EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Was it FIRST Lego League?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Intranasal is only viable for people who are truly terrified of needles. Instead of a swollen arm you get the head cold experience. Never again; I hate getting pricked as much as the next guy but I really like being able to breathe through
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I think when they say ethical they're talking about RAIL which has clauses about not doing bad guy stuff with their models, not AGPL.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Maybe they also have a 'technology issue' in their recruiting process and they think nobody is applying.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
My quick read of the abstract was something more along the lines of 'insects use the bright sky above and dark ground below to orient themselves, lights create a very different location - dependent up'
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Are you sure the weights themselves aren't a derivative work?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
You need to obtain the rights to samples you use, why should this be any different?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Is this really progress, or mere expropriation?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
> But training an AI is really the same as me listening to the music. That remains to be seen, legally. I think that if copyright law wants to keep existing it's going to have to treat training as a form of copying.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Somehow EA always comes back to spending money on 'working on AI risk' which somehow never produces anything but blog posts.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
> Honestly, who is better off because she's sitting in a jail cell for years? Anyone who needs to trust their blood test results. If faking such results lands you in jail, that makes me trust the results and I can make medically rel
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I know it's supposed to be much better, but the idea of vaporizing lead anywhere remotely near where kids may someday play is pretty intimidating. Are there any useable lead free solders?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Textiles of course has an obligatory copy: http://web.textfiles.com/destruction/hitman.txt
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Spring engine games do tend to end up feeling like TA which is fine if that's your thing, but I think the mainstream RTS audience these days expects SCII.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Are you responding to the right comment?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The promise was that if we were clever and educated enough we could stay above water. Now I think the deal has been altered, and I think the people who aren't going to be screwed are doing blue collar jobs. We still can't get reli
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
UBI is about as likely to happen as OpenAI deleting GPT4 and never training another model, so if we're picking patiently absurd scenarios I pick that one.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Not unheard of, just rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera And worth noting that if all goes well, you'd never know you were chimeric.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Here here.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I do wonder if we're rapidly entering a world where finding sources, doing research, etc is going to only be interesting to weird subcultures and everyone else will be satisfied with whatever the first Google result says, or a confiden
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
It doesn't legally challenge those activities, but I'm worried about a situation where they get their proverbial pants sued off.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The internet archive served two distinct but important functions: one as a backup of the web which was important for accountability and history, and the other as a repository for archiving the world's non-web digital information. I per
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Maybe I should have used NSFW instead of explicit, I just don't like to mix initialisms into my speech.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I expose everything as a Samba share and stream with VLC. But nowdays most of my music purchases are on Bandcamp so I use their app (which has a nice interface for saving stuff to your phone) a lot of the time. I usually spin albums so play
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Now we're moving the goalposts from: > one mankind’s most important inventions to merely > useful consequences Sure, maybe there are useful consequences, especially if you need to defy governments or whatever. But surely not some
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I think people got offended when they found out the source of the image.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
It's cropped from an explicit photograph published in Playboy.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
They probably enumerated every file found on a fresh install of MacOS. It's possible no human ever actually looked at and recognized the file.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
> if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most important inventions That seems unlikely.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Oh brave. Still fast on mobile but every day the cursed triangle of crypto in the corner nudges me a little further away.

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