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  1. Comment on Dune: Awakening | Release date reveal trailer – 20th May 2025 in ~games

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    I actually can’t disagree with you more. The second and 4th books are my favorite. The first is actually my least favorite.

    I actually can’t disagree with you more. The second and 4th books are my favorite. The first is actually my least favorite.

    14 votes

  2. Comment on From beginner to conversational in three months of learning Russian: My takeaways in ~humanities.languages

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    Fascinating write up. I have a dream to one day be a polyglot. Currently I speak a little Spanish, German, and Japanese. I spent years learning German only to realize that it was mostly useless....

    Fascinating write up. I have a dream to one day be a polyglot. Currently I speak a little Spanish, German, and Japanese. I spent years learning German only to realize that it was mostly useless. Then I switched to Spanish but found it to be uninteresting. Now I’ve been learning Japanese for a few months. I’m probably doing myself a disservice by switching around so much but I’ve learned a lot about languages in general!

    Long term I would love to know the following languages ordered by interest:

    Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish.

    Though I suspect I will never learn mandarin due to its complexity… I’ll be lucky if I just learn one language decently.

    Current long term goal is to pass the JLPT N5.

    Best of luck with your language goals!

  3. Comment on Does anyone want to talk about stocks/options? in ~finance

  4. Comment on Does anyone want to talk about stocks/options? in ~finance

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    I do a bogle style three fund portfolio of stocks, bonds, and international. I am like 90% VTSAX or VOO because I’m nowhere near retirement. I tend to stay away from individual stocks but I’m...

    I do a bogle style three fund portfolio of stocks, bonds, and international. I am like 90% VTSAX or VOO because I’m nowhere near retirement.

    I tend to stay away from individual stocks but I’m trying to get into it with a fraction of my portfolio because I want the little bit of hope that gambling provides.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Discussion on the future and AI in ~tech

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    All of your points are well reasoned and certainly possible but to be honest, I am largely not concerned about AI specifically. AI is just another existential threat that humanity must face....

    All of your points are well reasoned and certainly possible but to be honest, I am largely not concerned about AI specifically. AI is just another existential threat that humanity must face. Frankly, I wouldn’t even put it at #1 or #2 on the list of greatest challenges. Additionally, unlike most existential threats, this one has a very small potential to bring about a utopia as you mentioned. Not something you can say about climate change, for example.

    Out of your potentials, I would wager to say that #3 is most likely or already here. There are many models which can be ran locally and used by any Joe Schmoe for any purpose. Not to mention that these models are untraceable, require compute that anyone who plays video games already has, and many of them have had their guardrails removed. Consider the deepseek models which have achieved excellent results while being cheap and open source.

    10 votes

  6. Comment on Digital Monsters Net Driver, a fan Digimon game in ~games

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    Wow this is impressive. As someone who loves digimon, I see the love and passion behind this project.

    Wow this is impressive. As someone who loves digimon, I see the love and passion behind this project.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on What goals or ambitions do you have for 2025? in ~talk

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    Well luckily, I have already been working on a game for a year already! So hopefully that one but I just broke one of my rules and started another, much more simplistic game in hopes to get...

    Well luckily, I have already been working on a game for a year already! So hopefully that one but I just broke one of my rules and started another, much more simplistic game in hopes to get something out the door.

    Both of them are pokemon/digimon style mon tamers :D.

    Thanks for asking!

    3 votes

  9. Comment on What goals or ambitions do you have for 2025? in ~talk

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    Sorry to hear about your cat. Best of luck with the new kitty!

    Sorry to hear about your cat. Best of luck with the new kitty!

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What goals or ambitions do you have for 2025? in ~talk

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    My number one goal is to release a video game. My number two goal is to release two video games…

    My number one goal is to release a video game. My number two goal is to release two video games…

    11 votes

  11. Comment on Game Programming Patterns - State in ~comp

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    State machines are a very cool concept and relevant for both game development and agentic A.I.!

    State machines are a very cool concept and relevant for both game development and agentic A.I.!

    1 vote

  13. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~finance

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    I agree. I honestly felt like this article didn’t say much of anything lol.

    I agree. I honestly felt like this article didn’t say much of anything lol.

  14. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~finance

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    You very well might be right and fear is a completely natural thing to feel but it will also make you miserable if you focus on it. — Epictetus An end in some ways but who is to say what will...

    You very well might be right and fear is a completely natural thing to feel but it will also make you miserable if you focus on it.

    “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…”

    — Epictetus

    their fear is very much rooted in a clear and inescapable end.

    An end in some ways but who is to say what will happen next. The meteor was an end for the dinosaurs and a beginning for mammals. The fact is that one day everything will end. Humanity will die off, the sun will explode, the universe will experience heat death. It could be today, tomorrow, or a billion years from now. You’re free to dwell on that as long as you’d like but you would probably feel better if you try to focus instead on the present moment.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~finance

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    As a word of caution, many of us who grew up in overly religious environments heard a lot of folks say they didn’t need a retirement plan because Jesus is coming back any day. SPOILER ALERT: Jesus...

