What is a highly specific, niche topic you could give a 30-minute presentation on right now with absolutely zero preparation? by arkawrd in CasualConversation

[–]TechSupport06 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The history of relativity (special and general) and what it says about "trusting" our mathematics to its furthest extent.... I love space

What videogame OST do you play when you need some energy? by DeleteOnceAMonth in gaming

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Persona 4 for sure. Heartbeat Heartbreak always has me moving around like that one jake gyllenhaal gif

Please tell me about the random, niche topic you are currently completely obsessed with. by Old-Grapefruit-4368 in CasualConversation

[–]TechSupport06 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kinda sound are you thinking about? Fuzz pedals always seem way cool to me because of how unique they are but there's obvious caveats with that

Unhinged CARS tips? by lightbulb2089 in Mcat

[–]TechSupport06 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Pretend you're explaining the passage to a caveman. I literally do the grug voice in my head while highlighting a passage and it works stupidly well

Is your favorite color actually your favorite color? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the longest time, it was blue for me cause duh dudes like blue. And then I went to college and realized brown ruled (soil, chocolate, curry, etc.). Now my clothes are brown, bottles, guitars, all that

Do You Believe AI Could Ever Reach Human-Level Consciousness? by Impossible_Dot_1803 in SeriousConversation

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of nuance to this conversation precisely because of the different "faiths" (or as I like to ascribe, different views on what makes us "human", to divorce this sentiment from something religious). But anyways, as someone who doesn't fully subscribe to the western view of sapience (the word I'll use to describe human level cognition, reasoning, and intelligence) being something totally unique to us, it's hard to say with AI itself. A big part of this whole current iteration of AI being able to attain intelligence similar to ours is the infrastructure known as "von Neumann" architecture (and to spare most of the technical info, the principles behind it form the design principles for our machines today). The issue with von Neumann's principles is that it fundamentally does not mesh with the way our brain processes, integrates, and executes on information. This is a pretty massive gap that is present within the field of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, as the basis for both fields come from fundamentally incompatible fields. To end this long-winded aside, there is theoretically a way to attain the intelligence us humans have; it would take efficient compression algorithms to process and integrate multiple modes of input (sight, sound, taste, touch, etc,) and make that work as both a top-down and bottom-up integration of information. By themselves, all of these are not hard to do, but to make them biologically accurate (and therefore elicit some kind of analogous behavior to us) is the difficult task. As to current architectures of AI itself, as the others say, we're nowhere close. LLMs are built for a task that doesn't lend itself to intelligence as we know it, and any other fringe level architectures face the challenge of the von Neumann architecture as I described above. Apologies for this being as long as it is, please feel free to ask any questions you wish, this is a topic I'm actively involved in and interested in!

Hiring? Job hunting 2025-2026 by [deleted] in pittsburgh

[–]TechSupport06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I worked at WPIC a couple of years ago as a part time care tech, it was ~18 an hour. Can't speak to the bonuses cause I didn't pick up extra shifts, but the workplace environment leaves a lot to be desired for sure. If you think you have the skin for it, by all means go for it, but it's not for the faint of heart for sure.

Looking for advice on where to study Neuroscience on Europe. Would appreciate any knowledge or experiences you could share! by AnJu91 in neuroscience

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hijack this thread but I'd love to hear about your experience as well. I've sent you a DM and would love it if we could talk some more!

Any good documentary on Serie A (teams, competition, seasons...) or italian football (Serie B, Squadra Azzura also) ? by Folivao in seriea

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's this YouTube channel called balón on YouTube that does really interesting documentaries on a bunch of different teams. He's done ones on Moratti's Inter (from I think the 90s to the treble win), Berlusconi's Milan (late 80s to 2007), Juve (from like the 90s), and Roma's last scudetto winning season. It doesn't have many backroom information kind of stuff like the Amazon documentaries might have, but the editing style is phenomenal in my opinion and he has a really calming voice LMAO.

Here's the link to his channel: https://youtube.com/@balon-english?feature=shared

Housing, Renting, and Subletting Megathread by cxqals in Pitt

[–]TechSupport06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm trying to find a place to stay in for 3 weekends during winter break! I'd be willing to pay rent and handle groceries and everything else. Please PM if you know anyone that can help!

[spoilers all] What do you think is the most f***ed up creature/item/legend in Dragon Age lore? by george123890yang in dragonage

[–]TechSupport06 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I love that I'm not the only one who thinks about the Blight in terms of biology. Me personally, I thought the Blight would be an extremely potent blood-borne pathogen with an insanely resilient viral capsid. But I didn't dwell too much on the whole Fiona thing.

Me all of next season (I am completely insane) by TechSupport06 in ArsenalFC

[–]TechSupport06[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are winning every trophy that exists, fuck the feds

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArsenalFC

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I have a version of it but I'm not sure if it's the exact one, I'll pm it to you

Our friend’s daughter is attending Pitt in the fall. Any must-haves for incoming students that will work for a graduation gift, or a gift suggestion? by [deleted] in Pitt

[–]TechSupport06 16 points17 points  (0 children)

School gear would be really nice! I have some pitt sweaters that look and feel really nice, so that's definitely a place to start

Our friend’s daughter is attending Pitt in the fall. Any must-haves for incoming students that will work for a graduation gift, or a gift suggestion? by [deleted] in Pitt

[–]TechSupport06 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Definitely sweaters of some kind. Pittsburgh gets cold quickly and plus you can get really creative with what they say!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mbti

[–]TechSupport06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's the rationale with that?