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by muglug 2y ago
Udio and Suno are both really bad at generating classical instrumental music that makes any melodic sense — the equivalent of drawing six-fingered people everywhere.
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by muglug 2y ago
In a vertical where the barrier to entry is not high, being first to market with something simple that people can extend can create a decent-sized moat. The downside is that much of the code in WP core is effectively un-modernizable, given
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by muglug 2y ago
> causing… irreparable loss in customer trust > I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino Oh no, a casino losing the trust of its customers? Those places are normally so scrupulous!
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by muglug 2y ago
Don't see any actual output measurement in the conclusion — it seems like the effort may not have really borne fruit.
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by muglug 2y ago
There's two different things: the Sky voice they launched last year, as heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcgV2u9Kxh0 . The voice actor is the same, but the intonation is fairly flat. They changed the voice to
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by muglug 2y ago
IANAL either, but that's not the caveat you think it is. Bette Midler was able to sue Ford Motor Co. for damages after they hired a sound-alike voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co . Ford ha
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by muglug 2y ago
1. This is whataboutism 2. According to the EPA's greenhouse gas calculator, this year's increase is equivalent to an extra 800,000 gas-powered cars on the road.
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by muglug 2y ago
Yeah, written communication is harder than in-person communication. It’s easy to come across poorly in writing, but that issue has no easy resolution unless you’re prepared to ban Slack, email, and any other text-based communication system
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by muglug 2y ago
People may well use Loom-like functionality that’s integrated into other tools they use without knowing the name “Loom”. Loom had a head-start, but other companies (e.g. Vimeo) copied the feature pretty quickly. And also, more importantly,
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by muglug 2y ago
Whole-codebase understanding is beyond current coding assistants’ capabilities. To do that you need to add in traditional static analysis. But I’m sure people are working on it!
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by muglug 2y ago
GitHub touts a 55% improvement in coding speed based on a study conducted in-house that tested the participants’ ability to paste a pre-written prompt and then check the output: https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quanti
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by muglug 2y ago
I noticed this last year when an article I wrote was reposted by the creator of Mastodon. Visits from individual instance crawlers vastly outnumbered visits from people reading the content. I had prepared the content for potential virality
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by muglug 2y ago
It's good. Rate-limited on direct chat, I had to use the arena mode. I asked the same question 10 times before I got an answer from gpt2-chatbot. My question: "Can you write a YAML parser in Hacklang?" This is a fun question
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by muglug 3y ago
Sometimes you'll read something and think "I'm not taking the bait".
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by muglug 3y ago
It’s funny how a bunch of models use Musk’s voice as a proof of their quality, given how disjointed and staccato he sounds in real life. Surely there are better voices to imitate.
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by muglug 3y ago
Their data comes from commercial flights. If there are no flights, there's no data. There aren't many commercial flights over Ukraine or Belarus right now, so that whole area's empty.
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by muglug 3y ago
No-code isn't new! I used WYSIWYG no-code tools like Dreamweaver in the early noughts to build websites, and companies like Salesforce (disclaimer: my employer) have been using no-code as a selling point for well over a decade.
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by muglug 3y ago
> we study less advanced animals and plants from this planet extensively Yes, but we generally don't have to go to a lot of trouble to find specimens.
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by muglug 3y ago
It's just so unfathomably unlikely that aliens would (a) be able to and (b) actually care sufficiently to visit our planet. Faster-than-light travel breaks all our current long-established & well-tested physics. But sure, Jan, some
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by muglug 3y ago
Being wrong and being biased are different. Here the model is clearly wrong, and Google will presumably fix it. It’s not like Google wants to show people black & asian Nazis.
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by muglug 3y ago
This is very far from blogging about baseball & election stats, and shows the insatiable urge to stay relevant means Nate Silver has strayed into areas (AI policy) in which he has no professional experience. He claims that not being evi
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by muglug 3y ago
Exactly. Every video has to be transcoded on upload, then stored for both fast delivery and then shifted to long-lived-but-cheaper storage after a set time period. There’s nothing trivial about it. The only reason to give it away for free i
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by muglug 3y ago
But it says 55% faster coding right there on the website: https://github.com/features/copilot Never mind that number came from an in-house experiment with deeply artificial conditions where the study was designed to sh
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by muglug 3y ago
Here’s the original post: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/insights/chi... It’s almost a throwaway line in a quick update. This isn’t a UBS official statement — it’s a guy who works for UB
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by muglug 3y ago
> this is a perfect opportunity to release the full video of the incident I hope they’ve released the full video to investigators, but they’re in a tight spot — SF city government is looking for reasons to come down harshly on the compan
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by muglug 3y ago
Thanks for all your hard work! Twitter is an obvious influence on Bluesky. Was the team able to benefit from the experience of working on Twitter, or were most of the big problems novel?
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by muglug 3y ago
> The big idea behind the project is to be a piece of animation software that's tailor-made for creating and running dynamic animations on the web. I'll share more about this project at a later date. Macromedia/Adobe Flash
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If I did this I'd be out of a job.
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There are hundreds of thousands of professional actors in the world. Very few of them are able to get away with playing the same character, because that rarely pays the bills. But for a few select leading actors, playing the same characte
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by muglug 3y ago
This is what professionals call "acting"

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