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  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyz17 years*
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    8 days ago

    The real kicker is it was and is used in productive and constructive ways. It was just invisible until very recently. The ability to search for other photos of your pets in your photos app, the spam filters that keep your email (relatively) usable, the special effects tools that let artists paint out wires were all possible because of machine learning (used to refer to the subgroup of AI) and were made better by transformers.

    If this same tech were released in a post-Capitalist society there would be no need for every single company to ham fistedly shove it into every product that doesn’t need it.


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    11 days ago

    I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.

    Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.

    If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space. We don’t have any rockets capable of producing 1g for years.










  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzVelma can't math.
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    4 months ago

    My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn’t have the font or doesn’t recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you’ve ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that’s like what happened here.


  • I’ve been using Resolve on Ubuntu and after a bit of a bumpy start it’s working just fine.

    FreeCAD got a 1.0 release late last year. I need to try it again. I might try one of the browser based CADs, but the idea grosses me out.

    The one substitute I’ve yet to find is for Photoshop, so I need to run that through a VM. It annoys me that nothing compares. I respect Gimp but the UX is overtly terrible. Krita has similar issues for photo editing but is slightly better. Affinity Photo doesn’t run on Linux.


  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzWho is the enemy?
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    5 months ago

    Surprisingly, ChatGPT is the mortal enemy of a lot of machine learning researchers. It gives people a bad impression about what the field is, poisons future training data, and gives AI researchers who make truly remarkable and useful things a bad reputation because everyone “hates AI” when they really hate the stupid VC backed circlejerk that becomes inevitable in a society like this.