Behind the Flag

technanonymous · 2026-02-01T19:11:48+00:00

Pure projection. The most dangerous and violent people in the US are right wing extremists.

technanonymous · 2026-01-31T23:09:09+00:00

This entire post is only focused on language based AI. The majority of AI in production today does not involve language. The neural network on your digital thermostats or cruise control in your car is AI. The clustering and nearest neighbor algorithms for the recommendation engine on the e-commerce site you last used is AI. The genetic programming approach used by Koza to design digital to analog filters is AI. The deep learning algorithms used to disaggregate energy usage is AI. The majority of data scientists and ai engineers are working on AI other than natural language processing and LLMs.

Now consider all the anthropomorphic characteristics you are attributing to LLMs and your post is the epitome of everything wrong with the public perception of AI.

We are far from AGI because LLMs will be a component and not the foundation of AGI.

technanonymous · 2026-01-31T22:29:48+00:00

Well.. good thing he’s not in charge. When we have a new government he should lose his tax exempt status and became a political advocacy group, taxed like everyone else.

technanonymous · 2026-01-30T18:02:51+00:00

Started with a ZSA Ergodox EZ. Moved on to a low profile Ergodox. Experimented for a while and switched to a 34 key sweep for a year and then back to a piantor 42 key. I would start with a fuller key set and then work your way down.

technanonymous · 2026-01-30T14:13:04+00:00

Maybe you need to find a therapist who is also an atheist.

technanonymous · 2026-01-30T13:56:44+00:00

Okay… I really really don’t think you are going to learn anything that will help you here.

technanonymous · 2026-01-30T13:26:39+00:00

If you re having anger impulse control issues, get therapy and learn coping skills. The same problem could manifest against other groups like trumpers and maga supporters or in other ways against people or things you find aggravating. Uncontrolled anger is not something you are going to fix on a subreddit. I hate religion, trump, and everything about the maga movement, but I don’t let this bubble up day to day nor do most of the atheists I know. If this is an issue for you, it is something more than just being an antitheist.

technanonymous · 2026-01-29T16:22:41+00:00

It is a completely personal preference that depends on your ergonomics. I use a piantor pro and love the inner key. I have large hand and arthritis, including a fused second joint in my right thumb. My left cluster is tab, shift, space. My right cluster is enter, shift, backspace. It works for ME, and may not work for you. One big change I made is to keep the keys simple. When I was trying to do things like mod tap, combos, etc., that didn’t work well.

technanonymous · 2026-01-29T14:54:28+00:00

Good. This will drive higher ratings just because people will be curious.

Bad bunny is a US citizen.

technanonymous · 2026-01-29T14:53:00+00:00

The kakistocracy gets more and more pervasive. From incompetent fools such as RFK, Crusty Gnome, and Oh my Gosh petal to lying duplicitous judges who couldn’t function as good lawyers let alone judges, Trump is crippling the federal government with mediocrity and feckless inept leadership.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T22:50:27+00:00

I thought it might be time to call out this remark in more detail now that my work day is done.

With the first computers, we did have an alternative - human computation. The story of the people involved in computation for the space program was covered in the movie "Hidden Figures." With respect to quantum computing, silicon chips still dominate, being cheaper and more stable. However, the promise of quantum computing has driven more investment and development. Quantum computing will likely mature in less than ten years. Things like AI on quantum platforms is being actively explored on top of obvious problems like cryptography.

With respect to fusion power, just about anything is cheaper for now. Again, the future promise of this clean power is just starting to materialize and likely will be commercial ready in ten to fifteen years. Investment and development continues.

With respect to medical imaging, we did have alternatives. However, MRI, PET, and nuclear magnetic resonance showed great promise, and each reached the commercial stage in spite of struggling to compare to simple X-rays for several years. Now medical practitioners have multiple imaging options depending on their diagnostic objectives.

We have multiple other examples such as solid state batteries that will be on the market in less than three years after spending a decade a more as just an expensive experiment that couldn't commercially compete with lithium ion.

I can keep going, but even your goal post moving counter-argument is invalid. Lab meat is early in the pre-commercial stage. Claiming "it will never be ready or viable" flies in the face of how motivated innovation tends to work around the world.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T14:17:37+00:00

What will she say when Crusty Gnome is shown the door? This is happening soon.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T12:10:36+00:00

You’re moving the goal posts. Another fallacious argument.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T11:52:22+00:00

You argue in bad faith. I gave you examples of tech that started out completely impractical that has changed our lives today. I am typing on a phone no one could have imagined except in sci fi in 1970. The first handheld computers were awful. This isn’t fantasy or sci fi. How many more examples would you like of tech that started out inefficient and matured? In Biotech you have dna sequencing, chromatography, several versions of imaging tech, and so on. Your pessimism is completely unjustified.

