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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Let me try with another example that can get round your blind AI hatred.

If people were using a calculator to calculate the value of an integral they would have significantly less diversity of results because they were all using the same tool. Less diversity of results has nothing to do with how good the tool is, it might be 100% right or 100% wrong but if everyone is using it then they will all get the same (or similar if it has a random element to it as LLMs do).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That snark doesnt help anyone.

Imagine the AI was 100% perfect and gave the correct answer every time, people using it would have a significantly reduced diversity of results as they would always be using the same tool to get the correct same answer.

People using an ai get a smaller diversity of results is neither good nor bad its just the way things are, the same way as people using the same pack of pens use a smaller variety of colours than those who are using whatever pens they have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They in fact often have word and page limits and most journal articles I've been a part of have had a period at the end of cutting and trimming in order to fit into those limitds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Literally everyone learns from unreliable teachers, the question is just how reliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There was also a Harvard paper that was the main justification for austerity in the UK given its conclusion that past a certain GDP/debt ratio al sorts of bad things happen.

Turned out to be an excel error skipping 1/4 of their data and when re-run with the whole set the effect vanished. Horrible abuses of excel and csv files are by no means limited to any one country.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Ha no, I just have an extension to automatically add that to wiki links as I dislike the newer skin. I totally forgot it was there!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its very common in all sorts of fields, Max Planck said that physics advances one dead professor at a time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to be like that then "people" love trump and musk everywhere and its not unique to the UK. Saying "people here love trump and musk" when for example 55% of people in the UK have a "very unfavourable" opinion of him is very misleading. More people are very unfavourable than unfavourable, neutral, favourable very favourable and don't know put together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If you read the article you would have seen that she said "sorry boys" after inadvertently revealing the winner was female during the build up to announcing the winner. A bit lame and infantilising, probably, but it was a marketing exec saying it so what can you expect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anything pre ~2000, graphics came on incredibly in the years at the end of the 90s start of the 21 century. The difference between FF7 (1997)

https://idisplayit.co.uk/images/companies/1/products/Blog/Q1%202024/ff7/final-fantasy-7-still.jpg?1707754262295

and FF10(2001)

https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Final-Fantasy-X-Cast.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1.5

is vast

 

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