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  • Darohan@lemmy.ziptoHeathcliff@lemmy.worldSunday edition
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    7 days ago

    To an extent, things like “baby want milk?” also help with language acquisition. We could say “would my baby like to have a drink of milk?”, and that would give exposure to a lot more vocabulary early on, but it also uses much more complex grammar and abstract concepts like “would”, whereas the former phrase uses only a subject, an object, and a verb which corresponds to a thing that the baby can easily conceptualize because they “feel” it (the feeling of wanting something). It’s similar to learning a language later in life - you usually start with things like “I am a boy” or “This cat likes fish”, rather than “My good sir could you please enunciate better so that I might understand your foreign tongue”, because it helps our brains take on the basic “shapes” and “sounds” of the language, which make learning the more complex and abstract parts easier later. As for why people do it with pets, who aren’t learning a language? Idk, I guess small cute thing kicks the baby instinct into gear whether it’s human or not 😂


  • I mean, it’s been shown that it’s relatively easy for a big company to control the price of Bitcoin, and there’s nothing more capitalist than wanting to get away from the control of countries and states that might get in the way of making as much profit as possible so, yeah no I’d say hypercapitalist is a valid accusation. Bitcoin was designed to beat the big banks and capitalist status-quo, but I don’t think that we can pretend it succeeded anymore.


  • Darohan@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzSardonic Grin
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    12 days ago

    I feel like you’re viewing this from the wrong angle, or at very least we’re viewing it from different angles. You seem to be doing a binary classification (Is this plant edible) rather than a group classification (what plant is this?) where edibility is an attribute of the plant to be returned to the user (yes; no; when green; only the roots; etc.) - the latter is the approach most of these apps take, classify the image into a species (or list of potential species) then give the user details such as identifying features, common growing areas, edibility, and lookalikes. You’re right about softmax, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve done the programming side of this so my terminology is a bit rusty.


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    12 days ago

    This is blatantly false. Classification tasks like this all have a level of certainty for each possible category - it’s just up to the person writing the software to interpret those levels of certainty in a way that’s useful to the user. Whether this is saying “I don’t know” when the certainties are too spread out, or providing a list of options like other people in this thread have said their apps do. The problem is that “100% certainty” comes off well with the general public, so there’s a financial incentive to make the system seem more certain than it is by using a layer (from memory it’s called Softmax?) that will return only the category with the highest degree of certainty.




  • If I had to guess that’s gonna be a quirk of ActivityPub, and should self-resolve in a little bit, but I’m not an expert so don’t take me at my word there. I have some experience self-hosting setting up my own homelab over the last 2-3 years - if you’d like some “getting started” conversation, feel free to send me a DM or contact me on Matrix @darohan:tchncs.de






  • Given that Storm Trooper rifles are the most basic-ass laser weapons imaginable and don’t even consistently kill a person wearing physical armour, let alone a shield, this battle is over basically the minute the Borg beam over to the Death Star. The cube will be destroyed by the main D.S. gun, but it takes so long to aim and charge that half the station would already be assimilated - or at very least full of laser-immune Borg.

    Additional thought: 70%-ish of a Borg cube needs to be destroyed before its distributed system collapses. If the D.S. main gun is too powerful it may just shoot straight through and leave the Cube with enough intact to keep going at least one more shot.