V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't it insane that there is a separate special fapcircle of open-source contributors that are also untenable human beings?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

Unrelated note but why is fashtech even a thing and why did no one warn me about it before I made my career choice, I could've been a happy person

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

the fash papertrail for Ladybird really shouldn’t have to go much farther than them receiving money from fascists in a group that included other fascists but here’s more anyway

https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h

That link goes to a post that links to 4 Twitter posts, the first one of which is just a screenshot of a PR (?); then a post "basically @BrendanEich right now", name I haven't heard before but apparently that's the guy that made Brave (how the fuck does that project still exist) so at least this one tracks; then there's a donation from ProtonPrivacy so I'd need receipts for them being fashy, I know they were doing that stupid AI bot but that's all; and finally some talk by a guy I've never heard of at a conference I've never heard of for FUTO which the only bell it rings for me is the university in Nigeria but that doesn't make sense

I need a fucking codebook to read these receipts, what is going on

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.

Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in "the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist."

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

Weinstein released his Geometric Unity paper on April 1, debuting it on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Okay, like, you could've just started with this, this Weinstein person is clearly an idiot and cannot be taken seriously

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

His Geometric Unity proposal, therefore, has all the hallmarks of an outsider attempting to revolutionize physics, casting him as an Einstein-like figure toiling alone at the patent office.

I hate this framing so fucking much, Einstein wasn't an "outsider"! He was known and respected! He talked to other prominent physicist all the time! Where does this myth even come from.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hey I'm not an artist or really familiar with film and I also could've told you this

It's not even that hard to grasp, ChatGPT is trained on all of human textual output it can be and it can't write a coherent story, Copilot is trained on all of open-source code in existence and it can't write a correct line of C++, obviously a film model is not gonna be any better

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea about Ruby or the politics behind the scenes, but I do know who DHH is and so it seems like literally none of this would've happened if not for point 2. on the list?? Just like, don't platform the rancid toxic cesspit of a man and you're fine??

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

God, we had so much fun doing this at my uni when creating an example DB table for an exam (only it was fake song/band combinations). Are you sure your coworker isn't a robot themselves?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's interesting, because in Poland 95% of all history you are taught is "and then they grabbed guns because they were just so fed up with their* shit" and from modern history it's mostly anti-commumist worker movements that were all about general strikes and loud, disruptive protests.

*Russians', Germans', Austrians', king's, ...

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 weeks ago

Quantum computers are in fact (believed to be) more powerful than classical digital TMs in terms of efficiency,

Importantly though, not crazily so. We know they can do factorisation quick, and we believe classical cannot. But we also believe they can't quickly solve NP-hard problems.

(In each instance, believe means it's not proven, but the implications of it being false would be so weird and surprising we think it's probably true and are trying to prove it so)

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if analog turing machines provide any new capabilities that digital TMs do, but I leave that question for the smarter people in the subject of theorethical computer science) did.

Capabilities in the sense that they can compute problems that digital TMs cannot? No, they cannot Capabilities in the sense they'd be more efficient at computing some problems than digital TMs? Hard af to prove or disprove.

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