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lunarul ,

I always thought it was for lighters

lunarul ,

On one had, responding like that is definitely a sign that it's not going to work. On the other hand, that's a perfectly normal feeling for a person who doesn't live their life on the internet.

lunarul ,

It's not. If you're really into pop culture and you frequently make such references then someone who is not will have a hard time communicating with you.

It's not about internet culture being bad, it's about the communication gap between people with very different cultural references.

lunarul ,

It's not lying or hallucinating. It's describing exactly what it found in search results. There's an web page with that title from that date. Now the problem is that the web page is pinterest and the title is the result of aggressive SEO. These types of SEO practices are what made Google largely useless for the past several years and an AI that is based on these useless results will be just as useless.

lunarul ,

Except for these species, classified as living fossils:

lunarul ,

They're both part of the Hexanchiformes order, which are seven gill sharks. So the cow shark article is wrong, there are two surviving families with more than five gills.

lunarul , (edited )

So an extension of the x * 5 = x/2 * 10 shortcut

lunarul ,

I like that there's a name for it. I always try to do that if possible. Division by 25? You mean multiply by 4 and divide by 100. Convert miles to km? That's x + x/2 + x/10.

Not sure if qualify as old geezer, you never know on the internet. I'm old for most people here, but you mention Excel, so you sound closer to my age :)

lunarul , (edited )

In a 2018 review, data from 12 studies (8,003 participants) showed acupuncture was more effective than no treatment for back or neck pain, and data from 10 studies (1,963 participants) showed acupuncture was more effective than sham acupuncture. The pain-relieving effect of acupuncture was comparable to that of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture-what-you-need-to-know

lunarul ,

That's why wikipedia feel sluggish sometimes

Images on articles are resized. The original size of the image has no bearing on how fast the article loads.

lunarul ,

I like how you and FQQD each censored the other's name in your posts.

lunarul ,

How are crashlytics and firebase analytics profiting off of users? I cannot imagine not including those in an app you're actually hoping to improve.

lunarul ,

since they mostly use band 66 for large cells which has pretty crap penetration into buildings.

Huh, good to know there's an explanation for why I was getting no signal inside my home when I was on T-Mobile. It's the reason I switched.

lunarul ,

I always feel bad when I try out a new coding problem for interviews because I feel I'm going to offend candidates with such an easy problem (I interview mostly for senior positions). And I'm always shocked by how few are able to solve them. The current problem I use requires splitting a text into words as a first step. I show them the text, it's the entire text of a book, not just some simple sentence. I don't think I've had a single candidate do that correctly yet (most just split by a single space character even though they've seen it's a whole book with newlines, punctuation, quotes, parentheses, etc).

lunarul , (edited )

That is totally a non-trivial problem, which requires a lot more conception before it can be solved.

Most candidates don't realize that. And when I say they split by single space I mean split(' '). Not even split(/\s+/).

Does "don't" consist of one or two words? Should "www.google.com" be split into three parts? Etc.

Yes, asking those questions is definitely what you should be doing when tackling a problem like this.

If I got that feature request in a ticket, I'd send it back to conception.

If I got it, I'd work together with the product team to figure out what we want and what's best for the users.

If you asked me this question in an interview, I'd ask if you wanted a programmer, a requirements analysis, or a linguist and why you invite people for a job interview if you don't even know what role you are hiring for.

That would be useful too. Personality, attitude, and ability to work with others in a team are also factors we look at, so your answer would tell me to look elsewhere.

But to answer that question, I'm definitely not looking for someone who just executes on very clear requirements, that's a junior dev. It's what you do when faced with ambiguity that matters. I don't need the human chatGPT.

Also, I'm not looking for someone perfectly solving that problem, because it doesn't even have a single clear solution. It's the process of arriving to a solution that matters. What questions do you ask? Which edge cases did you consider and which ones did you miss? How do you iterate on your solution and debug issues you run into on the way? And so on

lunarul ,

I am curious how you'd deal with the ambiguity of contractions vs. ending single quotes

That's the thing, nobody even asks this question.

you could just match on /[a-zA-Z]+/

That would already put you in the top 10% of solutions I've seen so far on this problem.

lunarul ,

I am confused. I'd think something experienced "as pure Logos" is the easiest to verbalize. And why is the image representing it as fractal imagery?

lunarul ,

regarding the logos bit - have you never had a profound realisation that happened so quickly in your brain and on the level of pure emotion (instead of words)

Logos means word. That is the confusion I was talking about. If you experience something as pure words then it should be extremely easy to verbalize.

lunarul , (edited )

What's with the 3rd flag in the first picture? Just looks like an elongated falg of Romania or Chad. Or is it just a wish.com rainbow flag?

[OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

lunarul , (edited )

Isn't Paracetamol a brand name for acetaminophen?

