#Machine learning for the fail

[thisismenow3]

Just pay people to do things!!!!! You know who can make a meal plan? A cook, a nutritionist, a person with years of cooking experience for large groups, etc. We have a world that is on fire and people who are damn near close with low wages, high expenses. Just. Fucking. Employ. PEOPLE!!!!!

[ganonfan1995]

Burnt out

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

[sysig]

Greetings, human! ♥ (Patreon)

[headphonemouse]

i dont even feel like what i do for work is work, really. i go to a location. i get beamed with psychic attacks. i take a lunch time nap. i get beamed with psychic attacks. lately ive been reading shoujo manga on my breaks. i go home. every two weeks my bank balance goes up without any notice or warning, completely unrelated to the earlier tribulations

[cursed-clock-shop]

All of the Fails have swallowed a clock at some point in their lives. This causes them to wake up at the same time every day. Unfortunately, none of them were set to the same time, so Marietta had to make a schedule to keep track of when the kids wake up.

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

[silent-partner-412]

there are so many youtube videos that are like “tears of the kingdom is a disappointing masterpiece” or “tears of the kingdom is a flawed 10/10” like can we all just be honest with ourselves and say the game was fucking mid because everything cool about it was underdeveloped

[tarathecogsci]

Casually allocating 400GB computing power from the lab feels illegal but my thesis adviser is so casual about it. Torn between the aspiration to be her and my wish to never loose the inherit need to use as little computing power as needed for any project ever.

[yngai]

what i like about ada's report, & i'll get into it more eventually, is that despite it being ada explaining the plot (& her motivations) to you directly, it presents an interesting relationship between ada, a known liar & manipulator, & the audience. while she withholds information from other characters & skirts about on mystery throughout RE4 & separate ways, there is one person to whom she doesn't lie, to whom she does tell the truth, at least a part of it, & that is you, the player. it is a very neat narrative device that wouldn't work as well in a different medium

[tankbredgrunt]

You’re just trying to provoke a reaction. I’m afraid I’m going to have to disappoint you.

[ghostleeness]

babys first laser cutter project

[freebooter4ever]

one of the biggest ironies of my life that i was thinking about yesterday - i know that drag and drop / node-based 'coding' helps a wider (usually more visual) variety of brain types learn to program. this was the entire basis of the research group i was on for seven years in the burgh, and i completely agree with and support it. but im not that way at ALL. im that stereotype who likes pure code, and finds it easier to read the language and find patterns in the words/numbers/formatted lines than in nodes. i HATE nodes, and sometimes even fellow programmers look at me like im crazy for it.

Like dont give me that pretty but controlled interface, i want to know whats underneath.

[maiaiwai]

Another week, another Stable Diffusion experiment. This time it’s Elon Musk who applied for a massive artificial transformation. As always we’ll just use these parameters:

“high definition, insanely detailed , Cartoon”

This time I started a vote on Mastodon to let the community pick their favorite Musk to start with. Oh, this is going to be a good one!

[dirt-str1der]

Kiryu was so beating the fuck out of those vending machines as a child he would buy something and it would get janked up and stuck and he would stare at it before punching it so hard the glass explodes (essence of mantis shrimp) and then hed take his candy and leave

[italiantea]

me getting to japanese (5) despite not memorizing the days of the week 🤝 me taking my ninth course in the bioengineering field and still not having the 20 amino acids memorized