GenderNeutralBro

joined 1 year ago

I haven't seen this movie in like 25 years, but I still read this in Marisa Tomei's voice.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait, isn't it the other way around? You should arrive in NY earlier than you left London, since NY is 5 hours behind London. So if you leave at 8:30 and arrive 1.5 hours later, it should only be 5AM when you arrive.

You might need a third breakfast before your elevenses in that case.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jerboa is solid, but it's not feature-rich. Not great for media browsing. It's still my main client since I use Lemmy mostly for text, not images or videos.

Eternity and Voyager are worth looking at, too.

Interesting read, thanks! I'll finish it later, but already this bit is quite interesting:

Without access to gender, the ML algorithm over-predicts women to default compared to their true default rate, while the rate for men is accurate. Adding gender to the ML algorithm corrects for this and the gap in prediction accuracy for men and women who default diminishes.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We find that the MTEs are biased, signif-icantly favoring White-associated names in 85.1% of casesand female-associated names in only 11.1% of case

If you're planning to use LLMs for anything along these lines, you should filter out irrelevant details like names before any evaluation step. Honestly, humans should do the same, but it's impractical. This is, ironically, something LLMs are very well suited for.

Of course, that doesn't mean off-the-shelf tools are actually doing that, and there are other potential issues as well, such as biases around cities, schools, or any non-personal info on a resume that might correlate with race/gender/etc.

I think there's great potential for LLMs to reduce bias compared to humans, but half-assed implementations are currently the norm, so be careful.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Being factually incorrect about literally everything you said changes nothing? Okay.

More importantly, humans are capable of abstract thought. Your whole argument is specious. If you find yourself lacking the context to understand these numbers, you can easily seek context. A good starting place would be the actual paper, which is linked in OP's article. For the lazy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61146-4

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's 14,000 to 75,000, not millions.

Microplastics are in the range of one micrometer to five millimeters, not nanometers.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 week ago (10 children)

That seems more like your problem than OP's.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After all these years, I'm still a little confused about what Forbes is. It used to be a legitimate, even respected magazine. Now it's a blog site full of self-important randos who escaped from their cages on LinkedIn.

There's some sort of approval process, but it seems like its primary purpose is to inflate egos.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It was an SEO hellhole from the start, so this isn't surprising.

Do Forbes next!

I think there are two problems that make this hard to answer:

  1. Not all sentences that can be parsed grammatically can also be parsed logically.

  2. Human-language sentences do not contain all the information needed to evaluate them.

It is impossible to fully separate context from human language in general. The sentence "it is cold" is perfectly valid, and logically coherent, but in order to evaluate it you'd need to draw external information from the context. What is "it"? Maybe we can assume "it" refers to the weather, as that is common usage, but that information does not come from the sentence itself. And since the context here is on the Internet, where there is no understanding of location, we can't really evaluate it that way.

It's hot somewhere, and it's cold somewhere. Does that mean the statement "it is cold" is both true and false, or does that mean there is insufficient information to evaluate it in the first place? I think this is largely a matter of convention. I have no doubt that you could construct a coherent system that would classify such statements as being in a superposition of truth and falsehood. Whether that would be useful is another matter. You might also need a probabilistic model instead of a simple three-state evaluation of true/false/both. I mean, if we're talking about human language, we're talking about things that are at least a little subjective.

So I don't think the question can be evaluated properly without defining a more restrictive category of "sentences". It seems to me like the question uses "sentence" to mean "logical statements", but without a clearer definition I don't know how to approach that. Sentences are not the same as logical statements. If they were, we wouldn't need programming languages :)

Apologies for the half-baked ideas. I think it would take a lifetime to fully bake this.

 
 

Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.

Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11 BE: 0.19.0-rc.10

Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).

If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.

Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?

Here is an example post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/8482278

And an example direct image URL from that post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c8556f4f-d33c-4cac-86f3-975726ea69ec.png

I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.

Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.

 

That is all.

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