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by ausbah 4y ago
my guess is simple because 99% of people have their needs met by the app store and / or have no interest in side loading because it's too technical for too little benefit
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by ausbah 4y ago
>A creative brain is a million monkeys with typewriters, plus a subjective critic judging their work. Coming up with random shit and then discriminating among the results is what creative people do ok but that's not what these model
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by ausbah 4y ago
the peak for me was the unaccompanied use of "serendipitously", don't want to be mr-anti-intellect but this was a slog
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by ausbah 4y ago
isn't this just markets? people don't like your stuff soooo...? you can maybe blame exposure and bus in recommendation algorithms or the randomness of life but I'm not sure if that's really a great article
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by ausbah 4y ago
political beliefs aren't a protected class
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by ausbah 4y ago
I don't think so. the audience size most influencers cater to is miles smaller than anything you'd consider to be a celebrity's stuff in the range of 10k-1M IG follower tops or something
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by ausbah 4y ago
tax cars based on size / weight! and charge higher parking fees!
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by ausbah 4y ago
we've known for 35+ years at this point, it's nothing really new
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by ausbah 4y ago
the problem you run into then is how does it adapt to new domains? sure large models display some degree of generalization, but new tasks will certainly ask things the network couldn't get
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think social media like TikTok can be a force for good in helping people gain awareness of previously not commonly discussed phenomena like mental illness or sexual orientation, both in "oh wow I might have this" for those who a
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by ausbah 4y ago
HRT?
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think it's more likely platforms services and low/no code offerings will fill the gap
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by ausbah 4y ago
isn't another reason tourism? see cool place in a movie and people want to come?
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think part of remedy is promoting an informed electorate. I imagine this would start at the level of schooling with promoting critical thinking and instillation of democratic supporting virtues (like always vote)
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by ausbah 4y ago
can't they both be problems? "people chatting online" is pretty disingenuous when it's what underlies the spread of misinformation and partisanization in politics, culminating in stuff like trying to overturn the 2020 el
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by ausbah 4y ago
Not a huge fan of resources like this. I think they can be good motivators and may contain some good lessons or tools you can adapt to your own journey, but they stink selection bias, too many are shams by people whose only "success&qu
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think one of the greatest scenes in cinema was the end of Infinity War when Tony Stark snapped his fingers and undid all the damage Thanos had done
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by ausbah 4y ago
>I'm an artist but it takes a huge amount of time to get the ideas on paper. this is what I really like about DALLE-mini, it's ability to create pretty good basic outlines for a scene. it's low resolution enough that there
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by ausbah 4y ago
you can't complain if there are viable easy to use solutions
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was that kansas city?
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by ausbah 4y ago
governments all over the globe have and continue to do much worse things than scam taxpayers, would you use the same justification for other crimes?
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think the value proposition with stuff like Spotify is different. a.) there are still services where you can own your copy of the music, there is still - at least some semblance of - consumer choice. b.) the amount and variety of music I
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by ausbah 4y ago
reading through reply tweets of pro-crypto ppl, it's amazing how some parts of the "crypto community" view shameless grifting and scams as a valid hustle for money
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by ausbah 4y ago
speaking as a as-of-this-year Northeastern CS graduate the university definitely has done things to improve its rankings over the past ~30 years, some legitimately good (hiring higher quality staff, putting more emphasis on research, buildi
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Voronoi Relaxation Under Different Distance Metrics(natejh.com)
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by ausbah 4y ago
maybe not always dictatorships, but the US definitely does has a history of promoting regime change in its interests. backing unpopular dictators is a good chunk of that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_inv
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by ausbah 4y ago
what other entities would really have access to the text resources that FB & Google? outside of a few other large companies I can't imagine many
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by ausbah 4y ago
but everything will be in the metaverse-blockchain-thing so is it really any better
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by ausbah 4y ago
how would your wife respond to the claim in the article that the outcomes between robotic and traditional surgeries appear the same?
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by ausbah 4y ago
>I don't think it will be any good. But 95% of film and tv is terrible and it keeps getting made. what is the most objective judge of quality if not what people are willing to watch

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