ChrisLomont

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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Changing a prior after the fact is the opposite of reasonable. It's called a prior for a reason.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Which economic system do you think has proven better at raising standards of living?
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
You can pull it up. It doesn't change that it was an empty political stunt, that most guns were not in the buyback, that people simply took the buyback money to buy new guns (which you can check at the time by massive gun profits selli
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
120Gbps repeaters will be expensive. Making circuits that fast is incredibly tricky, with power, heat, rf (and more) issues. If you think it's cheap make one and get rich. But it's most certainly not cheap or easy or low cost.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
They did no such thing. Australians own more guns than ever. They had a buyback program, and people used it to turn old guns into new ones.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>For each training example gradients are computed, then averaged per batch No, that would be incredibly slow. The loss is summed over items in a batch, then the gradient is computed once based on the loss, then backpropagation is done. I
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>No, again. The AI can be human operated, and thus it can produce copyrightable works. And which work in the entire thread up to you moving those goalposts was not human operated? Blog post: "Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
This AI, in this thread, is human operated. Those images are likely copyrighted. What case are you using to claim AI images are not copyrighted? The one I cited? Or another? The one I cited, the only one I can find, is not relevant here. Wh
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
To >> Are the AI generated images copyrighted? you wrote > No, this is already established in the US. What cases are you then using to conclude this? >It is not copyrighted by default anymore than any other trivial non de minimi
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Technically, it is no where near that. I'm not even sure what a "full set of gradients" for an image would even mean - it's not a term. Weights are usually randomly initialized, defining a function. Many images (which ar
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>Just because the image is publicly available doesn't mean it should have been copied. It wasn't copied - it was viewed, which is perfectly legal. The AI does not have a copy of any of the the images it learned from. It merely
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>> Are the AI generated images copyrighted? > No, this is already established in the US. The case you're likely thinking of [1] is not at all this case. Thaler tried to have the AI assigned the copyright, then transfer it to h
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>At some point some AI is going to spit something out too close to something else and the courts will probably have to decide. People have been spitting out stuff too close to decide and letting courts decide for well over a hundred year
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>Second, the trend is downward. Yeah, there is a future that is not represented, so there is no reason to assume any downward trend. Plus he only sampled things for which there were open source alternatives (which are also questionable:
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
We have. Look at the Wikipedia page on history of recessions as a place that makes it clear.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
If you're implying that blacks incarcerated at 5x the rate of population is evidence of racism, then is men being incarcerated at 10x their population rate evidence of sexism? Or is there other factors?
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Ok, but the point is the same - a huge amount of human records and skills are scored against a moving backdrop of human scores that are current competitors. Federer getting grand slams - all against local in time competitors - is impressive
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
One person reaching 2900 when it's not by changing the scale shows their relative position to others is a new record. it's a worthy psychological goal, like breaking a 4 minute mile even though a minute and a mile are made up quan
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
>You still have to decide what you take a pic of, that's the artistic part. You still have to select the 2 AI jpegs out of the 15, that's the artistic part.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
There's tons of them. Google patent lawsuit insurance.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
What makes you think this? Did you look it up? Have a source? Every 401k or other investment place I've seen allows either taking dividends or reinvesting them. I've never one seen a fund that picks only divide free or divided pro
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Profit and growth go together. In Amazon's case lots of profit is what fueled their growth: at each point they made far more money than needed to sustain, so they bought growth instead of paying out to shareholders. The two are intrica
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
The majority of public shares are held in long term investments like 401ks, whose owners are most certainly interested in long term growth. Buy and hold is by far the biggest amount of investment type of stockholder. Most people don't
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Steam still has shareholders to answer to, with the same human motives as any shareholder, so I don't think this argument holds water. I suspect they'd try to get whatever growth they can because otherwise eventually someone will
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Isn't it possible that demographics have changed enough that funding requirements have changed enough that the 1940s-2000 or so system is no longer viable? I know the demographics in the US has vastly changed some cost models over that
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Plenty of languages have this in their standard libraries for exactly this purpose. I use it in C/C++ and C# frequently in numerical code.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
C# supports it. CUDA supports it. ARM and related C/C++ compilers support it. Intel is adding hardware support in upcoming chips, so expect a lot more languages to add it.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
float16 and float128 (as well as longer formats) were standardized in IEEE754 in 2008. Half is now built into C#, many other languages, and gaining ground in hardware support.
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
FDE can be done on the SSD after compression, and often is. Adding life to SSDs is a terribly useful feature
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by ChrisLomont 4y ago
Plenty of SSDs implement strong encryption, and there's an entire standard API for it. Why waste cpu on tasks your hardware already does? Bitlocker supports on drive hardware encryption, and I'd be surprised if other major file sy

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