Chance-Device

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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Not very, I had a tiny dataset compared to a production run, I used a bunch of 3D renderings to augment the images with transparency. It worked pretty well given the scale.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Native transparency isn’t so hard to do by the way, I made an image AE (I don’t say VAE deliberately as none of these are VAEs, I don’t know why they keep being called that since the variational part is completely absent) that supported thi
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
It’s the message board(s) that the OpenAI agent swarm was able to communicate through via GET requests. I guess a bunch of vibe coded weekend projects based around this idea have now dropped.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
The absolute value of those numbers matters a lot. The cloud providers could be 100 times cheaper than running locally, but if it still costs say, 10 cents a day to run locally, you’re not going to care about this difference very much. And
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
I do! And goodness no, nice and all as they might be I’d go mad if they were the only art I could ever consume ever again!
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
There’s the idea of preferences and revealed preferences. People say their preferences and then their actions show what they really prefer. I suspect AI generated content, if curated by a human, would end up being people’s revealed preferen
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
> By many people’s criteria it automatically is worse, because part of what they value in art is thinking about the artist and their intentions behind their creation That’s a bit separate to what I’m talking about, but I don’t think ther
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
I don’t think so, even if the whole “AI exponential” idea is wrong, that’s just the shape of the curve. There still is a curve. Even if these things take 50 years to happen instead of 5 (which would be better and which I doubt will be the c
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Yes, I think this is exactly right. The labelling of a thing as “AI Generated” or “AI Assisted” makes the viewer perceive it as worse in quality. And they really do think it’s worse. It’s similar to a well known finding about price: people
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Sure, but if we run AI all the way to its endpoint, it’s not just about window repairmen anymore. Our current notions about economics assume there’s always another job class for people to move to, here eventually there won’t be. So here you
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
> This is a form of the broken window fallacy. I’m not sure I see it, can you elaborate?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
People aren’t feeling the benefits of AI. Where there are any benefits, they aren’t causing prices to decrease or supply to go up, instead the excess value is being absorbed by profit taking. If most people aren’t shareholders but instead w
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Ok, don’t go because of the poster. Miss out.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Might it? I’m not sure I’m following you. Just because the cerebellum is involved?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Interesting. Might explain why the cerebellum and cortex work so differently? I wonder what the two ancient nervous systems looked like at the point where they merged.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
We need to find a way of coming up with better names for software.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Jesus. That’s combative. Good luck with that.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
But your quote isn’t a quote from that post, you’ve made a straw man. What if what he says is true? What if less intelligent people are more inclined to believe those who seem intelligent, but without beging able to gauge their intelligence
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
I think Elon has motivations that most people do not have.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
That’s an argument for a cloud LLM service, sure, but the hyperscalers can do that by themselves with the weights. What’s the moat for trillion dollar AI companies? Access-anywhere convenience for models as good as everyone else’s?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Let’s see, so if you get the same 1/9th the size compression ratio with GLM-5.3-Flash, then you’d end up with a ~72GB model that’s about as good as GPT-5.6 Sol (high), according to artificialanalysis.ai Which is within reach of some hi
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
That is what avoid means. Avoiding something means staying away from it to the best of your ability. You may well be constrained by circumstances such that you sometimes have no choice, but the intention of avoiding something is to come int
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
That’s a pretty shallow resemblance.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
> The community made its deal with the devil (Jim Simons) long ago I don’t understand, can you explain this line?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Well, there’s nothing (entirely) new under the sun. Now accepting Whuffie donations.
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
> But all insist that you engage in some sort of outwardly visible production in your field: books, articles, conference presentations, public lectures, exhibitions, performances, something. My vote is for interpretive dance. Give the la
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
I’ve never read it but I did look up the Wikipedia summary after your comment. I don’t see the similarity? It’s a dystopia run by a maniacal computer and everyone is forced to live underground until the machine collapses for some reason?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
> making a case for the move toward nationalizing AI labs He just needs to wait until the bubble bursts, the labs and datacenters go under, the US government bails them out and ends up owning everything at distressed prices and it all ge
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Did you read the blog post that we’re actually talking about?
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by Chance-Device 2mo ago
Pretty interesting, I’m sure it will be useful for anyone who is rolling their own RAG.

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