i will never forgive the emby team for creating the single most idiotic (although rather funny) transcoding system.
It has a resolution selection, along with a bitrate selection, so you would think it forces transcoding.
It turns out the resolution is actually just a suggestion, and the bitrate is what it targets, if it doesn't meet the bitrate, it will transcode, and if you get lucky, it might transcode to the specified resolution.
Technically if we were to develop a real general artificial general intelligence, it would be limited to the amount of knowledge that it has, but so is any given human. And it's advantage would still be scale of operations compared to a human, since it can realistically operate on all known theoretical and practical information, where as for a human that's simply not possible.
Though presumably, it would also be influenced by AI posting that we already have now, to some degree, the question is how it responds to that, and how well it can determine the difference between that and real human posting.
the reason why hallucinations are such a big problem currently is simply due to the fact that it's literally a predictive text model, it doesn't know anything. That simply wouldn't be true for a general artificial intelligence. Not that it couldn't hallucinate, but it wouldn't hallucinate to the same degree, and possibly with greater motives in mind.
A lot of the reason human biology tends to obfuscate certain things is simply due to the way it's evolved, as well as it's potential advantages in our life. The reason we can't see our blindspots is due to the fact that it would be much more difficult to process things otherwise. It's the same reason our eyesight is flipped as well. It's the same reason pain is interpreted the way that it is.
a big mistake you are making here is stating that it must be fed information that it knows to be true, this is not inherently true. You can train a model on all of the wrong things to do, as long it has the capability to understand this, it shouldn't be a problem.
For predictive models? This is probably the case, but you can also poison the well so to speak, when it comes to those even.
It could be humble enough to admit it doesn’t know, but it can still be mistaken and think it has the right answer when it doesn’t. It would feel neigh omniscient, but it would never truly be.
yeah and so are humans, so i mean, shit happens. Even then it'd likely be more accurate than a human just based off of the very fact that it knows more subjects than any given human. And all humans alive, because it's knowledge is based off of the written works of the entirety of humanity, theoretically.
A roundtrip around the globe on glass fibre takes hundreds of milliseconds, so even if it has the truth on some matter, there’s no guarantee that didn’t change in the milliseconds it needed to become aware that the truth has changed. True omniscience simply cannot exists since information (and in turn the truth encoded by that information) also propagates at the speed of light.
well yeah, if we're defining the ultimate truth as something that propagates through the universe at the highest known speed possible. That would be how that works, since it's likely a device of it's own accord, and or responsive to humans, it likely wouldn't matter, as it would just wait a few seconds anyway.
The dataset that encodes all wrong things would be infinite in size, and constantly change. It can theoretically exist, but realistically it will never happen. And if it would be incomplete it has to make assumptions at some point based on the incomplete data it has, which would open it up to being wrong, which we would call a hallucination.
at that scale yes, but at this scale, with our current LLM technology, which was what i was talking about specifically, it wouldn't matter. But even at that scale i don't think it would classify as a hallucination, because a hallucination is a very specific type of being wrong. It's literally pulling something out a thin air, and a theoretical general intelligence AI wouldn't be pulling shit out of thin air, at best it would elaborate on what it knows already, which might be everything, or nothing, depending on the topic. But it shouldn't just make something up out of thin air. It could very well be wrong about something, but that's not likely to be a hallucination.
we had a thread a while ago, and some dude was in there insisting that blowers can be "used for snow" because apparently snow blowers don't fucking exist.
this is pretty cool but it'd be cooler if the started supporting right to repair. As far as i can care they're cunts until they stop producing manufactured e-waste products.
correct me if im wrong here, but gas leaf blowers are inherently many times louder than electric leaf blowers to begin with. Calculating the near field DB levels doesn't really count here since most of the annoyance is actually going to be from other people who have to listen to it running.
And since electric leaf blowers often have a much higher pitch, that pitch attenuates at a much greater rate, especially compared to that of an ICE meaning that it's often silent, if not very quiet, at the same distance that an ICE would be rather loud at.
Also, in my defense 90% of articles these days are not worth reading, i'm sure they probably did something as i literally mentioned in my previous comment, but like i said, comparing this to a traditional ICE leaf blower (which people seem to fucking love for some reason) in comparison i'm still pretty confident that this would make almost zero fucking difference, since the vast majority of noise coming from an ICE blower is not air noise, but engine noise.
But yes thank you for telling me that i'm wrong and bad for not reading an article about an item that has probably 20-30% market share from my anecdotal experience.
Unfortunately not very many people seem to use electric leaf blowers here, and even if you were to transmute that addition to an ICE blower it wouldn't make a difference considering that the engine would still be loud as fuck.
i am aptly aware of this, in fact i'm aware of the fact that it's actually a 12db drop in volume. Someone else kindly told me what was in the article.
