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Lol you sound like TahoeHorn talking about trump. This is a weird bit to do on July 4, but go off king
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Unless you're prosecuting a trumpist lmfao. How the fuck could you type that sentence on July 4, 2025 with a straight face
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Concern troll is VERY concerned.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
They are dead-ass saying that they're gonna feed alligators "65 million meals" at this facility. ... The US Latino population is around 65 million people. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
If Star Trek is any guide, it'll take a nuclear war for people to back off that bugaboo -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
TBH what you're describing is what the start of my career looked like, only it was crappy brittle spaghetti code that came from TCS. Nobody in house could maintain it and my first big project was refactoring it into a documented and not dogmatically OOP'd codebase - crazy shit like hundreds of lines of class definition and factories just to enable basic operations on JSON objects. Management never wants to invest in good tech and talent, and will only begrudgingly do so after it's demonstrated THAT is what gives a market advantage. On the flip side, cleaning that mess up has been quite a nice career for me so far. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
It's fucking crazy how true this is. There's ZERO critical thinking in that class of person, all they see is dollar signs from cutting workers and they don't give a shit about the plummeting quality of product - whether that's customer service interactions, or more brittle and less secure code, or just generally trashing your market reputation. Crazy thing is though - they're gonna be looooong gone before those chickens come home to roost. That's the MBA way, baby! Harvest short term benefits to get their bonuses and then skip town to a new firm before the long-term consequences are made apparent. I think this is true for really basic, reading comprehension stuff. GenAI is gonna absolutely destroy the data entry industry as it currently stands - but that doesn't mean there's nothing else those folks could do. In an information economy, machine learning is the steam or ICE engine. It's what lets us sift through the vast amounts of data. But just because we came up with steam engines doesn't mean that we didn't need rail workers anymore driving stakes. John Henry could have done other jobs workin' on the railroad -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
This is a fascinating problem space in LLMs! A broadly trained foundational model is gonna be dogshit at mathematical reasoning, as its main corpus of knowledge is mainly general knowledge and writings. So it sounds right that it would have a lay-person's understanding of those subjects. There are techniques called "fine tuning" where you take a base foundational model (like GPT4 or Claude 4.0 or whatever LLM is your fancy) and then do a differential training run on top and introduce in your own corpus of documents. It's SUPER expensive compared to just doing Retrieval Augmented Generation, however it results in a LLM that has a better "feel" for the "music" of the theory than a generalist LLM. All that to say though - they're still pretty dogshit at correctness. To meaningfully improve upon correctness it would take a true Generative Adversarial Network where you're training both a generative model and a "judge" model (academically, it's called a "discriminator" model) that decides if the generated output is dogshit or not. It's can result in very finely tuned and believable generative models, however they have an extremely narrow domain of utility and still take a SHITTON of electricity to produce. And to even start building a GAN architecture, it takes a mountain of data to train the generator and disciminator. Data that doesn't really exist as of right now, and as you correctly point out, is probably going to be generated with AI and result in a Hapsburg AI model -
The destruction of America's public education system
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
It is my vibe that the higher ed management pipeline is as dog shit and reliant on consulting as every other management pipeline that I've come across. Just there to make a splash and leave before everyone gets wet kind of thing. Am I off base? I feel like everything is boiling down to profit and loss, even education and civic services -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
Not for nothing, but how'd y'all do on the $MELANIA pump and dump? -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
As someone who got to watch their dads Parkinson's progress dramatically faster due to a bad drug interaction on a trial for a drug that there's now lawsuits over.... That policy move is gonna kill millions of desperate Americans AND send them a bill for the privilege of picking up all the pieces after they move fast and break things -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Actually a really solid video to share with parents or friends/family that have trouble with discerning AI from reality -
