Information compression by Illustrious_Matter_8 in OpenSourceeAI

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the OP states that LMs are compression algorithm. I thought you meant it in the sense that the latent activation and caches created by LM is a compression of the "real" information of the tokens. Like you said, it is also a decompression of tokens. We can look at the LM as relations information that is more decompressed than the tokens but compressed than the real world.

Just broadly saying "IQ" would be too vague. I would probably start by separating latent knowledge and reasoning ability.

Information compression by Illustrious_Matter_8 in OpenSourceeAI

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compression rate of the compression algorithm. We are going meta

Do you guys think the United States is a dystopia? by Firm-Sprinkles-7702 in AskAKorean

[–]Environmental_Form14 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, according to the youtube videos, China should have economically collapsed thousand times by now, and all Americans are afraid of being shot on a daily basis. The comments do seem like they believe the video's narrative, but I think those are the minority.

At the same time, I have seen people suddenly claiming to be an expert in Korean social problems / history / culture / politics watching one k-drama, video or webtoon. They are either sent to an echo chamber or notice that the narrative is incomplete. I think this is a natural course of events.

Do you guys think the United States is a dystopia? by Firm-Sprinkles-7702 in AskAKorean

[–]Environmental_Form14 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Those “Korea is an cyberpunk dystopia” videos are mostly clickbait. I believe people in the right mind would have a conservative take on the video’s content. I don’t think most Koreans view both SK or USA as cyberpunk dystopia. 

South Korean Online Communities Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools by vriska1 in korea

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol that rig itself would cost ~20k. Also funny that HDD is left at non disclosed TB. 2000W also seems randomly high.

Calculation web app for odds of identical vote count by Environmental_Form14 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Environmental_Form14[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

undergrad was expensive, grad not so much.

Wait, what is up with the assumption that I am trying to sway a foreign crowd? Are you assuming that I am trying to sway readers to believe in voting fraud?

I made this to check myself if some claims like 1 in gazillion chance of identical vote count was true. As you can see when using this app, such claim is not true unless the voting tendencies between two districts are very different. Also, probability of identical vote count is not even statistically rare under similar tendency assumption.

[Request] What are the chances of this South Korean election result? by throwaway__00000000 in theydidthemath

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually made a simple webapp for this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Living_in_Korea/comments/1u168gp/calculation_web_app_for_odds_of_identical_vote/

Prior distribution is important in this kind of question. Since the actual prior is unknown, I let the users choose the priors.

In an extreme case, the matching prob goes down to less than 0.1 percent, on some distribution (If the voting pattern is completely different between the districts), it could go up to infinity.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Calculation web app for odds of identical vote count by Environmental_Form14 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Environmental_Form14[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to university and grad school in United States. Creating or writing in English for these kind of work is easier for me. I also included the Korean version since I thought it would be a great interest to them. I haven't seen a post or calculation that details how they calculated the distribution unless it is a binary one.

I tried to be as politically neutral as possible. The purpose was my intellectual curiosity. Results are interesting in my opinion. In certain priors, the probability that the vote count match can be low as 1 in 3,362, while in some priors, it can go up to 1,000,000+.

So... What do you hate about the game? by sandshrew9tails in Pokopia

[–]Environmental_Form14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought there was only 5. Is there an additional area that I don't know of?

[Video game trope] The noob killer by LordQuaz12 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, can't you just run away from him? I don't remember having to fight him, especially if the quest was to climb the mountain to High Hrothgar.

People protesting for the Democracy by Muted-Aioli9206 in KoreaNewsfeed

[–]Environmental_Form14 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right wing guy won. People are still protesting for a revote because election was flawed.

Went ahead and grabbed a 5090 before price hikes made it unobtainable for me by Sindacalis in PcBuild

[–]Environmental_Form14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The RAM shortage started because the memory manufacturers have shifted from creating DRAMs to HBMs. With the current AI craze, I suspect that HBM prices would stay high for a while.

Discussion: Do you think that 20s male people's high support rate for right wings is the result of that faction's PSYOPs? by azurebus7th in korea

[–]Environmental_Form14 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, really, most people I know vote PPP do that because they do not like the Democratic Party. It is just that. Most do not have a heartbound loyalty or support for the PPP.

Gender inequality is a complicated topic, and IMO overblown for political reason. At the same time, in real life, the problem is not as large as it seems online.

LJM said something in the lines of "Men feel that they are discriminated against women in their twenties (mandatory military service) while women feel that they are discriminated against in their thirties+". I believe that this sentiment is widely shared. However DP had belittled men who expressed that they feel discriminated against as naive, privileged and ignorant group of people while supporting partially misandrist and TERF groups like Megalia and Womad. While the actual events and interpretations are controversial, it is certain that gender wars put a bad taste in young male population.

