Maybe it was my CS major talking there. An algorithm is a sequence of steps to reach a desired outcome such as updating a neural network. The network itself is essentially just a big heap of values you multiply through if you were curious.

Yeah absolutely, I'm specifically talking about AI as a neural network/reinforcement learning/machine learning and whatnot. Top of the line weather algorithms are now less accurate than neural networks.

LLMs as doctors are pretty garbage since they're predicting words instead of classifying a photo into yes/no or detecting which part of the sleep cycle a sleeping patient is in.

Fun fact, the closer you get the actual math the less magical the words become. Marketing says "AI", programming says "machine learning" or "neural network", mathematicians say "reinforcement learning".

Yeah, I might actually play wow since I can reduce the XP scaling by a lot. It goes from 50 mobs at lvl 10 to 600+ to level up at lvl 60. I have a 7mo old no way I have time for that hahaha.

I use SQL for work so I can mod the DB easily to remove the exponential scaling in favor of linear scaling like mob XP scales.

You can mod the database for creatures to drop more xp, gold and loot from the looks of it.

Update, I downloaded the VMangos database. It looks like it might be possible to edit drop rates with creature_loot_template(ChanceOrQuestChance) and XP gain by using creature_template(xp_multiplier)

I haven't hosted anything yet but it could be tested by editing a Chicken's xp_multiplier from 0.0 to 1.0

I've been seriously turned off by the grind of WoW. Are you able to do something like reduce the XP level scaling or something so that every level is like 30m and improve drop rates?

Instead of a funded NHS people got austerity.

To expand on this a bit AI in medicine is getting super good at cancer screening in specific use cases.

People now heavily associate it with LLMs hallucinating and speaking out of their ass but forget about how AI completely destroys people at chess. AI is already getting better than top physics models at weather predicting, hurricane paths, protein folding and a lot of other use cases.

AI's uses in specific well defined problems with a specific outcome can potentially become way more accurate than any human can. It's not so much about removing humans but handing humans tools to make medicine both more effective and efficient at the same time.

Crazy image in the study. Gray hair went away by monthly treatment of 15mg psylocibin

Pretty sure if you want to off yourself you'd do it differently

Just like anything else, it's worth what people are willing to pay for it vs what people are willing to buy it for.

Currently bitcoin is just a digital commodity with a finite supply which makes it a good store of value if people continue to use it.

The thing is, there's nothing preventing bitcoin from tanking and becoming essentially worthless besides people buying it because the price is low.

If in a hypothetical future the bitcoin price becomes stable then it will become a valuable commodity. It's value is wholly derived from it's users and nothing else.

It's not very convinent for governments or large institutions to hold it in it's current form since it's too easy to steal without leaving a trace. For government use there is going to be needed some development to allow for government or Central banks to have complete control over the currency without giving that control away which I think might be possible. In that case settling international transactions in bitcoin as opposed to the dollar for BRICS countries might be an option which doesn't use the US dollar.

All the other uses IMO are pretty much fluff such as paying in bitcoin.

If you're a land mammal reading this you're a land based fish

One alternative is that it only applies to companies that are listed as gatekeepers in the EU make it only hit megacorps

Came to upvote this

Why work on something quietly when you can work on it loudly?

That sounds like an article that starts with a heading "What is flossing?" and ends with "We don't know because it's private"

It's a flatpak://url that opens the app store on the computer where you do a one click install. So technically it's two clicks.

I think he's referencing the flathub install button where you can just hit install.

Snap is not all bad if you're on a Ubuntu based distro, I just don't like the way it's pushed and that it comes from Ubuntu mostly. Startup time is a major issue for me also, but all in all it works.

I'm still sitting on the fence, heavily prefer flatpak but when Ubuntu is going to package nvidia drivers in a snap it's a thing I'm up for trying.

My understanding is that if I'm on Ubuntu and the snap uses the same underlying Ubuntu version as my distro it should be fast but I haven't seen it.

What the actual fuck. Just redistribute the money like a normal person instead of creating subsidies for things with negative externalities.