spinlock_ (u/spinlock_)

spinlock_ commented on A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/LorenDB

pingou · 2 months ago

Telepathy is on its way. Next step they just skip the conversion of brain signals to words and just directly send the signals to another brain. But I think some conversion/translation would still be necessary.

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

Don't forget the injection of ads for the basic subscription plan, Black Mirror S7/E1 vibes.

spinlock_ commented on YouTube No Translation addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/... · Posted by u/doener

saubeidl · 2 months ago

I live in the Netherlands and speak German in addition to English. My Dutch is ... not that great.

Thanks to the geniuses at Reddit, I now frequently find posts on /r/de or similar German subreddits translated from my native language into one I'm worse at!

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

I noticed this "feature" after wondering why everyone was using "sie" instead of "du" while searching for reviews on reddit for a new graphics card I wanted to buy. This "shoving AI down your throat" is not just annoying, but also insulting and the accelerated enshittification of the web makes me sad. Thinking about "the good old days" also puts me in a state of nostalgia.

spinlock_ commented on I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test adhdhelp.app/en... · Posted by u/digitalions

digitalions · 2 months ago

I have ADHD myself. Honestly, I'd like to make a service that will help everyone. To do that, I need money. I think that 5 dollars a month is not so much nowadays.

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

But why would it need to be subscription based?

spinlock_ commented on MCP is eating the world stainless.com/blog/mcp-is... · Posted by u/emschwartz

thm · 2 months ago

That Google Trends curve does/will look a bit like Smart Contracts.

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

I guess more like Blockchain.

spinlock_ commented on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA smex.org/open-letter-to-s... · Posted by u/the-anarchist

Dah00n · 2 months ago

From the fire into....

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

Into what? Though I have no illusions about any tech company, I trust Apple more than Samsung right now. It's all relative, not absolute.

spinlock_ commented on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA smex.org/open-letter-to-s... · Posted by u/the-anarchist

stevenhuang · 2 months ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/mtakqq/how_t...

Yeah, all Samsung software is a liability.

Don't even get me started on the Samsung smart TVs. Just horrible all-around.

spinlock_ · 2 months ago

Thats why my Samsung TV has no internet access and I'm using Apple TV instead.

spinlock_ commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

spinlock_ · 6 months ago

Man, as an European I have the hope that this utterly bizarre and embarassing spectacle yesterday is finally waking us up and we start taking our fate into our own hands. Personally, I would do without a lot of things instead of having to watch europe being paraded around by a narcissist.

spinlock_ commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

ajross · 6 months ago

> As a European, I will vote against any politician that keeps talking about EU-US special partnership and doesn't put 'EU First'.

Isn't that exactly the logic behind Trumpism though? "Our partners suck, we need to put our own interests first" is how you get isolation and trade wars. And sometimes real wars.

I mean, maybe that's where things are going. But "as a European" you should at least recognize that's the policy you're arguing for.

spinlock_ · 6 months ago

Imho still better than relying on a bully.

spinlock_ commented on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5... · Posted by u/timsuchanek

onlyrealcuzzo · 7 months ago

You don't need a moat when you're in first place.

Their moat is >1B people are already using ChatGPT monthly.

They aren't going to switch unless something is substantially better.

spinlock_ · 7 months ago

I don't agree. You don't have moat if you are offering the same quality for a higher price.

spinlock_ commented on Calculus Made Easy calculusmadeeasy.org/prol... · Posted by u/susam

spinlock_ · a year ago

The last couple of months, I have been studying the fundamentals of algebra using Professor Leonard's YT Channel[0]. My goal is to fill in the gaps in my knowledge before I refresh my Calculus. It takes a while to go through all this stuff, if you do it right. But man, I have so much more confidence in my skills now than I had before, which to me is in itself rewarding and motivating. I had no idea how big my knowledge gaps in algebra were before I started going through his playlists.

My end goal is to be able to follow Andrej Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"[1] without any big problems So starting basically from "zero" in order to learn the prerequisites before learning what you actually want to learn on your own can feel daunting at times. But I think taking shortcuts will result in frustration. So, here I am taking algebra courses on YT with 38 years.

[0] https://youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard?si=0kiGvmbZv4b9Sgf9

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9Gv...