gedfromgont

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[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 54 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I wonder what responses I get for saying this, but nowadays both (as in zoom conference vs in person conference) is possible and both has upsides and downsides.

Online conferences are great to just listen to a specific talk, but other than that in person conferences are just a nicer experience. You can more freely just chat with other scientists, often there is a social evening where you randomly meet people you may not have thought about contacting before.

Now, should you travel around the globe every year several times just for that? Probably not. But in some fields there is one big conference every other year and it hugely benefits you as a scientist to attend these. Sometimes that means travelling from Europe to Oceania.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Of course chatbot use is rising when every shitty website replaced their support pages with one. What else can I do but use the stupid chatbot?

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

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Huheheheuhehe

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, exactly. They do realise quickly the two choices are just a construct and reality actually has infinite choices for them.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Sure, but nobody knows what "an ingress" is but almost everyone has heard of Pokemon. I'd also assume the size of the player base is not comparable.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Woah, I remember playing this! Don't recall if it was any good though.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Millions", just how many subscribers in total do they have?

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Kann man doch was machen!

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So when I talk about LLM, I mean in first line ChatGPT since it was the big event bringing LLMs to the public.

Alphafolds first version came out in 2018, ChatGPT was only released in 2022. I don't know where AI image generation comes into this, but that wasn't my point anyway.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Technically this probably isn't AI but rather ML (machine learning) which is something that made great strides in science already in the past decade or so. E.g. alphafold, a program to predict folding of protein sequences predates all LLM crap and has become a cornerstone of anything protein expression.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 14 points 4 weeks ago

Looks like Chile.

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