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Karyoplasma ,

Click on article, see that I require a "free account", leave site, block 404media.co on my DNS.

Karyoplasma ,

or quod errat demonstrator, both fit.

Karyoplasma ,

"break" pedal is a Freudian slip there

Karyoplasma ,

Did they ever fight tho? I imagine that the muskrat would chicken out. Zuckerberg is much younger, much fitter and actually has some martial arts training, so he would have mopped the floor with him and I'm not sure if it would fit into Musk's self-image to allow that to become reality.

Karyoplasma ,

The reason we cook meat is not that we would otherwise be unable to process the nutrients, it's to save ourselves from getting worms and parasites. In contrast to humans, wild animals are often infested with them and if they knew how to make fire and cook, I'm sure your cat would do barbecues as well because it's just better to not get sick.

Karyoplasma ,

Romanes eunt domus!

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Link the part of the Hamas founding charter that says anything about America. I'll wait, good luck.

On the other hand, "from the river to the sea" (the feared slogan) is a direct reply to the Likud's election manifesto from 1977 which stated: "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."

Karyoplasma ,

I don't get ads in general. They don't work. I never bought something that got presented to me from an ad because I know ads are deliberately lying to me, so the product they show is the first product I don't consider purchasing.

Karyoplasma ,

Boeing deliberately only hires people with suicidal tendencies. It's a non-negotiable character trait.

Karyoplasma ,

It's a wild animal caged for display. As in: may act erratically.

Karyoplasma ,

Cheddar is well worth a visit. It's a cozy, little town and the gorges are gorgeous (huehuehue). There are also awesome hiking trail around there.

Karyoplasma ,

American cheese often does contain actual cheddar. It's basically a cheese blend that is mixed together with sodium citrate. I live in Germany and American cheese cannot be sold as "cheese" here, the industry usually calls it "Sandwichscheiben", but maybe Switzerland is less strict.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

Karyoplasma ,

He should do more of them, actually.

Karyoplasma ,

For a moment, I thought this was a marketing gag from the chain. How can I be so naive?

Karyoplasma ,

It's just inflation, guys.

Karyoplasma ,

As a 90s kid, which was the time when this insane brand focussing really took off: I'm sorry.

Karyoplasma ,

Got me :(

Karyoplasma ,

D could stand for 'Dell' and W might have something to do with WQHD. 23, I have no idea, maybe meant as their flagship monitor in 2023, but that's a stretch.

Karyoplasma ,

Depends on how they do it. If the like-and-subscribe begging is at the end of the video, thats ok in my opinion. But if the 10m01s video starts with an insanely loud intro followed by begging followed by a "hey guys" followed by a sponsor segment followed by a Discord server promotion, then that's just obnoxious.

Recently I also unsubbed from a channel that started using community posts for ad promotion. Made me irrationally mad, not gonna lie.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

Karyoplasma ,

The other day, I had an app on facebook that was basically lolicon. It depicted a clearly underage anime girl in a sexually suggestive position on a motorcycle with their panties almost off. I am in Germany, Facebook knows I am in Germany and if I took a screenshot of that ad and saved it, it would probably be classed as CSAM in my jurisdiction. I reported the ad and got informed that FB found "nothing wrong" with it a few days later. Fuck off, you child predators.

Karyoplasma , (edited )

There is a lot to unpack in your post and this will be very long, sorry about that:

First off, what you are requesting is called "Automated Speech Recognition" or ASR in short and the fundamental idea behind it to receive a speech signal and convert it into a workable format. Usually this workable format means text or prompted tasks. Whether this is AI or not depends largely on how broad you define AI. I wouldn't classify it as AI as, in its core, it's just statistical analysis. But AI can help fixing errors, more on that later.

ASR works on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM), a statistical model that is only dependent on the state attained in a previous event, so it's recognizing previously observed patterns. These patterns are taught to the model by a training process.

The generalized process works like this:

  • cut the audio signal into small frames and analyze them according to a set of features like tonality, voicedness, formants. This process is called feature extraction. Create data vectors that contain information about the features of the raw signal.

  • load these features into a decoder. The decoder is an acoustic model that looks up the phonems it recognized through the features in a dictionary and computes the most likely word in its dictionary. These results are retained and sequences of words are compared to the decoders language model. What it recognizes and how well it recognizes signals is based on its own dictionary and the language model used afterwards.

Language models are essentially just presets that dictate what is accepted as a valid signal input. For an activation phrase, this would be a very simple grammar-based model that recognizes only the exact predefined token for the activation and rejects everything else. For general use, you can write a more adaptive grammar, or many different grammars at the same time, but you will still run into cases where the model rejects an input because it cannot find a grammar that matches the signal. This is called out-of-grammar (OOG) speech.

To reduce OOG errors, you can train a statistical language model (SLM) which is basically just a huge library of natural language data so it doesn't rely on fixed grammars. An large language model (LLM) is like a very advanced SLM with a ridiculous amount of training data and trained, contextual connections between subjects. It's called large because it requires an insane amount of data to function on even a very basic level. You can easily mix grammar-based and SLM approaches, so that you only need to use the SLM when an input is not recognized.

