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by spoonjim 4y ago
These are really cool
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by spoonjim 4y ago
But if OpenAI's ability to create a photograph of a person laughing while eating a bowl of salad is due to mashing up these photos that were mainly from Getty Images, then Getty and its photographers would have a reasonable claim.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are two separate open US legal questions: 1) Does the use of copyrighted images in the OpenAI training model make the output a copyright infringement? This is not yet settled law. If I read a thousand books and write my own book, it&#
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Instead of treating everyone like a drunk driver they should just better enforce the current laws. Make a single DUI a ten-year loss of license and a DUI leading to a fatality an automatic life without parole and you will see a lot fewer pe
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Aren't machines better than humans at most sports? Hand off a football to an Abrams tank and it's not getting tackled on its way to the goal line.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
One of the weaknesses of this is that if you work at a company like Microsoft or Google that does pretty much everything, you’re fucked
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Hunter S. Thompson claimed to have typed out The Great Gatsby several times on a manual typewriter. Definitely makes you pay close attention to the structure of phrases and sentences.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
In many family-owned businesses the heir apparent (normally the eldest son of the owner) is prepared for the job by working as many of the low-level jobs as possible when a teenager. They clean the trash, lubricate the machines, etc. Two be
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are close to 0 Fortune 500 CEOs who would be DIRECTLY reaching out to Linux virtualization companies. There could easily be a CEO who convenes a meeting with the CIO and COO to "Find 10% savings on operational software costs&quot
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Modern academics are so niche that people reviewing a paper can pretty much guess who wrote it if they are a known quantity.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
All of the process creates incredible gatekeeping effects. Science would be much more robust if published github-style: post your results, engage with the community, fix issues, respond to critics, and eventually wrap it up, but always have
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What happened was that Twitter hired a famous name to run their security for the clout, then it turns out that was a big misfire
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This definitely feels fake. Either just a fabulist or someone mad at VMware and wants to scare them. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do not know about the Linux virtualization market.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The problem is FB uses that to suggest content from their friends. Then you get random stuff from randos
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And, of course, the Rolls-Royce and Maybach is likely driven by an employee of the owner rather than the owner, and will not get aggressive in his boss' car.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Can someone explain to a novice how “AI” is used here? Is the person in the IG image being correlated to a security camera time stamp with face recognition or similar?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you're talking about SLAM you're overanalyzing the situation. Essentially, unfettered decades of rapacious corporate abuse has created a group of people who are essentially skeptical of anything that big business does. FTC Comm
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The bigger reason you've never been tailgated by a Rolls-Royce, Maybach, or Ferrari is that there are vanishingly few of those cars on the road in the first place.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The road works because it is governed by written rules. The written rules allow the cyclist to take the lane. If you don't want to obey the written rules don't operate a motor vehicle.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Somewhat saved by the fact that the world pretty doesn’t pay much attention to what does or doesn’t happen in Haiti
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Almost nowhere in the history of the world does safe drinking water flow freely out of the tap. The US has been one of the exceptions due to the tireless efforts of professionals working under a political system that saw itself as stewards
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Reading on a bus would make me barf in 5 minutes
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It’s a drop in the bucket for LEGO enthusiasts who spend hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars a year on legos.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is really cool. I would love a VR meditation-style app where you just planted trees and watched them grow. Perhaps set at the foot of Mount Fuji with some daily haikus or something.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I think you're talking about a much higher quality bread than what's available in the typical American grocery store.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't ever get the slices even. They're thinner on one side etc. And why would I slice it myself if a machine can do it for me?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I wonder if there’s a way to bait institutions into doing this to you so you can get a big payday
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I have an enduring resentment of projectionists because a projectionist deflowered my high school crush on the floor of the projection booth while I was in the theater, and everyone knew it was happening and was kind of giving me "sorr
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Anyone who would seek out a monarchy would almost certainly be a sociopath. That's why it must be a birthright.
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And honestly does it even really matter. So he neglected his kids. Big fuckin' deal, I'm sure they'll survive.

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