Posts by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
(DIR) Post #Au4EzZBoAFj2Jut0hk by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-05-14T00:07:11Z
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@futurebird this post reminded me of radiofreefedi, only to find out it finished/died :-( oh well, guess everything has to end eventually, but it was cool while it lasted
(DIR) Post #AwwONQZhv5gfuFrIPY by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-08-07T22:50:56Z
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@futurebird my grandpa (english) had an awful time in one which put me off going, but obviously that was a different era and of the people I know who went I think they all enjoyed it
(DIR) Post #AxEMmDAmBPoaW7AM2C by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-08-16T14:57:48Z
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@futurebird yeah, I really don't like the clickbait title on an entirely speculative claim when it could just be YouTube using more aggressive compression settings. I think the fact that people now see AI even in non-ai content is a really bad sign in how it destroys trust in entirely 'clean' content, and that's scary
(DIR) Post #AxhXBiW5Q17i5plwQq by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-08-30T16:41:05Z
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@futurebird the soft, blurry feel of the lighting looks like what you get when you put vaseline on a camera lens (real technique btw)
(DIR) Post #AxjDhbAWfBTlnuX3ce by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-08-31T12:12:11Z
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@futurebird if tariffs weren't in the news so much they'd be on that list
(DIR) Post #AxqKzBo9khOI9B7j1s by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-03T22:36:46Z
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@futurebird how has alex jones not had a heart attack yet? Especially with all his nonsense supplements
(DIR) Post #AyBBJrLc6EnHY89IKe by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-13T23:57:24Z
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@futurebird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE
(DIR) Post #AybpvldDnX08kQSEeO by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-26T20:34:56Z
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@futurebird it's funny that based was originally a reference to freebase cocaine and none of the right-wingers who use it know this
(DIR) Post #AyeCSeEWubGgfNuPAW by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-27T23:56:49Z
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@futurebird tariffing based on "national security" reasons makes no sense to me, his claimed tariffing authority seems clearly illegal
(DIR) Post #Ayf6sA4HHdAM4Yr7xY by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-28T10:28:56Z
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@futurebird https://m.xkcd.com/1909/
(DIR) Post #AyhKeVmdXJYX2fuSyu by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-29T12:12:44Z
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@futurebird land value tax would fix this (and as a bonus, also disincentivise building massive parking lots)
(DIR) Post #B0qFwaQ6XyqAlybibY by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-02T15:16:34Z
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@futurebird I think python is just doing it the way c does when you write `int f(float x){return (int)x}`
(DIR) Post #B0tGkCLYuLtS431FEu by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-04T02:09:40Z
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@futurebird you *can* get electronically controlled gearboxes (you can even get continuous ones if you need that) but I'm assuming that's not the context lol
(DIR) Post #B11f5k88RuUx5UDytc by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-08T03:20:11Z
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@futurebird if you're talking about using LLMs as a classifier for arbitrary text, I've seen yougov do it for some polls where they ask people about what they've read in the news recently and the LLM classifies what topics were mentioned, this ability is advertised here https://yougov.com/business/products/ai-qualitative-explorerAlso I've seen data science articles from the economist using basically the same idea on larger corpuses of text. I think empirically the best LLMs today are very good at modelling humans so this is ~fine?
(DIR) Post #B11hSefN86tmi5p8D2 by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-08T03:46:44Z
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@futurebird yeah, that's what the correct thing to do would be, but it is still plausible that it could do the second, it's just more likely to make a mistake (though I think a task of this difficulty is pretty doable for current models with huge contexts (1M tokens), unlike older/cheaper models which had severe quality drop offs after maybe 10k tokens
(DIR) Post #B12uaNNUmh1lyDQyQ4 by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-08T17:48:32Z
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@futurebird @llewelly "money stuff" is a good newsletter which often covers lots of weird stuff around contract edge cases or funky financial instruments
(DIR) Post #B12yPnIqSHfr0ST6oq by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-12-08T18:31:27Z
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@futurebird @Virginicus I think openrouter might serve some models for free?
(DIR) Post #B2OUOqWbGCI4sqErwG by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2026-01-18T01:30:50Z
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@futurebird london has these (https://global.com/outdoor/roadside/street-hub-advertising/) which seem useful but I've never had to use, apparently they're also in other uk cities
(DIR) Post #B2OZgVxyvy0k6eI5Y0 by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2026-01-18T02:29:02Z
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@futurebird apparently the company that manufacture them are uk based and have a delightfully shitty website https://trueform.com/news/
(DIR) Post #B2WfqS2GHQuPXIdyGe by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2026-01-22T00:16:47Z
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@futurebird I've never had to setup a microphone before so this is just unfounded speculation but perhaps they are for recording stereo audio, i.e. one records left channel other records right channel?