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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 35 points 2 months ago (28 children)

So Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.

Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they're saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it's nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 30 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

I didn't even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that's pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm just waiting for him to chime in about music theory.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A popular meme on social media makes a series of allegations about the musical tune pitch A=432Hz and A=440Hz, including that the latter was a standard imposed by the Nazis to manipulate their enemies.

spittake

Multiple experts told Reuters these allegations are unfounded.

NO WAY

Thanks Reuters.

[–] self@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

since 1953 all music has been tuned to 440Hz. This frequency has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

fuck yes, this is the random all-caps crankery I get out of bed for! I love the idea that 440hz agitates the brain, but not in a scientific way (at least not for our universe?)

[–] self@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

since 1969 all computers have been running Unix. This operating system has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

This operating system has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

This but about Windows and unironically.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like my music the way I like my CPUs, 432 Hz.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh what's this doing here presses it

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@froztbyte @techtakes

Here, have a Macintosh Centris/Performa 610!

That button on the right? It's not a floppy eject button, much to the chagrin of hordes of students during the 1990s, but an on/off power button ...

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

hahaha that's a wonderfully cursed design placement

(yes I looked up a photo quickly)

[–] misterbngo@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This reminds me of when I was planning out a tubular bells project. there is an amount of crankery around various notes and I came across a series of videos about the various Cs and their use in healing or chakra alignment.

When i went to buy some tuning forks I noted some more weird mysticism, but hey at least they produced a nice set of C notes.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

seconds after 440hz tone is sounded:

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it's an old one, with roots in 80s era right wing cult/crank organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiller_Institute

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