For at least some people there's probably also an aspect of regulatory future proofing.

Throw it over on !newcommunities@lemmy.world if you haven't already

No video embeds as far as I'm aware but channels appear on Lemmy like a community. See here: !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

Are snaps hard to avoid?

I've not seen any real organizing yet but the spirit is there. See: !workreform@lemmy.world and slrpnk.net

Universal link: !BadInternetBills@kbin.social

This should be long fixed. I think people who have been taking about this recently are in instances that are having trouble helping up with traffic? Definitely not sure

Lol from Wikipedia, "Chick sexing is the method of distinguishing the sex of chickens and other hatchlings." For further context, this is done by a highly trained individual who is able to briefly look at the cloaca of a chick and immediately recognize their sex. They are even known to be able to perform this on two chicks at the same time (one in each hand). Joshua Foer briefly talks about it in his book Moonwalking with Einstein where he attributes the skill to the incredible ability of humans to perform rote memorization. I think it is better understood as an example of the incredible abilities of these sorts of neural networks (digital and biological) for pattern identification.

In the bio-tech space specifically, most of these recent advancements (e.g. protein folding) are a direct result of advancements in Deep Neural Networks. This is because things that are impossible to model explicitly without a working understanding of the system are easily understood by a neural network. The reasons for this are precisely the same reasons why we ourselves are so good at the task. For a real world example of humans being applied to a similar task, look up the Japanese educational industry around chick sexing.

I really think we'll start seeing actual improvements as open source alternatives replicate corporate functionality. Existing options are a mess (particularly in a professional setting) for folks to try to implement as they have unstable business models and dubious ideas about intellectual property. See OpenAssistant for an example of where I think these models are headed.

The only problem with this is that the Threads privacy policy states that if one of their users interacts with YOU, it gives them the rights to scrape and sell your data.

Obsidian manages ok and the utility there is pretty huge. Particularly some of the touch specific plugins.