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Girafferage t1_jd8jh1b wrote
Reply to comment by ky1e in One lingering thought on all the upheaval... by caminandoennubes
Its incredibly hard to determine who somebody really is even in real life in your day to day with people you see constantly. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself about the situation. You did what was right and you are actively working to fix any lingering issues. Id say your actions were justified in trying to help your community and adding a new mod who you believed would do that, and as soon as you saw the situation in the sub you acted quickly, and even engaged in the side sub I created and let people know what was going on and what you were doing to fix it.
Don't put this on you. There is honestly not a lot of people moderating who would have been as diligent and respectful through this.
I would add however, it may be best to not ever hand off the top mod position so there is always an ultimate option to have somebody that I think we can all agree is pretty sane and reasonable who is able to handle any moderator related issues. Any new mods you bring in will be able to do anything you would anyway given the permissions, but they wont be able to remove you, and you will still be able to remove them. Its really nice to have that failsafe in place.
Girafferage t1_jcxu5y5 wrote
Reply to comment by jp_jellyroll in The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
Absolutely wild. I made a new subreddit that I'm just cross posting from for people who got banned. It ideally will be a temporary thing until that mod situation is handled.
Girafferage t1_jcwpq0c wrote
Reply to The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
If you got banned I made another subreddit until the mod issue gets resolved and I encourage people to cross post items for those who were wrongfully and randomly banned.
r/Massachusetts_US
I feel like the upvote/downvote system can do most the moderating, but if people want to have actual mods for what should be a very temporary subreddit, go for it.
Girafferage t1_jcwp038 wrote
Reply to comment by matt_cb in The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
Mostly a sad plea for them to realize how authoritarian they have become. I'll pray they bother to take stock of themselves.
Girafferage t1_jcwo8ut wrote
Reply to comment by matt_cb in The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
That's frightening.
Girafferage t1_jcwl92e wrote
Reply to comment by matt_cb in The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
Here I go getting ramped up to be ban from my first sub
Girafferage t1_jcwl2c3 wrote
Reply to The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
This mod bans people even if they don't break any rules lol. It's literally just them deciding who they want to stay based on how they personally feel.
Can't you contact the other now about this childs behavior?
Girafferage t1_jcwkl3k wrote
Reply to comment by TheCozierDaemon in The newest /r/massachusetts mod is a META/Facebook employee and seems a little unhinged. This seems like an issue, no? by TheCozierDaemon
Wow that person seems out of touch with reality. Chronically online the youngsters call it. Their post history is some delusions of grandeur levels of weird.
Girafferage t1_ja5lcwl wrote
Reply to comment by The_Safe_For_Work in US 'develops' AI-powered facial recognition tech for military robot drones - The drones are to be tasked with expeditionary roles, including special operations, to "open the opportunity for real-time autonomous response by the robot." by Gari_305
It's less the resolution and more gathering a huge set of frames from the video at different angles and lighting to determine if somebody is who it thinks they are. But yeah, I also hope it's still like 8k min
Girafferage t1_ja08sf1 wrote
Reply to comment by hahaohlol2131 in Swedish researchers have developed an injectable gel that transforms into a conductive polymer inside the fins and brains of living zebrafish. The substance that transforms into a conductive polymer using the body’s chemistry could improve implantable electronics. by lughnasadh
buy? lol no one said to buy it.
Girafferage t1_j9yzouh wrote
Reply to Swedish researchers have developed an injectable gel that transforms into a conductive polymer inside the fins and brains of living zebrafish. The substance that transforms into a conductive polymer using the body’s chemistry could improve implantable electronics. by lughnasadh
Anybody play Atomic Heart?
This seems weirdly on the nose
Girafferage t1_j9r3juu wrote
Reply to comment by ActuatorMaterial2846 in And Yet It Understands by calbhollo
No you aren't way off. They run off models, which are a huge set of pre-trained data that tell the AI what any given thing is. Using that model and the rules written into the AI and neural net it gives a result from an input. The input can be images, sounds, whatever, and the model has to be trained to specifically handle that type of input or in some cases multiple types.
After that you usually run the AI a bunch and at the start you get pretty much garbage coming out so you change the weights around to see what works best and do some training with the AI where it gives you a result and you say yes that's right or no that's incorrect, and it takes that information into account to determine its future outputs. That is not the same as a person telling something like ChatGPT it is wrong or right, at that point the model is done and complete. You aren't rewriting anything. The developers might take those conversations into account and use the corrections to enhance the model, but that's separate and not at all like chatting with an AI.
I have mostly worked with image related neural networks for tracking and detection and tracking works a lot different than detection, but I also had a hobby project with one for text that was determined the mood of a set of sentences (sad, happy, lonely, confused, scared, ect.) But that text one is easy to do for any programmer and not too bad for a non-programming savvy person either.
