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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The Europeans behind Stable Diffusion (Stability.AI etc.) could have remained closed source and competed with MidJourney. Instead they open sourced their work. Last I checked MidJourney is valued at $1 billion and Stability.AI is struggling
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>as nuclear waste can remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands Why does the German government and anti-nuclear activists insist on pushing this falsehood? After a few decades most of it will have decayed into low-radioactive isotopes
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
For the past many decades the French political elite has been ignoring populist sentiments among the French population. That is a good thing regarding nuclear energy but much more problematic when it comes to issues like the recent pension
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>thousands of years After a few decades most of it will have decaded into low radioactivity industrial waste.
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How are you paying for the GPT-4 bill? 8K context Prompt $0.03 / 1K tokens Completion $0.06 / 1K tokens 32K context Prompt $0.06 / 1K tokens Completion $0.12 / 1K tokens https:/&#x2
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
So why are finance podcasts and twitter awaiting the total collapse of the petrodollar and US economy when the official numbers (and people ITT) say otherwise?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
High-income Westerners do not like to engage in activities that make them appear like mindless consumer zombies. In Denmark the highest income households have small cheap TVs they can hide away while low income households have big 4K TVs as
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The Maurya empire covered all of modern day India/Pakistan except the southern most part (Kerala and Tamil Nadu).
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Here in Europe I have noticed that the task of auditing software for safety/privacy compliancy is going to lawyers, chartered accountants, and business consultants. Is it because they are cheaper? Not really, in most of Western Europe
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Submitted 150 job applications last week. Try customizing a few of the applications for the specific position you look to fill.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Substack is an "absolute free speech" app. They have gotten away with it so far because nobody could see the highly offensive content unless they actively sought after it and subscribed. However now that Substack is becoming more
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Most tech people in Russia are rich enough to bribe themselves out of that.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
I know it's secret how GPT-4 actually works but are there any of these local LLMs that are also multimodal?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
It is interesting how much Google's reputation has been damaged by how they did layoffs despite being one of the best paying and highest ranked workplaces in the world. So much multi-year effort ruined in a few months.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
I would have agreed before reading this: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee... There is more depth and rigor to Prompt Engineering than what the AI snake oil merchants on twitter would have yo
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Devil's advocate: Why should EU tax payers fund open source initiatives and not proprietary European initiatives that will help Europe compete against American and Chinese tech giants?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Last I checked Alloy was another wonderful specification language with bad or non-existent tooling.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
When GDPR was introduced I was hoping it was technical people who would audit software for GDPR compliance. Instead it is lawyers and accountants working for these big auditing companies. GDPR is good but the absolute insanity of how GDPR i
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The "leak" is being portrayed as something highly subversive done by the darn 4chan hackers. Before the "leak" Meta was sending the model to pretty much anyone who claimed to be a PhD student or researcher and had a cred
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>I'm a bit surprised that other "better" programming languages haven't done more to replicate the Tidyverse Python has a very weak metaprogramming story so it is hard if not impossible to replicate something like Tidy
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Tyrkisk peber Yikes. I live in Denmark and love that. Why is it not banned yet?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
That was probably not ordered by the top echelon of the Iranian regime. However the Iranian regime helped move the Overton window within Iran in a direction that led to school girls getting poisoned for going to school.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Both Substack and Twitter are "absolute free speech" spaces that allow hateful vile content. From Elon Musk's perspective Substack is therefore the only credible threat to twitter.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Don't even try to argue European politics with the American techbros on this site. They support a violent anti-capitalist revolution in France while fantasizing about gunning down homeless people in San Francisco.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The US government should probably break up BlackRock. They are an entity so big they will inevitably cause conspiracy theories (and anti-American sentiments) around the world.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Keep in mind that reliable polls for weeks now has shown that a vast majority of the population opposes the law. I can find plenty of polls about how Macron and his government are unpopular. But where are the polls about this specific l
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
That is hilarious. I actually asked ChatGPT its opinion about male circumcision and it gave some very US/Israel-centric answers, completely ignoring the one billion Muslim men in the world who are also circumcised.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
If you are using one of the OpenAI models/APIs for this you should probably turn down the "temperature" parameter.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Chrome and Firefox have supported WebGL since 2011 and WebAssembly since 2017. What is the reason we don't have at early-2010s quality AAA game experiences running in the browser?
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The "problematic" parts of Copenhagen and many other European cities are often counted as being part of other smaller suburban municipalities/cities that are too small to appear on such lists. Nation-wide statistics show that

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