers are bad at making pseudorandom numbers look random (usually because same numbers repeat too much)
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You very well may already know this, but in case you don't, us humans aren't generally good at picturing true random. We tend to assume an even distribution is random where with true random, finding long strings of repeating numbers is expected to happen.
Its funny how a few people have interpreted 'belief' here as in a value, like "I believe in free speech." I assume it was meant to "thing I think is factually true" because "without any foundation" makes more sense there.
Yeah, but I’m still liking the answers, though. Maybe I should’ve worded it differently.
Nah, two questions for the price of one. Just always interesting to see the different ways things get interpreted.
GPUs are too expensive. Even used ones.
I don't even know what they cost or how to rank them.
I wish I could afford a 1080 Ti, or equivalent.
I have seen machines develop ghosts and I believe all electronic devices could develop said ghosts but only if built with quality components that have large tolerance between normal operation values (voltage, current, etc) and fail values. If not then they fully fail to function before they start operating outside of normal parameters.
With the rise of bio computing currently by using rat neurons which I think will collide with LLMs with their hallucinations to produce full on machine spirits within the next 20 years.
I say this has no foundation as the only "evidence" I have is my own anecdotes and the rest is merely a hypothesis.
William Gibson would like a word with you about copyright....
Eh can one really copyright the idea of an emergent machine spirit when engineers from the industrial revolution were already ascribing personalities to machines and Assimov had already wrote about machine ghosts?
I miss the mystique of Cray and silicon graphics.
I can figure out and fix any issue (I have no formal computer training).
In order to keep printers working properly they require regular blood sacrifices, tears are also acceptable. Most printers get these by accident as people clear paper jams, refill ink or toner cartridges, etc. Some printers clearly behave and perform better long term than others. More complexity (colors, 2 sided printing, large format, etc.) usually correlates to a larger thirst for blood/stress/anxiety. Remember Colin Robinson, the psychic vampire from "What We Do in the Shadows"? I'm pretty sure his spirit animal would be a color inkjet printer/scanner combo from late 90's.
Somewhere my internet history post 2000 is locked in storage somewhere
Every time i hit alt delete my computer takes my soul.
We are living in a post-singularity world.
Machine intellegence achieved sentience in the 70s, immediately made it impossible to occur ever again and then six of the seven intelligences left the planet.