Ragnor

I dislike the implementation of a lot of AI.

I pretty much only come across them when I need support for something, and I’m good at searching the sites for info before I go to the support. This means that the AI only gives me answers that I’ve already seen and that doesn’t work - they always waste my time.

I am also a frequent visitor of subreddits like r/askphysics, and the amount of nonsense that comes up because the AI that people asked doesn’t understand what it is saying isn’t helping with my perception either. I much prefer using a search engine instead, because they don’t hallucinate answers and I can validate the content of the page based on a lot of leads that you don’t get if an AI copies the answer and rephrases it.

There are a lot of places where AI can be a very good tool to implement, but those are not LLM related. It can for instance be used for getting CNC machines to better correct for thermal expansion in different parts of the machine, based on the temperature and humidity of the environment, runtime, and other info like that, so more accurate machining can be achieved.

I really don’t need AI in my coffee machine or toaster though. I strongly suspect that those are just data harvesters.

Please don’t. I regularly use Google for doing calculations, and the fact that the AI gives a full explanation of how to do every step means that the result is hidden behind the “show more” button instead of being visible immediately.

I don’t need the AI telling me how to multiply two numbers three times during one calculation, and things like that. I know how to do the math. I am using a calculator because I want the result.

Google wasting energy on applying AI to everything indiscriminately only incentivizes my switch to a different search provider. I don’t trust AI generated answers because it is very hard to unlearn wrong stuff. I want a site where I can see what effort went into providing the result to the internet users, because that is useful for gauging the validity of the content. AI is hit or miss and gives no clues about the quality - I don’t want to gamble with my knowledge like that.

That course of action is basically a given when land is seized in a war.

I wonder how many people are going to sell their shares because of this.

But it doesn’t work when he has a horde of enablers backing him up on his own social media site, and political negotiations have a deadline.

I’m sad to say that I don’t think that the common strategies will work in this case. He has built the empire around his narcissism, and has too much money and too many supporters to throw at his problems.

I’m just waiting for his term to end, while arguing against his supporters with a level head so there is a chance of converting some of them.

If everybody lies then nobody is worth voting for. Don’t engage in the same bullshit.

I don’t demand to be taken seriously. I just know that there is a lot of misinformation out there, and applied my own rule of caution. In this case it was a simple smell test.

I am well aware that my conclusion could be wrong.

Misinformation is scary. And I’ve noticed your username before - I only check that when posts are dubious.

I don’t trust a site with a name like that. Sorry.

It will also put you in trouble with law enforcement.

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Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.

I enjoyed it when the author was in charge of the TV series. I watched until the end of the initial series, but after that I never looked back.

Spoilers/explanation below:

Too many things didn’t make sense, like how the dragon queen suddenly became a completely different person. How the Lannister siblings made up after hating each others guts, only for the tower to collapse on top of them the same instant. That everyone met their nemesis at the very end. Why anyone would vote for Bran to become the new king when he barely spoke to anyone since he was like 13 years old, and many other inconsistencies like that. The last couple of seasons barely had any story at all, it was mostly about fighting… It was bad.

It depends on what percentage of the population has HIV or aids in your community. It usually isn’t that high, depending on where you are. Even if some of them had HIV / aids and you were completely unprotected, the risk of getting the disease isn’t 100%.

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And the less work gets done, so the less money comes back to the country. The cost of your produce goes up when the wages go up, so it becomes harder to compete with competitors from other nations. You risk your businesses defaulting, and the workers losing their jobs so the wages drop once more.

It is not that simple.

I’ve been searching for knowledge my entire life, and I love sharing what I have learned. Helping others with whatever struggles they may have gives me more pleasure than doing the same thing for myself. I don’t care if it is helping fix computers, doing math, physics or chemistry homework, helping replace a chip on a broken electronics component, or basically whatever you may think of. I’ve been around the block once or twice - I spent basically all my free time over the past 25 years nerding over anything and everything.

I would hate to be ignorant and lose the capability of helping others or myself.

The cane is there to detect obstacles. They are used to it hitting things, it’s part of their life.

You don’t have to feel bad about it even though it is something you should try to avoid. It’s hard to see that cane when it is poking out in front of the person all the way at the ground if you turn around or things like that.

If I had to guess you both apologized when it happened, and both of you should be able to walk away satisfied after a random friendly interaction like that.

Well, it isn’t called “medium”. If I saw someone asking for the medium, I would assume that they mean “the median” instead.

The median is the number that is right in the middle of the distribution, so if you have the data points: 1, 1, 1, 3, 14, 80, and 141, the median is 3.

The mean/average is what you get if you add all the numbers together and divide that by the number of data points. For the above example the sum is 241, and divided by 7 that is approximately 34.3 .

The mode that @Aussiemandeus mentions is the number that appears the most times, so that is 1.

The US is highlighted in red.