MrScruff

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by MrScruff 7mo ago
Is that true though? I don't think the median population member spoke in this way in the 1800s. Obviously in 2026 we have a massive written record of the popular speech patterns of the entire spectrum of society, but that's down t
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by MrScruff 7mo ago
It should be obvious, particularly from this line: > It is truly the next thing, and the future, probably happening in the next 2 years, or in 2 years in 2 years.
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by MrScruff 8mo ago
Seems like some of the initial changes are reflecting more than just the evolving language. He’s comparing someone using informal slang “not gonna lie” against someone writing extremely formally “Hunger, that great leveller, makes philosoph
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by MrScruff 8mo ago
I suspect there's not a huge amount of overlap between those who would like this banned and those who are targeted by it.
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by MrScruff 8mo ago
There's going to be a long tail of domain-specific tasks that aren't well served by current models for the foreseeable future, but there's also no question the complexity horizon of the SotA models is increasing over time. I&
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by MrScruff 8mo ago
The problem with this is that people are particularly bad at judging their own 'independence' of thought, regardless of their political views. I would say the opposite of partisan would be someone who actively seeks to understand
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by MrScruff 9mo ago
I used to worry about recall but eventually realised I made more and more interesting music when I treated my gear like a regular musical instrument and just recorded myself playing to audio. Perfect recall put me in a brain loop of endless
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by MrScruff 9mo ago
I think this is a reasonable article and I do understand the perspective. It's a normal sentiment from those witnessing a craft that they have invested time in mastering become partially automated. However obviously the big picture (as
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by MrScruff 9mo ago
Contrast is worse, it's a trade off. For me in most environments there will be bright reflections on the glossy screens, even indoors - your brain actually does a good job of ignoring them to the point you're not even conciously a
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by MrScruff 9mo ago
The video covers their approach for reverse engineering the Motorola DSP56300, but it's probably fair to say it was decidedly non-trivial!
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by MrScruff 10mo ago
Great story and I think you're exactly right.
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by MrScruff 10mo ago
Yeah, while I mostly agree with the sentiment, I don't actually recognise any of the behaviours described in this article. It does sound like the behavioural traits of a certain subsection of certain generations, who's expectation
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
His research group have introduced some pretty impactful research and open source models. https://ai.meta.com/research/
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
I think that goes everywhere though, I’ve been to at least one of every type of party described in this discussion thread in the last year and I’m not American.
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
Sure, and I’ve seen the same. But I’ve also seen the amount to which they do that decrease rapidly over time, so if that trend continues would your opinion change? I don’t think there’s any point in comparing to human intelligence when asse
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
You're getting to the heart of the problem here. At what point in evolutionary history does "thinking" exist in biological machines? Is a jumping spider "thinking"? What about consciousness?
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
When we say "think" in this context, do we just mean generalize? LLMs clearly generalize (you can give one a problem that is not exactly in it's training data and it can solve it), but perhaps not to the extent a human can. B
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by MrScruff 11mo ago
I don’t think this is a specific cultural thing, in my experience some people host more curated gathering, some more relaxed and informal - doesn’t matter where you’re from. People just tend to think the way their social group does it is th
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Yeah personally I don't give a toss about the person who created the music and their backstory or stage performance. However I do care that the person who created the music made hundreds of micro decisions during the creation of the
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by MrScruff 1y ago
What I've tend to find is that although almost everyone listens to some form of music, the average person tends to like things which are squarely in the middle of the gaussian curve, and that are inherently very predictable as though t
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by MrScruff 1y ago
It may be reductive but that doesn't make it incorrect. I would certainly agree that creating and appreciating art are highly emergent phenomena in humans (as is for example humour) but that doesn't mean I don't think they&#x
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I think the ‘out of the box’ Linux desktop experience has improved a lot. To me the difference is in the long tail of software. On Linux the variety of toolkits historically available means depending on what software you’re using you may en
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Sure, I just think it's important to be precise about the language, and this type of distinction is important in a lot of other aspects of life. Generally if an image is intended to evoke a sexual response, we would classify it as porn
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I don't think an image can be defined as sexual based on whether or not it produces an arousal response in you or anyone else. If you looked an image featuring women who are from a culture where partial nudity is normal and not conside
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Tangental but it's interesting to read Kaczynski's bio after listening to a podcast about the Zizian cult over the weekend, some very clear parallels in personality type.
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Yes, it seems like LLMs are system one thinking taken to the extreme. Reasoning was supposed to introduce some actual logic but you only have to play with these models for a short while to see that the reasoning tokens are a very soft const
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I'm not sure download stats are hugely relevant because that would imply the needs of every person that downloads Blender are weighted equivalently which would make little sense. Or are you suggesting the Blender foundation has no inte
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Indeed but this is a discussion about Blender and you posted originally: > Making a feature platform specific to a negligible fraction of the users is inefficient, as many applications will never be ported to Linux platforms. All the lar
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Blender is definitely getting better compared to things like Maya but I don't think this argument holds for Houdini & Sidefx.
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Not just for the farm, the large majority of the movie and tv vfx and animation you see is done by artists using Linux workstations.

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