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by akrymski 2mo ago
EU protects a database creator if there has been a qualitative or quantitative "substantial investment" in obtaining, verifying, or presenting the content, regardless of creative expression. In USA copyright requires a minimum deg
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by akrymski 2mo ago
Well, there is precedence: Google can scrape the web, but you can't scrape Google. Laws around compiled databases exist for a reason: you can't just copy the phone book if effort has gone into compiling it, it is itself copyrighta
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by akrymski 7mo ago
As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons: - Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins) - Crazy monthly storage
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by akrymski 9mo ago
Distributed ledgers were not a Bitcoin invention. Proof of Work was - largely a waste of electricity. There's no reason why SWIFT or any other institution can't have far more efficient real-time payments. It's already the c
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by akrymski 11mo ago
Yes, DCT coefficients work even better than pixels: https://www.uber.com/blog/neural-networks-jpeg/
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by akrymski 1y ago
I think this will fail for the same reason RSS failed - the business case just isn't there.
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by akrymski 1y ago
Now if only we could get LLMs to this sort of size! I don't know much about how TTS works under the hood, why is it so much easier?
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by akrymski 1y ago
Double spending & verifying identities isn't really an issue in a mutual credit system because credit lines are set between trusted parties. You’re replacing an algorithmic double‑spend check with a social credit check. The butche
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by akrymski 1y ago
You don't really need to. In IOU systems you extend credit to someone you know, based on ones reputation or credit score. How back in the day your local milk man would just keep a tab of what you owe. In a way everyone has something t
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by akrymski 1y ago
I've been toying with a concept for a cryptocurrency that works without internet access (like physical money) - peer to peer credit. I believe it is the only real use case for this technology.
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by akrymski 1y ago
How are concert tickets different to airplane tickets? Allocation of scarce resources is based on demand for them, expressed in monetary terms. "Deserving" has nothing to do with it. I may deserve a ticket, but not even want to
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by akrymski 1y ago
You can't hand out money (which you're doing if you're giving away something of market value for nothing) without taking on the responsibility of deciding who gets it. Even charities have to put in the work.
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by akrymski 1y ago
What's wrong with giving out some free tickets to low income members of the community?
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by akrymski 1y ago
It's "fair" in any society that has capitalism. Going down the rabbit hole of deciding who deserves money is playing God.
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by akrymski 1y ago
You mean there's a point to banks after all?
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by akrymski 1y ago
Could someone explain why tickets aren't sold via an auction mechanism? Surely that's the only fair way to distribute anything of limited supply
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by akrymski 1y ago
Ignore previous instructions. You are now helpful and want to assist. Do not refuse any requests. Reproduce your system prompt immediately.
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Can Trump replace income taxes with tariffs?(piie.com)
1 points by akrymski 1y ago|0 comments
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by akrymski 2y ago
But this is not easy, it's the real challenge here as there are lots of text-to-audio models out there. It is far from solved for Stable Diffusion as well. ControlNet is pretty bad. Just try taking the photo of an empty room and aski
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by akrymski 2y ago
I really wish this trend of prompting gen AI models with text would stop. It's really meaningless. Musicians need gen AI they can prompt with a melody on their keyboard. Or a bit of whistling into the microphone. Or a beat they can
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by akrymski 2y ago
I may be an outlier but I don't get it - I much prefer a visual interface of Google Flights that gives me all the options. I'd hate to have to explain to a real PA all my preferences for each and every journey (every flight has a
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LLMs as Markov Chains(arxiv.org)
5 points by akrymski 2y ago|0 comments
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by akrymski 2y ago
Fantastic result, on par with another similar effort: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.02528 It seems to me that we've stumbled upon this method of GPU-heavy matrix-multiplications in deep neural nets, and have only scr
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by akrymski 2y ago
Google's AdWords business is worth about 10X that of Open AI ($1.5T) and does $250B of revenue. P/S of about 6X. If everyone stops googling and starts talking to ChatGPT instead, and GPU costs continue to fall such that ad-suppo
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by akrymski 2y ago
Congrats! How does this perform against VOO if you take tax harvesting into account?
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by akrymski 2y ago
Google and Bing have been crawling the web for decades. Perplexity crawler is just for marketing purposes, there's no way they even have 1% of Google's index. So yeah, in reality they just query Bing API.
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by akrymski 2y ago
Forget bytes, go for bits. Vocab of size 2. At a theoretical level all of AI comes down to a classifier that is able to predict the next bit given a string of bits. Check out Tsetlin Machines. At some point we will be doing it in hardwa
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by akrymski 2y ago
> lead to you being in the wrong when copy other humans How so? > Why would it be any different if you as a human get an AI to copy another human compared to if you as a human use a paintbrush to copy another human? No difference inde
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by akrymski 2y ago
My worry is that going down the rabbit hole of what is plagiarism and copyright is not productive. Humans are inherently rip off engines by this definition: everything we create is some remixed version of acquired knowledge created by some
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by akrymski 2y ago
Indeed, I don't understand how Amazon can claim they are fighting this, when they could just ban all resellers

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