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by samspenc 4y ago
I think the article does a good job capturing the history of what happened. OpenAI started out with the intention of being a non-profit, but realized over time that it made it difficult to compete in terms of salary and hardware, so pivoted
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by samspenc 4y ago
Posted this in another comment and re-wording, yeah this would be similar to something like Rokoko AI MoCap [1] and Plask [2], which are very close to this in terms of motion capture (mocap) but Wonder Studio seems to have added awareness o
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by samspenc 4y ago
Are you sure? Facial MoCap (motion capture) and human dialogue is pretty hard to get right in animation, much harder than body mocap. I agree with some of the other comments that say that this is somewhat of an advancement over existing bod
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by samspenc 4y ago
The WSJ article in Nov 2022 turned out to be pretty accurate, I would be surprised if this one wasn't. This year's Meta layoffs were reported on in Bloomberg as well a few days ago, and Meta hasn't denied either of the report
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by samspenc 4y ago
$1 trillion in payments processed. $12 billion in revenue, which is 1.2% of payment volume. $100 million in earnings, that's less than 1% profit margin on revenue, and that is before taxes, depreciation etc. This is why it's hard
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by samspenc 4y ago
For now, I think you have to sign up at https://www.bing.com/new and get added to a waitlist. Some people were approved within a few days, I think I had to wait a few weeks but am able to play with the Bing chatbot now.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Wow that's pretty awesome. I think Unreal (and Unity) only support FBX files, good to know Godot has first-class Blender file support.
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Using Stable Diffusion to create an anime episode (Corridor Crew)(youtube.com)
1 points by samspenc 4y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
I thought Midjourney was better as well, until I saw some recent videos from Corridor Crew on Youtube. For those who don't know, this is a VFX studio in LA that tries to keep at the cutting-edge of video production techniques and posts
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by samspenc 4y ago
Irony is these same politicians were eager to bash Amazon and its employees pre-COVID to gain political points, now they're happily welcoming Amazon employees back since downtown Seattle has been on a nosedive since then.
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Seattle mayor praises Amazon's back-to-office policy(geekwire.com)
2 points by samspenc 4y ago|4 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Ah fascinating, I honestly thought they were injecting HTML on Google's Chrome page, that's what it looked like, and I was wondering how in the world that was legal. Your explanation makes a lot more sense, if it's part of th
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Apple continues laying off contractors, impacting ‘hundreds’ of people(9to5mac.com)
27 points by samspenc 4y ago|4 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
IMHO, true, LLMs have gotten quite a bit of hype since ChatGPT came out, however I wouldn't say they have no legitimate use cases. Personally, I've been able to use them to summarize / rewrite various topics that I am interes
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How the Fed “Went Broke”(lynalden.com)
112 points by samspenc 4y ago|110 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
IIRC KitBash [1] is the largest player in this space and has photo-realistic models of large environments including San Francisco. Are you planning to compete with them head-to-head in the same market? [1] https://kitbash3d.com&#
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Ask HN: Unity or Unreal for Game Engine?
3 points by samspenc 4y ago|3 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Looks like they will be supporting Chrome at some point, based on the announce event reports, one of the spokespeople said "Chrome has to implement some features" before they can support it, maybe they'll make a Chrome extens
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by samspenc 4y ago
This was exactly my thought as well as I finished the blog post. Don't get me wrong, it's a short but helpful blog, but 4 out of 4 points all have a PaulG quote in there.
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Disney removes Simpsons episode that references Chinese labor camps(theverge.com)
3 points by samspenc 4y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Yeah, even though revenue increased a modest amount, the drop in income / profit should have investors worried.
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by samspenc 4y ago
I remember GIMP used to be the poster boy for the open-source alternative to Photoshop. But these days, I'm hearing more and more Krita, which is another popular open-source and free photo editor. Curious how GIMP holds up these days a
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Earth’s Inner Core May Be Reversing Its Rotation(wsj.com)
3 points by samspenc 4y ago|0 comments
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1.2M-Year-Old Obsidian Axe Factory Found in Ethiopia(iflscience.com)
16 points by samspenc 4y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Fell due to weak guidance for next quarter.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Maybe it's an advertisement for Word, this is a Microsoft earnings report after all. /s
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by samspenc 4y ago
Yeah Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and the ilk are going to automate away some of the art jobs, or at least some of the workflow involved in art (concept art etc)
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by samspenc 4y ago
This basically seems to line up with what another tech community (outside of AI / ML) seem to agree on: that Apple hardware is not that great for 3D modeling or animation work. Their M1 and M2 chips rank terribly on the open-source Ble
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by samspenc 4y ago
So this looks like true profit-per-employee ratio, the OP is revenue-per-employee ratio. I would expect companies to rank differently based on how profitable they are vs how much total money they are making. E.g. one big outlier is Amazon,
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by samspenc 4y ago
Looks like for the tech companies this is revenue per employee, and not profit per employee right? Then for Tesla, it would be $754K in an apples-to-apples comparison. I can't find any info for SpaceX though. Meta is at $1.64M per empl

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