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by ksaj 3y ago
Interesting. Evolution is a series of happy accidents. So is creativity.
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by ksaj 3y ago
That's an interesting observation. Painters are trained by copying the Masters. Shredding guitar players are trained on violin caprices. Martha Stewart was trained by watching Julia Child.
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by ksaj 3y ago
I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it. I don't know if AI will replace stock photography,
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by ksaj 3y ago
What if they include weapons, specifically guns, in their assessment?
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by ksaj 3y ago
You can tell it to not be so descriptive. It's a staple of prompt engineering to specify terse responses, or at least what style of response is wanted. Remember what it is - a language model. You can be really specific about how you wa
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by ksaj 3y ago
I personally wish they wouldn't limit tofu to vegetarian eating in every Western soy recipe. I'm not a vegetarian (not even close) but I have a fair amount of tofu and other soy (beans, miso...) products in my diet. It's ofte
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by ksaj 3y ago
Around Y2K and shortly thereafter, they used to say that the average tech job shelf life is 2 years. Was that actually the case? If so, is it still the case?
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by ksaj 3y ago
I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech indus
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by ksaj 3y ago
They fully are computers. I wear hearing aids, and for example, one setting will glom onto voices in the stereo field and track them so the voice remains clear if they are moving around, while damping everything else. They do quite a lot, a
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by ksaj 3y ago
I used to think I was the only person with my name, since my first name isn't common at all. Then I started getting fan mail, and discovered I had a namesake who had been in a movie with his very famous daughter. I've occasional
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by ksaj 3y ago
Adobe's Content Aware Fill was pretty much ahead of its time, at the time. This takes it a whole lot further. What a great use of the technology.
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by ksaj 3y ago
I don't get the connection you are trying to make. What are you suggesting might happen?
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by ksaj 3y ago
Commenting to something you didn't read? j/k but it's not electronic in any way. It's more like those belts that clamp instead of having the pin hole, except that the clamp won't rough up the leather. You do raise a
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by ksaj 3y ago
Cool. iCal is used for a lot of calendars. It's one of the very few things Google and Apple agree on, too. People rarely access their data and info from a single device anymore, and cell phones almost always play a role in accessing it
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by ksaj 3y ago
Does it handle ical? It would be super useful if it does (versus having a whole bunch of unsynched calendars around).
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by ksaj 3y ago
I just saw someone's screencap of Norton's chat bot wrongly saying its VPN software won't work on Linux because Linux is a server, and servers are operated by programs and not users. It was ridiculous, and I think companies g
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by ksaj 3y ago
Interesting. Those numbers have changed now, but your observation is still correct. I wonder if there are weights on upvoted objects (post, initial comment, reply-to-a-comment) that bring the total to a lower number for the user. In the sam
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by ksaj 3y ago
QNX is where I initially learned my Unix-like ways. Because of that exposure, I was never enthusiastic about what I saw as extreme limitations of Microsoft DOS and then Windows when I discovered them. One thing that really set it apart at t
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by ksaj 3y ago
And it runs Doom. Very important feature. I like how you've given the desktop a unique look. Doesn't look like it's trying to clone anything in particular.
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by ksaj 3y ago
This is why phone companies don't really do anything about SMS spam - they make money from it. If they wanted to do anything about it, they would.
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by ksaj 3y ago
I agree with the question. Something as big as the Big Bang happening once and only once is quite an anomaly to believe in.
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by ksaj 3y ago
It doesn't sound legal, and it sure wouldn't fly where I'm from. You need a lawyer for this if you want to push back at all, so get your advice from them. Look for a lawyer that gives free consultation (which is a good lot of
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by ksaj 3y ago
The data that the models are built from comes from the public. It'll be a long fight if Big Tech decides that the public's data, however referenced in whatever model, is no longer the public's. They're fully welcome to k
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by ksaj 3y ago
This is a good way to frame it. The stock market going to zero means everybody has stopped valuing companies, and presumably the companies themselves are not creating value anyone can buy into. That puts us back to pre-industrial planet. Is
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by ksaj 3y ago
They've been saying that since I was a kid. Every generation seems to think there's is the one that runs out of money and the world runs amok. It doesn't mean this one won't be the one. But I think one can build up their
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by ksaj 3y ago
It's "Absolute Free Speech" except for people in Turkey. I hope at the least, when they search for information, they get some sort of message or note that explains why what they're looking for is censored, and for how lo
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by ksaj 3y ago
It boils down to an if statement. Once you've reached a certain number of iterations, or the initial branching meets certain conditions, another rule set applies. But those rules are still not all that different - follow the leaf veins
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by ksaj 3y ago
Yes indeed. Without boundary conditions, they would grow indefinitely. Imagine a 3 story (and growing) cauliflower. There are fractals that simulate tree growth. Even they have boundaries to stop them from turning into a giant fuzzy ball. A
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by ksaj 3y ago
Doesn't anyone review their work before presenting it? There is no way this should have gotten past your co-workers eye if they put any amount of diligence into their writing. I would give them a warning, because it is a red flag that
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by ksaj 3y ago
Three questions that expose my opinion on the matter: If it can only output an amount of text that would be considered an acceptable quote in an essay, is it still infringing on copyright? If you quote your favourite line in a song, have yo

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