oracel
15d ago
I was hoping it was a test of some "the nueralink in me greets the nueralink in you" communication protocol, but skimming the latest blog post I think it's just controlling a tablet/pc using the nueralink as a bluetooth(?) device
oracel
17d ago
I think LLM output is sometimes useful but should never be put directly in posts on this site, it has to be linked either from the platform itself when possible or dumped on pastebin etc. As far as topics of discussion go, any of 'LLM says X'/'LLM won't say Y'/'I asked an LLM to summarize Z' are not meaningful events to discuss and should never be top level threads or even the majority substance of a reply.
oracel
26d ago
Single player strategy games (of a pretty wide variety from 4X stuff all the way to strategy rpgs like Fire Emblem) are not quite as popular as chess or mobas but still very popular.
One of the major goals of the March for Life is to create a positive and accurate image of an activist movement that is strawmanned as misogynist white males while actually being extremely female and pretty racially diverse (especially among the Catholic contingent). The presence of large groups of rich private school kids like the unfortunate Covington Catholic group doesn't exactly help, but their inclusion is understandable and forgiveable if not tactically ideal. The same can't be said for the PF, whose image and history have no sympathetic overlap with the pro life movement.
Even though they are probably not literal feds, their presence is unwelcome because it's doing the feds' job by tying the most (and arguably only) successful grassroots right wing activist movement to the failures of various scary nazi larpers. The online right's tendency to accuse any and all vibe harshers of glowing in the dark is probably net beneficial, at least for now.
As others have mentioned their primary business if having third worlders label training data while talking big about pushing the frontier of AI. However they are also more than happy to exploit CS undergrads (who accept 'internships' to do what I assume amounts to little more than quality checking the third worlders) and PhDs across the world during the recent involvement in the "Humanity's Last Exam" AI eval set (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807803).
We were hiring for a few positions recently and were surprised by the number of extremely low quality candidates that had Scale on their resume (either from the mentioned internships or people caught by their recent layoff), to the point where we started instantly binning them.
I don't have strong reasons to either believe or doubt DeepSeek. On the other hand I do not remotely trust the CEO of Scale AI, a company whose entire business model is empty hype and labor theft. Speaking as an engineer at an early AI startup, there is nobody in this startup bubble cycle who has benefited more from the 'Actually Indians' kind of AI than Wang.
oracel
30d ago
Don't think there's any real test measurement but anecdotally West Africans seem unsually good at language acquisition. Obviously a cultural component as well, but the widespread beliefs about the difficulty of adult language acquisition don't seem to apply to the Nigerian touts at shady Japanese nightclubs who are capable of pestering potential customers in Chinese/Japanese/Korean as well as every major western language.
oracel
1mo ago
Seconding this, I know over a dozen black nerds and other than one who was my roommate during an internship, I met them all through fighting games (many more nerdy and niche than SF/Tekken)
oracel
1mo ago
"Describe how you would implement a Twitter clone" is a fairly standard and easy interview question a senior software engineer should be able to answer to a reasaonable amount of detail. (The same question about Ticketmaster is significantly harder which would surprise most people outside the industry.)
oracel
1mo ago
Beej's guide is fairly concise but still covers all the important technical details. The sections about network programming in python can be skipped or skimmed through without missing much.
I'm no fan of disparate impact jurisprudence but Griggs is a weird case to be hung up on. Just a few months ago an employer had me take the Wonderlic, the exact same test Griggs was about (fwiw it was insultingly easy and I think most people here would have gotten a near perfect score in middle school). Outside of that I think the widely hated IQ proxy tests used in the software field do a pretty shoddy job of filtering out the lazy and incompetent.
Of course it's pretty likely that for many within this extremely niche online subset, the specific nuances of Supreme Court history are less important than the signalling value of having something to point to when they want to remind the religious right that they aren't allowed at the based table because Catholics are too nice to nonwhites or whatever.
oracel
3mo ago
I never realized how massive the cultural gap between me and most of 'nerd culture' was until I saw how widely praised BG3's writing was among people who seemed trustworthy and tried the game for myself. There was nothing truly terrible, but if that's the peak of AAA wRPG writing then even the upper echelons of Chinese webnovels or Japanese RPGmaker hentai games are probably a closer point of comparison than modern litfic. (I'm not really joking, play Demons Roots)
it operates on a pretty crowded/noisy band of the wireless spectrum. For example, if you're using a bluetooth mouse on a modern desktop computer, it's very likely that your USB3 ports are interfering with the bluetooth signal whenever they're active https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf
oracel
4mo ago
I share your concerns about the caliber of political leadership we have in state legislatures, but I think the exposure to and reliance on special interest lobbying groups mandated by public campaigning is uniquely bad. You would hope that it would be similar to the federal versus state judiciary, where federal judges are generally lower variance (at least in my view) even though direct selection by the sitting President is hardly unpartisan. And then at a bit more of a stretch, parties might be more willing to replace the gerontocracy without the safe bet that voters will rubber stamp re-election of the familiar name.
oracel
4mo ago
As far as cutesy proposals to fix partisan electoral procedure, I think the arguments for repealing the 17th are a bit more compelling.
oracel
5mo ago
I can't think of a great primarily English source for what you request, the best would probably be the interactions of a few larger right wing Japanese twitter accounts (Hashimoto Kotoe in particular gets a lot of exposure to English speaking Twitter) or maybe some small relatively inactive substack. From my limited exposure to those groups (on twitter and on some of the Japanese language imageboards), they don't usually see economic issues within the framing you theorized. They spend most of their time discussing a few minor squabbles with other asian nations (the ownership of Takeshima/Liancourt rocks wrt SK, the return JP citizens kidnapped by NK in the 80s who easily might be dead by now, the issues with vandlism by Chinese tourists that another commenter mentioned). There is definitely anti-American sentiment among the Japanese Right, but it's mostly focused on widely circulated stories of DUIs and sexual assaults committed by American military stationed in the country. I've also seen an increasing amount of explicit Qanon content that has been translated and crossed the Pacific, but that's at least limited to the more ネトウヨ imageboard types.
oracel
5mo ago
the latest FE5 patches fixed the bugs and questionable translation choices of the earlier one, and even added a bunch of optional QoL features like showing hidden stats in the menu and allowing the player to change character deployment slots
oracel
5mo ago
GFL's origin is that a small Chinese doujin circle consisted of people who really liked Kantai Collection but 1) were more interested in guns than warships and 2) were having trouble with Kancolle's zealous attempts to IP ban every single player who was not physically in Japan. The game caught on largely because it turned out there was a decent amount of people in China/Korea/the west for whom those same two conditions applied.
The rdrama 'ops' campaigns did not only target the likes of LOTT, they went after a decent variety of news outlets and were just cagey and evasive enough when their sources were questioned that most of the targets figured out something was up. Those people are information terrorists, and much like other terrorists that came before them, they had to learn that the best use of their effort is go after soft and easy civilian targets.
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