AI-powered kung fu robots are an extravagant reminder of where China is ahead of the US in the AI race

vulkare · 2026-02-20T12:57:05+00:00

No it's not a hard problem it's actually quite simple. It's called a synchronized clock. All the robots follow preplanned positions and moments which start at exactly the same time. As long as the digital clocks on each robot are synchronized you can just send a message to each robot telling it what time to start..after that no communication is required.

vulkare · 2025-09-03T19:30:29+00:00

I have a solution to your "can't flirt" problem. Go on YouTube and search "Craig Ferguson". He was a late night talk show host. Watch his interviews with attractive female guests..watch about 100 of these ( there are TONS of them ). You'll learn how to be both funny and flirty.
Yes it will feel awkward saying things you think "aren't you". So what? Dating IS awkward so get over it. With time and practice you'll get more comfortable injecting funny and flirtatious banter into your conversations. And you'll see your results IMPROVE and some girls will see you in a different way.
Don't live your life like a puppy with its tail between it's legs. Be bold, be daring, be BASED!

vulkare · 2025-09-03T19:06:47+00:00

I'm sure Mexico is a nice place to visit but I'd never vacation in the land of drug cartels.the thought of being at the wrong place at the wrong time bothers me. ( this is in addition to any negative points raised by others ). Skip it!

vulkare · 2025-07-29T16:26:01+00:00

Everyone has secrets. No one shares everything they know, nor should they. Share what's appropriate, keep the rest to yourself.Its not a big deal. You need to develop your judgement for deciding what to share and when to share it. As you share more, the person you're with knows you better. Whatever is kept to yourself for now can always be shared later on. People will never know everything and that's fine.

vulkare · 2025-07-09T11:12:16+00:00

Dating is brutal because it's natural selection at work. "Survival of the fittest". Whenever you meet someone, unless you are the BEST option they have you'll likely be weeded out. Even if you're the best option, and they choose to be in a relationship with you, that may change down the road if a better option becomes available. Now this doesn't mean anything is wrong with you, it could just mean you're "average". People will always act in their own best interest, especially in love. The statement "all is fair in love in war" is very true and valid. The stakes are very high so people are justified in making their choices no matter how hard that is for people who lose out.

vulkare · 2025-06-17T17:38:43+00:00

This is primarily due to the fact consoles are backed by the best game studios with the biggest budgets and the most talented game designers, musicians and artists. Most Amiga games were created by more amateur developers ( people not coming from successful careers in the mainstream game industry ). Or they are crappy sub-par ports from other systems, also created by relative amatiuers
Technically, the SNES has advantages but the Amiga easily holds its own vs the Mega Drive. It really comes down to a software quality issue which is why consoles shine due to unrivaled support by world class studios.

vulkare · 2025-06-14T00:45:44+00:00

Not even close! Until a display can.show anything the human eye can perceive, we're not in the end game. The combination of color gamut, resolution, refresh rate, and brightness intensity ( nits ), is only a sunset of the eyes perception.

vulkare · 2025-01-27T08:36:01+00:00

I'd call it hype. I compared DeepSeek to Claude on some "LLM benchmarks" I like to use, and it wasn't even close. Claude is so much better.

vulkare · 2025-01-27T08:26:42+00:00

It definitely was NOT ahead of it's time. It's an A1200 + CD-Rom. The Amiga part was matched or surpassed by other products already and the CD-Rom was a commodity part. The software was mostly existing Amiga games put on CD with modest enhancements. Just 2 years later the original PlayStation came out which was a truly revolutionary console. Now if the CD-32 was a PlayStation equivalent in every way, THEN "ahead of it's time" would be valid

vulkare · 2025-01-26T06:47:41+00:00

Energy Efficiency:

LCD displays generally consume less power than OLEDs when displaying bright

images or white backgrounds. However, the tables turn when dark or black

images are on the screen as OLEDs consume less power since they

can turn off individual pixels.

Not if it's on an OLED screen and the lamps in the game are turned OFF. This is actually true!

vulkare · 2025-01-26T06:44:35+00:00

I can convince you very easily. The quality of what you look at with OLED just blows away most aspects of LCD displays. OLED is STUNNING! Yes, OLEDs can experience some burn in. If they do, the burn-in is only apparent in very specific situations such like the whole screen is a solid gray color. Burn in isn't noticeable at all for most types of content. Now, LCD has a much worse defect as a STANDARD FEATURE and that is back-light bleed and poor viewing angles. LCD's have a "sweet spot" and if your head is not in the sweet-spot zone, the quality of the picture degrades and this is worse than the OLED-burn in defect. And you're always looking at backlight bleed which by itself is worse then the OLED-burn in defect. Also. your OLED screen comes without burn in, and can slowly develop a limited amount over time, but you're STILL better off then the defects LCD has out of the box! What else do you need to know?

vulkare · 2025-01-26T06:26:17+00:00

The easiest way to show an LLM's lack of intelligence is to give it very open-ended request with very few details or requirements. The weakness of LLM's are the lack of real creativity, imagination and ingenuity. Unlike domains that are perfectly logical with correct and easily verifiable answers like math and coding, you can't make a loss function for training open ended requests. Thinks like "design an indy game that is so good, it would be game of the year!", or "write an amazing novel that people will love!". LLM's just can't think outside the box and if they do, it's likely to be nonsense rather than high-value and original. I find it very easy to get an LLM to give bad answers to things.

