[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

A fellow Julia programmer! I always test new models by asking them to write some Julia, too.

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Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Eh, us professors care pretty deeply about the plagiarism she did. Intent or even knowledge of plagiarism isn't necessary for disciplinary action in plagiarism cases at major research universities. Any one of these examples would be enough for my university's academic integrity committee to rule that plagiarism occurred:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/claudine-gay-harvard-president-excerpts.html

And in the case of a dissertation, plagiarism is an automatic expulsion and degree retraction from my university. At the PhD level, students certainly know that what Dr. Gay did is plagiarism (a good rule of thumb is that five sequential words, even with paraphrasing, without citing the source, is plagiarism), and that plagiarism is completely unacceptable.

I already know of a student who made the argument that their plagiarism wasn't as bad as Dr. Gay's, so because Dr. Gay wasn't penalized, they shouldn't be penalized. Had she not stepped down, that line of argument likely would have snowballed out of control. The professors I know think her comments to Congress were out of touch, but all of us had been livid that she and Harvard were saying that she didn't plagiarize--any professor who looks at those examples will tell you that she did.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Seconding. Kagi is the only one that was able to replace Google for me.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GPT-4 will. For example, I asked it the following:

What is the neighborhood stranger model of fluid mechanics?

It responded:

The "neighborhood stranger model" of fluid mechanics is not a recognized term or concept within the field of fluid mechanics, as of my last update in April 2023.

Now, obviously, this is a made-up term, but GPT-4 didn't confidently give an incorrect answer. Other LLMs will. For example, Bard says,

The neighborhood stranger model of fluid mechanics is a simplified model that describes the behavior of fluids at a very small scale. In this model, fluid particles are represented as points, and their interactions are only considered with other particles that are within a certain "neighborhood" of them. This neighborhood is typically assumed to be a sphere or a cube, and the size of the neighborhood is determined by the length scale of the phenomena being studied.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You mean our lithium?

Sincerely,

The White House

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Where's the Julia programmer that hits every one of these with @benchmark and then works for six hours to shave three nanoseconds off of the fastest one?

(Example: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/faster-bernoulli-sampling/35209)

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

You can choose to ignore things you don't understand on Lemmy. I don't go into the Risa posts because I know they're not for me. If something doesn't make sense and you want to ask about it, go for it, but don't get upset when the explanation isn't one that makes sense to you. For a lot of people, popular Vines were everywhere for a while. Not everything on the internet is for you.

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I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Nick (fine print) learned that by choosing violence, he gets more of the limited resources.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Popularize the apps that exist. I couldn't figure out how to browse it in a Reddit-like way until I tried an app. That was all I needed to make the switch.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

They tried training an AI to detect AI, too, and failed

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

HGH can make people's ribcage grow, and it also makes you feel like a million bucks. Elon is likely taking HGH for funsies.

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