AkelaA

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by AkelaA 6mo ago
It’s interesting that the theory of Quantum Mechanics emerged just after this point and threw a wrench in the idea that the universe could be neatly explained through a universal single theory, suddenly there were more questions than answer
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by AkelaA 6mo ago
AI art as a whole has just become the new clipart. The fact that it’s effortless to produce just means that it has no real artistic value, and by using it all you’re signifying to people is that you’re too cheap to pay someone to create rea
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by AkelaA 8mo ago
It also - as seen in that screenshot, had large, always visible scrollbars where it was easy to see how far down you were in a folder or document, and could easily click and drag to scroll to where you needed. Now in the service of minimali
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by AkelaA 8mo ago
Most regular people use AI to get restaurant recommendations or cheat on homework. I think you massively overestimate just how many people actually care about the more advanced features of AI services.
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by AkelaA 8mo ago
Your average PC buyer doesn’t know what an LLM is, let alone why they should run one locally. They just want a good PC that runs Word and Excel and likely find the fact that Copilot keeps popping up in Word every time they open a new docume
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by AkelaA 8mo ago
Which is probably why the CEO felt okay to make these comments. I would be very surprised to hear this from someone like Satya Nadella.
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by AkelaA 9mo ago
How many people do you think need to die before we have adequate AI safety laws?
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by AkelaA 9mo ago
Well, LLMs aren't human so that's not relevant.
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by AkelaA 9mo ago
I think it's funny that at no point in the article do they mention the idea of simply making LLMs more efficient. I guess that's not important when all you care about is winning the AI "race" rather then selling a long t
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by AkelaA 9mo ago
We need food and housing. We don't need AI.
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by AkelaA 11mo ago
It does feel like there would be a lot more skepticism about the technology if it had appeared a decade or two ago.
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by AkelaA 11mo ago
In my experience it’s usually the engineers that aren’t worried about AI, because they see the limitations clearly every time they use it. It’s pretty obvious that whole thing is severely overhyped and unreliable. Your boss (or more likely,
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by AkelaA 6y ago
EPSXE also defaults to an emulated bios nowadays as well, which seams to work pretty well.
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by AkelaA 6y ago
Also on the more VFX side, Houdini is super powerful in the way it puts it's visual scripting system/node graph front and center - while also making it really easy to embed "actual" code in the form of VEX (or Python) di
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by AkelaA 6y ago
If contrast is used to make some comments harder to read as a way to de-emphasise them from the discussion, then end result is that the visibility of the comment is determined by your level of eyesight (or the quality of your monitor), rath
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by AkelaA 6y ago
That was more then 18 years ago though, back when Microsoft was very new to the console game. They've had a lot of successes and failures since then. A more recent example would be Mojang which has gone extremely well for them - Minecr
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by AkelaA 6y ago
It's rare to see something as mass market and expensive as a modern AAA open world game making a "statement" that isn't extremely watered down and tepid - there's just too much at stake. And a piece of media that&#x
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by AkelaA 6y ago
I can't help but notice that many of the "non ideal" examples are pretty much identical to the colors used by companies like Google: https://blog.datawrapper.de/img/full-200805_goodcolors28.png . Apple is
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by AkelaA 6y ago
The original Blade Runner is a great example of a film that depicts the changing architecture of a city - while we see sweeping shots of mile high sky scrapers throughout the film, on the ground we still see the remains of historic architec
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by AkelaA 6y ago
Not to mention it's a false statement. They do fund exclusives through their publishing arm, and are currently in the process of funding the next games by Remedy (creators of Control), Playdead (Limbo, Inside), and Gen Design (ex Team
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by AkelaA 6y ago
Plus Ebay incentives sellers to upload their own photos and written descriptions of the product they're selling, rather then having generic product pages for multiple listings. If I'm buying a second hand item like an old video ga
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by AkelaA 6y ago
In a way this is the equivalent of an old-school carriage dispute but for apps. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of this in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_dispute
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by AkelaA 6y ago
Many statistics have shown that younger generations are less likely to drink: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45807152 (among many other things: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/44880278 ) so it seams like
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by AkelaA 6y ago
Or, perhaps, maybe you're just not the target audience and those animations are designed as visual indicators for less experienced users? Those animations are absolutely a product of well researched UX design, it's just design tha
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by AkelaA 6y ago
If all those things are just commodities, then surely the OS, CPU, and really every single low level aspect of a computer could be considered a commodity as well? Nobody's buying a PS4 because it runs a FreeBSD derived OS, nor are peop
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by AkelaA 6y ago
You might be interested in https://www.earthcam.com/ - they host a large selection of live webcams from different locations around the world, many at a pretty decent HD resolution and frame rate. Here's a live view of