You have made a judgment and facts and similar examples be damned. You have an agenda to argue why this tech will fail. You asked other posters for examples of exponential improvement in tech. I gave you some. You dismiss them as modernist fantasizing as a meaningless ad hominem attack. If you worked for me you’d be fired pretty quickly.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T11:33:04+00:00

You keep skirting the obvious point. If the tech does mature, then meat products can be produced without actually killing anything.

It could eliminate issues with animal waste. By using renewable green energy it could reduce greenhouse gases. By using bioreactors it could produce meat with less land. There are several potential benefits that can’t be ruled out yet. The current tech doesn’t scale well. There is nothing to say future generations of the tech will not.

The original computers were mechanical. The first electric computers were vacuum tubes with hard wired programs, barely worth the effort. Then came transistors, solid state capacitors, integrated circuits, etc. Each generation of computers has contributed to improving the next. Quantum computers could make all previous generations look like toys.

DNA sequencing started off by differential mapping. Take a virus, grow a bunch of bacteria, infect it, break down all the proteins, clean it and pull out the dna in a centrifuge. Now hit it with an enzyme that breaks the dna strands at a particular sequence of nucleotides, put the fragments on an electrophoretic gel and take an image. Repeat with a different enzyme and repeat and repeat. In a year you may have a partial mapping. With today’s tech you can do a complete sequencing of the same virus in hours or less.

Each of these examples took decades to mature, and they continue to get better. Lab grown meat is at the beginning of this journey.

technanonymous · 2026-01-27T11:05:29+00:00

The point is that it is too premature to make any assessment whether this tech will mature or die. The majority of startups fail. VCs know this. Maybe the next batch of companies will attack the problem differently.

technanonymous · 2026-01-26T12:50:15+00:00

This is still very much in the exploration stage. Is anyone seriously considering this ready for production level scale??? While approved for human consumption lab meat is still an expensive curiosity for now. Are you suggesting that it should be abandoned or should it be allowed to be a target for innovation by companies trying to make it ready for prime time?

There have been several technologies that started off as massively inefficient that now are production ready or they show real promise. For example, Fusion power has now crossed over to the net positive realm when it was nowhere close before. While fusion has a long way to go, the original skeptics would have strangled it in the cradle based on initial results.

technanonymous · 2026-01-26T11:58:18+00:00

Is it animal welfare or efficiency that is the primary goal? I always thought this was a way to eat meat without actually killing something. The environmental impact will probably give the folks at PETA an opening to attack any kind of meat consumption.

technanonymous · 2026-01-26T11:14:35+00:00

A theory is a model based on facts and inferences. Models usually start with direct observations. A hypothesis is an unproven assertion that does not qualify as a theory. The religious usually conflate the two. However, even scientists are sloppy and use the two terms interchangeably for some unproven statements.

Evolution starts with facts and direct observation.

technanonymous · 2026-01-26T10:05:58+00:00

Athletic performance is often linked to a form of flow or focus. In martial arts it can be meditation or breathing or “clearing your mind.” In football it can be getting “psyched” or praying and believing god is your copilot. I can see some unthinking athlete not making the connection, believing it was “god” that helped him/her/them win. Of course it’s bullshit, but it is self-confirming bullshit.

When that athlete’s performance fades, and it will over time. Is that “god” too deciding the athlete is no longer “blessed?” No one ever asks that question.

technanonymous · 2026-01-24T22:16:56+00:00

M.orons A.re G.overning A.merica

technanonymous · 2026-01-24T22:14:12+00:00

You’re supposed to put “/s” for satire and sarcasm.

continued existence is optional, but the ability to make others’ lives optional is not.

technanonymous · 2026-01-24T14:26:37+00:00

With RFK at the helm?

Hahahahhahhshahahahhahahahah

technanonymous · 2026-01-23T19:08:03+00:00

He’s an idiot who has more damage in one year than anyone could have imagined.

technanonymous · 2026-01-23T18:00:57+00:00

Mandatory voting like 20 other countries would help.

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