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CrayonRosary

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CrayonRosary , (edited )

It's because you copied and pasted all of the # characters from the original post. I don't know why they were there in the first place, but you need to remove them all. Oh, this entire post is source code! smh

Copy your post text into a text editor and and Find/Replace all the number signs the paste the result pack into your post. Better yet, just delete this post.

How headings work in Markdown:

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CrayonRosary ,

Not "cost plus" pricing.

CrayonRosary ,

Not needing AI isn't the point. The point is that AI can do it, and AI doesn't require a programmer to design and debug a bespoke algorithm to accomplish a task. It would take a human a lot longer than 6 hours to perfect an algorithm to do this.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

AI is shorthand for a neural network algorithm that learns to accomplish a task through training instead of being told (very explicitly) how to do it by a human. There's no point in arguing about how people use language. It's completely arbitrary. You better get used to people calling neural network programs AI because it's not going away.

What this AI did was simply to learn the rules... the game has the solution drawn on it... The point of the game is to follow, not to find, the path.

You have a very deep misunderstanding of the complexity of this feat and so I'm not surprised you don't think its impressive. Just follow the path... So easy! -_-

At the start of this task, the AI knew almost nothing. All it knew is it had "hands", and it had a directive to get the ball to the end.

It didn't know any of the following:

  • what a ball is and that it rolls
  • the fact that lines on the board indicate a safe path
  • what gravity is and why the ball moves when the knobs are turned
  • that turning the knob farther makes the ball go faster, to a point
  • that the dark spots on the board (holes) make the ball drop and make you have to start over
  • that the thick lines are walls
  • that walls block the ball!

You see what I'm getting at here? It understood nothing! Sure, you can explain the rules to a human and they'd be able to start learning how to play, but the real learning is learning the hand eye coordination to get the ball to do anything you want.

Even the concept of "explain the rules" is not simple. Sure it's simple for a brain that evolved over millions of years and uses natural language. But explaining rules to a computer means programming it. You have to hard code all of the rules of the game, and in this case, all of the physics of the game. You have to write the code that explains all of that to a traditional computer before it can even start attempting to play this game.

This AI needed none of that. It learned everything on the fly!

A human could... probably solve the game in way less than 6 hours

Ha! It's clear you've never played this game. Even if you could get your first win in 6 hours, you wouldn't then be able to repeat the win every time thereafter.

This AI solving the game in 6 hours is literally the equivalent of one year old baby learning to play and finishing the maze in 6 hours! That is jaw-droppingly amazing, like the author says!

How are you not impressed?

(All analogies are bad. The baby would never have the attention span or motivation to actually play the game. That's the one inherent advantage the program has. It does what it's told. Plus the AI has perfect motor control right out of the box. It doesn't know that it's spinning motors, but it's control of them is perfect, and a baby is still learning how to make their muscles do anything at all.)

CrayonRosary ,

The new Apple Log®

"I love log!"

CrayonRosary , (edited )

I don't known why you're being downvoted. This seems totally reasonable. Maybe people don't like having their rage orgasm ruined by logic.

Edit: I have crossed out the dumb reply from this idiot.

CrayonRosary ,

This is 2024. Ain't nobody got time to watch the content before commenting on it.

For real, though, that's fucking terrible. I finally watched the video.

CrayonRosary ,

Old school websites were often called "webs". Its synonymous with "site". So it just means "retro [stuff] site"

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

"Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

CrayonRosary ,

Don't use shady sites. Use yt-dlp.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

It's a Python command line program, so yes. I use Termux (a Linux terminal emulator), and I installed yt-dlp using pip, a package manager for Python. I also have ffmpeg for command line video editing on my phone.

I have it setup such that when I click "Share" on a URL from Firefox or YouTube, and I choose Termux as the receiving app, I am presented with a menu that let's me choose if I want the video saved to a normal folder or a hidden folder (for reasons), or if I want to download just the audio and save it to an MP3. yt-dlp can download from much more than just YouTube.

The script is just a bash script with a specific name in a specific folder that Termux knows to invoke when sent a URL. You can do anything you want with such a script.

Only get Termux from F-Droid or Droid-ify. Not from the Play Store. The Play Store version is way out of date.

Like the other person said, Newpipe can also download from YouTube. It's a YouTube front-end that scrapes the public HTML website for YouTube. You can also download that from F-Droid or Droid-ify.

Oh, and another person mentioned Seal, which is a yt-dlp front-end for Android. It's pretty great! I just installed it. As usual, it's on F-Droid and Droid-ify.

CrayonRosary ,

I wasn't aware of that. That's neat. It can be found on F-Droid and Droid-ify.

CrayonRosary ,

Microsoft is the fucking worst with their trick questions and constant nagging.

They do this because they want you to use Edge which steals search results from other search engines.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Property mgmt company changed without our input

You think you deserve input on what property manager your landlord chooses to run their property? Know your place, peasant.

No, for real. It's ridiculous to think you'd have any input on that.

CrayonRosary ,

New Nintendo Switch U

CrayonRosary ,

That's not a cat. That's a dog with small ears and a long tail.

CrayonRosary ,

Sure, but those are all things I'm sure she'd happily tell anyone she met. Just saying.

CrayonRosary ,

I couldn't agree more. This kind of gossip shit ruins all sorts of communities. Maybe we need to start a drama-free tech community.

CrayonRosary ,

Grocery stores used to have you bring in a list of what you needed and the grocer picked it all out for you from behind the counter and packed it up. If you walk through a store and put your own groceries in a cart, you're already doing free work for the owner of the store.

I wouldn't change that, and I wouldn't change self checkout. I prefer both. It's not work if I'd rather do it.

(The first paragraph is a true story, but also a joke. Doing "work" is all relative.)

CrayonRosary ,

My favorite thing about some self checkouts is one big line for like 8 checkouts. You don't have to gamble with who you get in line behind.

CrayonRosary ,

My grandma used to go to people's houses in the morning and brew pour-over coffee for them and put it in an old school Thermos. Mr. Coffee killed her job and she killed herself the following year.

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