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nerd4code t1_jaetl6i wrote
Reply to comment by whatistheformat in “The Deepfake Dangers Ahead; AI-generated disinformation, especially from hostile foreign powers, is a growing threat to democracies based on the free flow of ideas” by Wagamaga
> just wait until
Was the rock you’ve been under nice, at least?
nerd4code t1_jae9ccg wrote
What you do is, all of you need to keep a half-step up or down from him (except him, obvs. or he’d run out of kstack and BSOD, and using that as the basis for a kick-out might look bad), and then confront him afterwards with his obvious tone-deafness.
Now, if he’s not tone-deaf, he’ll self-correct and y’all’ll have to switch to and from the actual notes as he does (I recommend a gradual sinusoid around the usual pitch—it helps, if signing, to pretend you’re an 80-year-old contraltos with a helluva vibrato). That’ll take practice and your keyboardist keeping a spare elbow on pitch bend, but it’ll only boost your own, personal musicalities to get good at it, giving you a higher horse to spit at your lead singer from (or whatever people are supposed to do with their high horses).
The audience is likely to notice y’all modulating like crazy people, but pretend it’s intentional and part of your unique sound, and it was Frontman’s idea anyway, but you’re getting rid of him so it’ll be obscenely normal/non-unique next time.
Or just tell him. Less fun tho’.
nerd4code t1_jadp1rf wrote
Reply to comment by lancelongstiff in Yikes, the U.S. is Now Using Facial Recognition Rigged Drones for Special Ops: If you're on America's shit list, bad news: a flying robot that can recognize your face may soon be coming after you. by Tough_Gadfly
Well at least they won’t drone-bomb citizens, and I’m sure our top legal minds have firmly rejected the possibility!
What’s that? Both Obama and Trump killed citizens abroad sans trial (in absentia or otherwise), and Eric Holder refusing to rule out the idea is as much public debate as the notion got? Well at least we aren’t just recycling the same political whores who’ve been active in the government since the Nixon era, and the problem should fix itself.
nerd4code t1_jado5gs wrote
Reply to comment by RuairiSpain in PC GPU Shipments Drop 35% Year-over-Year in Q4 2022: Report by Stiven_Crysis
GPUs are in general way beyond overkill for NNs, which is what you’re talking about. NNs can use the massive data-parallelism and linear-algebraic trickery offered by GPUs, but the data format you use tends to hit a sweet spot right around 8-bit floating-point, and video cards tend to focus on 16+-bit, us. with the ability to do 32-/64-bit f.p. and 32-/64-bit integers also—units and busses for which will at the very least eat power. Newer NVidia cards do have TPUs attached so they can do 8-bit stuff without un- & re-packing, but that’s a comparatively tiny afterthought to the card’s design, and atl afaihs the TPU is usually shared between pairs of thread-XUs.
What you’d really want is to focus on, say, 32-bit integer add/sub/deref and 8-bit f.p. MACs in their own, non-shared units/lanes, and any special accel you can do for convolution will help some also. Which is why TPUs as a standalone thing exist.
nerd4code t1_j8wnydh wrote
Reply to comment by Critical_Cress_6106 in Compared to wolf pups and kittens, dog puppies tend to spontaneously match actions demonstrated by a human — even in the absence of food rewards by marketrent
Ours tried peeing on our cats’ litter boxes for a bit, but TBF he’d pee aggressively (with eyes locked to mine) so Idunno if it was imitative or retributive, or if he just decided all the pee smells belong together.
nerd4code t1_j3qa5nl wrote
Reply to comment by QuestionableAI in Study reveals women who experience domestic abuse are three times more likely to contract HIV infection. by MistWeaver80
Or they internalize the abuse and take riskier and riskier behaviors as they perceive themselves increasingly devalued and estranged from loved ones, or the abuse can trigger latent psychological issues that might not have been actual problems otherwise. They may even perceive the STD as something of a “win” or wash if their partner contracts it from them.
nerd4code t1_izl5zq9 wrote
Reply to comment by mata_dan in I was the victim of an identity theft nightmare - and it could happen to you. AMA by losangelestimes
Speaking as somebody with less fingers than he started out with, no, fingerprints aren’t static.
nerd4code t1_ixwhy52 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Taiwan's TSMC founder says 3nm fab will be built in US by jussulent_tummy
QC isn’t TC. If and when it makes it into the general market, it’ll be on an accelerator card. Eventually there’ll probably be stuff built into the same die as the CPU, but there’ll still have to be an actual CPU that drives things.
nerd4code t1_ixvghfg wrote
Reply to comment by Nine-Eyes in From post-truth to post-reality: the future of disinformation by Wagamaga
I mean, it might not end up proving anything; dead people tend to exhibit limited ability to introspect.
nerd4code t1_isidk2q wrote
Reply to comment by theWora in OHSU scientists discover mechanism of hearing by TequillaShotz
AFAIK it’s usually associated with the cochlea specifically, which is where the body applies the biological equivalent to a Fourier transform to incoming noise. But it can be caused by damage to nerves or certain parts of the brain, or even impacted earwax.
nerd4code t1_iseq6lq wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Drawing inspiration from nature, researchers developed a medical adhesives that stops blood loss and promotes blood coagulation. The adhesive can also be removed without causing re-bleeding or even left inside the body to be absorbed by giuliomagnifico
Also, ammonium is an ion (NH₄⁺); ammonia is the molecule (NH₃).
nerd4code t1_je05bcc wrote
Reply to comment by Darwins_Dog in Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science by HeinieKaboobler
Damn that Fauci, stuffin’ ’em vaccines fulla tachyons!