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   elilla&, rōnin schlampe (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 20:10:50 JST elilla&, rōnin schlampe

   I take back what I said, that "AI" would turn out to be useless in war other than as responsibility laundering to do war crimes. Turns out "AI" can and has killed multiple terrorists. Namely, terrorists who asked training advice to "AI"

   https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them/

   there is thus one way to use "AI" as a war weapon: convince your enemies to consult it

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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 20:10:47 JST snacks

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     @coolbean @elilla rockets have been using optical guidance based on terrain maps before ai. Afaik that's where the algorithms optical mice use come from
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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 20:10:48 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @elilla also image recognition to autonomously guide kamikaze drones into targets which, combined with gps/glosnas/galileo guidance, makes em effectively jam-proof. its kinda scary actually
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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:35:16 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @scathach @elilla any asic that can handle image recognition is eldritch power beyond understanding to me
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     fiat volvntas tva (scathach@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:35:18 JST fiat volvntas tva

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     @coolbean @elilla You can, tho digital signals processing as a field is a mindfuck that kind of stretches the definition of "human comprehensible"
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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:35:19 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @elilla fair enough
     
     frankly i wish it were possible to do image recognition without machine learning anyway but thats just me preferring actually human comprehensible algorithms
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     elilla&, rōnin schlampe (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:35:20 JST elilla&, rōnin schlampe

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     @coolbean I do not count image recognition or traditional machine learning as what is now meant by "AI"

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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:35:21 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @elilla thats how ukrainian drones have been able to strike oil refineries in moscow and saint petersburg
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:45:58 JST snacks

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     @scathach @coolbean @elilla those will always struggle with drift tho which kinda sucks
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     fiat volvntas tva (scathach@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:46:00 JST fiat volvntas tva

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     @snacks @coolbean @elilla What's really cool are 100% analogue inertial guidance systems, like how are you going to guide a warhead onto a random bridge in bumfuckoblast before GPS existed and before the integrated circuit was invented
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:46:09 JST :suya:

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     @scathach @coolbean @elilla can confirm. Working with phased array antennas here, among other things. The code is insane.
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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:48:21 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @scathach @snacks @elilla i remember messing with the a4e navigation system in dcs and its... so funky. like if you pull too many Gs it starts falling out of calibration and becomes increasingly inaccurate forcing you to rely on tacam on the way back to base and its.... fascinating and i 100% do not want to know how it works thats terrifying
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:50:47 JST snacks

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     @scathach @coolbean @elilla i wish i had the smarts, time and dedication to get into dsp
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 22:51:52 JST iced depresso

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     @scathach @coolbean @elilla interpretable AI models exist.
     
     it's a commonly cited benefit of ODE nets and KANs, even.
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     omen of instance annihilation (coolbean@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:00:32 JST omen of instance annihilation

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     @snacks @scathach @elilla i dont. ICs are scary and i dont wanna design or understand em beyond what they look like on an iec 60617 schematic
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:00:53 JST iced depresso

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     @scathach @coolbean @elilla GMDH came out of a Ukraine lab in the 90's. Its a somewhat lost technology that grows one layer at a time, fits the current layer, and then prunes all but the top however many winners. Then repeats until stopped. Usually get small networks out of it that don't tend to overfit.
     
     KANs basically turn everything in to huge b-splines, but there's some newer work (FastKAN uses resting bitch faces which apparently were another 90's era thing as RBF networks) about it. One of the funnier things with them is after training them on some problem data, you can try to match the actual basis function parameters back to known math functions. so its been used as a cheeky form of "symbolic regression" where you extract the math formulas out of a problem after the fact.
     
     the black box nature of shitstacking multilayer perceptrons is kind of an open issue from the R&D side, it's just that the VC side doesn't care and benchmark chasing is measuring for that holy accuracy percentage at the complete cost of everything else.
     
     :comfyderp: on the other hand i'm a weirdo who cares about things like compute, so i spend most of my time these days in neuromorphics and weird niche shit
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:19:45 JST :suya:

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     @snacks @coolbean @scathach @elilla it's not really that hard. Basic university calculus and some C knowledge can land you a job in the field. If you can implement DFT using the wikipedia page as reference and write a low/highpass filter with that, you're like 80% there.
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:21:09 JST snacks

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     @newt @coolbean @scathach @elilla every job listing even remotely in that direction i saw required a bachelors or masters degree :mokouDead:
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:21:30 JST :suya:

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     @mischievoustomato @coolbean @snacks @scathach @elilla i forgot. Not being a virgin is a requirement for most jobs like this.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:21:31 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @newt @coolbean @snacks @scathach @elilla this sounds like smth fun to do.
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 23:22:30 JST :suya:

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     @snacks @coolbean @scathach @elilla so? Apply regardless. It's just an HR way of saying "we don't hire complete retards".
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