Paracompact

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by Paracompact 1y ago
Are people going to die if your AI generates an orange cat? If so, reconsider. If not, it's beside the discussion.
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by Paracompact 1y ago
The execution order, or the order of the output list? The latter should be self-evident from the function body (first elements get collected first), and the former holds no tricks either since filters are evaluated from the head first, and
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by Paracompact 1y ago
In this case, the corresponding name would be GoldenMagikarp: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05417
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by Paracompact 1y ago
It's weird that they would be so unabashedly open about it, on a dating app they made, right in the FAQ. Singling this one belief out, and not mentioning consequences for the app (nor denial of consequences), leads one to ponder severa
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by Paracompact 1y ago
When I was dating, I didn't put much stock in photos, either. The purpose of the app seems reasonable, but the title and slogan makes it smack of sour grapes, IMO. The unedited AI generated celebrity tiles is also quite conspicuous.
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by Paracompact 1y ago
Curious, as a longtime editor, what's gotten harder for you recently? As a casual, very infrequent editor, I echo everyone else's complaints that it's intimidating to have your additions reverted by the old guard who seem to
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by Paracompact 1y ago
> Even its responses to direction/criticism are off-putting and fawning. A good author must have an ego! A writer who takes criticism easily is no good writer on my book!
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by Paracompact 1y ago
It's nice that for coding and math problems, Claude's internal monologue involves constantly analyzing and critiquing its own implementations. It doesn't seem as keen on critical self-analysis of its creative outputs.
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by Paracompact 1y ago
> Maybe Cycorp's knowledge base will be made generally accessible at some point I would sooner hold my breath waiting for OpenAI to open up than Cycorp :) > It took even more than forty years and costed at least as much before ne
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by Paracompact 2y ago
> While yes, I am attempting to collect ad revenue from users, and yes, I don't want somebody competing with me and cutting me out the loop, a large part of it is controlling my content. > It is really impolite for the AI chatbot
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by Paracompact 2y ago
I imagine you're a fellow Graeberian. I feel the same way you do (and deeply so), but I don't have the confidence to give numbers, let alone such idealistic ones. How do you support your own numbers?
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by Paracompact 2y ago
I see it like this: You can either disguise your operation as a goofy sewer inspection van and hope you trick every single person who notices it into second-guessing themselves along the lines of "surely the FBI would be more low-key t
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by Paracompact 2y ago
I've never done any drugs, and I have a neutral-to-positive regard for responsible hallucinogen use. Where do you see naivety or overoptimism in this thread? Mostly I just see people sharing their trips.
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by Paracompact 2y ago
The content is insubstantial, the hustle is a pox on the industry, and the writing style is very effective at communicating this. > All you need is access to their source-code and they have given you the keys to the kingdom on a golden p
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by Paracompact 2y ago
> It's far from perfect of course, but it's not like legislation just consists of a bunch of random symbols that are later imbued with meaning by a court operating in a vacuum. Isn't this exactly what happened? A court of
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by Paracompact 2y ago
Whereas math, science, and engineering use language as a vehicle for attaining truth, the legal profession too often regards it as truth. The greatest legal scholars of the state of Illinois believe there is more decorum in querying Merri
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by Paracompact 4y ago
The pony and anime communities also revolve around an economy of mostly static 2d art, for what it's worth.
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by Paracompact 4y ago
Here are my best attempts: https://imgur.com/a/obZH7X5 Not a very wide range of what I could do with the idea in terms of composition, but just some variations of finishing touches/intermediate steps. I achieved t
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by Paracompact 4y ago
Go ahead and get me a photo off Google images of an alpaca in a suit playing chess in vibrant digital painting style. Without meaning to sounding rude about it... I'll wait.
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by Paracompact 4y ago
This was actually predictable, if one was listening to the buzz around the different communities when the "this waifu/pony/fursona/etc. does not exist" generators were first introduced. Every community seemed to lov
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by Paracompact 4y ago
> One other thing I'll tack on here is that I find it fascinating that the kinds of skills required to be "good" at using these image generation models — "prompt engineering" if you like — are largely different t