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  • The Christian Bible’s Matthew 24 had a prophecy that is about to become historical-fact, in the coming decade.

    Here’s a decent version of it:

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+24&version=AMPC

    That bit around verses 15-20 is the pertinent area.

    Simply wait 1 decade, and see: if Israel still exists, as a country, in 2033, I’ll eat a hat.

    The nice thing about prophecies is that they can never be proven to be false. Indeed, one would have to examine the future to prove it wrong. Which is either impossible or unrealistic.

    Me too I can make a ton of prophecies and claim they will be eventually right. I will never be wrong.

    Let's see. Let me prophesize that:

    • The US will cease to exist
    • We will encounter aliens
    • See where you are living right now? Eventually, it will be filled with lava.
    • See where you are living right now? Eventually, it will be flooded with water.
    • A giant comet populated with nyan cats will crash on Earth

    However, you can be sure that in 2033 I will come back in this thread and have you eat a hat. Marking the date and the link in my calendar. If lemmy is still alive, that is

  • They are not making them more efficient. They are studying how to make them more efficient. It's a really big difference because I am not yet ready to place my life in the hands of a CNN-based AI

  • Yeah exactly. Here follows some spoiler for those who have never played Dark Souls

    The bottom line is that I think you need to have someone telling you where not to go to really enjoy Dark souls. Because its not obvious whether you die because of your incompetence or just because you were not supposed to be there right now. I wouldn't say its bad design though - but it's not for everyone for sure

  • I used to dislike dark souls. Recently I tried it again - I struggled but I finally got the hang of it!

    I think the hardest is to know what to do. I figured out I was struggling because I kept going in zones I was not expected to go yet.

    Also it's such a big shift compared to what I was used to. You have to wait for the right opportunity to attack rather than going in there and relying on reflexes.

  • I see. You want to offload AI-specific computations to the Nvidia AI cores. Not a bad idea, although it does mean that hardware that do not have them will have more CPU load so perhaps the AI will have to be tuned down based on the hardware they run on..

  • They are for providing special hardware for Neural Network inference (most likely convolutional). Meaning they provide a bunch of matrix multiplication capabilities and other operations that are required for executing a neural network.

    Look at this page for more info : https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/tensor-cores/

    They can be leveraged for generative AI needs. And I bet that's how Nvidia provides the feature of automatic upscaling - it's not the game that does it, it's literally the graphic cards that does it. Leveraging AI of video games (like using the core to generate text like ChatGPT) is another matter - you want to have a game that works on all platforms even those that do not have such cores. Having code that says "if it has such cores execute that code on them. Otherwise execute it on CPU" is possible but imo that is more the domain of the computational libraries or the game engine - not the game developer (unless that developer develops its own engine)

    But my point is that it's not as simple as "just have each core implement an AI for my game". These cores are just accelerators of matrix multiplication operations. Which are themselves used in generative AI. They need to be leveraged within the game dev software ecosystem before the game dev can use those features.

  • Well Ruby does exactly that though. The methods have good documentation so it's easy to find what something does. There is no magic in the language that makes it do something else than what you wrote.

  • I love Ruby since I got introduced to it. The syntax is great and you can do many things in a simple manner.

    Before that, Python was my go-to language for scripting but now I cannot stand the syntax anymore. I dislike the lack of braces and forced indent.

  • Oh, it most definitely is scummy. It's no news that Tinder does not care about people well-beings. Actually, they want you to get stuck to the platform as long as you can; if everyone was finding their partner after a week their platform would not be profitable anymore.

  • On Tinder it would not be in the same context that what you experienced. In OKCupid it's part of the rules that you can send messages without a match. So people are OK (I guess) with it. On Tinder it's going to come as unexpected and unwelcome. You will start with a disadvantage. Unless the woman is only interested in money (if you can spend $500/month on an app then you are probably among the wealthier half of the population).

  • Those are profit driven. If they can cut cost they will. They just want the minimal effort to get customers. Also usually their app has such marketing and notoriety that most people don't really care about changelogs.

  • Yes. My windows takes literally 10 minutes to boot. I am counting here from the moment i press the button to the moment it is usable (when I can run applications and use them). I have a HDD and each time I boot windows services are always looking to update something which starves the other apps. It's really a clog. If I want to use it faster I need to bring up the task manager and kill each update thing one by one until I killed them all.

  • Program easily and efficiently. Not having to wait 5 minutes for a window to come. Fast boot/reboot times (less than 10 minutes). Native support for many things without having to install them. Installing is usually as easy as running an apt-get command. Not having to kill update processes because they take 100% of your disk bandwidth and starve all your other apps.

    Windows feels like an ugly and sloggy system with a ton of duck tapes. Only reason I use it on my gaming laptop is for games.

    Linux on the other hand just works. Nothing fancy, but it's just what someone who wants efficiency needs.