[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As far as I can tell, it is hype because it is the hot new toy that they can sell.

LLMs are great for tasks like handling natural language data or classifying and identifying semantic meaning of text, but they are NOT good at math, logic, or as a store of facts/information. I think that they do actually deserve a lot of hype for these specific use cases, because they really accomplish these extraordinarily better than previous/traditional approaches.

The big problem is that they are being used for things that they are not good at, like when people ask a chatbot questions they they expect a factual answer to. They are also surprisingly bad at summarizing text (in my opinion and also this has been shown by some studies) despite companies like Google and Microsoft using them for things like summarizing and present search results. I think these companies are ultimately shooting themselves in the foot when they use LLMs for things that LLMs aren't great for.

Think back to when blockchain was being shoved into everything possible, even places where blockchain makes no sense. And before blockchain, it was cloud

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, but they can easily generate text that is statistically likely to look like a source.

LLMs are a probabilistic model of language, not an information source.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

They've got nothing on this guy!! They're literally grasping at straws

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The mirror DOESN'T flip left and right. Imagine an x-axis as a horizontal line across the mirror, a y-axis as a vertical line up/down the mirror, and a z-axis as a line that comes straight out of/into the mirror.

The mirror is actually only flipping that z-axis that comes out of/into the mirror, by reflecting the light back

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was using the pinebook pro ARM laptop with manjaro linux as a semi-daily driver for a while. It is fine for simple tasks and web browsing, but you cannot expect the hardware to be quick or snappy. I had consistent issues with wifi, and eventually I got fed up with the weak performance and switched back to an x86-64 architecture laptop. In terms of software and support, besides the wifi issues, it was fine

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Hey, we're not hurting anyone!!!

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, it is religion which drives that wedge, not science. Science creates no wedges at all and is purely inclusive; the religious people who deny repeatable and verifiable fact-based evidence are willingly excluding themselves, not being wedged away.

Science is waiting and ready to receive any repeatable and verifiable factual evidence that supports religious claims.

EDIT: lol would the downvoters like to explain what they believe is wrong with my comment?

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah disappointing, building up a stash completely filled with all different types of ammo would have brought some nostalgia. The different and more realistic ammo types was a great detail to the game and a big differentiator between all of the various guns. I'd often be choosing my load-out not based on my favorite or most powerful gun but whichever gun used the ammo that I could easily scavenge along the way. That small detail definitely gave the games a more zone-survival-feel

Hopefully there will be mods to bring more realism and detail back into the game

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

trust yourself by hosting a matrix server

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That did it! Thank you!

My solution: Desktop Session - System Settings > Session Restore > Start with an empty session

I could probably alternately add the Discover app to the Ignored applications list, but I prefer a fresh session on start.

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I have a fresh install of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 40. Every time I log into the DE, the Discover application opens automatically on start. How can I disable this behavior so that Discover does not automatically launch? There are no apps configured for autostart in the KDE autostart system settings.

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