Balder

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Possibly preventing being locked out of the EU.

In this particular case the RAM is part of the chip as an attempt to squeeze more performance. Nowadays, processors have become too fast but it’s useless if the rest of the components don’t catch up. The traditional memory architecture has become a bottleneck the same way HDDs were before the introduction of SSDs.

You’ll see this same trend extend to Windows laptops as they shift to Snapdragon processors too.

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It’s just how machine learning has been since ever.

We only know the model’s behavior by testing, hence we only know more or less the behavior in relation to the amount of testing that was done. But the model internals has always been a black box of numbers that individually mean nothing and if tracked which neurons fire here and there it’ll appear just random, because it probably is.

Remember the machine learning models aren’t carefully designed, they’re just brute-force trained for a long time and have the numbers adjusted again and again whenever the results look closer or further away from the desired output.

Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.

Not only did the AI predict elements of whale vocalizations already thought to be meaningful, such as clicks, but it also singled out acoustic properties.

This is an amazing use of machine learning models.

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Right? People simply expect someone else to pay the bills.

It’s just like Michael from The Office. You see he isn’t doing things on purpose to sabotage everyone, but he can’t control it, he needs the attention and the self worship.

Quality of life is worse, productivity is worse, it’s more expensive. It’s a nice way to increase costs.

I’m actually surprised this wasn’t the case before.

I see this kind of behavior happen a lot online, and asked ChatGPT about it:

Yes, there is a term that describes this phenomenon. It's called "oppositional belief perseverance" or "belief polarization." This term refers to the tendency of individuals to cling to their initial beliefs even when presented with evidence that contradicts those beliefs. In the context you described, someone may initially take the opposite side of a discussion due to an opposition bias, but over time, they may start to internalize and genuinely believe the opposing viewpoint, thereby demonstrating belief polarization.

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If more people joined Lemmy you’d see the amount of spam this place would get. Now it’s only a bunch of nerds who will quickly report any spammy activity. It’s a small “friendly” community for now.

I suppose the AI images submitted are done so because they turned out good, so there’s still a human selection process there. It’s not as bad at automatically feeding random generated images into the training.

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Some people have been saying that since the beginning while some haven’t noticed this “decline”. It seems very subjective.

There’s people who even think Reddit is right.

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And when it’s not blatant misinformation, it is almost that, as information presented on short content video is stripped out of any nuances and complications that are often present in reality.

I wonder what percentage of desktop users still use Ubuntu nowadays. Seems like there’s no way to have a clear picture, besides DistroWatch which is more like “interest” and not actual usage?

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It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that their incentives aren’t the same as the long term wellbeing of the company.

I think most people don’t realize how little money online ads make. Companies resort to it because people won’t pay for every little thing they use, but it’s not a lucrative endeavor. Reason why so many newspapers are shutting down and companies getting desperate after the VC money ran out.

Time to save the models we have now, cause they’ll never the quite the same.

Good thing it has some good amou of context. But I feel like this kind of incident can only be better analyzed with images and simulations of what happened.

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Problem is deeplinks such as https://m.lemmy.world/post/1291838 don’t work

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Also the whole region is in the path of being heavily affected by heat.

Whatever form of entertainment you want to see. TikTok algorithm quickly adjust the algorithm to show you what you like or don’t skip instantly, and it’s very good at it.

The problem is it’s all superficial content that will vanish from your mind 3s later, so 2h scrolling on TikTok or Reels feel like 2 blank hours from your day. Besides, since the algorithm decides what you’ll see, it’s like your brain shuts down similarly to what happens when you’re vegetating in front of TV watching whatever crap they’re throwing at you.

All societies changed because of computers and smartphones. Lots of people forget that especially for poor people smartphones brought so much benefits that were not accessible before, such as online banking (not needing to go to a bank branch), being in touch with family even when moving away for work, much more access to information (despite the low barrier of disinformation nowadays), online courses, healthcare tips etc.

Yet the article says Samsung attributes that to the phones market?

Samsung attributes this loss in profit to the decline in smartphone shipments due to “high interest rates and inflation.”

Something else that doesn’t seem to bode well is the fact that Samsung believes the boost that came from the launch of the Galaxy S23 series has faded.

And expects a comeback because it’s launching new models…

The manufacturer highlights the launch of the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5. It also believes that the smartphone market will make a return.

This seems to indicate that most variable profit comes from the smartphones market.

Then I guess people will use the web less and less.

How can you possibly know that without any extensive research?

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On one hand, it is quite cheap but on the other hand their catalog is very bad. I wonder how long will these streaming services survive before they go all the way through the enshittification and kill themselves.

If it prevents school mass shootings, I’m all for it.

Wasn’t that already there case? What’s changing?

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Ads have almost always been part and parcel of the YouTube experience. However, there's a point at which ads become so frequent, so irrelevant, and so relentless that they start hurting the user experience. We've been past that point for a while now.

Ironically, without an ad blocker it’s hard to read the Android Police blog. I invite anyone to try.

Yeah it is a bit weak on the arguments, as it doesn’t seem to talk about trade offs?

Wouldn’t any automated system ideally escalate to the next tier of (human) support when it detects something complicated?

In my experience, this never happens. Since they have now very few human staff they make it VERY difficult to talk to a human to the point you often give up.

Oh I got it. I’m still stuck in the time when tweets had 140 characters, so I didn’t think there was more text 😆

Yeah, what happens is that it takes effort to keep supporting multiple OS versions. iOS has a history of users being like 90% on the newest OS every time there’s a major update, so a lot of companies only support one previous version beyond the current.

Android is a different matter. It has always been a fragmented mess and new OS adoption has always been very slow (it’s faster nowadays though). Because of that Google maintains a set of libraries that make sure Android features work the same way across multiple versions, which eases the burden on developers.

Shareholders: we can have the same profit without a CEO!

Well,that's the thing with "news" right? Just scattered information without context for clicks. If people start connecting the dots and things make sense, most of the news become pretty uninteresting and would not evoke anger, prompting you to click and share.

I think it’s more like a pattern observed in many of the blog posts about the reasons ex-employees left Google after a while.