Majromax

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> That’s to say, it may be a legally permitted form of copyright violation, or it may be a legally prohibited form of copyright violation. Where exactly is the copyright violation supposed to be occurring? Is it distinct from the '
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> Since you cannot (it is technically not possible) create an ML model reproducing a style without having it ingest original works in that style I very much disagree with this. Certainly no gen-AI model currently does this, but you coul
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> act so callous towards the copyright of another artist It's not copyright. Specific works of art are copyrightable, but a style is not. We probably do not want to extend copyright protection to style because its boundaries are f
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> Folks don’t appreciate how much energy it actually takes to “fall” into the Earth or even the Sun. It's not that bad from the Lagrange points thanks to multi-body gravitational dynamics. The Lagrange points form part of the so-ca
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> I have no idea what corporate law is like in Texas. Nobody does, really. Texas is relatively new to its 'corporate registration friendly' game, and at least on paper the statutory law is the same. Texas courts don't h
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I'm not sure the SEC would obviously have jurisdiction, since neither Twitter nor xAI were public companies. The FTC might care about such a merger, however, and I suppose minority investors in xAI would have some ability to file a la
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> I don't think there should be an expectation of anonymity for the specific case of operating a car on a public road. Technology allows surveillance at scale, and that attacks privacy in a new and deeply unintuitive direction. In t
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> yes, you will be asked to unlock it To elaborate, per the CBP ( https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-searc... ), if you refuse to unlock your phone or other electronic device it may be confisc
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> My gut tells me that the people getting blocked at the border are either running into extremely overzealous border guards OR are making some kind of ruckus anyway and complaining to the media after provoking guards somehow. My default
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Battery life. Radios are energy-intensive, and the processing required to run "full apps" is also often pretty steep. In the meantime, while battery chemistries are getting better space is very much at a premium on one's wr
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> I could make plausible sounding recordings that did not reflect reality by, for example, cutting recordings up with freeware like Audacity, Cutting up what recordings, exactly? If you're mixing-and-matching, you need a pretty
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> please don't conflate the current administration with the whole American people. The whole? No, of course no leader should ever be conflated with the whole people of a country. A plurality, however? Definitely. Trump won an evi
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> What other space apart from 3 dimensional space exists? And what does that even mean? Aside from the one and two-dimensional spaces mentioned in a sibling comment (ℝ¹ and ℝ²), there's also spaces with more interesting geometry. Fo
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> A computer should never talk to you first. Isn't that exactly what happens with every IVR (phone menu) system?
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> Domestic help was once available because there was an extreme surplus of dirt poor people. That's precisely the Baulmol effect. When your next-best job is subsistence farming, being employed as domestic help is a step up. When y
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> I’d think that low income people would spend a larger proportion of their money on stuff made primarily in the US The distributional effects are still bad for consumers, even purchasing made-in-America goods. The domestic good will st
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> To understand what's going on here, compare corporate income tax with VAT. Under classical economics, there's also another effect at work. Corporate income taxes are capital taxes, whereas the VAT is a consumption tax. Under
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> That would be scaling with population, not GDP. This is Baulmol's Cost Disease ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect ) in action, and it's something that advanced economies must take into account.
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> Are the people with these views not also entitled to free speech and equal rights to express themselves the same as everybody else? Free speech and equal rights in a legal sense, meaning staying out of jail? Sure, with caveats about t
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> Well that's what I mean, "efficiency" is a term that doesn't mean anything in isolation, and because of that they can define it to mean whatever they want it to mean and declare victory as a result. Efficiency does
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Compose key shenanigans can make such typesetting significantly easier. That's built-in on Linux/X, but there are also easy solutions for Windows systems.
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In my mind, it doesn't help that llama.cpp's name is that of a source file. Intuitively, that name screams "library for further integration," not "tool for end-user use."
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I'm not sure I see the bear argument for NVidia here. Huge AI models certainly drive NVidia sales, but huge AI models are also widely thought to be untrainable and nearly un-runnable save for large datacenters. To me, this is ripe for
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> Then, crack the whip on domestic telcos, ISPs and hosters. Whoever hosts anything connected with more than 200 users has to have a 24/7/365 abuse hotline that has the manpower and authority to investigate abuse claims and rem
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Reportedly, Geoffrey Hinton said: “To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.”
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Is the cost delta really 12×? Looking at Mouser Canada, it looks like the cheapest 071 is the TL071CDR, at $0.138/each (Canadian) in quantities of 5k. The OPA2323IDDFR is $0.49 in the same quantity. > In the end, a 12x cost bump is
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I think the theory of domain-specific languages is very valuable, even if there's rarely a need for a full implementation of one. As I see it, a DSL is just the end-state of a programmer creating abstractions and reusable components to
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> I do. If you take a sufficiently large step, the path of steepest descent will surely change sometimes. If it doesn’t then you should just double or triple your step size. So you just don’t know why the cosine distance is high, change
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> Strong "reviewer #2" vibes in this comment... I've been a peer reviewer before, albeit not in the machine learning space. My comments above were general questions and not a review, since I'm now curious about apply
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> Happy to answer questions. Do you expect instability between successive macrobatch gradients? That is, why are you comparing microgradients within a single batch, adding a whole bunch of serialization headaches, rather than comparing

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