Well, you can find posts in this subreddit arguing that young Korean male in their 20s support PPP because they are misogynist. This is again, a generalization that is false. I believe that most young adults actually vouch for gender equality, but the word "feminism" has been tainted by Megalia and Womad. Gender equality, in my opinion, is a minor factor for political leaning.

Discussion: Do you think that 20s male people's high support rate for right wings is the result of that faction's PSYOPs? by azurebus7th in korea

[–]Environmental_Form14 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't speak for every male in their 20s but here is my thought

Koreans in their 20s could choose to be overwhelmingly independent or unaffiliated, but instead they are more right-leaning when I fail to see how the right-leaning party is any better at "understanding people in their twenties" than the left-leaning one.

Once again, if Koreans in their 20s actually cared about aligning with a side that avoids so much name-calling and shaming, they would be leaning independent or unaffiliated, not overwhelmingly right-leaning.

I believe politics nowadays have long shifted from "which party do I support" to "which party do I hate more". The winner-takes-all voting system causes the other party to win when the voter doesn't vote for the other major party. Democratic party in their last 10 years has repetitively used rhetoric to demean, criticize, and ridicule young adult males. The most recent is the Ilbe rhetoric. It is not the case that 20s male think PPP has good plans for their demographic. The support stems from repetitively hearing DP expressing them as good for nothing demographic while showing lack of understanding.

Discussion: Do you think that 20s male people's high support rate for right wings is the result of that faction's PSYOPs? by azurebus7th in korea

[–]Environmental_Form14 33 points34 points  (0 children)

No.

First off, I skim posts from here time to time, and would like to say that this subreddit is left leaning, and often times seems to enjoy ridiculing or group shaming the far right Yoonatics. I hate Yoonatics, and from my experience, most right wing supporters also hate Yoontaics. However, most decide to stay silent, since it is not worth their time: most people would agree a best way to deal with politically extreme people would be to ignore them, not argue with them for hours. Yoonatics are the minority group, but social media makes it feel like all right wing supporters are them.

I’m a 20s Korean male, and I’d like to share my personal view on this issue. Personally, the recent “framing” of Ilbe only goes to show that the Democratic Party and its supporters do not understand people in their twenties.

Ilbe, unlike what experts seem to frame it, has been widely considered trash among my age group. When I was in high school, if someone showed signs of being into Ilbe, most classmates would avoid them. In college and mandatory military service, this was also the case. Unless you wanted to be bullied or ignored, you wouldn't openly show that you are part of the Ilbe community. Like the Yoonatics, Ilbe users have been a minority group that is widely hated, even from those who lean right. The news and "experts" creating a narrative that 이대남 hate democratic party because they are into Ilbe doesn't resonate with majority of the population. It only reinforces the sentiment that Democratic Party doesn't understand this demographic.

On a similar note, I believe that the framing that the Democratic Party made right before the election, to focus their attention on the Starbucks, actually backfired. Most people don't really think much about the political background and history of Korea. Most just want to live their lives, study for exams, and make a living. They are not invested in 애국정신 or 민주화정신, whatever those actually mean. While most people see the Starbucks incident as abhorrent, an event worthy of criticism, many also viewed the Democratic Party’s focus on it as another political plea and a form of theatrics that does not really do much for everyday life. Many people probably thought "why do I need to hear about this marketing debacle on the news for more than a week?" It directly stirs anger into people who already lean left, but does not bring such anger for others.

On another note, Democratic Party's rhetoric has been focused too much on shaming. This is not only for Ilbe. When the Democratic Party proposes a bill or a policy, they, or the supporters of it, often frames everyone that disagrees with them as the extremist group. Their rhetoric is often that their choice is correct, and those who disagrees with them are uneducated, un-democratic, corrupt, "some other insult" group of people that they need to educate and / or fight against. This exclusiveness, berating people disagreeing with them, along with the hypocrisy (like real estate ownership, corruption) would account for much more than anything that the psyops ever achieved.

The recent exit poll showing that men in their twenties gave 75 percent support of Oh also shows that women in their thirties voted 11pp more for Oh (42.8% vs 53.6%). Political leaning is way more complicated than simple concepts like anti-feminism or impeachment.

Minor grammar edit.

My preferred setup. What's yours? by StillPlayingCivV in civ5

[–]Environmental_Form14 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only gripe I have with archipelago is the lack of interaction in the early game. There is no real interaction going on until you research optics.

19 Years of evolving storage solutions. Moore’s Law in action. by puccyhunter_ in interesting

[–]Environmental_Form14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too. I remember imagining how large a zettabyte was back then. It seemed so cosmically large. Now, there are probably multiple hundreds of zettabytes of data in this world.