monotremata

joined 2 years ago
[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah. At least I managed to pick up a used 3070 a couple years ago. I'll just jolly along my old i7-7700k system for a few more years...

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

GPUs at least are actually not that expensive right now. Aside from the 5090, they're mostly close to MSRP, which is a pretty novel situation. I was waiting to upgrade my whole system for that, though, because my CPU would be a bottleneck at this point, and that's not really an option now because of the crazy RAM prices. The past few years have been super frustrating for PC builders.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it is also that OpenAI cornered the RAM market, which is a typical price gouging scenario; it's just weird that OpenAI wasn't trying to make money directly through the maneuver. It does seem like they wanted prices to rise, though, to increase the barrier to competition.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Huh, I was misinformed about that. Thanks!

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do we know it plays a role? I thought we basically just knew it was an associated biomarker. I kinda thought the research was leaning towards the underlying problem being some kind of issue that kept glial cells from clearing debris effectively, and that the amyloid plaques were mostly another consequence of that same cause, rather than a key mechanism in the chain that led to the dementia.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also crabs. I mean, their eyes are often on stalks and more mobile than mammalian eyes, and they're compound, so they have a very wide field of view, but they're still often basically in front, and they do apparently provide depth cues for hunting thanks to this.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/31/6933

It also occurred to me to look up about dragonflies, and it seems they mostly hunt dorsally (which is a pretty viable option if you're flying). BUT I found this article about Damselflies, which notes that they rely on binocular overlap and line up their prey in front of them. Which is pretty cool.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219316641

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Relative to a second currency, as a derivative on the foreign exchange market.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, arguably this was done years ago with Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Zork: Grand Inquisitor. They shared a bit of the humor of the originals, but they were still pretty different.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Good questions. I don't know, and I can no longer try to find out, as the mods have now removed the comment. (Sorry for the double-post--I got briefly confused about which comment you were referring to and deleted my first post, then realized I'd been frazzled and the post in question really was deleted by the mods.)

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