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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • Very interesting video, I had no idea the level of redundancy built into QR codes.

    RIGHT?!! Same here. I didn’t know there was SO MUCH of thought put behind QR codes. I always assumed they were just bits visually represented in 2D with the three black squares being there for alignment purposes. Turns out it is a lot more complicated than that hehe

    Thanks!

    Np <3



  • I’m confident we should start seeing stuff like this soon. The upcoming ChatGPT model (forgot the version name) is doing recursive prompts for itself, where it breaks down a big task into smaller ones, then runs and reruns those tasks before coming up with an output.

    Right now, all LLMs just do a single pass and spit out the output. They don’t reason with themselves like we do yet. It’s kinda like what we do in quiz competitions or something, where we immediately shout “blue” when asked “what color is the sky”. However, when asked something more complicated, we don’t just answer quickly based on intuition, do we? We pause, think, rethink, look for counter arguments, patch holes in our statements and so on.

    This is the ability that LLMs lack now. However, very soon they will be able to do that. This just opens up a crazy amount of things that they can do. Take code for example. Right now, LLMs just spit out code without seeing if it works or not. Now, they’ll be able to run it themselves, look for errors, bugs and so on, fix them and finally submit the output code.

    Stuff like this would supercharge them quite a lot. Now, I know that I’m going to be downvoted to hell for talking about AI, cuz lemmy hates it. Mark my words though - you’ll be able to do A LOT using LLMs because of this.

    AI is going to exist and improve like crazy no matter what. The leftist position on this should be public ownership over these models and NOT pretending that they don’t exist.




















  • It’s so dumb uggh. Getting the same power output as the sun would need a MINIMUM surface area of the size of the area on earth it would illuminate.

    So say the use case is extending daylight time in Anchorage, Alaska during winter. You would need a mirror that has MINIMUM surface area that of Anchorage. Somehow, it would need to be in an orbit that can reliably reflect light to Anchorage at all points.

    Then, it would most likely be in low Earth orbit as putting it higher would require bigger mirrors. However, if u are in LEO, u are also moving incredibly fast. You would thus need an array of these super large mirrors.

    All of this for what? Something that an led can do incredibly easily?