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by throwaway1851 4y ago
> with car owners loosing the control to pick the shortest route in order to be allowed to use the roads in the city Positively dystopian to me.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
A big difference is that a good artist does this in a meaningful way, creating novelty in a way that triggers a specific emotional impact or conveys a message. With generative AI, it’s all statistical sampling with any “meaning” inferred af
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I agree. I also think that if you just take a step back and consider that ChatGPT is just a math function like y=7x-9 (but much longer), it becomes kind of absurd to ask questions about whether it is intelligent or it is on the path to cons
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I think this is mainly theoretical at this point. In my experience, current technology doesn’t seem to be utilizing the additional information that comes from natural language all that well. For example: prompt Dalle2 for “a dinner plate on
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I don't really see how it's different from, say, a large convolutional neural network learning progressively higher-order features as you progress through the layers of the network. At the lowest layers it's learning simple e
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
If you go back some number of years, you’ll find that people “did fine” while having their teeth rot and fall out at the age of 35. Then we invented dental hygiene. Seeing as how poor emotion management is at the root of so many personal an
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
Oat milk may be a recent invention, but alternative milks aren’t. E.g., almond milk (“almonde mylk”) dates back to the Middle Ages as a dairy milk substitute.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I don’t even think the shipping benefit is all that great these days. Yes, you can get it fast, but what “it” are you getting? Usually, it’s some random Alibaba rebrand with a name like XXFOOJLI and ten thousand fake reviews.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I would certainly recommend any employee in this situation to get legal counsel. Terminating an employee for the purpose of preventing them from satisfying conditions precedent to a payment is a bad-faith move that some courts will set asid
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
If the terminations are happening for the purpose of depriving employees of stock-related compensation they are about to earn, that may be an illegal reason. For example, you cannot let a salesperson snag a huge deal and then fire him or he
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
From the article: > other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down. This is a chilling line, and yet so predictable. If DHS’s original manda
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
Same here. At 16GB of VRAM and only $349, it could fill a really nice slot for DL.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I would really like to be able to filter search results to exclude pages that contain affiliate links. I have a suspicion that this would greatly improve search result quality.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
> why not train it on opt-in repositories for a few years first, and iron out the kinks? Ha ha. Because then the product couldn’t be built. Better to steal now and ask forgiveness later, or better yet, deny the theft ever occurred.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
No kidding. Brilliant idea.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
> It is being taught by mathematicians. And as part of teaching it, they are attempting to instill a "mathematical mindset". I think this is a problem not just with calculus, but really with most math instruction. Math is taugh
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
The central problem with yearly university rankings is that they have no raison d’être. US News is financially motivated to keep all of the stakeholders glued to its “50 most beautiful people of the year” list, but institutional quality and
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I’m surprised at how bad native widgets are in general. They’re inconsistently styled, ugly, hard to override, and not all that usable. It’s nice that they have built in a11y support, but that’s about all they’ve got going for them. I wish
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I’ve been planning to migrate off Gmail, and stories like these are increasing my sense of urgency about it. Google shows such callous, reckless disregard for its users’ lives. I feel kind of stupid for trusting Google with this much power
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I think with color, it’s important to appreciate the irregularity that exists in this domain. You’re right that colors are defined as ranges of wavelengths or blends of ranges of wavelengths. And so there is a mathematical component to colo
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I appreciate the point you’re making, but I think it (and the article) glides past something important. The bundle of ideas called “DEI” don’t refer to broad, time-tested principles that are inherently aligned with the mission of higher edu
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I think the most important thing is to recognize that you can’t objectively assess others and you can’t objectively assess yourself if it’s something you care about. You may find yourself comparing anyway, but knowing that your “findings”
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
That makes sense. I don’t think that will render humans obsolete; I think it will just increase their productivity and ultimately raise the standard of quality expected. It means artists can explore and iterate on ideas faster than if they
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
Sorry, I don’t have one either. I’ve always experienced my thoughts as arising in a pre-language space. I must say, though, that deliberately translating my thoughts to language brings a lot of clarity as to what I’m actually thinking.
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I have a suspicion that generative art is going to hit a data wall, also. All of these models are constrained in what patterns they can learn because image captions are not very precise. They can rehash common motifs associated with keyword
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
> they don't actually have a serious and nuanced appreciation of art and they don't have a good understanding of all the types of work that artists do. I would extend this lack of nuance and understanding to the deep learning i
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
I look at this differently. I see an intrusive restriction on the private use of a general purpose tool, and ask: is this intrusion necessary? Do restrictions like this even serve as a road bump for real counterfeiting operations? Or do the
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
> it's impossible to compete with Amazon on general retail Uh, I don’t know about that. Just not being a weird bazaar filled with garbage differentiates a store from Amazon. My family used to buy everything from Amazon, but after an
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I’ve been wondering: has anyone noticed that areas with a lot of scooters and motorcycles have particularly bad air? Like, Victorian England bad. Some European cities are much worse than an LA freeway during rush hou
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by throwaway1851 4y ago
MidJourney needs a lot of prompt engineering too. And Dall-E also. If you look at the prompt as an opportunity to describe what you want to see, the results are often disappointing. It works better to think backwards about how the model was

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