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  • Yeah, there were also several stories where the AI just detected that all the pictures of the illness had e.g. a ruler in them, whereas the control pictures did not. It’s easy to produce impressive results when your methodology sucks. And unfortunately, those results will get reported on before peer reviews are in and before others have attempted to reproduce the results.


  • It’s mainly horrid, because it means you have to code extremely defensively (or I guess, use a different API).
    You can’t rely on new Date("not a date") aborting execution of your function by throwing an error. Instead, you have to know that it can produce an Invalid Date object and check for that. Otherwise a random NaN shows up during execution, which is gonna be extremely fun to try to find the source of.

    I understand that it’s implemented like that partially for historical reasons, partially because it’s often better to display “NaN” rather than nothing, but it’s still the sort of behavior that puts me in a cold sweat, because I should be memorizing all kinds of Best Practices™ before trying to code JavaScript.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world"GenAI is so cool"
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    I’m always amazed how badly companies understand the concept of human interaction. Showing appreciation requires putting in some amount of effort. If you just type some words into a box and an image comes out, that’s not anything. Might as well use the first clipart that comes up in image search…





  • I mean, for what it’s worth, I’m a seasoned dev and just did a run where I tried to answer everything as it makes sense to me (which is “throws an error” or “invalid date” for all of them) and I also got a score of 4/28.

    …and two of those points were given to me, because the quiz interpreted my answer differently than I meant it.

    In other words, this quiz exists to highlight that JavaScript’s Date functions make no sense.



  • Well, the thing is, if you’ve got a whole bunch of biodiversity and you cut down a small patch in the middle of it, where you grow your monoculture and use your big machines and whatnot, that’s when this fuck-biodiversity approach is rather profitable.

    But if you scale that up, if a whole bunch of farmers kill biodiversity in the same region, this will obliterate profitability. You need biodiversity for:

    • pollination
    • enriching the soil (we have no industrial process for creating humus; it’s mostly just earthworms doing their thing)
    • pest control (birds and whatnot can eat your pests, if they settle nearby; they won’t settle nearby, if there’s no food for half the year because you’ve killed everything else)
    • resilience against pests and climate variations (if your harvest consists out of multiple different plants, then some of them failing from pests or droughts etc. is much less of a problem)

    I’m probably forgetting more aspects, and we probably don’t yet know all aspects either. But ultimately, plants have evolved to exist in rich biodiversity. It isn’t just some moral thing to do, to keep that intact. Plants will falter without biodiversity, no matter how much fertilizer and pesticide you pour onto them.