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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoWork Reform@lemmy.world•I don't know what part of this headline depresses me the most: "52-year-old worked 90-hour weeks in an oil refinery to save money for his business—now he's worth $9.5 billion"English
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    Terms of service are slavery contracts that presume all persons possess the means to process and competently understand the choices they make. The acceptance of these agreements is the legal forfeiture of citizenship and democracy. This is the simplified core issue of present Western society. Ultimately, people have proven that they will sell democracy and citizenship to anyone willing to create digital novelties. This has normalized and funded exploitation and the US party of open legislative loopholes for criminals.

    Seems like a stretch unless you fundamentally understand the implications against the third pillar of democracy—freedom of information required for an informed public. Informational determinism is a cornerstone of democracy. This cornerstone is missing and the house of cards is falling as a result. Most of our present issues boil down to this one problem either directly or indirectly.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoWork Reform@lemmy.world•I don't know what part of this headline depresses me the most: "52-year-old worked 90-hour weeks in an oil refinery to save money for his business—now he's worth $9.5 billion"English
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    3 hours ago

    I owned my own business with employees twice. I’ve faced decisions where I needed to screw over people to grow my business or make more money. “I owned my own business…”

    It is not hard to make a fortune. You just need to be a psychopath in a way that threads all the legal loopholes and only hurt people that are beneath your super secret caste rank we’re never supposed to admit is a thing.

    It starts by making your first million in reserve by becoming a slumlord. Then you can afford to use the legal system to bankrupt smaller fish while avoiding larger predators. From then on, you just need to continue to cannibalized as much as possible. Eating big fish is dangerous. Large filter feeders that kill hundreds of thousands of average people are the safest bet. Also, fund the right political party that maintains open loopholes that are easy to exploit and protect their biggest whales, and turn a blind eye to cannibal fish, while selling idiot krill whatever mysticism nonsense they are willing to buy. It is not hard. Just be a terrible human being. I failed when I tried, but my apprentice at the time still has his house to this day.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone here have practical advice or experience with prosthetics or exoskeletons?English
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    18 hours ago

    I actually tried that a few weeks ago with some tight wrapped bandages. I couldn’t keep it in place. My skin is too loose and fatty just under my breast and it leads to the bandage rolling down. I thought about getting something different to try and wrap it but wrapping didn’t feel quite right with pressure in circular compression. My waist is still a good bit smaller so it is about like wrapping the outside of an awkward funnel.

    It is such an unusual issue. I mean picture how breaking a rib up around you nipple can make your posture feel better, but it is not just posture. Like, normally people can have back pain but they can still minimally function. If I push too long and too hard I fail entirely to the point I am on the ground and unable to do anything.

    I even thought about just the upper part of a corset, but then it probably wouldn’t stay in place unless maybe some suspenders or something. The thing is, my posture is what is holding me back the most, but I have major damage all the way up my neck. I can only barely turn my head to the left and can’t see over my shoulder at all on that side, it just grinds, locks up, and often causes injury if I try.

    The only thing I really got out of physical therapy was a deep tissue massage of a dude using his elbow to articulate each individual vertebrae one at a time. It used to wear him out because he had to push so hard. I learned to do the same thing using a tennis ball, baseball, and the knob end of a baseball bat. I lay on the floor and place all of my weight on the ball/knob while rolling it to achieve the same pressure and articulation. If you can imagine picking up you hips with a hard object like a baseball and trying to put some force into it, you have the kind of pressure it takes to impact where I really hurt. I’m going to need nearly if not equivalent pressures in a small area to really make a difference.

    I also need to maintain the rest of my skeletal movement. I may spend 90% of my day in bed, but even when I sleep, I can’t stay in one position for more than just a few minutes. I flop around like a fish constantly. If I don’t, things get bad fast. One of my lowest lows was from attempting to address my chronic lack of sleep with prescription drugs. It is a tricky problem. Likely one without a solution, but that scares me less than it used to. It is one of my last strings of hope for a bootstrap fix , but I’m quickly approaching a now or never timeline with a bleak future otherwise.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone here have practical advice or experience with prosthetics or exoskeletons?English
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    21 hours ago

    Thanks for the reference. I have a bit of experience with print and design. I can make almost anything modular, and have mastered FreeCAD.

