I don't know about the best (because I started back in the 80s with a commodore 64, not exactly repeatable) but a good way is this guy: https://eater.net/6502
Assembly isn't magic. Computers compiling/interpreting high-level languages into assembly, and making everything works without constantly breaking IS MAGIC
The keyword is consistent. Some settings have magic as inherently chaotic and difficult to control.
A good rule of thumb is that if a fantasy setting has a school for magic, it's probably a science. If it's knowledge passed from master to magically gifted student, it's probably not very consistent.
Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:
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Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:
I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.
And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.
"Guy" is used differently in different contexts, just like "girl".
If someone says "the girls had a sleepover" you know they're probably talking about female children. If someone's talking about a girls' night out, you know they're almost certainly talking about women.
"Would you have sex with a group of guys?” is using guy as a stand-in for man. But, if someone said "Guys, can we all just quiet down for a second so Stan can speak?" it's a synonym for "folks" or "people" or something gender-neutral.
It’s important to understand the prevalence of coincidence and incompetence. Humans are exceptional at pattern-finding – too good, really. In order to think critically, we need to recognise our own tendency to find patterns where none exist.
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Seraph@fedia.io · 68 pts · 1y
Science is indistinguishable from magic, if you don't care to learn how science works.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 1y
Or how magic works
Dicska@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
But... if there's a consistent system along which magic works which can be studied/researched/formulated, then isn't it just... science?
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
Malfeasant@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Study a 6502. It's just electrons doing the only thing they can.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
Malfeasant@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I don't know about the best (because I started back in the 80s with a commodore 64, not exactly repeatable) but a good way is this guy: https://eater.net/6502
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Assembly isn't magic. Computers compiling/interpreting high-level languages into assembly, and making everything works without constantly breaking IS MAGIC
djsoren19@yiffit.net · 4 pts · 1y
The keyword is consistent. Some settings have magic as inherently chaotic and difficult to control.
A good rule of thumb is that if a fantasy setting has a school for magic, it's probably a science. If it's knowledge passed from master to magically gifted student, it's probably not very consistent.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1y
Yes.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 1y
That's not how magic works
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Humans have yet to prove it.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Well, it sometimes does
kamenlady@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Watch "Agatha all Along" - the series is managing to answer exactly this question with a great script and cast.
/s
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
I absolutely feel like in a thousand years, we'll talk to a machine and not even know how it works.
Hell, I look at the computer in front of me and only feel like I know a fraction of what's going on.
CheesyGordita@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Hail the Omnissiah!
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
That's what neural networks are now. We do not know how it works under the hood. We just feed it training data.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
We know how it works, but we can't explain exactly how it got to the answers.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
We do, though.
Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:
Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:
I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 1y
Magnets, how do they work?
merc@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 1y
I just love how the conspiracies reinforce each-other in the most convenient ways.
"Anyone who doesn't get vaxed is going to be put in a FIMA concentration camp!"
"What? That's crazy, where's the evidence of that?!"
"You can't find it because they're censoring everything on the Internet."
So now, not finding evidence of conspiracy 1 is evidence for conspiracy 2!
Thassodar@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
"You can find the truth at www.truthfindarz.net, but I don't go there because it's full of conspiracies."
facepalm
goatbeard@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I'm disappointed that's not a real link lol
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
I don't believe a lot of conspiracy theories, but I do have some conspiracy hypotheses
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I have conspiracy speculations
kusari@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
I have conspiracy guestimations
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Sometimes when I'm alone I have conspiracy masturbations
kusari@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
When you are at the Diddy party and you have a conspiracy ejaculation:
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Also: when conspiracy theories are convenient ways to avoid havig to understand how things work.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.
e: a word
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 1y
That's what they want you to believe!
lath@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
It's only a conspiracy theory if it's not a proven conspiracy.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Its only a conspiracy theory if its more than one guy.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
It could be girls!
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
Not a native speaker but "guy" is gender neutral for a while now, at least on the variety used online. At least from what I know
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
Litmus test is the "Would you have sex with a group of guys?"
If you're picturing a orgy with hairy people holding shlongs, then it's not gender neutral.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Dipping the tip into a group of guys and checking the color.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Based
merc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
"Guy" is used differently in different contexts, just like "girl".
If someone says "the girls had a sleepover" you know they're probably talking about female children. If someone's talking about a girls' night out, you know they're almost certainly talking about women.
"Would you have sex with a group of guys?” is using guy as a stand-in for man. But, if someone said "Guys, can we all just quiet down for a second so Stan can speak?" it's a synonym for "folks" or "people" or something gender-neutral.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
You are correct but you can't get away from pedants online.
I know because I'm one of them.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
Well then you're not my friend, guy.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 1y
He's not your guy buddy!
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Oh no
Katana314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Throwing a line from Hitman in the mix to make it more confusing:
“If it looks like a conspiracy, it probably isn’t.”
lustyargonian@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Why does it look like that then? Tananananana 🎵
Panurge987@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I'm just glad to see "whoa" spelled correctly.
doingthestuff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
bizarrocullen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Wrong use of meme
SuperApples@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Good use of Keanu meme, as he recently fell for and is promoting a conspiracy theory (ancient civilizations).
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1y
Conversely, everything is a conspiracy when you do understand how things work.
yboutros@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y
Underrated comment
Everyone's conspiring folks. What's hard to measure, is who's conspiring
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
It’s important to understand the prevalence of coincidence and incompetence. Humans are exceptional at pattern-finding – too good, really. In order to think critically, we need to recognise our own tendency to find patterns where none exist.