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by dougmwne 3y ago
Exactly this. But I disagree that settled is natural. Humans evolved in nomadic tribes that followed the herds. Stability is a social technology that was developed alongside agriculture. Stability feels unnatural to me and I get the itch af
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Certainly many people on this website could if it were their priority. Some money is required, but not very much. I’m sure I make less money than many here because I take jobs that prioritize remote work and flexibility. So what’s really th
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I’ve learned that the passage of time is extremely relative. My college years were extremely full of new experiences and they feel like ages. Once I started working, my life was very rote and consisted mainly of driving from home to work an
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I feel like the last 10 years have been a maturing phase. There weren’t a lot of opportunities for young upstarts without funding. It seemed like it was the era of big money innovation, burning mountains of cash trying to stake the last few
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I worked in climate policy for awhile. I got out of it because I lost hope. I believe our governments have lost hope also. Covid taught us that if they inflict the necessary pain to control carbon, our governments will be consumed by populi
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by dougmwne 3y ago
You can stop expecting that you will ever have these good feelings and learn to get them from somthing other than work.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This does not sound very radical at all. Software engineering will no doubt be transformed within 10 years and there’s plenty of uncertainty around what our future employment needs will be for people who primarily code. I feel vary similar
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by dougmwne 3y ago
And apparently 3D renders can be inferred from only 2d images like in these image gen models, so even without video or parallax, brains could probably model the world in 3D.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yes, there’s rudimentary evidence that there’s essentially a 3D engine within the model that participates in generating the image. If we could inspect and interpret the whole process it would likely be bizarre and byzantine, like a sort of
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by dougmwne 3y ago
You would need to train on pairings of normal map images to source images. To my knowledge, that’s not a common training technique and this ability seems to bridge across several open models.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This is awesome! So one of the big reasons there was hype about Sora is that it felt very likely from watching a few videos that there was an internal physical simulation of the world happening and the video was more like a camera recording
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by dougmwne 3y ago
That’s just the thing, it literally changes your prompt instructions to randomize gender and ethnicity even when you specify. If you do specify, it might flag you as being inappropriate and give a refusal. This has been a common strategy fo
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The multiple groundbreaking announcements from the past week feel like a plateau to you?
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I feel like the answer is pretty clear. Each country will need to develop models that conform to their own national identity and politics. Things are biased only in context, not universally. An American model would appear biased in Brazil.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Go check out the Unstable Diffusion Discord.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
At this point, the next thing that will blow me away is AGI at human expert level or a Gaussian Splat diffusion model that can build any arbitrary 3D scene from text or a single image. High bar, but the technology world is already full of d
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Since these are open models, people can fine tune them to do anything.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Pull yourself the fuck together!
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by dougmwne 3y ago
There is no default and easy access mode. These are raw model weights and only enthusiasts and researchers will download the necessary packages to run it locally. Much more likely is that some popular fine tunes show up on hugging face for
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by dougmwne 3y ago
As cool as your clock is, it would be even cooler if it printed the poems out on ticker tape:) And hey, recurring revenue stream!
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by dougmwne 3y ago
These are downloadable open models that can be fined tuned. They are the opposite of censored. If you have the motivation, you can bias them however you please.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Technology has gone absurd, surely. But that absurdity is not yet evenly distributed. I was in Best Buy the other day and there was a distinct lack of bizarre AI gadgets like mirrors that make you look like a cartoon sloth or speakers that
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I work in nonprofit tech. I’d guess we pay less than half for an equivalent big tech role. If you want meaning in your work, be prepared to pay for it. My best recommendation is to look to the rest of your life. And if you’re feeling really
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This doesn’t seem to be a very meaningful theory to draw conclusions about life. We have no idea how much carbon is already present in Titan’s ocean and if there’s need for a water cycle that connects to the surface. Also this study only co
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This is an amazing list. I humbly request that the author do a post for AI movies.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think the real scam is the way recycling shifts the blame and responsibility for sustainability from government and corporations where it rightly rests and onto consumers. Shifting that blame does nothing to improve sustainability, but is
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by dougmwne 3y ago
My grandmother was a nurse and wore her watch on her inner wrist. I think it was common and protected it from getting snagged during her rounds. Now I don’t think nurses are usually allowed to wear watches in most hospitals.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
He will be in the same boat as the rest of us. In 12 years I expect the current crop of AI capabilities will have hit maturity. We will all collectively have to figure out how life+AI looks like, just as we have done with life+iPhones.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Pretty much! Check out this demo of finding a scene in a 1400 page book based on a stick figure drawing. Mind blowing, right? https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1758148159942091114
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It produces basically random translations. This is covered in the 0-shot case where no translation manual was included in the context. Due to how rare this language is, it’s essentially untranslated in the training corpus.

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