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by sdenton4 1y ago
Table Top Simulator. It's obviously an AI for playing wargames without having to bother painting all the miniatures, or finding someone with the same weird interest in Balkan engagements during the Napoleonic era.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
In terms of 'meeting the reader where they are,' you would want to telegraph the math mistakes pretty hard, or they would fly past everyone. Making them obvious and dumb is the only way they'll get attributed to the character
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by sdenton4 1y ago
A core problem of capitalism is that it only solves the problems of people with money... This is more of the same. Consider that any of those 100 people might have a kid who would be the next Einstein, if only they hadn't been lead-poi
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The particularly amazing part is that both the Oracle and the LLM said 'Right where you left them,' but only the LLM was correct.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Careful there: Once the machine turns you into a gnome, the price to turn back is quite hefty. A friend of mine gave up an eye, I only lost my most cherished memory. And most people ask the wrong question entirely and are never heard from a
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I'm a millennial who has watched the complete failure of my generation to realize the promise of those Obama 'Hope' posters. "Everyone don't do X" runs into problems when there are clear incentives to do X. Lik
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by sdenton4 1y ago
There's still a selection problem in adaptation.... Directors are not interchangeable, and that's ok! It means there can be a broader range of styles and flavors in the world. For example, what if the Coen brothers had directed, s
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The first season seriously builds up. The prison arc and the last episodes on Ferrix are absolutely top notch.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Hmmm, rise of the empire you say? So a long hard look at a faltering parliamentary system, gradually usurped by an authoritarian and his team of goons... Doesn't sound very relatable for today's audiences.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I'm seeing lots of big business bending over backwards to erase all the words that are it of favor with the "free speech absolutists" in the GOP. And good luck of you've ever written anything down suggesting that maybe b
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Yeah, exactly - fix the trademark problem by not using the logo and starting clearly who you are, and then go to town...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I believe scraping is generally ok - there's actual trademark law about trademarks, which is why you got a c+d about trademark usage, instead of a general 'stop what you're doing we don't like it' c+d. A good point
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The y axis on the chart starts at 10, not zero... It shows a rise of perhaps 40% over the last twenty years. This looks to be similar to the range of total variation since 1950, though the trajectory of the curve is worrisome. And yeah, the
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Or set up SFTP on the Linux machine, and find whatever Windows crapware that's able to connect to it... Filezilla, maybe?
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by sdenton4 1y ago
/me pours one out for Stadia
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by sdenton4 1y ago
That's certainly an opinion.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Nothing in copyright law talks about 'semantic meaning' or 'character of the source material'. Really, quite the opposite - the 'expression-idea dichotomy' says that you're copyrighting the expression of a
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by sdenton4 1y ago
(Indeed, Belle and Sebastian's "If You're Feeling Sinister - Live at the Barbican" is my favorite B&S album, and is quite a lot better than the original studio recording. So the Barbican has an odd warm place in my h
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by sdenton4 1y ago
LLMs are certainly not a jpeg or a database... The google news snippets case is, in my non-lawyer opinion, the most obvious touch point. And in that case, it was decided that providing large numbers of snippets in search results was non-inf
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Meanwhile, 'censorship' had been watered down into meaninglessness...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
"self-driving car project that's dragging on for decades." And yet, waymo seems to have got the correct risk reward trade-off compared to all of the move-fast-and-get-banned competitors...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
It's not soooo appalling once you dig further into what's happening. There's been a tug-of-war between compute bottlenecks and memory bottlenecks in accelerators for quite a while. Big increases in FLOPs requires faster memor
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I think there's been some tendency against things like HogWild in favor of reproducibility and (its close cousin) debug-friendliness.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Bad input pipelines are a big cause of spikiness - you might have to wait a non-trivial fraction of a second for the next batch of inputs to arrive. If you can run 20+ training steps per second on. adecent batch size, it can take some real
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by sdenton4 1y ago
If the default is a loaded gun pointed at your foot, you're going to end up with lots of people missing a foot. "just git gud" isn't a solution.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Meanwhile the free speech absolutists at the top of the federal government are ctrl-f deleting anything containing words they don't like...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
In short, the title of the piece is in no way fraudulent: No one is being defrauded here, and I don't believe there was any intent to defraud anyone. The title is not click bait. Titles might be better or worse for their content, but i
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by sdenton4 1y ago
On the one hand, you have SEO mills churning out crap and A/B testing clickthrough rates on different headline/image combinations. That's bad. On the other hand, you have a blogger choosing a headline for a cool thing that th
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The people pissed about clickbait headlines were often overstating things to drum up outrage and accumulate more hacker news upboats...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Autocracy comes in shades. Arresting judges who do things you don't like is yet another shade darker than we've seen so far... And things were already pretty dark.

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