Dr. Guillermo Power 
@gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
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The SEGA Dreamcast VMU is still such a cool thing!
When else was there ever such a fantastic way to store saved games and also include a display that you could play a little game on or view additional information while playing the console game on the TV when the VMU was connected to your Dreamcast controller.
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@MarkOfTheBeast If you go into your settings there is a spot for migrating. Be sure to set-up your new account and then migrate over. You have to create an "alias" before it imports everything. Just make sure you tell people haha and don't click buttons like I did and *then* realize I just poofed off the instance.
Nathan was/is a really great person. Sadly, once the big migration from twitter started, it didn't take long for the ick to start ruining things for him.
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Today, an earlier Tatra, the 87, produced from 1936. Seen here at Techno Classica Essen, the black car in 2022, the silver car in 2013. The rear-mounted air-cooled V8 engine was already an established part of the Tatra recipe, along with an unusual degree of attention to the science of aerodynamics for the time, just two of the advanced features associated with Tatra’s famous head engineer Hans Ledwinka. More Ledwinka tomorrow. #WeirdCarMastodon #davidsdailycar #Tatra
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@davidwilkins I really want to know what the drag coefficient is. It was clearly designed to be aerodynamic and probably without the aid of modern tools like wind tunnels… but did it work? Does it have a low drag coefficient for the era?
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i hate when computers do what i tell them to instead of what i want them to
@jasonetheridge one aspect I’m interested in is what it does to human to human communication and interactions. I always make a point of treating an AI politely, it might not be self aware but I don’t want to get used to treating something that seems human as less than human just in case I start treating humans the same.
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I'm sure this is unoriginal, but it seems that with ChatGPT and similar AI text bots, we have created philosophical zombies (p-zombies).
They have learned to talk like us, based on everything we've said on the internet. However, there's no sentience present at all.
In other words, we have created a (mostly) convincing simulacrum of a human that we can text chat with. But it has no mind, no sense of self, no consciousness. There is no risk of it becoming self-aware, because that's not how these neural networks work.
Is this a step on the path towards AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? Yes. But even AGI doesn't mean sentience. It leads to a fascinating ethical question: what rights does a p-zombie have?
If it talks like a human, but effectively the lights are on but no one's home, do we treat it like one of us? For now, I'd say no; they just smart machines, constructs created to serve us. Ultimately, the test for AI rights has to be sentience, not convincing repartee.
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This iMac G4 lives to sing for another day! 😄
#imac #imacg4 #powermac #macintosh
#retrocomputing #classicmac #apple
#itunesvisualizer
@etherdiver 😂 I’m not saying I’ve ever done this, but it is deeply satisfying (or it might be) to come up with outrageous things that are banned in a shop or place in general, print out the sign and covertly put it up… once again, I’m not saying I’ve done this.
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I guarantee there's a fascinating and possibly deeply disturbing story behind this sign #shitposting
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Watching them try to launch all these new idiotic features completely live and untested and then rapidly change their mind is a bit like watching a Tesla try to repeatedly try and fail to auto-park. And noticing that it really, really wants to put itself across a nearby set of train tracks...
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I trained nanoGPT from scratch with pure BBC Micro Bot data 😂
15 minutes training on my laptop and the output is looking plausible(ish) already. BBC BASIC is tokenized already which helps. Although it hates line numbers.
(see code in thread)
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Every employee is a potential terrorist that wants your money.
#negotiation #elonmusk #twitter #job #visa #deportation #ICE #CV
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After more than 4 hours of #HogwartsLegacy I’m impressed.
@richservo if you are happy with not getting 60 fps I reckon you’ll like it. It is running well for me.
@richservo I need to build a new PC 😄
#HogwartsLegacy is running great so far. Fixed 40 fps is what I’m getting on #steamdeck. #gaming
Dr. Guillermo Power has moved to @gpowerf@mastodon.social:
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This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