But my primary point is still true.
and in defense of myself, most articles are bullshit anyway. 50% of it is filler, and 20% of it is useless information, edu sites are generally better, but there's no guarantee, and i don't bother with most articles these days. And my problem here isn't even the fact that they did drop the volume of the noise, my problem is that i'm not sure this is a significant accomplishment.
There are a lot of fields actively researching this exact same concept.
i'm not educated in the field specifically, but what i do have a knowledge base of is the fact that this probably isn't a technical W for the leaf blower industry, especially judging that most commercial leaf blowers are gas ICE based equipment, and that even with the home market being more accessible than ever, a lot of home owners still use ICE based equipment.
Put together with the fact that the high pitch whine attenuates aggressively at distance, compared to much lower pitches. It's likely that it has little benefit for anybody other than the user, in which case, hearing protection.
I'm sure this is a more broad accomplishment, but this has been a field of study across multiple industries for multiple reasons.
i'm not here to read articles most of the time, because people talk about what's in the article here. And in this case, leaf blowers, specifically electric ones are a bit quieter in near field operations.
Which i definitely expected, based off of the headline, but like i said, compared to a traditional ICE leaf blower, especially commercial backpack setups. Does it make a difference? Uhm. Not sure.
It's funny to me that people yell at me about not reading articles, even though i understand the general pretense of it, without reading it. People literally corrected me by stating numbers, because that was the only thing i didn't mention, since i didn't read the article. And i didn't even come here to speak about it, i mostly came here to complain about the fact that small ICE engines exist on lawn equipment.
this is such a weird legal thing. Even if it's my sidewalk, you're still walking on it of your own accord, i'd get it if maybe like, i put ice all over it, or something. but otherwise that's not my problem.
i'm almost certain this is more of a cloud bug than anything. Fucking up the incredibly basic process of "hey this shit isn't real, don't look here for anything" is hilarious.
There shouldnt be a fucking excuse. Did you accidentally roll back an fs journal? No, good, because that's how you get dataloss
ok so probably not, CSAM detection, specifically modern detection the kind that MS does, is based on image hashes, and how it works is that the law collects and creates the hash sets for these images, and distributes them to tech companies, who can then use them to calculate against hashes of existing photos, and if a match returns, ladies and gentleman, we got em.
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
ah yes a classic we call this a flathead, but without the part of the flathead that makes it good at not being a shit screw, but also it's located now so the driver doesn't slip out of the screw, so it's actually kinda better than just a flathead screw, but it probably strips a lot easier than a flathead, since there's a lot less surface area on it. Screw.
edit: there's a lot of people coping on this thread for some reason, bro it's a blender, who cares, it's like 20 dollars, 99% of the population is buying a new one anyway.
honestly i'd be concerned about somebody without tools opening a blender. Why are they in there? How did they get in it? And what did the blender do to them?
i feel like if someone has the capability of bitching about a security screw on the internet, they probably have the intelligence to unplug a blender from the wall.
If this is the standard for security screws, hex/torx will almost certainly do it's job, but significantly better.
maybe caveman want motor out of blender, and screw is hinderance to motor collection. Don't judge a mans cave by the lack of blenders. Judge it by the principles held within!
Regardless, security bits are a skill issue, and i will not stand for them. They make cars with traditional bolts and nuts, those are perfectly accessible to the average person, yet people killing themselves with their bad car repairs, is disconcertingly low. They're bad for repairability, they're bad for the environment, and most importantly, they waste time and money for no fucking reason.
i like to separate it between visualizing something, and conceptualizing something, because if someone says a visualize a sphere, you know what a sphere is, you simply don't need to visualize it in order to conceptualize what it should look like, thus leading to a "pseudo image"
but if someone were to say visualize the tread pattern of an all weather tire, you probably wouldn't be able to do that very well, since you likely don't have a very solid conceptual understanding of what it looks like.
usually im pretty good with typing, ironically. The problem is that if i start to multi focus on things, it gets really messy, just having music in the background isn't enough to cause me problems though, neither having youtube videos, though it's impossible for me to focus enough on the video to understand whats happening, while being able to type legibly.
if i'm rapidly jumping between things, like reading something, and talking to people on discord, while listening to music, i can absolutely throw random words in places they shouldnt be, it's weird.
yeah, in a way it's impossible to think about what you think, as you think about it, that's how train of thought works. The only time you ever have a whole spiel ready is if you've been practicing it regularly, and then it's no longer train of thought anymore.
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Absolute legend ( lemmy.today )
Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy ( fortune.com )
Yard lookin' fine tho. ( lemmy.world )
New addition, not sure on name yet... ( lemmy.world )
Neighbor across the street has a litter to re-home so we're doing our part!...
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC ( arstechnica.com )
We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem ( www.theverge.com )
Cat keeps messing with security cam ( lemmy.world )
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots ( www.wired.com )
Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches ( www.wishtv.com )
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes ( www.theverge.com )
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Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. ( humanities.ku.dk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2916897...
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...