When I was a kid and I was trying to get to sleep, I’d close my eyes and remember all the different bedroom layouts I’d lived in. Like in one place the wall was to the left and top and the door was down by the foot of the bed. In another place the wall was just to the top and the window was to the left and down. In another place the wall was just to the top and the door was to the top and left. etc.

When he asks to see their code, they send him a single file.

Sounds interesting. Glad those topics are still being investigated. So important to remember that even those neural methods labored for decades in the shadows before they finally found the answers they needed.

“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

• symbolic AI
• traditional AI
• GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

Kinda sounds like you’re talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I’m pretty sure they’re all having funding problems too.

This time god is drowning us letting us drown ourselves in trash.

Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.

I suggest you hold out for a Scooby-snack.

• Naked Lunch soundtrack
• Eraserhead soundtrack (especially side B)
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts

Those poor, poor academic publishers… they’re actually going to have to do some reviewing? And maybe even some EDITING? …nah, they’ll probably just run them through OpenAI…

Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.

Well… that can be more serious that you suggest. Tenure-track faculty need publication-worthy projects and grad students; what if the only funding available is military- and surveillance-oriented? Big universities are going to expect scientists to bring in the money or leave.

The only place they can unconditionally exist at, outside of their house, is their car.

Even then police will come by to see what you’re doing.

Tim revives! See how he rises!
Timothy rising from the bed
Sayin’: “Whirl your liquor around like blazes!
Thanam o’n Dhoul! D’ye think I’m dead?”

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Finnegan's_Wake

Even thought about a comm themed, “stop buying new shit”.

!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

(hey @sevon@lemmy.kde.social it’s this one)

Then I wanted to make robots but I went to a robotics company for a high school project and they explained engineers don’t build anything and the technicians don’t design anything.

I was affiliated with a robotics lab for a couple years, and I’m pretty sure that’s not true industry-wide. I’m mostly saying this for other folks who may be reading. Look into it first before believing what that company person said.

some of these are “ask” communities which sometimes turn into discussions

• !ask@lemm.ee
• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
• !casualconversation@lemm.ee
• !casualuk@feddit.uk
• !Dullsters@dullsters.net
• !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
• !forumlibre@jlai.lu
• !general@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
• !preguntalealemmy@feddit.cl
• !rant@lemmy.sdf.org

I have an HP Chromebook 11 that I was going to install linux on (iirc you have to open it up and flip a hardware switch to do so) but I ended up keeping Chrome OS on it. Anyway I mention it bc the form-factor is nice, it’s very small and light but still usable. Only thing I don’t like is the touchpad so I hook up an external mouse whenever possible. You can get those chromebooks for under $100 refurbished too.

Oh there are plenty of specious rationalizations. “If I didn’t do it, someone else would” is a common one. “I just give the customers what they want” is another. “The tech has good uses, too” is one of the trickiest. “It’s the only thing I’m good at” is the saddest. If you ever find yourself saying one of these things, take a long hard look at yourself. I don’t know anything about the guy so dunno which one he uses.

why talk about moths?

If an extinction-level event happens soon and all this info is stored in an EMP-proof bunker somewhere, future alien historians will say that the moths and the lamps represented how helpless we felt in the face of our certain demise.

https://obscurebattles.blogspot.com/ - detailed descriptions of historical battles. @PugJesus@lemmy.world you might find that interesting. The guy does it for miniatures wargaming, but he’s former Navy Intel and he seems to know how to put together a brief.