michaelbrave

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by michaelbrave 4y ago
the filing of the lawsuit shows a clear lack of understanding by those doing the suing, it will be thrown out almost immediately unless brought to a sympathetic judge, which is unlikely since they filed in the bay area.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
any kind of central planning creates a large bottleneck and creates a brittle system with a single point of potentially catastrophic failure. It's why dictatorships tend to be fragile compared to a more decentralized system.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I understood it less as transforming the images and more of deriving math formulas from the patterns in the image, closer to creating a bar graph to understand data than making a copy.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
in truth midjourney does much better on smaller prompts than stable diffusion or dall-e which tend to do better with longer prompts, but my best results have come from image to image along with prompts. The secret superpower of midjourney i
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
best way to curb piracy is to create a personal connection with those who would pirate and get them to want to support you, have them root for your success basically.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I would kinda argue that the regime changed more than Ma did, since 2017-ish the CCP has cracked down especially hard on all kinds of things that seem strange to me and on things they were kinda lax about before.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure that training a model on something counts as copying, it more or less recognizes and regurgitates patterns, something like x has such percent of chance to follow y such percent of chance of times when z keyword is
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
back in 2010-ish we had social bookmarks like delicio.us, which was actually pretty cool and useful, I still wonder if a kind of search engine could be built on top of that kind of thing, basically a recommendation system for websites weigh
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
Just want to add some weight to how awesome Austin's library is, they rent laptops, have 3D printers, even a zine section, and an upper terrace with plants and a view etc which is the perfect place for study group sessions. It's a
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I imagine books of research will still be written, and the model can still be trained on those. Likely, YouTube style industry news videos and comments sections will continue as well. What I really suspect will happen will be an end to end
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
Some years back I heard several mathemeticians advocating that the kind of math we teach should be more proof and theory based and less computation and memorization based because computers can do the computation bits better, and so knowing
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
Do you live for a job or have a job to live? Also IQ be damned, it's not even an accurate measurement in the first place and honestly even if someone is a bit of an idiot (unlikely for you since you were studying robotics) there is sti
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
They were working on it when fortnite got big, in fact it was kind of a cool experiment where they involved the community in the process and development, halfway crowdsourced in a way. But when fortnite got big the team got moved to that, s
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
If we want to make the equivalent of websites that happen to be VR-spaces, I'm alright with that. Do I want a social media company to make a walled garden VR-game where you buy digital real estate etc, not so much.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I don't think twitter will die, I mean myspace never truly died. But I did hear its future being compared to AM radio, where the advertisers pulled out (already happened) and so needing a source of income more or less sold to those wit
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I think it's closer to "people are willing to sacrifice some culture for convenience, until it destroys all the culture" I think we are reaching the point where it's been hollowed out enough that there is finally showing
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I saw someone compare what's happening to twitter as less like the fall of myspace and more like the fall of AM radio, where basically those who were willing to pay for propaganda basically took it over as other sources of cash withdre
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
How many people would go back to a job that had fired them? not sure I would
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I want to say I read somewhere once about how the railroad had huge implications in the cause of WW1 and I would guess it had a lot to do with the American Civil War as well. So I would guess not just communications technology but also tran
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
There is that, but also when one's life is that shitty the comfort of "something to numb that pain" would be welcome to most, especially those with little to no hope of things getting better
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
VC money is for the situation "we could grow so much by tacking this one opportunity that a bunch of money would help solve" or if you need the clout of having it, or the introductions or advice those investors would give. If you
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I mostly use fat as a go between for different operating systems, things could be installed to implement similar functionality around another file system, but it's nice to have a default built into everything format that works on every
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I mean programming is more or less understanding a thing well enough to tell the machine how to go through the steps of it. I've always thought of it in a similar vein to the problem solving we use in design. So if we think of design o
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
It would be that way if not for the bad actors, manipulators, misinformation, advertising and algos that place engagement over all else. Too much going on behind the scenes for it to actually be democracy.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
sonic fans have mostly decided that was a bad port, saying that might do more damage than good
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
When I was younger, I sold turquoise jewelry at the Grand Canyon and I feel about the same towards sales and marketing, I mean they are the same with different levels of scale. I found an exception though, the way we sold in the shop I work
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I honestly think they only chase small fry, if given enough friction because one is rich, powerful or connected that they would walk away from it. Basically only going after low-hanging fruit.
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I've lived quite a few places all over the US, Most of my time being spent in California, Texas, Utah and Colorado. But I've also lived in Florida, Oklahoma, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, an Louisiana. So I've got some per
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
Seconded on all of this. I'm aware of tilt brush and would use it but I've still yet to have prioritized setting aside the money to even buy a VR headset, I don't much care for the companies doing it right now, and I'm n
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by michaelbrave 4y ago
I still use my 2011 macbook air, not as a main driver but still quite a bit. I had to put linux using xfce on it for it to actually work in a non painful way, MacOS not being able to update properly was part of it, I did find a way to force

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