BlameThePeacock

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You can get eggs from Salmonella vaccinated chickens, it's just not the norm in north America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

LLMs

For example if I need to generate a long formula for excel or power apps, I could write it myself or I can just tell the LLM the parameters and it will do it in 1/10th of time.

If I need to create course material, I can shove in bullet points for my key topics and have it expand it into a first draft for me. This concept I actually use a lot more than just for course material. It's great at generating drafts of everything from statements of work and quotes to presentations (Co-Pilot in 365)

I know how to do the job without it, so hallucinations are easily caught and cleaned up. It's a tool to speed me up, not replace me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Business process automation. I use it for everything from communications to programming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I automate office processes, improving productivity. So literally the opposite of a bullshit job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (14 children)

If it's so useless, why am I using it all the time for my job to speed up my work?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Still considered a laptop, they have low power modes for unplugged use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The only problem I have with this is that USB-C PD can only go to 240w, which is fine for most laptops but my current gaming laptop has a 240w power brick and it only has a 3060 in it. The 3080 and 3090 variants had 300w+ bricks IIRC.

I don't live in India, but I hope gaming laptops get some sort of exception if their power draw can exceed the specification limits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm going to be the odd one out on this.

I prefer ultra customized recommendations, I wish they were even smarter. Especially if I've already bought something, I want them to know so they stop advertising that product to me.

I'd rather see ads for products that I may actually buy rather than for shit I don't have the slightest interest in.

I rarely buy products without significant research, so ads aren't likely to trick me into buying something of poor quality. I just need to have awareness of things I don't even know exist.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I use Photopea, it's a website so no download and does 99% of what Photoshop and GIMP can do.

Made by a single Ukrainian developer, and free (with some ads on the side while you're using it)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Counter point, society wouldn't exist if there weren't reproductive pressures

Luckily you get to choose whatever you want in this case, but as you've found out there are annoying consequences for your choice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I don't think a lot of people actually understand the concept of how big the Chinese population is today.

They could lose a billion people, and still have more people than the US.

There are more licensed medical doctors in China than there are people in the state of Oregon.

Now that being said, China's going to collapse. It's population tree currently looks like a nuclear cloud, and they have next to zero immigration to deal with that situation. Their population started declining two years ago, and the next 40 years are going to be rough as they are expected have a net loss of 400+ million people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This particular implementation doesn't really apply to those situations, there are already existing technologies which can pre-train on specific voices they could be using for that since the target is known. The main "improvement" from this system is that you can train it on any target subject, even with background noise, in only a few seconds.

It's most useful in scenarios they've outlined in their study, like using it with your friend you ran into on the bus, your tour guide, etc.

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