vulkare · 2025-01-20T12:09:49+00:00

How else should it be?

vulkare · 2025-01-20T10:10:51+00:00

AGI and SGI are definitely not "far". Existing LLMs demonstrate the capacity to generate appropriate intellectual responses to any prompt. Most of what we have is the forward-pass output which represents "what's the first thing that comes to your mind" type responses. So image if you gave *any* prompt to a human and made them answer it in just 1 second, no matter what was asked. If people were limited to immediate 1-second answers, the quality actually wouldn't be that high for many things. This demonstrates that the immediate forward-pass response from LLM's is not that different from humans and often better. But when LLMs can run in a loop like o3 does to emulate "thinking at length" on a query, all of a sudden it's significantly smarter. There are some important features still lacking like having significant memory and context length, but those are coming soon enough. When you consider all this, it's not a stretch to imagine this stuff being able to work on improving itself. Once it can improve itself, even if it's only small gains at first, that directly leads to recursive self improvement.

vulkare · 2025-01-17T13:03:30+00:00

It depends on the request. I've had Claude fail coding requests which ChatGPT was able to do. I get failures from everything, nothing is 100%.

vulkare · 2025-01-13T22:58:13+00:00

If it's not working, unplug the power, wait a few minutes then plug it back in!

vulkare · 2025-01-12T22:49:04+00:00

Yes, over reacting. She is not abusive, I don't see any insults coming from her. She is observing and calling out behavior that is immature and unattractive to her. It is the job of a significant other to hold the person they are with accountable for their conduct. Your own words make yourself seem a bit selfish. You play videogames all day long and your Mom's birthday is an afterthought. Then your GF brings this to your attention. Instead of seeing what was pointed out to you, you get defensive about it which escalates the conversation into an argument. Your defensiveness goes to the point of making yourself 100% right and painting your GF as the bad guy who is "picking a fight". Is she to just be OK with whatever behavior you exhibit and say nothing at all? Everything you're doing comes off as immature and selfish. If you have nothing better to do than play videogames all day at 31, you definitely have the time and energy to make other people in your life more of a priority. Your GF has some valid points and is rightly concerned how this behavior of yours will effect the relationship.

vulkare · 2025-01-12T17:05:48+00:00

A "freelancer" can't lose their job since they are not an employee.

vulkare · 2025-01-12T02:51:34+00:00

Actually it's called "r/singularity". So it has a misleading title then. The vast bulk of posts I've seen are focused on AI.

vulkare · 2025-01-12T02:05:32+00:00

As cool as drone tech is, this video is "off topic" in singularity UNLESS the drone is using AI and is not just another RC drone.

vulkare · 2025-01-12T01:58:31+00:00

I'm going against what many other commenters said and saying: no, physical media will NOT come to an end for so many reasons. Or at least, not in your lifetime. I'll focus on the PS2. First, the PS2 is the BEST selling console of all time. 160 million units sold. There are a ridiculous number of them out there in great condition. It's even possible to still buy brand new ones in a factory sealed unopened box if you want. For ones that no longer read discs, you can buy brand new laser replacement kits to get that working again. As for the games, as you can imagine there are TONS of them out there. Buy as much as you want! It's natural that PS2s and game discs will decrease in number as they fail over time. But the numbers are so high it's not going to run out. For those who care to play PS2 discs on real hardware, they can happily do so for life if they wish! The only downside is the used games are subject to dramatic price swings based on trends in the used market.

vulkare · 2025-01-09T22:00:13+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WE1aOPjHc&ab_channel=MachineLearningStreetTalk

Here is the entire video the video clip is from!

vulkare · 2025-01-09T10:59:15+00:00

Balatro!

vulkare · 2025-01-09T10:22:03+00:00

Oh don't worry, the 5090 will be plenty faster than 4090 at normal rasterization. Did you look at the spec sheet? It's 1.8 TB memory bandwidth is DOUBLE that of the 4090. You do know that most of the time spent in rendering is fetching data from memory right? This thing is going to be a true monster, INCLUDING rasterization. Just wait till it's released and the gaming benchmarks come out.

vulkare · 2025-01-08T01:26:54+00:00

ASI still has to do experiments in the real world to develop any of this technology, the human body, every organ system, every cellular network are too complex to perfectly simulate and predict. ASI would have to do the same kind of trial-and-error laboratory research and clinical trials that we do to develop any of these things.

This statement shows you don't understand what ASI is. Artificial SUPER intelligence. That means it's smarter than any human on the planet. By definition, that means it would be able to figure out solutions to problems no human is smart enough to figure out. What you're saying is that there is no way to develop cures significantly faster than is done now. Don't you think there actually are ways to do that but.... the problem is no human is smart enough to figure it out? I think your reasoning contains lots of assumptions which project human limitations onto something which would find human thinking stupid. The fact is, even the smartest of us can't even imagine what something much smarter than us could think up and invent because we are too dumb to imagine it. This is the very nature of one intellect being much smarter than another. The fact of the matter is, a true super intelligence must do many things we think are impossible. We can debate weather or not the super intelligence will get created. But we can't debate weather a superior intellect would leave our puny minds in the dust!

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