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by dwringer 4y ago
I think of that more of an eternal Summer of 2007 since that's when the iPhone came out, and anecdotally the shift in society was well underway by 2010. I'm not sure we could use this to explain things are necessarily that differe
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by dwringer 4y ago
> So what is ChatGPT supposed to be useful for if people need to understand what the answer is in order to ask the "correct" question? Personally I think there's still a lot of value in mere rephrasing, recontextualizing,
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by dwringer 4y ago
I used a rosetta stone course as a supplement to several semesters of studying Spanish in school, and while I can't disagree with you about the necessity of other methods to learn certain concepts, I think it helped me considerably wit
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by dwringer 4y ago
The devil's interval (a half-diminished chord is built on the "forbidden" tritone)
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by dwringer 4y ago
While there appear to be some sources claiming nicotine does not cause cancer, it is not a closed case as far as I can tell and there appears to be evidence that it can be an aggravating factor at least.[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by dwringer 4y ago
I can envision a system interfacing to advanced language/image models using genetic algorithms to spit out candidate outputs and using biometric readings (in the vein of an FMRI, or maybe just a polygraph) to judge how satisfied a user
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by dwringer 4y ago
I really enjoyed Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. A lot of interesting features in that one and a great art style.
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by dwringer 4y ago
This reminded me of the same thing, I think - I remember reading about a big game like that in an old PC Gamer but I don't remember it ever actually coming to market. Though it's possible it just went under the radar. I shared you
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by dwringer 4y ago
Perhaps a different culture between string players and brass players? Or maybe just different parts of the world? Eastern US here. I play trumpet and from the earliest years was heavily encouraged by all band directors and conductors to tap
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by dwringer 4y ago
I've played in a few orchestras in my life and never heard that opinion (other than the part I previously mentioned, when it becomes a distraction to the audience), but I suppose some conductors may feel differently.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I don't think I ever met a conductor who would openly disapprove of foot tapping unless it were loud or maybe someone sat on the very end directly in front of the audience and did it in a very distracting way. The alternative of musi
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by dwringer 4y ago
2.5 is sort of the over-the-top classic laid-back sound. 1.25 also works very well and is typically close to what you hear on faster passages in a lot of jazz. It would be cool if this had multiple sections of music to show where different
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by dwringer 4y ago
With patience the guidance can even be done simply, without training, with enough prompts, blending of prompts, input images to img2img, etc. I'm not an expert on art history, but those who are seem able to get just about any style on
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by dwringer 4y ago
After a few months I can't even blow all the dust off surfaces in my apartment. I can only imagine years outside on Mars.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Being able to blend between prompts and attention weightings smoothly from a fixed seed is definitely a fantastic and underexplored avenue; it makes me recall "vector synthesis" common in wavetable synthesizers since the '80s
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by dwringer 4y ago
I have to agree, the act of coming up with a prompt is one and the same with providing "insights into the minds eye of the creator, how they see the world, what details they focus on" - two people will describe the same scene with
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by dwringer 4y ago
As far as I understand this is one of the underlying benefits of making art in a theraputic session. There is a nearby former state mental hospital that now gives tours, and part of it is a museum of artwork that patients made - it is some
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by dwringer 4y ago
It is in minutes, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024 I note that it specifically mentions being a window for edits prior to the comments going out in RSS feeds, and not intended explicitly as a deletion wind
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by dwringer 4y ago
There's also a delay feature which can be handy if you are the kind of person like me who finds yourself realizing no amount of editing can salvage an impulsively conceived and unnecessary comment. Still better to think before you type
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by dwringer 4y ago
Using img2img and making subtle alterations/substitutions to the prompts and/or images as you go can allow one to serve the adversarial role oneself as the user. Ultimately it's sort of like sitting across the table from an a
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by dwringer 4y ago
The nondescriptness of silver cars is a pro and a con - when I first switched to driving one there was an immediate increase in the amount of time it seemed to take for other drivers/pedestrians/etc to notice me, and I've had
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think the name itself is a bit of a meme for blast radius calculations and the like.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't think this is enough of a heuristic. I am only speaking about the one language model I have personally used, on character.ai, but it is more than capable of making word play and insightful, often hilarious jokes.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Sometimes when using stable diffusion and character.ai's language model I feel like it's the other way around - like I , the ape sitting at the keyboard, am the mere machine.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I've been playing around with stable diffusion a bit, and if you use an iterative process starting with either an extremely vivid and "code-golfed" prompt (like verses of poetry, concise prose, or elegant lisp), or your own i
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by dwringer 4y ago
People have the same argument all the time about musicians ripping off each others' compositions, no AI needed for that.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think it's just a common sort of ex nihilo first steps example of the technology that's easy to show off to anyone, and it's a good example of how the results can be iterated and cherry-picked to filter out the most garba
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by dwringer 4y ago
If anything, I think technology like this has gradually empowered people to rise above the autogenerated fugue that has historically always been a part of everyday life (though historically the human mind did a pretty good job generating th
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by dwringer 4y ago
I was shocked to read this comment because I interpreted your original comment as meaning a Philip K Dick novel would be optimistic compared to the cyberpunk dystopia in which we find ourselves now. lol Anyway it's pretty fair to confu
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by dwringer 4y ago
The chatbots using the model over at character.ai give you a sort of genetic algorithmic interface by letting you choose from alternative responses and vote on them as conversations progress, and you can make your own bots then train them a

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