Girafferage t1_j9a96g0 wrote
Why is this on this sub? And why do people think they"unlock" anything special with language models. It's cringey.
Girafferage t1_j8rxwdw wrote
Reply to comment by Nyrin in Smartphone checking predicts more daily cognitive failures, study finds by chrisdh79
I wouldn't say that. There are other studies showing that things such as checking your phone while watching a movie or scrolling Facebook while working directly impact your ability to concentrate and recall memories in the long term.
It's not surprising. If you frequently allow yourself to flip between multiple forms of media then you are just conditioning yourself to continue to want to do so in situations where you shouldn't be, such as at work.
Girafferage t1_j8jcuvx wrote
Reply to comment by Iffykindofguy in An AI recently piloted a Lockheed Martin aircraft for over 17 hours during a testing period in December. by Dalembert
This was my first thought. Including a cockpit and systems to keep a human comfortable and alive and safe are honestly a waste of space. If anything it should be a drone with ground control options as a backup in the event of a problem. That would be safer than having a pilot there in case of a problem anyway.
Girafferage t1_j6l56bk wrote
Reply to comment by AintAintAWord in New study (n = 15,764) shows repeated concussions are linked to worse brain function in later life by unswsydney
Tom is that you?
Girafferage t1_j6l528d wrote
Reply to comment by appstategrad in New study (n = 15,764) shows repeated concussions are linked to worse brain function in later life by unswsydney
How bad would the outcome of like 6-8 severe concussions be later in life?
Girafferage t1_j6dm5sj wrote
Reply to comment by Straight-Historian95 in At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say by Vegeta9001
Your comparator only shows up correctly when replying for some reason. You can use != Instead which means the same thing in programming.
Girafferage t1_j6dlus4 wrote
Reply to comment by english83 in At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say by Vegeta9001
I literally opened this post to see if it happened on the way to Machu Picchu. It's the first time I ever just closed my eyes and kept telling myself that the driver does this all the time. Terrifying lol.
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Reply to comment by blatchcorn in homeownership rate will be over 80% in the future because everyone will be able to own at least a small condo in low cost of living places due to remote work and indoor living. by Pitiful-Internal-196
It's also limited by physical land space. Its hard to live in that affordable housing if it's not anywhere near your job location which will statistically be closer to areas of higher prices for homes and apartments.
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Reply to comment by paulwhitedotnyc in homeownership rate will be over 80% in the future because everyone will be able to own at least a small condo in low cost of living places due to remote work and indoor living. by Pitiful-Internal-196
Scenic view of the pod landscape!
Girafferage t1_j5y9zqs wrote
Reply to comment by Chrisf1020 in The world is (on average) 50% reliant on nonrenewable sources of phosphorus fertilizer to grow food. It won't go away this century, but prices will increase and ~3/4ths of reserves are controlled by one country by fartyburly
It would be, except there isn't rain anywhere on the entire planet that doesn't already contain dangerous levels of it. And eating 1 wild caught fish is just as bad as a month of drinking contaminated water.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-wild-fish-month-tainted.html
Good on Maine though for actually trying to do something at least. We really need a system to remove them from the environment at this point, and maybe hold the companies that made these chemicals and knew about these negative effects accountable. There haven't been a ton of study's on the pharmaceuticals in waste fertilizer from humans, but the ones that have checked the contents of different brands aren't optimistic. Dangerous levels of a multitude of drugs, some that women aren't even supposed to handle period.
Girafferage t1_j5xjrwp wrote
Reply to comment by GeekSumsMe in The world is (on average) 50% reliant on nonrenewable sources of phosphorus fertilizer to grow food. It won't go away this century, but prices will increase and ~3/4ths of reserves are controlled by one country by fartyburly
Will do! And yeah, taking components out of the waste seems like the only safe and reasonable way to go. Hopefully we make something out of it.
Girafferage t1_j5xgg52 wrote
Reply to comment by Sanpaku in The world is (on average) 50% reliant on nonrenewable sources of phosphorus fertilizer to grow food. It won't go away this century, but prices will increase and ~3/4ths of reserves are controlled by one country by fartyburly
We already are recycling human waste to fertilize crops. It's actually kind of a problem because the drugs people take also go with that waste into the fertilizer and end up in people's food.
It's literally the only reason I buy organic for vegetables that grow underground or on the ground. Organic foods cannot be grown with fertilizer from human waste.
Girafferage t1_jd8ubok wrote
Reply to comment by ky1e in One lingering thought on all the upheaval... by caminandoennubes
Well, as long as they have been vetted and maybe been around for a good long while. I cant imagine how this sub would have degraded had the other mod been made top mod.
Maybe when the time comes you could have both the current mods of the sub and the community take a vote and then use the outcomes as a good starting point on where to go next.