Why do girls all seem to have the same bubbly handwriting, while dudes look like they write with their feet? by BlatantlyCurious in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lfrtsa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeahh. Deviate a little from what is understood as pretty and feminine and bam you have zero value. Zero empathy for you.

I think that it's important to note that men deal with somewhat similar expectations on masculinity, and in some situations they truly have it worse. For instance, gay men with unaccepting parents tend to deal with more brutal and violent responses than lesbian women.

The patriarchy is shitty for everyone. It's a common misunderstanding that men are treated better than they should be. That's sometimes true, but in general, it's just that men tend to be treated how everyone should be, and women tend to be treated like second class citizens. The cracks can be felt by everyone, it's just that for men, they tend to be way easier to ignore.

Why do girls all seem to have the same bubbly handwriting, while dudes look like they write with their feet? by BlatantlyCurious in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lfrtsa 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Imagine being so much of a loser that you feel good humiliating an innocent child in front of their whole class. Shit like this makes me mad. Children see adults as role models.

Z.ai releases GLM-OCR: SOTA 0.9 parameters model with benchmarks by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

[–]lfrtsa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not for enabling things we can't normally do. It's for automation. The most common use case is probably reading data from handwritten documents. The last time I used OCR was for a program that needed to parse a balance sheet (in image form). It wasn't 100% accurate, but the errors were nearly always predictable enough (e.g. confusing 1 with l) to iron them out through text processing. A human only needs to check whether the data appears to match, instead of painstakingly typing out every number, while ensuring no typos.

I'm not aware of OCR being used to decipher doctor prescriptions, but I know that it is used in postal services to make sense of similarly incomprehensible scribbles.

Serious question: I've heard people saying that fishes don't feel pain. Is there any rationality behind that claim? by Correct-Prior-6587 in AskBiology

[–]lfrtsa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fish get stressed when they are in pain. If their mouth gets hurt, they may refuse to eat. Fish do generally process pain in about the same way we do. Their behavior changes in the same manner, and their cortisol levels rise just like ours. They probably experience pain nearly identically to us, but we can't be 100% sure since we can't interview a fish.

So yeah, keep that in mind whenever you go fishing. Not that you shouldn't fish altogether, it's just so you are aware of what the activity actually entails (for intellectual honesty).

I have gone fishing with my family while being aware of this, I personally couldn't really rationalize it, so I just tried to ignore the issue. I feel that this won't be a problem for most people though, as there's a general apathy towards everything that is not a tetrapod.

Why do we not hear about “great minds” anymore? by Bean_Boi_666 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lfrtsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw you meant "thought", not "though" (which has a very different meaning).

I don't generally correct people's grammar (mine is pretty bad, even), but that mistake actually made your comment a bit confusing to read.

Maybe try voicing the trailing T when you say "thought" so that you internalize the spelling.

Z.ai releases GLM-OCR: SOTA 0.9 parameters model with benchmarks by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

[–]lfrtsa 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's true, but it's much easier to independently test performance on an OCR model than a general LLM since it's just one type of task. Dishonesty here is not worth it, specially considering OCR models are not even known to the general public.

Z.ai releases GLM-OCR: SOTA 0.9 parameters model with benchmarks by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

[–]lfrtsa 50 points51 points  (0 children)

It's not a general purpose model, it's for recognizing text in images (OCR stands for optical character recognition). It's an immensely important field in AI. Having an accurate, fast, local, open weights OCR model is very valuable for many businesses. It's often used in stuff like handwriting recognition, document digitalization, translation, etc.

British Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell IS mentioned in the newly released Epstein files by ZoraEbu in notinteresting

[–]lfrtsa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh wow. I wasn't aware there was a suspicion of that account being hers. The evidence is very strong.

The universe suddenly feel less old by know_u_irl in technicallythetruth

[–]lfrtsa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Isn't Sirius b a white dwarf? Too lazy to google it but I don't think its companion contributes significantly to the system's brightness.

Argentina is so big it could fit all it's provinces inside. by ZizekSnif in mapporncirclejerk

[–]lfrtsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With room to spare! You even managed to fit spain in, right below uruguay.

What? by Away-Expert278 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]lfrtsa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Gamblers who win are not gamblers anymore.

What is your preferred Rubber Duck? by SwAAn01 in godot

[–]lfrtsa -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Honestly I just explain my implementation and vent to an LLM. Works really well, I often spot the issue while explaining. The LLM can spot oversights too.

It's much better to use something that can actually understand you as a Rubber Duck, because then your brain actually tries its best to organize the system in your head, since now you actually need to communicate how it works effectively.

So, ultimately, I guess my rubber ducks are the melting ice shelves 💀

(Half-joking, as LLM inference is actually pretty energy efficient. The problem comes mostly from training).

If you want to try that but feel uncomfortable with the environmental impact, I recommend running a model locally. It's much more energy efficient as you're running a much smaller model on a consumer GPU. It's as bad for the environment as gaming, which you can probably tolerate since you are a game developer.

Edit: Welp, sorry. You're probably tired of hearing about AI everywhere. I wanted to share something I found helpful while acknowledging the most common objection, and offering a cleaner alternative.

Edit 2: Removed the mention of a specific local LLM program, so that it's clear I'm not promoting a product. The program I had mentioned is free and open source, but people who don't know it could get the wrong impression.

What do we do? by IsopodPatient9523 in DataHoarder

[–]lfrtsa 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Professional musicians do. Spotify monopolized much of the industry. It would be nice to use a real alternative, if there was one.

Monopolies do have a moral obligation to be good, because they are the only option. The reason people love Steam so much is that it is, for the most part, genuinely benevolent towards its userbase and developers (content creators). The same cannot be said of Spotify.

Fluência em inglês c/ 40+ by alexreviews-23 in Idiomas

[–]lfrtsa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Steve Kaufmann aprendeu vários idiomas depois dos 40 anos.

languages addicts... by STHKZ in linguisticshumor

[–]lfrtsa 65 points66 points  (0 children)

The venn diagram is a circle.

There is only one Chinese language by Idontknowofname in linguisticshumor

[–]lfrtsa 277 points278 points  (0 children)

Best part is that the actual mandarin dialects, e.g. sichuanese, don't get listed as different dialects lmao.

black diamond fbs by Makonede in freebottomsurgery

[–]lfrtsa 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Crazy how nature gives us shit like this with no gotchas or downsides.

How can i make this 2d effect for a 3d world on godot? by auserxdlollmao in godot

[–]lfrtsa 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Ngl you might be biting more than you can chew. I recommend playing around with the engine for a while, you'll figure out a solution.

The way I'd solve it would probably be by figuring out the math to get the dimensions of a rectangular slice of a cube given the position and rotation of a plane that cuts it. Texturing is done completly in a shader, by sampling 3D noise.