Our girls are hitting puberty six years early

Oh? What’s his supposed correct age for this?

I was taught in college that girls reach puberty earlier now than in prior centuries in part because they are exposed to light for more hours per day thanks to electrification, and puberty is in part triggered by an internal clock keeping track of how much light you’ve been exposed to in your lifetime.

Of course we leaned a lot of shit in college before the internet which turns out to be nonsense now. But I believe exposure to light is more important than we generally recognize. If you trace our evolution back to the beginning, you’ll find light sensitive cells far far earlier than anything involving actual vision.

It was on his Facebook group. Same way he gets all his information.

I swear to god we have a used car salesman for a president and a snake oil huckster for secretary of health. It goes downhill from there. Everyone talks about fascism but the kakistocracy is fucking real.

1. If people liked what they saw, this steals thunder from the actual release. All it will do it set expectations higher, and some people will inevitably say “a leak showed the game was working 8 months ago - why is it taking so long to release?”

2. If people don’t like what they see it is an unfair judgment of the work and that’s disheartening

3. These people live under confidentiality agreements and don’t tell their friends or sometime even family anything about their work. Seeing some jackass leak everything invalidates all that effort and sacrifice. I would not be surprised if the company cracks down on everybody, making their lives even harder, because they don’t know where the leak came from therefore everyone is suspect

Eventually the public will turn on the facts. Meaning: they will turn on the people who print them. People are assailable even if facts are not. Then you get three things:

1. people become afraid to print facts
2. any bit of doubt or experimental flaw in science supporting facts will get blown up and used to invalidate the science entirely
3. cranks with “alternative facts” who’ve always been marginalized will step up to finally be heard

This is not a prognostication unfortunately, just a faithful observation of what’s happened to public health information in the US recently.

Actually yeah it just clicked for me what “TDS” is. I guess I didn’t have to go further than this very comment. Trump Derangement Syndrome is more than a mild caricature - it’s a codified partisan dismissal of all Trump criticism. Anyone who uses the term unironically is a Trumper.

I withdraw my objection.

That person is complaining about political axe-grinding seeping into every corner of every community. Yes they used a mild caricature of anti-Trumpism but this isn’t what I’d call a “rightist.” Although I am on the left, politically, I frequently argue with people here who are even further to the left. I don’t think chanting about seizing the means of production is… productive, and I say so. This probably makes me a “rightist account” in some people’s eyes. I’m also a bootlicker because I don’t advocate for lining up all CEOs in front of a firing squad.

Dude take a break from the Marxist revolution to recognize there is more than one dynamic in the world.

Pretty sure I know the answer to that. It has two parts:

1. they think bong hits are funny
2. they have zero experience with trauma

I wish I could say Trump but the man evidently has an unlimited lifetime pass to fuck around without finding out.

How old is this article? Is it a reprint from years ago? Because he talks about suddenly pivoting his data by “conversion rate” and having an AHA moment about how we measure success.

Except… conversion rate is a bone-standard, absolutely ubiquitous way to measure traffic quality in ecommerce. No one places ads without knowing how many of them lead to conversions. Defining your conversion event is often part of setting up an ad in the first place.

He then goes on to describe his hand-rolled script that analyses mouse movements to differentiate humans from bots.

Except… that’s exactly what the “I am human” checkbox from CloudFlare and Google have been doing for years.

CloudFlare have said that about 30% of Internet traffic is bots. This is well known. It could easily be 70% for some sites.

I would say that there’s nothing to see here, but it’s probably a little worse than that: just adding some really shaky analysis and anecdotal data to an already widely-covered topic. Are we actually going to trust an internet marketer’s hand-rolled mouse movements analysis over CloudFlare?

I’m not.

Nobody pays for ad impressions anymore. Haven’t for… gosh like a decade.

There’s a lot of stupidity in adverting, but eventually people stop coming back to dump more millions into a bunch of bot page refreshes that don’t lead to sales.

I think the Lemmy perception of AI boils down to just a few things:

1. but it hallucinates!
2. I hate tech bros
3. but the MIT report!

Of course there’s more, like underlying fear of losing jobs, stealing from artists, and being dehumanized in general.

I happen to care a lot about those things too, but ranting on about 1-3 doesn’t actually help and is just people repeating each others points in a circle jerk. Meanwhile AI is on the move.

Is anyone going to talk about how the amounts don’t remotely match up? If you just cancel them all out, you still get Open AI buying $160 billion in Oracle compute.

I’ll just offer some facts as a counterpoint to the prevailing narrative here.

My employer, a major multinational tech company, is pushing AI use internally so hard it hurts. After studying it they announced it was saving our software engineers about 4 hours a week net, or half a day. Thats as of now with adoption still growing and new tools being explored constantly. Half a day weekly is 10% of our software engineering budget which is a large number, and the company will without a doubt pay a significant sum to continue getting that benefit to get more out of their staff, who are their biggest cost of doing business.

I live in the dissonance between, on the one hand, the narrative in places like Lemmy that AI is shit and doesn’t do anything right and these companies have no monetization plan, and on the other hand, seeing it dramatically change my enterprise workplace and provide real value.

Yes engineers are confirming to my very own ears that they are using AI tools and they have their uses and save them time and toil. For example, we had one version update to push through hundreds of teams all with disparate front end code, and it was not possible to just script the update for them all because custom integration work would always be needed, but we did come up with a prompt that could use a set of documentation and entity mappings to accomplish the update in under a minute with a high rate of success. This is just how things are staring to get done. It hasn’t replaced engineers, but it is fast becoming one of their most powerful tools.

Perhaps they can work out an exchange if the healthcare workers are willing to release some of the IDF soldiers they have taken hostage.

Looking back on medicine’s understanding of mental conditions, where things got lumped into ridiculous categories like “idiocy,” and then treated with lobotomies, it’s extremely easy to imagine that we are far from understanding it all.

Yeah. Signing up for a social service doesn’t make you the most technical person in the world.

One reason it’s dangerous is that the rest of the economy sucks, so AI is masking bigger problems which will become evident and tumble out of control when the money has nowhere left to go.

Lemmy is not the most tech savvy people on the internet nor the customer base for AI. Where did you get either of those ideas?