Maslow 1 and 5? Hm. Guess nowadays we get 3 and 4 online, while 2 is hard to control. Would be nice if there was an UBI, but it seems to me like nowadays you need to sacrifice some of that 4/5, particularly morals, in order to achieve a steady income stream.
That was the avatar NFTs: most people didn't care, some jumped on the FOMO and paid through the nose to "catch them all".
If they had opened that to 3rd party apps, even as a requirement to use the API, or better yet if they gave a cut to 3rd party apps, instead of blindly charging for the API, they could have got a great net to catch whales, while most people would just ignore it and keep contributing their time (mods) and content (comments).
Those "hard paywalls" often go away with the right combination of browser, archive, and/or ad blocker.
If anything, I'd vote for archive links for everything, instead of an article that can be amended or removed at any time. If it's good for Wikipedia, it should be good for Lemmy.
RTX 50 just dropped in, they're in the "beta early adopter" phase, AKA expensive for people with more dough than smarts. They're the same TSMC 4N process as the RTX 40, and unless you have a PCIe 5.0 motherboard, the RTX 50 makes little sense. No need to go to used market, but I'd personally stick to the 4060/4070 for the time being, or the Radeon RX 7600/7700.
If you need some serious AI oomph... then go to the pro line, there are some nice RTX Ada for less than $10k, or rent some cloud H100s.
You've made your choices, you've learned your lessons... would you've been happier as a White House Press Secretary? A real estate salesman? An NFT swindler? A truck driver? A sociopathic CEO dancing on the strings of your shareholders? ...or whatever used to be your future dream self?
No point in crying over spilt milk, that only leads to depression. In hindsight, you could've always done something different... and life would've thrown you some other curve ball. You can never know whether you'd've catched it, or if it would hit you smack in the face. All you can know is that you are you, right now. You have some strengths, some weaknesses, and knowing them is already a strength (if you don't, then meditate on it, everyone has some).
Most you can do is take inventory of what you have, imagine one or a few things that would make you happy, and try to get from here to there the best way you can. As long as you can keep advancing towards some goal, there is hope.
Heh, yeah. The 2023 APIcalypse is his last post, where he got over -20k votes, even after the downvote limiters. Before that, his record was under -10k. It's a far cry from EA's -667k, but still.
Arguably... kind of, but never with a single number.
From a multidimensional intersectional hypothesis of intelligence point of view, the "IQ" should be a series of several hundred measurements; a single number is meaningless. Even then, we still lack a bottom-up theory of intelligence, so all tests are just sociological comparisons as related to a population at a given moment in time.
There are indications that some "basic capability for developing problem solving skills" may exist, but we're nowhere close to even defining it, much less measuring it.
Somewhat ironically, as we've developed AI systems... the only way to train them, has been to use neural networks and a "spray and pray" approach with extra steps, making them into 99% black boxes... so now we can "reproduce some behaviors associated with intelligence", without being that much closer to understanding it 😆
Margin expectations are a x% of costs; if the costs go up +y%, the margin expectations are still x% of 100+y% costs. If anything, margin expectations will go up because of the increased risk of investing into something that may not sell as well at 100+y% as it did at 100%.
For example: if a bonus margin of 5% was fine compared to money interest rates of 4.5% at this moment, for a final 4.5+5=9.5% APY, there may be no longer any confidence in interest rates staying the same or people buying the same amount to keep the same economy of scale, with investors refusing any less than 4.5+10=14.5% margins, making prices go up an additional 5% over the 110%. It gets even worse, because while a relatively small increase in expected ROI might be acceptable, the final per unit cost may need to increase even more to achieve that ROI... or directly close shop, declare bankruptcy, reduce offer, and prices of remaining units skyrocketing to 150% and beyond.
The larger the expected margin, and the smaller the economy of scale of a product, the more it is likely to increase with each component's price hike.
assumes smart people breed smart kids and stupid people breed stupid kids
From a "nature + nurture" point of view in a primitive world, it can be argued that people who strike the combo, are "more likely" to both pass on their own genetic predisposition, and be "more prepared" to raise their kids up to a similar standard.
In a modern world though, I'd still rather have professional teachers take care of the nurture part, and shut up about nature at least until someone can unequivocally point to the "smartness genes"... at which point I'd ask for a GMO cat with a 200 IQ, yay!
Heh, that's a good take on Mensa. IQ tests at the higher difficulty questions, add some aspect of "lateral thinking" to spot a pattern, which is another way of saying "thinking out of the box", or a type of neurodivergence.
Maslow 1 and 5? Hm. Guess nowadays we get 3 and 4 online, while 2 is hard to control. Would be nice if there was an UBI, but it seems to me like nowadays you need to sacrifice some of that 4/5, particularly morals, in order to achieve a steady income stream.