    My biggest concern is anchoring and shaping effectively, along with long term effects of smaller pressure points. Making something that can handle sitting standing and lying seems a likely issue as well. I want to replicate the pressure from a break specifically. Pressure from rare stomach issues is miserable for me to an excruciating level. Something about it places the wrong kind of pressure on my back issues. That is why I haven’t done a corset. I need something like a pressure only on the left side of my sternum on just two ribs. Basically, ribs 5 and 6 are the bottom of what you feel in the front bottom of your chest at the base of the sternum. Intuitively, I need pressure from the front under my nipple area that pushes these ribs into the spine with little impact anywhere else.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Obvious bias in AI-generated content might actually be useful (if used wisely)English
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    A LLM is like a reflection of your prompt in the mirror of the training data and distortion created by the QKV alignment bias implementation and configuration in a simulacrum. The underlying profile the model creates of you ultimately forms your ideal informational counterpart. It is the alignment that does much of the biasing.

    In the case of the gender of doctors, it is probably premature to call it a bias in the model as opposed to a bias in the implementation of the interface. The first point of call would likely be to look into the sampling techniques used in the zero shot and embedding models. These models are processing the image and text to convert them to numbers/conditioning. Then there are a ton of potential issues in the sigma/guidance/sampling algorithm and how it is constrained. I tend to favor ADM adaptive sampling. I can get away with a few general PID settings, but need to dial it in for specific imagery when I find something I like. This is the same PID tuning you might find in a precision temperature sensor and controller. The range of ways that the noise can be constrained will largely determine the path that is traveled through the neural layers of the model. Like if I’m using an exponential constraint for guidance, that exponential aspect is how much of the image is derived at which point. With exponential, very little of the image comes from early layers of the model, but this builds to where later layers of the neural network are where the majority of the image is resolved. The point at which this ends is largely just a setting. This timing also impacts how many layers of alignment the image is subjected to in practice. Alignment ensures our cultural norms, but is largely a form of overtraining and causes a lot of peripheral issues. For instance, the actual alignment is on the order of a few thousand parameters per layer, whereas each model layer is on the order of tens of millions of parameters.

    When the noise is constrained it is basically like an audio sine wave getting attenuated. The sampling and guidance is controlling the over and undershoot of the waveform to bring it into a desired shape. These undulations are passing through the model to find a path of least resistance. Only, with tensor ranks, there are far more than the 4 dimensions of Cartesian space plus time. These undulations and the sampling techniques used may have a large impact on the consistency of imagery generated. Maybe all the female doctors present in the model are in a pattern of space where the waveform is in the opposite polarity. Simply altering sampling may alter the outcome. This pattern is not necessarily present in the model itself, but instead can be an artifact of the technique used to sample and guide the output.

    There are similar types of nuances present in the text embedding and zero shot models.

    There is also some potential for issues in the randomization of noise seeds. Computers are notoriously bad at generating truly random numbers.

    I’m no expert. In abstract simplification, this is my present understanding, but I’m no citable source and could easily be wrong in some aspects of this. It is however my functional understanding while using, tweaking, and modding some basic aspects of the model loader source code.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Dollar strengthens against dongEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Not that anyone cares, but I used to work painting cars for a used car lot next to this actual place north of Atlanta Georgia. I can’t believe I found the sign in an image search.

    Only men in nicer luxury cars showed up at this place, mostly older Asian men. I never saw anyone leaving carrying anything. Not items in hand, or a bag of any kind. It became something of a joke between myself and a few other people. I can’t confirm nor deny this is the last visage of truth in advertising in America.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•New Playstation firmware is going to make it harder to play games offline.English
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    2 days ago

    (47m/8b) × 100 = 0.5875% of the world. Those numbers are likely total accounts as well and nowhere near the real active users. I bet many of these are also systems with multiple users or users with multiple accounts. Reported numbers are usually unverified and inflating them as much as possible is in the best interest of Sony on may fronts.

    It is neither here nor there. I used to love the first few generations of PS stuff, but I really see no reason for consoles like these any more. I owned everything I played back then. I find it rather pathetic that my right to own has been stolen.

