LarmyOfLone

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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well who doesn't once they get older haha. But I seriously wish I wouldn't have had a laptop or smartphone with keyboard and typed everything I learned as a question / answer flashcard. So I can review them. Some kind of flow inducing learning environment. Of course everyone learns differently, but I imagine there are huge gains possible with software and learning courses with current technology.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You wish you would have been home schooled?

To be honest I'm disappointed we haven't seen more progress into "VR schools" yet. Where you are fully submerged into a learning experience. While your blood is constantly analyzed and drugs to increase concentration and energy levels are dispensed. Ok maybe not the last part.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Haha, I still not sure what to call them.

  1. USAns?
  2. USArians?
  3. USians?

I think Usans would be the most correct, but they are a people with no name.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You must live in a alternative reality that you think that wasn't a joke! Or you just pretend to not know that was a joke to argue in bad faith and insult me. This is the real Trump derangement syndrome right here.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I recently thought about what I'm missing, and came up with something rather complicated (sorry, nothing simple haha)

Basically I'm often compiling information in markdown text files. But images are still web hosted. Sometimes I use spreadsheets and wish I could do simple additions in markdown tables. Or I use bookmarks, but know websites will go down and wish I could just "backup" any website in a compact file and organize it without mucking around with files. Zotero does this partly. I also use "SingleFile" to save websites but it would be nice if it was something semi-compatible to web-archive. Or maybe just save a stripped down version of an article like you see in "reader view" on Firefox. And of course usable in both desktop and mobile.

I do think Project Jupyter does something like this and there are also other note taking apps.

Overall the state of computer science in 2025 is still deplorable. The very basics of storing data still don't have good solutions.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What the heck are you talking about?

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity

You're making wild assumptions about people who disagree with your opinions. How ironic you accuse "them" of dehumanizing people.

But I do agree that this gets to the core of the matter, the shock of a piece of software being able to produce intelligent text while clearly not having general intelligence is quite the shock. Same with creativity, while the entertainment industry produced equally empty content slop using human labor it's a painful shock to our identity as humans. I suspect this is a reaction to disillusionment and the intellectual pain that comes from it.

My opinion on LLMs is rather nuanced, the worst possible outcome I can foresee is the anti-AI crowd helping the oligarchs to establish IP ownership of all LLM models and monopolizing the tools, so that only they can have access to the "means of generation". While the rest has to pay for the privilege of using it.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

You'd basically need to de-nazify Israel and occupy it by some benevolent, nation building world police. Show the horror in documentaries, re-educate, rebuild the democratic institutions like news and social media. Obviously a pipe dream.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Better yet, teach AI to write code replacing specific optimized AI networks. Then automatically profile and optimize and unit test!

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's like that "Joey Repeat After Me" meme from friends haha

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not really. When you program you break down the problem into many smaller sub programs and then codify them. There are errors that need debugging. But never "how does this part of the program I wrote work?". Reading code from someone else is less fun than writing, but you can still understand it.

There are some cases like detergents, apparently until recently we didn't know exactly how it works. But human engineered tools are not comparable to this.

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