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by kevingadd 1y ago
> Commuters in the Philadelphia area are now set to lose access to 50 bus routes, 66 rail stations, five regional rail lines and Sports Express trains. Service will be cut by 20% starting August 24, with a further 25% reduction on Januar
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by kevingadd 1y ago
It seems like you're assuming that models are trying to predict the next token. Is that really how they work? I would have assumed that tokenization is an input-only measure, so you have perhaps up to 50k unique input tokens available,
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by kevingadd 1y ago
By what standard is code signing DRM? Lots of stuff is codesigned.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The Samsung experience is a lot better in this regard right now, yes. I haven't had Gemini forced on me on my phone, just in Google apps and websites.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
We've got an inclusive framework right now for alternative theories of medicine in my country, and a guy who believes in miasma theory instead of germ theory is shutting down medical research programs and getting rid of vaccines. I thi
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by kevingadd 1y ago
They wouldn't be the only country that made nuclear weapons. Or are you proposing that every country that's ever manufactured nukes be bombed into dust? There are a lot of them.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Have you heard of Unsafe Accessors? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.... They help solve this problem.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I also wish 'sealed' was the default for classes in templates. Usually you're not thinking about what will happen if someone shows up 5 years later to derive from a random class you created, and it has performance benefits to
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by kevingadd 1y ago
One anecdote: I "cheated" at EVE Online by writing an elaborate set of modding tools. Most of it was automation for really finicky tedious stuff like drone management, or automation for things like broadcasting your current target
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If a bunch of armed thugs who aren't wearing uniforms or badges show up and abduct someone, citizens don't have the right or obligation to do something about it? Just stand back and watch? That's the world you want to live in
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by kevingadd 1y ago
JPEGs are intrinsically YCbCr not RGB, so I don't know how you would avoid some precision loss when you combine that colorspace conversion with things like the quality level and (potentially) subsampling.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
PNGs are also ideal for color accuracy since one of the things you lose quickly when converting to JPEG is the ability to have an exact RGB value flow from input to output, even at a high quality level. So if you want i.e. a banner graphic
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by kevingadd 1y ago
DoD would be involved in actual deployment of nukes, I would expect.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Modern technology has made it a lot easier to build video games or entertainment (music, movies, etc) affordably and in a reasonable amount of time. The diversity of entertainment out there for you to experience cheaply is incredible compar
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I don't understand the purpose of effectively hard-coding things like edge detection and attention weight maps into the image. There are various ways to do edge detection and various ways to focus attention, so having that fixed and en
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Wishing you a smooth recovery! It'll take a while but recovery is possible
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If you experience temporary cognitive decline like this definitely pay attention to it, it can indicate serious stressors in your life that need to be dealt with immediately. It can get worse steadily if you ignore it!
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Gacha games are unquestionably gambling but you're right that there are loopholes here.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Just for the record, text rendering - including with subpixel antialiasing - has been GPU accelerated on Windows for ages and in Chrome/Firefox for ages. Probably Safari too but I can't testify to that personally. The idea that th
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Generating SDFs is really slow, especially if you can't use the GPU to do it, and if you use a faster algorithm it tends to produce fields with glitches in them
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Aside from the shrimp question, I would argue that one shouldn't torture ants because the activity is corrosive to the human spirit, or at least nudges one towards antisocial behaviors. Behavior like that is suggestive that a person mi
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If your countermeasure is applied at scale it would probably hasten global warming by putting all sorts of stuff into the atmosphere.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
"murdered" and "tried" both assign things like intent and agency to models that are most likely still just probabilistic text generators (really good ones, to be fair). By using language like this you're kind of tip
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Might make sense to use a logarithmic scale for the graphs too, it's hard to tell what speed the other ones are since they're compressed so far down.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Anyone who's ever written a blur shader knows that blurs aren't cheap.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This requires an exact lock-down of things like the hardware and driver version, doesn't it? Is that sustainable?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
You're going to have a much harder time getting good animations generated for something that isn't a humanoid, since the training sets won't have much to work from. It's possible with a really good prompt for 'slime
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I think it makes sense that GP is skeptical of this article considering it contains things like: > this tool is improving itself, learning from every interaction which seem to indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern LLMs wo
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by kevingadd 1y ago
People have been operating on trust that search engine rankings are largely based on content quality/relevance/popularity, and that ads are marked as ads. And then the assumption was you would click through the top rankings to fin
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Why is it a foregone conclusion that embracing AI is the only way to move forward, and that embracing AI is necessary to succeed? I'm certainly curious to see how it works out - it's a possible source of growth etc - but it's

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