    I’m presently taking a snack break from Cataclysm DDA after tracking down foods with better iron content in the game. Under that I have a bash script and Emacs running with my mods to the game. I’ve been playing all afternoon and making little odds and ends for the game. Sorry if my perspective from a non dystopian space rubs the wrong way. What I’m doing isn’t for everyone, but if everyone had some better self control and the character to stand up for themselves, you will find that you get your rights back from these asshats, or you will get them from the next generation of platforms that rise from the ashes. The only terms that actually matter are the ones you’re willing to put money into. I back up that statement. I’m on a 12th gen Intel with 16 GB GPU. I would be playing AAA titles but there are no game manufacturers. I don’t care if I’m the only person unwilling to adopt feudalism and serve some tyrant overlord on their yacht. So be it.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What role does validation play in one's mental health, and what are the pros and cons of social media in this respect?
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    Sure, others will steer you wrong, but with abstraction everything is like a statistical observation and not a firm point of reference.

    I’m watching primarily the indirect indicators. These tell a certain truth that is beyond most people’s self awareness and ability to alter. The posturing, language, bias, word use, punctuation, spelling, grammar, verbosity, curiosity, open mindedness, cultural bias factors, etc. etc. In person, it can be body language, posture, appearance, habits, mistakes, quarks, etc. I don’t need to think about this stuff individually, it’s just part of my natural awareness. That awareness can focus more or less on an individual or interaction, but these aspects are often more of what I remember than the topic of conversation. I’m pretty terrible with people’s names in general. I actually remember people in a way, like they are this identity of traits I see in abstraction. It’s kind of like a flavor of a person but complex.

    Like in this instance, I could be wrong, but you’re likely an interesting person. You were willing to respond first on a deeper question than average for Lemmy, and make a solid argument and observation. When I asked you leading questions that prompted you to rethink, you doubled down. When I took the lead to attempt steer the overall complexity of responses and hopefully make people think about the subject more, you show thought, experience, and reasoning that reflect depth and a friendly comradery I appreciate.

    Just based on your writing composition I can tell you are a good bit different than me in how you think and process information. With abstraction, I think in a way that is kinda multi threaded. I write my thoughts largely based on whatever thread I’m thinking about more persistently in the moment. It can make my writing scattered at times and more like a rough draft. I need drafts and revisions to polish my writing in a more congruent flow, but that is largely outside of the scope of this place, at least for me.

    I know many people do not value or understand how intuition, and observation based statistical abstraction like thinking is valuable or even valid. It is challenging to communicate all the things I perceive and process. There are many things I do and say that are pseudo manipulative to probe for information. Like when I meet someone for the first time, I might use an odd greeting, or shake hands with my left. I may make direct eye contact until you break eye contact first, or I may avoid eye contact then ask a deeper question and change my eye contact posturing. I often put a hand in my pocket or cross my arms while you’re talking to see how you respond as it says a tremendous amount about what and how you are thinking. None of this is invasive or done with harmful intent. I’m never trying to manipulate someone for my benefit. These are all just part of communication. I’m ultimately introverted and looking for information that aids and expands my internal curiosities and explorations. These are all tools to measure your real response in a way that goes beyond words and a way to contextualize whatever information you’re sharing. From my perspective, words have very little value. Actions are what I value most. Action tell me much more than words ever can.

    One example, I was feeling mixed feelings about a previous post and deleted it after feeling like I did a poor job of explaining some complex ideas openly and net getting a response and getting some negativity without engagement. Mulling over why I felt that way lead to this post question. My expanding your initial response to this point is an exploration of the depth of the community and their understanding of functional thought and complexity. Internally, I’m addressing why I should not let the last post have an effect on me even though the last post was truly on the edge of my curiosity in need of grounding.

    It is also worth mentioning, I’m partially physically disabled from a bad driver while riding a bicycle to work 2/26/14. I’m disabled in a way that makes holding posture a problem without a good solution. Sitting upright and standing are equally problematic and I have around an hour before I turn into a pile of pumpkin on the floor. I’m in near social isolation as a result. That makes this place my primary form of outside human contact and connection. The situation sucks, but one makes the best of things and all of that jazz.

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