Edit: just googled it, apparently they're both generic names for the same thing (like aspirin / acetylsalicylic acid)

lunarul ,

I was going to say. That was just common practice in my native country. We did use the most common brand names sometimes, but even then we used them interchangeably (if we asked for Nurofen we really meant ibuprofen and didn't care if we got another brand; like asking for a kleenex)

lunarul ,

My first email, almost 30 years ago too, was with an ISP that no longer exists.. My second email was on another domain that no longer exists. I do still have my Gmail account I got when it was invite only, but that one is just my name @ gmail (and you'd think it's cool to manage to grab that one, but I get emails for at least 6 other different people who think that's their address).

lunarul ,

That would be a danger if real AI existed. We are very far away from that and what is being called "AI" today (which is advanced ML) is not the path to actual AI. So don't worry, we're not heading for the singularity.

lunarul , (edited )

All progress comes with old jobs becoming obsolete and new jobs being created. It's just natural.

But AI is not going to replace any skilled professionals soon. It's a great tool to add to professionals' arsenal, but non-professionals who use it to completely replace hiring a professional will get what they pay for (and those people would have never actually paid for a skilled professional in the first place; they'd have hired the cheapest outsourced wannabe they could find; after first trying to convince a professional that exposure is worth more than money)

lunarul ,

https://www.lifewire.com/strong-ai-vs-weak-ai-7508012

Strong AI, also called artificial general intelligence (AGI), possesses the full range of human capabilities, including talking, reasoning, and emoting. So far, strong AI examples exist in sci-fi movies

Weak AI is easily identified by its limitations, but strong AI remains theoretical since it should have few (if any) limitations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

As of 2023, complete forms of AGI remain speculative.

Boucher, Philip (March 2019). How artificial intelligence works

Today's AI is powerful and useful, but remains far from speculated AGI or ASI.

https://www.itu.int/en/journal/001/Documents/itu2018-9.pdf

AGI represents a level of power that remains firmly in the realm of speculative fiction as on date

lunarul ,

See the sources above and many more. We don't need one or two breakthroughs, we need a complete paradigm shift. We don't even know where to start with for AGI. There's a bunch of research, but nothing really came out of it yet. Weak AI has made impressive bounds in the past few years, but the only connection between weak and strong AI is the name. Weak AI will not become strong AI as it continues to evolve. The two are completely separate avenues of research. Weak AI is still advanced algorithms. You can't get AGI with just code. We'll need a completely new type of hardware for it.

lunarul ,

Any type of content generated by AI should be reviewed and polished by a professional. If you're putting raw AI output out there directly then you don't care enough about the quality of your product.

For example, there are tons of nonsensical articles on the internet that were obviously generated by AI and their sole purpose is to crowd search results and generate traffic. The content writers those replaced were paid $1/article or less (I work in the freelancing business and I know these types of jobs). Not people with any actual training in content writing.

But besides the tons of prompt crafting and other similar AI support jobs now flooding the market, there's also huge investment in hiring highly skilled engineers to launch various AI related product while the hype is high.

So overall a ton of badly paid jobs were lost and a lot of better paid jobs were created.

The worst part will be when the hype dies and the new trend comes along. Entire AI teams will be laid off to make room for others.

lunarul ,

Deep learning did not shift any paradigm. It's just more advanced programming. But gen AI is not intelligence. It's just really well trained ML. ChatGPT can generate text that looks true and relevant. And that's its goal. It doesn't have to be true or relevant, it just has to look convincing. And it does. But there's no form of intelligence at play there. It's just advanced ML models taking an input and guessing the most likely output.

Here's another interesting article about this debate: https://ourworldindata.org/ai-timelines

What we have today does not exhibit even the faintest signs of actual intelligence. Gen AI models don't actually understand the output they are providing, that's why they so often produce self-contradictory results. And the algorithms will continue to be fine-tuned to produce fewer such mistakes, but that won't change the core of what gen AI really is. You can't teach ChatGPT how to play chess or a new language or music. The same model can be trained to do one of those tasks instead of chatting, but that's not how intelligence works.

lunarul , (edited )

I met my wife in high-school, we married at 21/22, it's going to be our 19th anniversary this year. So yeah, definitely got lucky, and I would discourage my kids from doing the same even though it worked great for us.

lunarul ,

Two reasons to wait:

  • people in their early 20s are more likely to change dramatically later, so definitely more of a gamble at that age
  • because it's a gamble, you should already be well prepared for life on your own before doing it; that gives you a solid fallback in case things don't work out
lunarul , (edited )

But that's where the gamble is. You changed together and it worked out. Others grow apart through no fault of their own and despite their desire to keep things working, they just don't want the same things anymore. Your and my experience are the lucky ones.

lunarul ,

If you live somewhere where life expectancy is close enough to 30 to make that eventuality part of your life choices, then go ahead and marry as a teenager. Don't even wait for 20, marry at 16.

lunarul ,

Life expectancy is the age most people live to. Some live less, some live more. You shouldn't make plans heavily counting on one of those exceptions. Don't hurry up to do things just in case you're one of the ones who live less, don't delay things too long because you might live to 120.

Planning for living 30 years only makes sense in a place where most people don't live over that.

I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: (lemmy.world)

I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

lunarul ,

My first email address was @k.ro (a free email provider many many years ago) and many websites thought a valid second-level domain name cannot be just one letter

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