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by dofm 29d ago
And Simplenote.
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by dofm 29d ago
iOS video playback is pretty highly optimised and hardware-assisted, though, right? Not sure you can really extrapolate non-video battery life from video battery life. I have an ageing iPad and I can get a couple of hours of video when the
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by dofm 29d ago
We always want to be among the people we imagine or visualise our future better selves to be. It's such an absolutely fundamental part of humanity (it is how children become adults, too) The reason "AI artists" engage in a sp
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by dofm 29d ago
"Do you prefer imperfect human writing or AI writing?" is a question that is loaded. It's absolute horseshit (and I would say somewhat sociopathic) to try to A/B test that to catch people out as if to say "aha you
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by dofm 29d ago
> That's why those "we prefer human writing" polls (such as the one cited in [0]: whooping 98% readers say they prefer human writing to AI!) are just noise. Why would they not? > They'll tell you that they prefer i
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by dofm 29d ago
> Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. Etc. UK perspective: because our broadcast news and current affairs science/t
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by dofm 1mo ago
Interesting — do you happen to have any suggestions for something I could read about this? It really bugs me, this aspect of LLMs, and yet I find myself sounding like a lunatic when I describe it, until others chime in and say they have the
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by dofm 1mo ago
The weird, sort of sub-surface uniformity is what I notice. It appears to be doing all the right things, but you can't feel the writer. It is like a rollercoaster that doesn't have any jerk or jounce.
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by dofm 1mo ago
I don't think so, no, because it extends to LLM-generated text I want to recall. I use LLMs to generate starter/tutorial material. I may hate the way Claude writes but I absolutely don't hate the way Gemma 4 writes. But I h
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by dofm 1mo ago
My main problem — which I am sure being middle-aged compounds — is that I struggle to retain information that an LLM has written or produced. I cannot explain why but it is a consistent problem. In a week’s time I might remember the substan
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by dofm 1mo ago
You might want to test this new dynamic GGUF: https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF (I don’t know much about it, just saw a YouTube video about it last night)
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by dofm 1mo ago
There is an interesting new dynamic 3 bit quantisation I have been meaning to test: https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF Luke of Luke’s Dev Lab on YouTube had a look at it. It seems to outperform
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by dofm 1mo ago
I think if you think it's in the interest of the people of the USA for the country to be a cynical, overt, quixotic, childish bully on a global basis, including acting as goons on behalf of tech companies, that's an opinion you ar
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by dofm 1mo ago
> The US BLS has 35,000 paid musicians listed, with another 10,000 music directors (a lot of church organists are in this category). Median wage of $40/hour, mean of around $52. So. Not a living then, for most.
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by dofm 1mo ago
But society in general does not really support professional athletes in any directed “conservatory” sense, beyond the weird obsession with college sports in the USA. Corporate sponsorship pays the bigger amounts: that is a side job with its
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by dofm 1mo ago
There are about twenty of these people, though. I said "approximately nobody". At a first approximation, no musician who does it for money makes a living out of it. Classical, pop, rock, whatever. Nobody in music, basically, makes
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by dofm 1mo ago
> Our society does not support classical musicians in the same way that we support ‘popular’ musicians. It really really does. Popular/rock/folk/classical musicians all earn much the same way now: a blend of teaching, occa
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by dofm 1mo ago
This is intriguing because it reveals that LLM hype merchants are actually at least as afraid of AGI as critics; they too would rather not have AGI if the AI achieves it in ways they cannot scrutinise, when it is clear that for any AI to ac
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by dofm 1mo ago
There is a FreeCAD workbench for this, and it seems to have been restarted recently: https://github.com/execuc/LCInterlocking Like some of the other older pre-TNP-mitigation plugins it's possible its interaction w
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by dofm 1mo ago
Regarding how people figured out the positions of the frets: Frets used to just be thick material (wire, strips of flexible wood or treated cord) tied around the neck of the instrument. They were added, moved and removed for different scale
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by dofm 1mo ago
I don't disagree; personally I think you could go with life plus 35 and cap the whole thing at 80 years from publication. But I do think some potential post-mortem protection is essential for creative work to remain viable, and that me
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by dofm 1mo ago
Altman has the ear of government in a way Amodei does not. (Altman was trying to persuade Trump to buy the USA a stake in OpenAI as far back as February last year)
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by dofm 1mo ago
It was only narrowed for the purposes of the point I am making, which is that copyright protects working creatives . I am not at all saying that all artists only make work for money. It is working artists we are talking about; working arti
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by dofm 1mo ago
Work is often only recently published when an artist or author dies but has taken years of non-earning to create. I know this them-and-us thinking is fashionable in the tech world but the reality is that the majority of creative people don’
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by dofm 1mo ago
This is a straw man argument and perhaps a little bit of projection of your own insecurities, because that is not what I was saying.
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by dofm 1mo ago
It secures the benefits of copyright for work being produced by the creator up to death, for their heirs and dependents, which is why they were creating for money in the first place. People don’t just die after twenty years of resting on th
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by dofm 1mo ago
Using the backup compute capacity stored above their shoulders is somehow unthinkable?
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by dofm 1mo ago
Putting aside the cultural imperialism (this happened in Ireland, which is in Europe, which is also where two of the greatest agricultural schools in the world, if not also the two greatest for this, are based), it also happened over a deca
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by dofm 1mo ago
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save t
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by dofm 1mo ago
"Life doesn't have to be something that just happens to us." — Guy https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

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