Muskwalker

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by Muskwalker 16d ago
For a creator posting a video, Google gives specific guidelines on whether to tag it as AI: "Was AI used to generate or edit your content in any of the following ways? - Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn’t say
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by Muskwalker 20d ago
> Since at least macOS 15 the context menu key on typical keyboards is recognized and functions Apple's adding it to its own keyboards as well, at least on the third-generation Magic Keyboard with number pad (between F13 and forward
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by Muskwalker 20d ago
A conventional way to navigate GUIs is by using the Tab key to jump from control to control. A common way this can fail is if the Tab key traverses through the UI elements in an unexpected order.
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by Muskwalker 28d ago
Yeah, Shieldfont's Github shows that it is being made with Claude as well, so it'll be a non-starter for those who are dogmatically anti-AI. Their stance appears to be "[t]his is not an anti-AI font. AI is in our lives. We ar
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by Muskwalker 1mo ago
> So has anyone managed to separate the effects of semaglutide from the effects of weight loss? I was looking for that in particular. The study does say: "To assess whether the observed effect was mediated by weight reduction, we p
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by Muskwalker 1mo ago
This particular study was done on people without diabetes, at least.
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by Muskwalker 1mo ago
100%, the author believes they learned the lesson, but failed to recognize what it looks like when a person on the other side initiates this process. It's amazing the dissonance here: > They should expect a possible answer to be &#
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by Muskwalker 2mo ago
The author there reads the point "Two different data entry operators, given a person’s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system is well-designed" by thinking in terms of erroneou
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by Muskwalker 2mo ago
Officially, Fable/Mythos testing was delayed because of Anthropic's data retention policy. Don't know if there's word on them working that out yet. https://x.com/arcprize/status/206439913409915
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by Muskwalker 3mo ago
True, though I think the point they're aiming at is that symbols like [new driver mark] contrast with literal pictograms like [symbol of person in wheelchair]. You can infer/guess the meaning of [symbol of person in wheelchair] &#
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by Muskwalker 3mo ago
> complacent ("smug satisfaction with oneself" - I disagree that complacency is intrinsically smug) I agree that it doesn't seem 'smug', but weirdly both dictionary dot com and Wiktionary give 'smug' as
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by Muskwalker 4mo ago
I don't normally experience the time interval between when my input streams shut down every night and reboot every morning either, though. Nothing prevents one from running an LLM whose harness has a clock and a while loop in it, and i
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by Muskwalker 6mo ago
The Thaler case here is something different than "AI-generated = uncopyrightable" though. Thaler was not trying to copyright work in the way humans who make work with tools normally copyright their work ("Copyright 2026 by Me
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by Muskwalker 8mo ago
If it's not your thing, it's not your thing, but if 'lying' is really the only barrier, note that a lot of churches actually consider it part of their mission to work with nonbelievers and would take something like &quot
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by Muskwalker 9mo ago
As someone who's done just that... if it helps, understand that this is the kind of person who would be spending hours writing that paragraph anyway, LLM or no. There are many possible reasons for this, and sometimes people are laborin
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by Muskwalker 9mo ago
So, could this be an example of an LLM trained fully on public domain copyright-expired data? Or is this not intended to be the case.
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by Muskwalker 11mo ago
In fact in this case, it's not the known limitation of floating point numbers to blame: this Calculator application gives you the ability (submenu under View > Decimal Places) to choose a precision between 0 to 15 decimal places, an
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by Muskwalker 1y ago
> I'm on Mastodon. It's only very mildly nice. The reality is that it still suffers from all of this. Most of it, at least - it does give the option to not be shown forwarded messages. There's controls on the home timeline
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by Muskwalker 1y ago
Unfortunately English "fun" is used both for good wholesome fun and for the cruel fun that is "making fun of" people (laughing at their misfortune).
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by Muskwalker 2y ago
The site also says (at the bottom) that it grabbed the translations from Google Translate back in 2014 and hasn't updated them since.
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by Muskwalker 2y ago
Yeah, the bit that gets me is the assumption that an artist just _yields_ to the AI's choices. The author says in the article "my own hand, the single most valuable asset I possess", but I'd say that much greater is the
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by Muskwalker 3y ago
Lots of black-and-white pictures, lots of pictures in silhouette. Pictures of the tower can also have a lot of... texture? If you don't know you're looking at "brown with shadows" you might think you're looking at &
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by Muskwalker 6y ago
Internet Archive suggests the original discussion was a Usenet thread; here is the link to Google Groups' version of it: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/geometry.research/7pyFhAAy...