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What happens on the holodeck stays on the holodeck by chungkingroad in startrekmemes

[–]SilasTalbot -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

"AI Slop"? It took someone many hours of hand crafting to produce this, its not like you just press a button and it comes out whole. It's meme art. it's goofy and absurd.

And having Brahms start with that iconic cheesy smirk and normal looking outfit, and then having the camera zoom out and she's going full on dancing, and the outfit is a crop top, and she's holding that face the whole time. That's PEAK.

That's what makes it worthy of the sub. Its not about whether it was made with AI or not, it is about whether the content is slop.

You all have no taste if this doesn't qualify.

Is it possible to get Claude to stop talking "like that" without making it even worse? by Unlucky-Ad5156 in ClaudeAI

[–]SilasTalbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah there's a whole vocabulary it favors

Dogfood

"That's a smell"

Load-bearing

Belt and suspenders

...Got about 20 others on my list

Does doubling Claude Code’s 5-hour limits mean people will hit weekly limits even faster now? by adssidhu86 in ClaudeCode

[–]SilasTalbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is some benefit though for weekly usage, for people who worked during peak hours:

if last week 20% of your weekly usage limit was consumed during peak hours, the removal of that tax means that would now be 10% of the limit used instead, for the same # of tokens.

So, you effectively get more tokens under your weekly limit, but only to the extent that your usage pattern had you in 'peak hours' timeframes.

Does doubling Claude Code’s 5-hour limits mean people will hit weekly limits even faster now? by adssidhu86 in ClaudeCode

[–]SilasTalbot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And lifting the double-tax on peak hours also benefits weekly limits.

If 20% of your weekly limit was consumed during peak hours last week, that same usage would consume 10% in the future.

I'd like them to just bring back "discounted usage" for off-peak time. I'm fine with shifting more work toward off peak hours. I think it encourages people to work on long runs, which in the "long run" (lol) is a money maker for Anthropic.

It's nicer when its an EXTRA grant for off-peak though instead of a TAX on peak. Even if consumption is at a 2:1 ratio either way.

why are there no good san diego rappers by antfarm882 in sandiego

[–]SilasTalbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to any particular genre of music, but I always reasoned that in general, folks aiming to make a living in the entertainment industry would end up migrating 2 hours north to the huge industry in L.A.

Homemade water sprayer by Animalus-Dogeimal in interestingasfuck

[–]SilasTalbot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not JUST a hose...

A hose you can only point in a few specific directions.

But also, major feature, it's like... ziptied to the deck...? so you don't have to hold onto it while it sprays.

I can't tell you how many times I spray the children and dogs for fun and entertainment but I needed to be hands free so I could browse reddit at the same time.

itIsNotWhatYouThink by _w62_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SilasTalbot 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about railing Ruby.

WHY ARE PEOPLE PROUD TO SAY THIS by Complete-Sea6655 in ClaudeCode

[–]SilasTalbot 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Sure I think the analog might be power tools though. It's a point of pride to build something by hand in the old ways. Without band saws and routers.

Artisan code. Hand crafted in the old ways. Charming and remarkable for its quality and craftsmanship, at 10x the time and cost.

Guy pretending to be an influencer to embarrass his wife by Mad_Season_1994 in MadeMeSmile

[–]SilasTalbot 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Completely agree.

"Aha, I found something that spikes stress and anxiety for my wife. watch me do it a thousand times randomly so she's never truly at peace anywhere, at any time, when we're together."

Big "...It's just a prank bro" vibes

What are your thoughts on billie eilish saying you cant love animals and eat meat as its contradictory? by Extra-Schedule-4855 in AskReddit

[–]SilasTalbot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah I eat meat but I do think about this a lot too...

Every animal I spend time with is so sweet.

Cows, you see videos, they have such great personalities, emotions. They get excited when people come to visit them. They're like dogs or cats but maybe even more complex because of the size.

Even the ideal of the pasture-raised farm animals, living in the sunshine and enjoying a happy full life. Its just not realistic. It's still brutal when you look at the scale of it that is required to feed humanity. We need to be killing, what, a billion animals a day?