Source: Writing programs that recognize speech inputs and do tasks based upon them, like what your doctor probably has, was my last job until I quit. Whether we used a grammar-based approach or an SLM approach was entirely up to the specific use case. Purely grammar-based is more privacy-friendly because the computational work required is easily managed by most smartphones or other small portable devices and can easily be done offline. SLM solutions were generally not portable to handheld devices without relying on a cloud service doing the recognition (or at least not if you wanted an acceptable speed of input processing).

tl;dr If you want just plain text-to-speech where the program just writes down what it thinks you said and does not do any error correction, then you can do that offline (the language model my workplace used was from Dragon). If you want your assistant to "understand" what you were trying to say, you will require AI of some form and they are not very privacy-friendly.

Karyoplasma ,

They were guinea pigs. Their "tooliness" is just a side effect of the experiment.

Karyoplasma ,

Fuck clickbait headlines and "AI" buzzwording.

Karyoplasma , (edited )

Staph and strep infections are more common than you think, they live on healthy human skin after all, and usually no sign to be alarmed. Whenever you get a pustule or redness, it's probably staph.

Warning signs to watch out for are intense itchiness, affected skin feeling very different to the touch (usually rough or leathery), browning or rapidly growing red patches and a stinging, pulsating pain.

I had a really bad strep infection in my leg in 2023, caused by an infectious a wound that I repeatedly scratched due to itching, and it hurt so much that even just moving the leg into an upright position would cause pain that made me see stars. I have before/after pics from my leg at that time if you want.

Karyoplasma ,

If child predators get executed, I don't lose "a bit of my soul", I gain more confidence that the world is now a better place.

Karyoplasma ,

I'm not even going to dignify this response. Have a nice day

Karyoplasma ,

You've exposed me! I don't sympathize with child predators, so I must be a Nazi!

Karyoplasma ,

I wish, one day I will be as cool as you.

Karyoplasma ,

Opinion: "Personalized ads" are a ruse and don't actually work better than regular ads. They only have a higher click-through rate because they are more often disguised as normal content on the platform and people are simply being tricked into clicking on them.

Karyoplasma ,

Gameboy did not give up the ghost, it just returned.

Karyoplasma ,

My best presentation at university was during a small seminar. It was a 45min talk about 3 papers and how they relate to each other. I procrastinate a lot, so I didn't really do anything besides reading those papers until the day before my presentation. That day, a friend called for a spontaneous barbecue, so I had just an odd hour to actually prepare slides. I managed 8 slides in total, the rest I just impromptu recalled from memory. People liked it and it was the least effort I put in any talk I held at university.

Karyoplasma ,

This is not a stop-and-ID state, officer.

Karyoplasma ,

"Kernel-level anti-cheat" is just company talk for rootkit. I'll pass.

I doubt that it reliably stops DMA boards anyway.

Karyoplasma ,

Not once. I did willingly click on a sponsor link from a YT video once tho, it was for a rice cooker. I ended up getting a different one, but still.

Karyoplasma ,

My favorite star is Sirius, my favorite constellation is Cassiopeia. I try to find them every night.

Karyoplasma ,

I don't assume that naming their chatbot "Arya" is a coincidence. Nazis jerk off to symbolism for some reason.

Here, license plates look like this: 1-3 letter identifier based on the city the car is registered in, dash, 1 or 2 letters you can choose for a small fee (else they are random), a space, a number between 1 an 9999. Every variation of EXAMPLE-AH 88 is denied when asked. They tell you that the registration is taken, but the real reason is to stop Nazis from collecting their trophies.

Karyoplasma ,

Cash out, get sued by angry customers, file for bankruptcy. Who cares about your public image being shattered when you are already gone with the wind?

Karyoplasma ,

Didn't Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

Karyoplasma ,

Probably just because it's prime. It's just that humans are terrible at understanding the concept of randomness. A study by Theodore P. Hill showed that when tasked to pick a random number between 1 and 10, almost a third of the subjects (n was over 8500) picked 7. 10 was the least picked number (if you ditch the few idiots that picked 0).

Karyoplasma ,

Didn't Bell just put that up as a theory and it got proven somewhat recently by other researchers? The 2022 physics Nobel Prize was about disproving hidden variables and they titled their finding with the catchy phrase "the universe is not locally real".

Karyoplasma ,

I see, thanks for the insight!

Karyoplasma ,

Meta

integrity

lmao

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

Karyoplasma ,

Let me tell you a story about proprietary software:

The German police force have a contract with a software firm that wrote their program to file and archive emergency calls. Basically just a form that goes to a database. Now, one day, an update got pushed. The problem with that update was that the hotkey for quitting out of the current form (q) now also fired when inside an editing field. The software firm did not acknowledge that as a problem and it took months of complaints to fix and it cost the taxpayer around 300,000€ in "maintenance fees".

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

Karyoplasma ,

If McDonald's needs a surefire way to make me not go to a McDonald's ever again, that's perfect.

Karyoplasma ,

It's already fixed with the March 31st release. Some instances are just not updated yet.

Karyoplasma ,

To me it sounds like a racist, homophobic Southern US citizen that likes to tote their guns and "defend" their property through the Castle doctrine because freedom (fuck yeah!).

Actually the perfect encapsulation of the brainrot on reddit.

Karyoplasma ,

I call Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/LinkedIn and all that garbage "parasocial media" to separate it from forums and stuff. They are just grotesque places of self-representation, or rather conjuring up an image of oneself that soothes cognitive dissonance. A dreamworld with little social aspects other than that you may browse others' fake self-image and feel-good escapism escapades.

Karyoplasma ,

The algorithm favors clickbait and dumb react thumbnails over regular videos because those are the videos that get "engagement". Even if said "engagement" is writing a comment about how much the video sucks, it's a win in YT's book.

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