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2y ago
> right-wing In this case, maybe not. The wiki page for the money one layer deeper: >The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization managed by Arabella Advisors, a for-profit consulting company that advises left-leaning donor
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2y ago
In this case though, it's preventing the people from sharing things easily. It's not "Nintendo can't have a free account", it's "Nintendo's users can't post screenshots from Smash Bros without ju
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2y ago
>I've since been wondering whether Musk now wants it to fail, I'd think so too, but he seems to love tweeting too much.
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2y ago
One-sided video interviews are horrible. I'd rather write a million cover letters that no one reads.
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2y ago
> This is the root problem: Too many people like the ragebait, the karma farming posts, and soon, the infinite AI generated content coming to feed them exactly the outrage they want to read every day. This is a big part of the issue, and
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2y ago
I'm sure that's some of it, but a lot of it is easily understood as organic. Bait gets attention. For some people that's enough, but plenty of ragebait distributors are monetizing it.
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2y ago
> For example, the Money Bots, which pop up every time someone subscribes. Imagine not getting that message for a long time. Some people might say "that's encouragement to work harder so we get subscribers!", others "
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2y ago
I've used it for hours with no ill effects outside of a big red mark on my face. The tech has come a long way.
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2y ago
It is, I'd even say it's just "LLMs aren't very good at math" rather than a "Complete Reasoning Breakdown". Still, evaluating when/how they fail could be useful.
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gs17
2y ago
No reason not to evaluate it more in depth, though. Understanding not just that they fail but if some models fail more/less and under what conditions is still useful.
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2y ago
Yes, anyone can sightread pinyin after an hour or two, but turning everything into it won't really help me learn to read Chinese as the language is actually used.
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2y ago
> Oftentimes there are hints in the characters (the "phonetics" mentioned by the writer), but usually not enough to guess correctly. Yeah, it's unfortunately not enough to sightread purely from radicals. My girlfriend has
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2y ago
> The vast overwhelming majority of games are now effectively cross-platform That's true (and Proton often works better than a native Linux build), but then there's the few games only run on Windows, often due to anti-cheat (se
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2y ago
> Therefore, there offensive and derogatory nature went unnoticed until the recent comments of Donald Trump’s speech. I'm not quite sure what they mean by that. If the sequence was TRMMP DPORT MXCNS maybe.
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2y ago
Polyvinyl acetate (white glue) is commonly used to coat cheeses, so there's at least precedent for it in much smaller amounts. I am also now aware I've eaten more glue than I thought I had in my life.
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2y ago
But that part is true (it's just "Russia" and "Alaska" aren't the mainlands of either), the Diomede Islands are close enough together that you can see the Russian one from the US one.
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2y ago
I had just remembered it existed recently, glad I didn't look into getting one. My assumption was that it had lost support but would work indefinitely, how naive of me.
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2y ago
Some discussion I saw elsewhere speculated that it was to avoid liability since they won't update it anymore, although there's no reason they couldn't open source it as an at-your-own-risk way to keep using it (or at least pr
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2y ago
> Ford gave explicit instructions to imitate a copyrighted performance. That case isn't copyright law, Ford had obtained rights to use the song itself.
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2y ago
It even assumes the opposite, since they asked SJ after recording the original voice.
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2y ago
> That doesn't violate any law to any reasonable person. Midler v Ford is already precedent that using a different actor isn't inherently safe legally.
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2y ago
> then after you rejected them The article shows the timeline would make this them already licensing a similar product to your more famous one, then you saying no, and them continuing to use the existing similar one. > But while many
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2y ago
That would require a step 3 where they get in a time machine: > But while many hear an eerie resemblance between “Sky” and Johansson’s “Her” character, an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johansson
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2y ago
> Nobody would confuse Tina Fey for Sarah Palin Surprisingly many people think "I can see Russia from my house" is a thing the real Palin said.
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2y ago
>Would this voice actor then be barred from doing voice acting? That's where this has always gotten odd to me. There's obvious impersonation, sure, but what if this same actress wanted to e.g. be the Major in a new Ghost in the
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2y ago
Would you rather they add a cat to justify the plural? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard (obviously this is indeed an improvement over a solo paper)
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2y ago
Mine usually is pretty responsive about it, but the results searching in the start menu are strange. I start typing the name of something, what I want pops up, I type one too many characters (still a substring of the correct name) and sudde
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2y ago
I believe this image posted in a different thread has them: https://jnnnthnn.com/leike.png
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2y ago
The thermodynamic "limit" is pretty small compared to any other waste in a system (from Wikipedia): > At room temperature, the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.018 eV (2.9×10^−21 J). Modern computers use a
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2y ago
Agreed, I think if you showed me as a kid that a tiny microSD could store every game I ever played and still have room for every TV show I ever watched without getting remotely full, and was affordable, it'd be impressive. But it would
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