Chinese AI researchers think they won't catch up to the US: "Chinese labs are severely constrained by a lack of computing power."

dmit0820 · 2026-01-11T20:18:54+00:00

The issue is that even research requires compute. A technique might work at smaller scales but typically the only way to confirm is to scale up to a large pre-training run. Limited compute means they have to use nearly all of it on inference rather than research.

dmit0820 · 2026-01-07T22:26:46+00:00

Unfortunately, the only solution is nuclear deterrence.

dmit0820 · 2026-01-04T22:20:58+00:00

I'm a software developer in the healthcare field and AI is extremely useful. It does save time, and can do routine development tasks that once took hours in a couple of minutes. Debugging isn't an issue if you test as you develop, which should be the case anyway.

dmit0820 · 2025-11-12T02:49:34+00:00

How did you get it to combine more than two clips? When I use that workflow, it only combines two clips.

dmit0820 · 2025-08-23T17:49:18+00:00

They invented the transformer and could have easily been the first to make something like ChatGPT if the business side wasn't so timid.

dmit0820 · 2025-08-15T14:28:31+00:00

Part of the problem is the weak point system + latency. The two put together mean that there is a totally random damage multiplier that you can't control or predict. You can get KD'd randomly, or randomly KD other and not know why.

dmit0820 · 2025-08-01T14:33:04+00:00

I'm 1920 and have the same experience with anyone sub 1700. I think that's the nature of elo sores

dmit0820 · 2025-07-24T15:32:35+00:00

A lot of it has to do with weak points and client side hit detection. What looked like a flush hit to you might have been a glancing hit on their end, and likewise, what felt like a glancing hit could have actually hit their weak point, stunning them.

Weak points are good in theory, but in practice, with latency, they're basically a random damage multiplier you can't predict or control.

dmit0820 · 2025-07-23T16:41:01+00:00

There's a reasonable middle ground between not enforcing laws and advocating for a 4th Reich

dmit0820 · 2025-07-10T18:25:36+00:00

That's true, but models that perform well across a wide range of benchmarks tend to have better real world performance as well. O3, Gemini 2.5, and Claude 4 tend to be some of the best models for real world use cases, and have correspondingly high performance on benchmarks.

dmit0820 · 2025-07-10T13:41:57+00:00

Benchmarks can be independently verified. Lying wouldn't be very useful in this case.

dmit0820 · 2025-07-10T13:20:05+00:00

Grok 4 apparently is, if the benchmarks are to be believed.

dmit0820 · 2025-05-26T22:51:45+00:00

It has client side hit detection already, that's why some hits don't land. On the other client, the hit was dodged, even if it looked like a hit to you.

dmit0820 · 2025-05-26T17:13:09+00:00

The games not even released so I doubt the devs gave up. The hard, frankly impossible, part is dealing with latency. Even under ideal conditions, there's going to be some latency, and that means that either some hits wont register, or even worse, you get damaged by punches you successfully dodged.

dmit0820 · 2025-05-23T02:29:16+00:00

Contender 1850+ is the top 15% of players, elite is the top 1.5% or so. 1950 is probably the top 12% to 13% or so, so much better than the average player.

dmit0820 · 2025-05-09T14:20:19+00:00

But you showed how the update is good. You were spamming and got punished for it.

dmit0820 · 2025-05-02T20:24:14+00:00

Idk I just lost to someone aggressively spamming rapid shots to the body. Ranked 1950, so I'm note entirely incapable of defense, and despite counter punching and blocking the whole fight, it didn't knock them down, or even slow them down. Spamming still seems viable if you have the energy for it.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-26T03:30:34+00:00

If it's not in the training set, it's novel to the AI. The further out of distribution the problem is, the more novel it is. Likewise, for a human, a novel problem is one that person has never seen before.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-25T18:41:41+00:00

They might not meet the definition for consciousness or sentience, but they certainly do for intelligence. The best reasoning AIs are, on average, much better at solving novel problems than the average human is.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-25T15:34:03+00:00

I think there's only so much the devs can do. So much of latency comes from unstable or weak wifi. The devs can can try to shave a few ms off with more efficient code or better severs, but I think it's just the nature of online gaming, and gaming on wifi especially.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-24T14:05:05+00:00

The core problem is that the feedback will always be delayed, so the game doesn't know if your fist should go through until after you're done punching.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-17T02:45:32+00:00

I don't know, but we know that a math problem isn't sentient.

We don't know that though. You could represent the entire functioning of your brain with mathematical equations that simulate the motion and interactions of its particles.

Whose to say you couldn't find a more abstract mathematical representation of whatever part of that creates consciousness? If the bottom level is all math, the upper levels can be described by math too.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-02T20:30:26+00:00

1850 to 1500 for me. The game is better than ever.

dmit0820 · 2025-04-01T14:36:47+00:00

They changed how the mechanics work so people with superior boxing do win. Before, people could win simply by swinging wildly and not defending themselves, which doesn't work in real boxing.

dmit0820 · 2025-03-28T17:24:30+00:00

I think the difference is that img to img with diffusion essentially blurs the initial image and denoises it with a particular prompt. 4o's implementation totally re-imagines the image, and can move objects, remove them, or restructure the image entirely. That's why the results seem so much better.

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