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by SamBam 1y ago
Fully agree, as a parent. I used to set goals for myself during my train commutes, to try and delete 100 pictures during my half-hour ride, but I didn't keep it up long enough to really make a dent.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I think the implication is that to be interesting you need to write from an individual's standpoint. That's why fiction written by LLMs sounds so boring (at least right now): because you can't amalgamate all the text in the w
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by SamBam 1y ago
I think it's a dream if you know your aim at the onset is to get 2-5 good shots out of it, so you know you're going to quickly go through and delete almost every photo. Just scan the whole thing and see if there are any that a
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by SamBam 1y ago
Does that billion dollars actually provide a living wage for over 100,000 people for years on end? Because companies like Kodak did.
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by SamBam 1y ago
But they're part of its stack. It wouldn't exist without it. And vice versa, AWS wouldn't have as many employees without companies like Instagram. Kodak required so many because it owned nearly the whole stack. But that said,
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by SamBam 1y ago
I'm more than old enough to remember the birth of the internet. Back when I had a GeoCities website about aliens (seriously) it was still mine . I had a comments section and I hoped people would comment on it (no one did). I had a cou
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by SamBam 1y ago
The internet would not exist if it consisted of people just putting stuff out there, happy that it's released into the wilds of the overall consciousness, and nothing more. People are willing to put the time and effort into posting stu
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by SamBam 1y ago
Great! Now someone needs to finally work on that Day of the Tentacle release for the Compaq Portable!
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by SamBam 1y ago
But the point is that you'd be extracting the nonce from someone else's existing video of the same event. If a celebrity says something and person A films a true video, and person B films a video and then manipulates it, you&#x2
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by SamBam 1y ago
So it was. I swore I read grad students. I guess my eye skipped on after "In grad school..." and filled it what it imagined. Ignore my comment above, then.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I found that example weird, probably because it's the one I had the most experience with, having been a grad student at two different universities. (I don't have enough familiarity with the other examples to know if they're w
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by SamBam 1y ago
And Person A would probably prefer to gouge out her eye with a cookie scoop than sit at a board room meeting discussing Cinnabon's quarterly revenues.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I've never heard that, it doesn't really make sense given what we know about REM sleep and slow-wave sleep, and the Wikipedia page on blinking doesn't mention that at all, not even as an old theory.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I feel this too, and always wondered if it related to the glymphatic system [1]. This is the system that clears out metabolic waste from the brain which builds up over time, and it's theorized that during slow-wave sleep in particular,
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by SamBam 1y ago
Plants respire oxygen continually, day and night. It's a myth that they only respire at night. Like every other organism except for anaerobes (mostly microbes, some fungi) they need oxygen in order to burn fuel for cellular processes.
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by SamBam 1y ago
They were given a dictionary, and also told they were allowed to look things up on their phone. I suspect that the unfamiliarity with words like Michaelmas was part of the point . I.e. What do the students do when reading a book and they c
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by SamBam 1y ago
Evidence?
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by SamBam 1y ago
> Actually, young people are writing more. Is this a feeling, or something you know from statistics? Many of the teens I know (I'm a teacher) aren't writing blog posts, or even comments on Reddit. They're watching YouTube
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by SamBam 1y ago
Fun! I was surprised how often I was 1 year off and in the right city for things that I was just guessing about. On small error I found: there's a photo that's outside Piazza Navona in Rome in the 30s, which it lists as being 700
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by SamBam 1y ago
I find it weird the way it's just lying. Did you tell it to impersonate a living human? Obviously I get LLMs have no concept of truth and hallucinate all the time, but I would have thought that the model prompt would have told it to ac
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by SamBam 1y ago
I think the parent comment was referring to the original article. (You keep replying to comments throughout this forum as if people are talking about your personal project, which is confusing.)
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by SamBam 1y ago
Esthetic/aesthetic (US vs UK spelling) has become an adjective in recent years, meaning "pretty." My kids say "that's very aesthetic," which drives me up the wall, but I have to accept that language evolves.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Indeed. Also the whole thing is just "apply an Evolutionary Algorithm to stories." The only interesting question is whether the LLM that decides the story's fitness rating (which they call Elo, despite seeming to have nothing
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by SamBam 1y ago
I found the entire first sentence nearly unreadable: "Large languagenference time compute Scaling for Writing models have demonstrated remarkable improvements in performance through increased inference-time compute on quantitative reas
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by SamBam 1y ago
From the ergonomics of those shelf handles, I assume those are boxes that are designed to be pulled out entirely. Are they supposed to store pantry items -- bags of flour and such? Regardless, I feel like I need a wall like that in my littl
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by SamBam 1y ago
Hmmm, but the shortened dictionary being used is presumably less than that, so my best-so-far of 17 is probably below optimal...
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by SamBam 1y ago
It simplifies things for schools, because everything is easily managed, everything integrates with Google classroom, and the hardware is fungible, you can log into any one and have your files. It doesn't train them how to use real comp
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by SamBam 1y ago
As someone who works in a school with Chromebooks, I love that web apps like this exist, especially if students will be able to export the files to a 3D printer. It greatly opens up the number of tools we can use to do fun things. That said
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by SamBam 1y ago
Indeed, I was assuming it was a text adventure engine.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Could have saved the Sega game system from having the Italians find that funny too, except that the Italian file marks "sega" as 0, while all the variations as 2.

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