@electrineer where is the intelligent part??

@electrineer i was just using that as an example. theres no way things being marketed as ai are intelligent, literally individual animal neurons are entire levels of neural networks in a way, each with biases and weights and such, but we dont even label half of animals as intelligent. im not saying conciousness is a requirement, im saying intelligence is, and a neural network that has a database of images and matches pixels together based on image processing that a human programmed isnt intelligent, in my opinion, same for a neural net drawing from shakespeare and using the modt likely combinations of characters to answer a question isnt intelligent. theres a pretty big difference, i think

@Fast-Nop yeah but I have years of dev experience under my belt and on my resume and i dont even get an email back besides the pursuing other candidates email. like... just why??

@jestdotty yeah its the people telling them that that is the problem, im obviously not mad at the person doing the interview, im mad at the people at the top and the people who created this situation of the need for money to be able to live

@iceb yeah but i am half way through a cybersecurity degree at the same time, my school ran out of math, sent me to college math, then that one ran out, and now im taking math from a college in baltimore (im in western MD), so i have to get a job to pay for classes because my school requires all four years to habe math (not just the credits), and my family is in medical debt anyway so i need to help out even though its not like i want to libe anywhere near them after i get out of high school

and im going to go to a uni which means even more money, and i dont even have a drivers liscense, im in 11th grade.

its just bs how i cant even get a job to pay for anything but i am required to anyway by the school

@Wisecrack you should 100% just like scroll through some khan academy videos to learn it in your free time, its super worth it, especially if you DONT take it through a horrible professor

@Wisecrack you can approximate anything with a polynomial, that's what Taylor and Maclaurin series are. Also Fourier Series but that's for periodic functions, so it is better for like signal processing. But yeah, e also has a much simpler approximation formula than a lot of others, which is just the sum of 1/(n!) from n=0 up to whatever accuracy you want. Its a pretty basic example in any calc 2 class.

(to google play & android, i will 100% install your client when i get home)

@joewilliams007 fuck i hate corporations. i wish there was an actual good alternative.

@joewilliams007 why does it show this then?

Also, its not like everyone gets to chose exactly what jobs accept your applications, much less contact after interviews. Sometimes you just take what opportunities you can get so that you don't die from starvation.

@iceb I agree, and honestly think everyone should learn how the tools they use work, but this also isn't really possible by just blocking THE source of code. referencing and going into the documentation of code is how you learn, and working with it as well. blocking this, especially for a team they sponsor and they promote, is ridiculous. I cant even download the SDK to run the robot, much less learn how to use source control and branches and working on programming as a team. also, i feel like it is counterintuitive for the institution supposedly made to educate youth blocking sources of education and news about current events that affect them

@iceb BHASHDHS im sorry that happened, that definitely seems like school administrators. and yeah its not that bad its just the issue I am running into right now, the whole system is fucked and little things like this aren't that important, its just frustrating.

everything is AI because it sounds cool and makes a lot of money. actual AI hasn't really been developed yet

I hate "AI" art because it is literally just a database of images and steals from artists directly. This not only demeans artists, but also the concept of AI, because if AI were actually developed to make art, it would be almost humanoid, with original ideas and actual creativity involved, and right now with LLMs and "AI art" everything is just being sucked into corporations and out of the hands of proletariat.

@ostream anyways, sorry, thank you for the welcome

they have blocked most proxies and getting a reliable vpn is hard, especially being a student with no source of income to spend per month on subscription services like Nord or something.

is there a way to set up a proxy on my router? It is a Linksys e1200, and currently I am having trouble even getting internet working, wifi connects but doesn't provide internet, we hooked it up to the ethernet port in the wall.

@jestdotty Yeah, true, I always forget that it didn't even start with good intentions either. I just wish there was a more accessible and legal way to make actual change than, like, joining revolt groups.

@ostream I'm starting to think, between the school to prison pipeline, the censorship of LGBTQ educational books, the lack of individualized education, and Texas's pro-slavery textbooks, that the system is less and less for teaching. Sorry if I am passionate or argumentative about this, I recently got a C on an essay about this because I didn't see that the word limit was around 15% of what I had already written about this.

@asgs I know it isn't just the US, I was just commenting on my experience. Blocking their own robotics team, that they allocate rooms and resources to, from accessing the root SDK that teams are required to run during the competition, isn't smart, is it? Also, again, maybe if students are just copying code, make it so that they actually have incentive to learn. Plus, school is meant to prepare you for the "real world". One of my mentors, a retired electrical engineer, said to me that although learning how things work is interesting, in "the real world," the extent to which tools are understood is understanding how to import the library.

this sounds like a floating point error...