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  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?
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    3 months ago

    Wait, if you can (or anyone else chipping in), please elaborate on something you’ve written.

    When you say

    That means they can engineer a solution to any problem that has already been solved millions of times already.

    Hasn’t Google already made advances through its Alpha Geometry AI?? Admittedly, that’s a geometry setting which may be easier to code than other parts of Math and there isn’t yet a clear indication AI will ever be able to reach a certain level of creativity that the human mind has, but at the same time it might get there by sheer volume of attempts.

    Isn’t this still engineering a solution? Sometimes even researchers reach new results by having a machine verify many cases (see the proof of the Four Color Theorem). It’s true that in the Four Color Theorem researchers narrowed down the cases to try, but maybe a similar narrowing could be done by an AI (sooner or later)?

    I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I should shut up, but I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable will correct me, since I’m curious about this

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?English
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    3 months ago

    Day of the Tentacle (1993). Admittedly, it was the remastered version from 2016 which has more modern controls, but the game is exactly the same as the old one.

    It was fascinating to look at it again with more mature eyes: besides the fact that it feels a bit dated as a whole, it was funny to me to notice how much humanity loves time travel stories.

    It’s not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, it’s just that I thought about how much media exists on the subject (and has been very successful).

    Anyhow, although dated, the game is brilliant and wholesome and made me wonder which are the best (and recent) graphic adventure games

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldtoScience@lemmy.ml•More is not better: the developing crisis of scientific publishing
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    5 months ago

    “Publish or perish” is an expression that’s been around since forever and it’s well ingrained into every researcher’s mind so…

    What did society expect?

    (Not so) Fun story: when a friend of mine was doing her PhD she was trying really hard to reproduce an experiment published on Nature by two Harvard postdocs at the time. She was so frustrated because she couldn’t reproduce it, so she approached one of the authors during a conference and he candidly admitted the experiment was utterly wrong, since after publishing it they realized they made a fatal mistake in interpreting the result which invalidated their claims.

    They published the original paper honestly, since they were not aware of the mistake at the time, but they willingly decided not to retract it since a paper in Nature is always a paper in Nature and the citations piling up were too important for their career… How about that for the intellectual honesty that scientists project having as an aura?

    Anyhow, this nearly killed my friend’s PhD, but luckily she switched to something related she managed to understand and graduated…

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
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    7 months ago

    I stopped using Windows in 2008 (juggling between a mixture of Linux and Mac OS). One of the reasons, is that at that time I thought Windows was legitimately a mess.

    Over time, I thought it got a bit better when seeing it on friends’s computers.

    Due to laziness, Windows 11 got installed on my office computer (which I use 1% of my time) and I thought it was honestly pretty good (as in, I never thought about switching back, but it was fine to use it when necessary).

    Now that they plug in ads, I’ll certainly want to switch back /s