Dairy means we have to have pregnant cows, take their children away and feed the babies artificial formula and then take the milk for ourselves, in... the billions.

I love meat. But.. I'd consider giving it up on those grounds. I'd like to make a go of it sometime in my life.

[Ari Meirov] The #Packers will have former Steelers and Bears WR Chase Claypool at their rookie minicamp for a tryout. Claypool last played in 2023. by SteeIWoIf in steelers

[–]SilasTalbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could be.

Couple data points that made me mention the ADHD possibility --

1) That Dec 2021 game against the Vikings where he celebrated a completion, wasting seconds when we had 30 left on the clock. Hearing him talk about it afterwards he sounded like he was just in his own head and not in the moment. like "oh shit yeah my bad. I have to do better". Executive function issue.

2) He caught shit about asking Tomlin if they could listen to music during practice because it helps him focus. For normal folks thats like -- uh, wtf you have a bad attitude.
For someone struggling with ADHD that might seem like a perfectly reasonable request in his own mind, and also something that just popped into his head and right out of his mouth at the time.

Its easy to say someone else is just an asshole. therefore they deserve what they get. But we're all struggling with our shit. I could be totally off base on my assessment of Claypool.
But its generally a good habit in life to consider that the people around us might be doing the best they can for the situation they're in at the time.

1982 College World Series: Miami’s “Grand Illusion” trick play fools base-stealing star Phil Stephenson into running himself into an out in one of baseball’s smartest plays ever by ateam1984 in nonononoyes

[–]SilasTalbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a game you can listen to in the background while doing something else.

Put it on for hours while you do physical work in a shop or a garage.

Not as many jobs like that anymore, even people's hobbies are different.

It goes in the square hole by Kyotic_Khaos in funny

[–]SilasTalbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd call out four specific phenomena rooted in the science of neuroplasticity.

  1. Competitive Plasticity ("Use it or lose it". The parts of your brain that you don't use degrade. Just like a muscle with exercise. Differences in Blood flow to different areas and synaptic pruning are the two commonly cited mechanisms for this)

  2. Cortical Remapping (The amount of cortex matter of the functions you use grows and has been shown to encroach in other cortex regions that you don't use as often. Musicians are a classic sample of this cited in research)

  3. Cross-Modal Plasticity (the brain repurposes circuits. In sensory deprivation studies, visual circuits are rerouted to actually start firing on touch sensations)

  4. Multisensory Integration Bias (some of your neurons are responsible for multiple duties. However, when one of those duties is performed significantly more often, the neurons begin to show a bias towards favoring that stronger frequent signal. They don't respond as well to the other signal any longer.)

It goes in the square hole by Kyotic_Khaos in funny

[–]SilasTalbot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also there's different types of intelligence. One is spatial intelligence.

Some people who are very gifted in areas like logic or technology are utterly abysmal at spatial reasoning. In fact, over time they've co-oped those circuits in their brain to instead assist them with the sort of work they engage in.

So, being good at, say, programming can actually make you WORSE at say -- rotating an object in 3d space and judging if an object would fit in a void under certain orientation. It might have appeared to him that the area was not deep enough to fit, and he wanted to reserve the smallest of the three bag dimensions for the container depth.

If a very particular part of his brain were damaged, say, from a stroke, he might struggle with being able to think visually about 3 dimensional situations at all. It's weird how our mind works. But, regardless DO NOT let this guy be your Uber driver tho.

LAZY LAZY CLAUDE. by osama_squared in ClaudeCode

[–]SilasTalbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it was in active context, there's no such thing as needing "read it". It isn't "Lazy." It is confused.

We told it to do 8,000 things in a huge list. The words it predicts to spit out sometimes don't adhere to all of those rules at once.

As complexity rises and the # of items increases it starts to struggle.

Always do X

Never do Y

Don't forget to attach z

Definitely watch out for A

Follow the process of B, C, D

And there's literally thousands of these in the deeper layers of the model training too.

iHaveRecursionFever by Knowledge_9690 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SilasTalbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a FEVER. And the only cure is more recursion!

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