Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

@sean_ae No, an algorithm is a precisely defined order of operations to solve a specific problem; and to be meaningful it needs to be designed (by a human).

DNA is more like data akin to a building plan.

cat komorebi

@konrad IYKYK

All this to say that it's absurd on its face to try to achieve "AGI" with some algorithm.

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"

"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"

"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."

"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?

"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."

"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"

"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."

"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"

"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."

"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"

"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

On March 3 there will be a total Lunar Eclipse, visible from the western US!

Attached my photos from an eclipse in 2022.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2026_lunar_eclipse

doing the “what’s in your bag” thing

IBM ThinkCat

@david_chisnall this will never catch on

And here's the tech industry's greatest revolutionary inventions

1980s: personal computers
1990s: the Internet
2000s: supercomputers in your pocket
2010s: fake money
2020s: vibe palaver

@Daojoan No worries, we now have VibeMaster 2000™ to transform video tutorials into badly written and half-wrong written guides!

What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them.

This could both work much better for those use cases for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls these succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].

[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

@billgoats idk so hard to crawl out of those and cats will use your head as scratching post

Watching A View to a Kill and rooting for Christopher Walken

Software engineer: “George Lucas is an asshole for changing like three scenes in his 20 year old movie 30 years ago.”

Also software engineer: “I fundamentally change my app like 3 times a week!”

nobody ever asks if we already have enough software or if maybe we should take a break and fix what we have instead of vibe coding more shovelware

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116111259613246153

$2 billion dollar valuation mkay

@octothorpe if you want dead people’s clothes you can just go to a thrift store

@vmstan i think I may have bought a pair of new old stock sneakers once

btw I have not ever bought clothing on eBay and I’ve been using the site for going on 25 years