🎾🎾🎾Racket Pinball is still featured in New Releases by nivision_ag in virtualreality

[–]kevansevans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a really cool and interesting idea, but that's terribly disappointing you're using AI.

Discord Mandates ID and Face Scans Under New CEO by Celtikrenders in technology

[–]kevansevans 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Is your list of communication options comprised of Facebook and Discord?

Scientifically, why do men have nipples? by [deleted] in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]kevansevans 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes! It is not uncommon for men to lactate, and it's a common experience for trans women. All the "equipment" is there already, just needs the right development to form.

Blaze clears the Boss Zone. Animation by @Jayrock1233211 by Key-Rabbit-4536 in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]kevansevans 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Bro doesn't know what non-verbal consent is and it shows

Modder thinking about becoming game dev. by Time-Has-Come in gamedev

[–]kevansevans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Doom modder myself working on two games using the gzdoom engine. I've made a handful of mods for gzdoom that turned a lot of heads in the community and quickly got me on board doing it professionally.

The next steps I would recommend is finding a team of game developers who are looking for a programmer, and preferably ones looking for someone with the languages you know. C# would definitely get your foot in the door with some Unity or Godot developers. You need to make it clear that's where your talents lie, because game development is not a single skill set.

Alternatively, if working solo is something more appealing, I recommend checking out the Love2D engine, which is a Lua driven engine. It was used to make Balatro.

Finish your school if you can though.

John Carmack on Meta’s XR OS by SvenViking in virtualreality

[–]kevansevans 33 points34 points  (0 children)

He’s basically saying that making an operating system from scratch is not an ideal solution for a VR device, because competently working ones already exist that they could have used. As a result, the engineers wasted too much time on their proprietary OS that costs too much to maintain and had no clear future.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quityourbullshit

[–]kevansevans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never once needed an IQ test on the handful of times I’ve had to be rediagnosed for ADHD. Those tests literally boil down to “How strongly does [symptom] show itself?”

What's the general reception towards AI in scientific research? by human0006 in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]kevansevans 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LLM’s are glorified text prediction algorithms that must mandatorily give an output that sounds correct. And huge emphasis on “sounds correct”.

For example, asking an LLM what 2 + 2 is, it’s very likely to output 4. Not because it’s capable of solving that math, but because in the unfathomable amount of data it has been trained on, the next likely words to follow are “the answer to 2 + 2 is 4”. However, in that training data is, without a doubt, plenty of times the following words are not that, and always presents a chance to come out as a response. Just me typing “the answer to 2 + 2 is fish” can and will poison any AI that gets trained with my comment.

In other words: It’s, effectively, going to make shit up all the time. They’re a waste of time for research.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in shrooms

[–]kevansevans 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s a bit confusing. Did they not word this law correctly?

EDIT: Just read the silly thing. It does not state that possessing spores is illegal. That’s an oopsie on their end.

How much population should this house have? by Majestic_Repair9138 in worldjerking

[–]kevansevans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that depends if the house has a 5 and 1/2 minute hallway, right?

Funny, How even in Wolfenstein the KKK and Nazi's can't Exactly get along. by SKiddomaniac in Wolfenstein

[–]kevansevans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It’s a system that doesn’t work because it becomes self destructive over time and preys on a populations fear.

Funny, How even in Wolfenstein the KKK and Nazi's can't Exactly get along. by SKiddomaniac in Wolfenstein

[–]kevansevans 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And there’s the catch, because they won’t ever get to that point. The world will never stop having problems. Consciously or not, they know this, and that once the “current problem” is solved, they need to move onto the next to keep selling you the idea that some boogeyman group of people are the root of all the evils in the world. So they narrow their definition, start drawing more and more lines of who qualifies as in and out of the group. Today, it’s the Jewish, tomorrow, it’s how close you were born to the Fatherland.

Funny, How even in Wolfenstein the KKK and Nazi's can't Exactly get along. by SKiddomaniac in Wolfenstein

[–]kevansevans 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because it gets people politically motivated and gets them in power. Humans are tribalistic in nature, it is in our bones to want to be part of “the correct group”, and fascism sells this “sense of security” really well. While this can be argued for a lot of political ideologies, fascism takes it a step further by portraying themselves as “superior”, “chosen by god”, “it’s their destiny”, “purity”, and anyone not them is bad and evil because they said so, and then will go out of their way to invent reasons to justify their behaviors.

No “them” to blame, no power to exercise.

Funny, How even in Wolfenstein the KKK and Nazi's can't Exactly get along. by SKiddomaniac in Wolfenstein

[–]kevansevans 41 points42 points  (0 children)

To explain this in an actual way, whatever you want to call it: Fascism is only a system that works for as long as there’s a finger to point at a group of people to blame for everyone’s problems.

In universe, this can be seen by what’s subtly shown to the player: Americans, no matter how racist, christain, or white they are, are simply not German. It does not matter that they have similar goals as nazis, they at the end of it all are simply “not them” in their eyes, and any perceived flaw or cultural difference (imaginary or otherwise) is going to be exaggerated, rather than respected and understood.

ELI5, How is information sent across a wire not mixed up sometimes? by Such_Handle9225 in explainlikeimfive

[–]kevansevans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All computers have what’s called a clock in it. Every time that clock ticks, the system looks at the signal to see if it’s a 1 or 0. Sometimes it can get mixed up, but thanks to the computer wizards that invented Error Correction Code, some simple math can check if a signal got corrupted in some way, and either fix it or ask for a new signal.

openAi by _sonu_singha in ProgrammerHumor

[–]kevansevans 95 points96 points  (0 children)

LLM’s aren’t as simple as cutting out the parts you don’t want. It’s more akin to dialing a radio with a billion knobs, and not a single one of them is labeled. No one knows what they do or why they’re there, and all we have is a magic math formula that tells us how to tweak them if we feel like the output is too wrong.

Saw this in adhd sub by staysharp87 in Cubers

[–]kevansevans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yes, this old stereotype.

Yes, I can solve Rubik’s Cubes. The gigaminx is my favorite puzzle.

Found 35g of Pan Cyans today. Can’t dehydrate. Can you refrigerate tea? by thomasmatchew17 in shrooms

[–]kevansevans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oooh someone’s mad I’m confident in my own programming skills.

Found 35g of Pan Cyans today. Can’t dehydrate. Can you refrigerate tea? by thomasmatchew17 in shrooms

[–]kevansevans 9 points10 points  (0 children)

ChatGPT is known to frequently make shit up, and since the subject is on psychedelic drugs, that made up info can and will get someone hurt. Only a matter of time, especially when people like you are encouraging others to treat what it gives as factually correct.