[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

It's just part of a player's roleplay.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

"Science of the Total Environment" journal? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Too silly even for a 3rd-rate sci-fi film...

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Had never heard about Graphite, thank you! I'll try to stay updated about it. But please feel free to post important news about it in this community, whenever there'll be steps forward.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Absolutely amazing!! I suppose you've seen some renderings like this one.

However, these molecules don't really have a will or a scope, and in fact I don't like how they are deceivingly represented in some of these animations. These animations show, say, some aminoacid that goes almost straight towards some large molecule and does this and that. And one is left with the question: how does it get there and how does it "know" that it should get there? The answer is that it's just immersed in water and moved about by the unsystematic motion of the water molecules. Some aminoacids go here, some go there. In these animations they only show the ones that end up connecting with the large molecule. OK, this is done just to simplify the visualization, but it can also be misleading.

Similarly with molecules like kinesin, which seem to purposely walk around. Also in that case there's a lot of unsystematic motion, that after a while ends in a particular more stable configuration thanks to electromagnetic forces. Simulations such as this or this give a more realistic picture of these processes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the whole thing isn't awe-inspiring or mind blowing. It is. Actually I think that the more realistic picture (without these "purposeful" motions) leads to even more awe, because of the structured complexity that comes out of these unsystematic motions.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

They can setup arbitrary rules or ban you without any rules. It’s their service,

Indeed this shows the change in meaning that "service" has undergone in the past 10 or maybe 20 years. Before, the very notion of "service" was that this kind of events could not happen – otherwise it wasn't a "service". Reliability and reliance were integral part of the definition of "service".

Today this word doesn't mean anything anymore.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The title of the post is incorrect. It should be: "Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as the X11 Window System".

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

That's a neat description.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

My point was that a coffee machine is designed to make coffee, not to keep track of time. Maybe it always takes roughly the same amount of time to make a coffee, and so someone uses it as a proxy stopwatch. But it can very well suddenly take more or less time, without anything being wrong about it – maybe different coffee brands, cleaned pipes, or whatnot.

ChatGPT is an algorithm designed to parrot language, not to perform mathematical reasoning based on logic rules.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Interesting legal ramifications that I wasn't aware of. Does Canonical own Ubuntu? from what I gather in the other comments, it doesn't really?

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I didn't know this – cheers!

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's still a lot of debate around this topic. It's obviously difficult for people who have used these methods for the past 60 years to simply say "I've been using a flawed method for 60 years" – although in the end that's how science works. The problem moreover is double: the method has built-in flaws, and on top of that it's often misused.

Some starters:

What's sad is that these discussions easily end in political or "football-team"-like debates. But the mathematical and logical proofs are there, for those who care to go and read them.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Time to change distro.

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