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by not2b 4y ago
Suppose that there's a really iconic pic of George Clooney eating a burrito in Times Square, with a "Getty Images" watermark on it, in the training set. It's perfectly framed, has a somewhat comic expression, and a bit o
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by not2b 4y ago
For 1, there's probably a case where a picture that exactly matches the prompt is very famous, so maybe the right prompt would manage to effectively select an image licensed by Getty. The GPLed fast inverse square root routine was an e
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by not2b 4y ago
You won't get the exact image, because the model doesn't perfectly memorize all inputs, but you'll likely get something so close that everyone would consider it a derivative work. This is very similar to getting Copilot to sp
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by not2b 4y ago
Yes, I expect that if you ask the model for "Getty images photo of [famous person] doing [thing Getty Images has only one photo of that person doing]" you might well get the original photo out.
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by not2b 4y ago
For case 2, translating a novel from, say, English to Japanese, still requires permission of the holder of the copyright to the English version, even though the resulting novel "does not contain a single line ... identical to the origi
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by not2b 4y ago
So would the SEO people. But even disregarding that problem, to have a halfway decent search ranking you're going to need deep learning, and you'll get a model that is largely opaque.
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by not2b 4y ago
There's no such thing as an unbiased yet useful search engine. The very act of choosing which article to put at the top is a value judgment, therefore a bias. The only way to make things "unbiased" would be to rank the matche
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by not2b 4y ago
I would agree; I've almost never seen a site that provides a better way to directly search its own content than the major search engines provide. Wikipedia might come closest because their search compares the user input to article titl
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by not2b 4y ago
Instagram/Facebook are cloning TikTok features as fast as they can, and lots of creators are putting out their stuff on all 3.5 platforms (TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram/Facebook).
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A more accurate statement of his significance is that he started the European conquest of the Americas. That's the impact of what he did and distinguishes him from previous explorers (like Leif Ericsson) who stumbled onto the Americas
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by not2b 4y ago
Perhaps, but the notation didn't exist before it was invented as part of the Fortran language.
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by not2b 4y ago
I hope the antitrust authorities take a good look at this one.
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So is venture capitalism; it's expected that most bets don't pay off and money is made because, if the VC makes good choices, some will pay off hugely. I think it's a matter of hiring the right people and managing them well.
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by not2b 4y ago
Yes, if they aren't getting the results they want from all those smart people, it's because they aren't managing right. Most people want to do good work, but sometimes process and teams fighting each other gets in the way.
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Except that they over-reward "design a completely new project in market X" where they already have a product, and under-reward fixing the existing product in a backward-compatible way. That means customers can't count on Goog
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by not2b 4y ago
IBM still has a research group. Sometimes hiring great researchers and letting them do what they want pays off. AT&T I believe kept a research group for much longer than that and they only invented or co-invented the transistor, the las
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by not2b 4y ago
John Oliver did a great piece on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0
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by not2b 4y ago
Likewise; I wrote a lot of Fortran in those days.
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Yes, our cats have always been indoors; our next door neighbor's cats have been outdoors. One of them was killed by a coyote and left on our front lawn for my daughter to find.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#:~:text=Contrary%20to%2... .
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Someone who is the target of an organized violence campaign by kiwifarms can't live a free life.
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An optimal amount is an amount that can be achieved. The only way to achieve zero fraud is to have zero financial transactions.
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by not2b 4y ago
All Android devices are multiuser: Android will assign a different unprivileged user ID to each app, because it can't be assumed that apps should trust each other. You definitely don't want random apps to be able to take control o
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by not2b 4y ago
The US didn't really do lockdowns; there were restrictions, particularly for international travel and to Hawaii, but people weren't confined to their homes as they were in other countries. Even in the more restrictive states you c
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by not2b 4y ago
There are billions of Linux systems in the world. They have a default. If you change the default for your own distribution, you're the oddball, and the fact that there are two different values for the default can itself be an issue. It
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by not2b 4y ago
As the issue is easily worked around (in several ways mentioned in the comments) it isn't worth changing.
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by not2b 4y ago
Can't happen. The winner would have to go into exile from China to participate, and both are about double the age now and no longer play competitively (the thrown match was 22 years ago).
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by not2b 4y ago
Pythagoras and his followers at first thought that irrational numbers didn't even exist, though the story that they drowned a guy for proving by contradiction that sqrt(2) is irrational is probably not right. Rather, strings with lengt
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by not2b 4y ago
I think they pretty much had to do that to preserve the formatting of existing documents for users who are force-upgraded by their employers to new Office versions. But it seems a scraper that just wants the information in the document can
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by not2b 4y ago
Which would be fine, no one has to read everything, but for some reason people who only read the headline feel qualified to comment, and this particularly shows with satirical pieces.

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