ahartman00 (u/ahartman00)

ahartman00 commented on Privilege is bad grammar tadaima.bearblog.dev/priv... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

This is almost textbook countersignalling. The same as:

- Signalling: I dress more formally than everyone else to make up for the fact I'm less professional in other ways

- No signalling: I dress like everyone else because I am like everyone else

- Countersignalling: I wear ratty old clothes with holes in them, and nobody will dare to question it because I'm the important one here

ahartman00 · a month ago

Using this logic, all of the homeless people are counter signaling then. And there are plenty of executives who wear suits. Also signaling has one l, so thus you are signaling your importance.

Or maybe you just can't assume you know what's going on inside someone else's head.

ahartman00 commented on AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More newrepublic.com/article/2... · Posted by u/c420

heavyset_go · 3 months ago

Go over to friend's place and watch the ads they get, you'll get a good idea of what kind of health concerns or illnesses they may have.

So far, in situations where it wouldn't be rude to ask, I've been able to determine with pretty good accuracy that at least someone in the household has the advertised health concerns.

You can also get an idea of their financial situation, given what buckets advertisers put them in and what they're advertised, as well.

Similarly, advertisers know when you're at friend's location, or elsewhere, and may show ads tailored to your profile.

ahartman00 · 3 months ago

I wouldnt jump to conclusions too fast. I'm a very thin person, but I get a lot of ads for GLP-1. My doctors have always said I need to gain weight, so I can assure you I'm not searching for weight loss solutions. Nor am I diabetic.

ahartman00 commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb

dghlsakjg · 7 months ago

The real world disagrees with your conclusions. The US scans effectively all incoming containers, although they are not looking for stolen cars: https://www.dhs.gov/cargo-screening

ahartman00 · 7 months ago

the relevant text is near the bottom, under Results: Cargo screening As required by the 9/11 Act, 100 percent of all cargo transported on passenger aircraft departing U.S. airports is now screened commensurate with screening of passenger checked baggage. International inbound air cargo is more secure than it has ever been, with 100 percent of identified high risk cargo being screened. CBP now screens 100 percent of southbound rail shipments for illegal weapons, drugs, and cash, has expanded Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) coverage to the entire Southwest border and completed 651 miles of fencing. CBP has deployed Radiation Portal Monitors and other radiation detection technologies to seaports, land border ports, and mail facilities around the world. In 2003, these systems scanned only 68 percent of arriving trucks and passenger vehicles along the Northern border, no systems were deployed to the Southwest border, and only one was deployed to a seaport. Today, these systems scan 100 percent of all containerized cargo and personal vehicles arriving in the U.S. through land ports of entry, as well as over 99 percent of arriving sea containers.

ahartman00 commented on My sourdough starter has twins brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/Tomte

kaishiro · 10 months ago

How do you keep the bread fresh/edible for the entire week? I've been baking sourdough for only a few years now - but I find that after 2-3 days the bread is basically ready to become breadcrumbs no matter how I store it. Lately I've actually started slicing it two days after baking and freezing the slices so that they can be re-toasted to stretch things out.

ahartman00 · 10 months ago

Have you tried microwaving it for 10-15 seconds? I havent tried this with sourdough, but it works with stale white bread.

ahartman00 commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins

AngryData · a year ago

It is a lot easier to stay clean when you are doing 60 cows rather than 4,500 cows on a rotary milker set 4 feet higher than you are.

ahartman00 · a year ago

I've never milked in a rotary parlor, but I have worked in a farm with a regular parlor, as well as the traditional stall barn. I was way cleaner milking ~200 cows in a parlor vs ~40-70 in a stall barn. Obviously, clean is a relative term here :)

ahartman00 commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins

ethbr1 · a year ago

If anyone is near eastern Tennessee, I'd recommend the Sweetwater Valley Farm tour (in Sweetwater, TN).

They have the same Lely automatic milking machines from the article, and you can watch them do their thing.

Honestly, the teat-cleaning is the neatest part -- you realize how much more hygienic a mindless automaton can be.

ahartman00 · a year ago

I grew up on a farm, and worked at two others many years ago. We washed the teats before putting the machine on, and dipped them after. But yeah a mindless automaton wont sneeze, or forget to do their job :)

ahartman00 commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins

hibikir · a year ago

For something like milk, which is produced by mammals to feed young ones, there's all kinds of biological connections between a relaxed, healthy, content animal and milk production. We are humans, it's not much different for us. So as far as milk production goes, the wellbeing of the cow lines up relatively well with productivity. A stressed, unhealthy animal isn't going produce all that well. Often the limitation isn't the disinterest in the wellbeing of the animal, but the capital and labor required to improve conditions.

Quality tech can actually improve animal welfare, as shifting costs from labor into capital makes quality of care improve.

Now, this doesn't always line up well in all kinds of animal husbandry, but you went and looked at one case where it does. The dark dairy you imagine would most likely lose money.

ahartman00 · a year ago

"A somatic cell count (SCC) is a cell count of somatic cells in a fluid specimen, usually milk. In dairying, the SCC is an indicator of the quality of milk—specifically, its low likeliness to contain harmful bacteria, and thus its high food safety."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count

ahartman00 commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins

ErigmolCt · a year ago

The fact that cows can self-schedule is kind of amazing

ahartman00 · a year ago

They aren't really scheduling though. They can feel when their udders get full. It actually can be painful if you don't milk them on time. Its comparable to eating or drinking, they go eat when they feel hunger. It is pretty cool that they learn to associate the machine though, its not like it smells the way food does, or like there is any instinct involved.

ahartman00 commented on DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/alphabetting

lukev · a year ago

Tangential, but this brings up a really interesting question for me.

LLMs are multi-lingual without really trying assuming the languages in question are sufficiently well-represented in their training corpus.

I presume their ability to translate comes from the fact that there are lots of human-translated passages in their corpus; the same work in multiple languages, which lets them figure out the necessary mappings between semantic points (words.)

But I wonder about the translation capability of a model trained on multiple languages but with completely disjoint documents (no documents that were translations of another, no dictionaries, etc).

Could the emerging latent "concept space" of two completely different human languages be similar enough that the model could translate well, even without ever seeing examples of how a multilingual human would do a translation?

I don't have a strong intuition here but it seems plausible. And if so, that's remarkable because that's basically a science-fiction babelfish or universal translator.

ahartman00 · a year ago

>lots of human-translated passages in their corpus

Yes. I remember reading that the EU parliamentary proceedings in particular are used to train machine translation models. Unfortunately, I cant remember where I read that. I did find the dataset: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/europarl

ahartman00 commented on The Anti-Social Century theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

bruce343434 · a year ago

> polarization started well before the personal computer showed up in the geological record.

What do you mean?

ahartman00 · a year ago

I think "well before the personal computer showed up in the geological record" is a bit of hyperbole, but it is not a new phenomenon:

"We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing"

"Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congressional procedural rules [5]; political realignment in the American South [6]; the shift from electing moderate members to electing partisan members [7] movement by existing members towards ideological poles [8]; and an increasing political, pervasive media [9]."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...