2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Captainant replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/powell-confirms-that-the-fed-would-have-cut-by-now-were-it-not-for-tariffs.html When asked during a panel if the Fed would have lowered rates again this year had Trump not announced his controversial plan to impose higher levies on imported goods earlier this year, Powell said, "I think that's right." "In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs," Powell said at European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal. Powell's admission comes as the Fed has entered a holding pattern on interest rates despite mounting pressure from the White House. The Fed last month held the key borrowing rate steady once again, keeping fed funds at the same range between 4.25% and 4.5% where it's been since December. The central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee indicated via its so-called dot plot of members' projections that there could be two cuts by the end of 2025. However, Powell also said at a press conference last month that the Fed was "well positioned" to remain in a wait-and-see mode. On Tuesday, Powell was asked if July would be too soon for markets to expect a rate cut. He answered that that he "really can't say" and that "it's going to depend on the data." Fed funds futures traders are pricing in a more than 76% likelihood that the central bank once again holds rates steady at the July policy gathering, according to the CME FedWatch tool. "We are going meeting by meeting," Powell said during Tuesday's panel. "I wouldn't take any meeting off the table or put it directly on the table. It's going to depend on how the data evolve." -
no, no, no! Pointing out how the president is trading personal favors for foreign policy concessions is politicizing things
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Renewable Energy Saving Texas' Ass Right Now
Captainant replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Daily Texan
It's gonna be a real kick in the ass for Texans when the Orwellian named "Big Beautiful Bill" introduces excise taxes on solar and wind energy https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/megabill-mystery-new-solar-wind-tax-surprise-republican-senators-rcna216120 edit: You can find the new tax on solar and wind on page 558, applicable if components are sourced from China https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_one_big_beautiful_bill_act.pdf -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
huh, Xaiomi makes a bunch of electronics and cell phones so they've definitely got the electronics supply chain to fill out a car. No telling if they're good automakers though -
The destruction of America's public education system
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
Chamber of Commerce types should not be anywhere near education. -
It really is crazy how much of conservative policy is just policing their own demons and forcing the rest of society to live their self-hatred sickness
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Some new reporting overnight: https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-firefighters-024d26274e0faacec1687f6dde789ced COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris offered new details about the Sunday confrontation at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Alene, a popular recreation area. He said Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle, had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only a handful of minor contacts with area police. “We have not been able to find a manifesto,” the sheriff said, adding a motive was still unknown. Norris said families of the victims are “in shock — absolutely. They’re in shock and they’re still processing it.” ... Roley had set a fire using flint, and the firefighters who rushed to the scene instead found themselves under fire. They took cover behind fire trucks. “There was an interaction with the firefighters,” Norris said. “It has something to do with his vehicle being parked where it was.”
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https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf-forecasting-20400520.php Data for hurricane forecasting shuts down as of today. Pucker up
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
LOOOOOOLZ you're not conducting BTC transactions. You're conducting side-chain transactions with third parties that you've chosen to trust. You're just playing with wildly inefficient monopoly money that does not even do what you evengelize it as doing. To even start using lightning, you consign off a portion of your BTC to an open and run a ledger with that vendor and have to trust that they won't just run off with your funds and DDoS your ability to send a closing transaction before they write out a block to the main BTC chain. It's no more secure than just doing business with a bank at that point. You're just doing it with WAY more steps and wasting a shitton of energy to conduct your commerce -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
lulz that's conducting a transaction in the Cash App ecosystem, not happening live on the blockchain. It's being conducted in BTC valuation, but you're relying and trusting a third party financial institution. Which is diametrically opposite of the BTC whitepaper's core design principal of trustless payments. You don't even get a txid because it's not on any blockchain anywhere, it's on the same old """dinosaur slow and inefficent""" payment systems that dollars flow through as well. Which is what BTC was supposed to be innovating upon, not using to scale lmfao Correcting myself - they do appear to rectify the transaction on the blockchain eventually, however the instant nature of the transaction clearing is not BTC. That's the Cash App saying "trust us" while they wait for their BTC transactions to process through the blockchain. -
Looks interesting, coming to IMAX next March
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