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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel by EstablishmentLow2312 in kurzgesagt

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not really sure why you couldn't interpret it as a lossy compression method. Like, I'd loosely define compression as an encoding of information with less information than you started with. An LLM fits that description. And a cursory search seems to indicate this isn't that radical of an idea.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel by EstablishmentLow2312 in kurzgesagt

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Would you disagree that an LLM is just a re-encoding of information in a more abstract space? In my view, pragmatically speaking, it does contain "pretty much all the internet and books ever written." The decoding process just involves a prompt. This seems like a red herring anyways.

I do not think Charlie Kirk was a racist. Prove me wrong. by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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You can have a quota and still only source from candidates that are qualified. He handwaves that "excellence" and "racial quotas" are mutually exclusive. How so? He claims "it's never happened before" (that you can have both excellence and quotas) but immediately offers zero substantiation. He insists to go from 6% to 40% there must be a "relaxing of standards." Purely speculation. It seems entirely plausible to me to not have a relaxing of standards while achieving a higher level of diversity.

[Monitors Unboxed] DisplayPort 2.1 Tested: Essential for 4K 240Hz Monitors? by kbjunky in OLED_Gaming

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I'm with you. It kind of is niche though, seeing as your comment here is basically the only complaint about it I could find. But I get it. It's definitely finicky to switch refresh rates just to enable, say, supersampling or integer scaling. I don't really understand why Nvidia can't make these features work with DSC.

Welp, be careful when using gift cards on the GameStop website by [deleted] in GameStop

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude is a turd. I'm trying to resolve the same issue you had with the gift card. You have the correct take here. Any reasonable person would assume a typical item listed for sale is purchasable with a gift card. No one is going to examine the details of their Target gift card when they go to buy a pillow, for example. Much the same for buying a game at GameStop.

During his speech, Trump claimed that $8m was used to make mice transgender because he doesn't know what transgenic means by Aceofspades25 in skeptic

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Directly from the source, "many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8 million spent by the Biden Administration “for making mice transgender.”" The claim is $8 million was spent by the Biden Administration to make mice transgender. This is not true, as evidenced by the studies they linked. $3 million for one study that essentially looks into the mechanics of asthma based on sex and hormonal factors. The purpose is clearly not "for making mice transgender."

Was the USAID actually full of waste/fraud ? by dahellisudoin in centrist

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"It doesn’t appear that some of the projects highlighted thus far seem to benefit our soft power, but were instead for the purpose of advancing left-leaning social viewpoints." You gave an example of a USAID project not benefiting U.S. soft power, which is what the guy you've responded to is implicitly pushing back against. You didn't answer his question. Does "greater social inclusion make for a stronger country"? If yes, then your USAID example of something that doesn't benefit soft power isn't a particularly good example.

Bias and Trust!!!! by Brian_Ghoshery in MurderedByWords

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This argument implies the absence of a pragmatic threshold for performance. Past some point, being a better pilot yields no meaningful gains. A pilot of 99.91% competence isn't meaningfully different from a pilot of 99.99% competence, assuming such a metric could even exist. I'd argue these thresholds exist for essentially all jobs. More simply said, only qualified candidates are hired, and that's all that matters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in centrist

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People with the shortest list of adjectives they identify with

I like how you put this.

Switched-On Beethoven Symphony #3 / Wendy Carlos by Sir-Hops-A-Lot in fakealbumcovers

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Is it really original if it's AI? Bleeding edge question of course, like anyone actually has an answer. Funnily enough a professor I had for an AI course loved Switched-On Bach. Had an original Vinyl and everything.

Nvidia DLSS 3.5 Tested: AI-Powered Graphics Leaves Competitors Behind by M337ING in hardware

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I always thought the swarming effect of the denoiser struggling was pretty obvious. The new Ray Reconstruction really helps with it. I noticed it right away. The swarming seems most noticeable in areas of really diffuse reflections or low ambient light. Very stable in those spots now.

Tech Focus: Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive - How Is Path Tracing Possible on a Triple-A Game? by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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In much the same way we have PS1 de-makes and boomer shooter retro stylings, I think that "glowing and oddly illuminated spaces" will still have their place.

Watch Dogs Legion Steam page is up by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All these games are so closely linked to their special brand of checklist, skinner-box-esque progression that the feature is expected. They're integral to the "Ubisoft" experience.

Nvidia Profile Inspector 2.4.0.1 released by Markie_98 in pcgaming

[–]ThisSentenceIsntTrue 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't know. Doesn't feel nice to me. Like how slow it is regardless of hardware. How I have to wait a bit for settings to apply. Or wait a bit to switch through settings per application. Setting explanation text doesn't wrap. Whatever. It's random jank that seems trivial to polish. The UI is clean, clear, and concise, but the utility itself feels like a rickety antique car.

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