    As a word of caution, many of us who grew up in overly religious environments heard a lot of folks say they didn’t need a retirement plan because Jesus is coming back any day. SPOILER ALERT: Jesus still hasn’t come back and those people have been bitten in the ass by their lack of planning.

    Of course, climate change is a far more legitimate concern but even still, it’s best to plan for the future and not need the plan than to be old with no means.

    Regarding the capitalist system, I can’t help you there but at the very least if you have a job with a 401k match then try to contribute to the match if possible! If you don’t have that then… best of luck. It is tough out there and all we can do is our best.

    35 votes

  16. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    As I have said in the past, much of the doubt that is expressed over AI is driven by people who are afraid of being replaced or outshined. I can’t say I blame them. The world will certainly be an...

    As I have said in the past, much of the doubt that is expressed over AI is driven by people who are afraid of being replaced or outshined. I can’t say I blame them. The world will certainly be an interesting place once humans are no longer the dominant intelligence. Let’s hope that it leads to greater prosperity but let’s be honest, it’ll probably lead to more inequality or something else negative.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on Costs from hurricane Helene more than $53 billion in North Carolina. Currently available funding is significantly less than that. in ~enviro

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    Not just Tennessee but this is true of many areas in NC as well like old fort, chimney rock, Marion, bat cave, hot springs, etc. Even Asheville which has probably received the most help is still...

    Not just Tennessee but this is true of many areas in NC as well like old fort, chimney rock, Marion, bat cave, hot springs, etc. Even Asheville which has probably received the most help is still filled with debris and folks living in tents. The fact is that this is going to be a long recovery at best and at worst, these areas will simply never be the same.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Costs from hurricane Helene more than $53 billion in North Carolina. Currently available funding is significantly less than that. in ~enviro

  19. Comment on Scaling pixel art in ~creative

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    Wow. This answered a lot of questions I have had.

    Wow. This answered a lot of questions I have had.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI in ~tech

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    If one were to look at a graph of A.I. progress on the Y axis and time on the X axis, they would see a graph filled with flat lines and massive jumps. Are we in the middle of a jump or at the...

    If one were to look at a graph of A.I. progress on the Y axis and time on the X axis, they would see a graph filled with flat lines and massive jumps.

    Are we in the middle of a jump or at the start of a flat line? Tough to say. However, if I may speculate...

    First of all, it is important to recognize that many of the rapid increases in A.I. progress have come not from improvements to the techniques, but rather from improvements to compute power. For example, it is well known that Least squares linear regression was performed by Legendre and Gauss in the 1800s but it wasn't until the computer was developed that Linear Regression became such a powerful technique. The work done by Gauss and Legendre would eventually lead to the creation of the neural network in the 1950s. Despite this revolutionary discovery, by 1974 we were at a flat line, an "AI Winter". Only 20ish years after this AI winter, the world would witness Deep Blue become the first computer chess-playing system to beat a reigning world chess champion. As stated on Wikipedia:

    These successes were not due to some revolutionary new paradigm, but mostly on the tedious application of engineering skill and on the tremendous increase in the speed and capacity of computers by the 90s. In fact, Deep Blue's computer was 10 million times faster than the Ferranti Mark 1 that Christopher Strachey taught to play chess in 1951. This dramatic increase is measured by Moore's law, which predicts that the speed and memory capacity of computers doubles every two years. The fundamental problem of "raw computer power" was slowly being overcome.

    Even the current models have been enabled by the power of the modern GPU. Of course nowadays, some speculate that Moore's law is slowing down and if this is true, it will mean that A.I. improvements cannot come from compute power increases alone.

    Additionally, it seems obvious to me that the biggest problem with modern LLMs is simply that the creators have poisoned the well. Now that AI content is everywhere, it becomes much more complicated to find good quality data to train on. The current approach seems to have been "just throw more data at it". An approach like this is guaranteed to have massive returns at first and diminishing returns later, especially so as the quality of the data decreases.

    In my opinion, improvements in the near future are unlikely to come from model improvements. Improvements to the models require a lot of research and effort. Short term improvements are most likely to come in the form of techniques that utilize the current models more effectively such as agents or prompting techniques like tree of thought reasoning.

    That being said, a lot of these articles remind me of Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly. Many people are rooting against A.I. and would like to see it fail. Therefore, people are willing to latch onto any ounce of information that paints the future of A.I. as bleak. In my opinion, the current models are more than enough to cause issue in many parts of society. There needs to be less of a focus on the future and more of a focus on the now. These models already exist and they are actively changing the world.

    While the derivative of the A.I. knowledge graph may change over time, the long term trend is monotonic. If the past is any indication of the future, A.I. will continue to improve, it just may take time. Or maybe it will rapidly accelerate again.

    Regardless, run with it or run from it, my friends.

    12 votes