dorkwood

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by dorkwood 2y ago
> Downtrodden workers used to be easier to ignore. The internet is the greatest tool for organising in history. On its face the internet seems like a powerful organisation tool, but in reality it's quite bad. These online movements
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by dorkwood 2y ago
"Beat the Freeze", a half-time show the Atlanta Braves used to put on, is pretty close. It's where a member of the crowd takes on a former collegiate sprinter in a 160m race, and they're given a five second head start.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
So we agree that humans have the capacity to be evil. Presumably, it's their actions that make them evil. In that case, do you think it would be possible for an evil human to design a device that performed one of their evil actions for
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by dorkwood 2y ago
He's so funny :)
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by dorkwood 2y ago
I think he would tweet something like "42.0% of all polls are wrong". Like a clever pun using the weed number (420) :)
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Is anything evil? Or does everything just exist, and nothing more?
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Is this something that could be solved by building AI code review directly into git clients? I can't help thinking Claude 3 would have caught this.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> In an email to Mashable, Apple said that its open-source language model, OpenELM, indeed used the dataset, but not in the way some may be thinking. The OpenELM project is a part of Apple's ongoing effort to benefit the broader res
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by dorkwood 2y ago
He was being sarcastic.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to buil
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> His response was simply "I never got embarrassed asking the computer any finance questions, even stupid/simple ones; I've always been the finance guy with answers so I forgot how to be humble in unexplored topics."
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by dorkwood 2y ago
In Australia, it's neither. It's jool-ry.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> I just don't have any problems to solve with these tools It's possible you're placing too much emphasis on the type of problem you need to solve. You might be trying to think of a problem that many people experience, or
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Have you done this yourself? I've tried it in the past after reading a blog post about its effectiveness. I am yet to receive a response.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> Echo chambers are mostly democrat sided. What are your thoughts on Qanon and Pizzagate? Echo chambers exist on both sides. It's human nature to align yourself with a tribe and denounce everything that goes against it. Most people
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by dorkwood 2y ago
For all the people laughing at the Vision Pro and saying it's useless, just remember that when the first iPhone came out people were saying the same thing. It's often the second or third generation of a product where it really sta
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Sure. The paper doesn't show topology, UVs or the output texture, so we're left to assume the models look something like what you'd find when using photogrammetry: triangulated blobs with highly segmented UV islands and very
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by dorkwood 2y ago
I'm confused why they'd take it down. I mean, isn't this what AI is supposed to do? Or is the bad thing that someone pointed it out?
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Is there an option for custom ease curves, like a graph editor? I love the idea of an After Effects alternative, but if it only has a few simple ease functions to choose from I can't see myself using it much, sadly.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> It doesn't materially improve most people's lives at all. What about all the people here who were claiming GPT-4 had become an essential part of their developer job? They seem to have gone quiet recently, but they must still
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Yeah, I was expecting mention of exercise too.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
> Why should AI need permission to perform the equivalent of "human looking" at content? Why should a car need permission to perform the equivalent of "human walking" down the sidewalk? A car converts fuel into kineti
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by dorkwood 2y ago
You think OpenAI, Meta or Microsoft care about those things? They've already trained on all the world's copyrighted data without asking for permission. Any hand-wringing you see from them is performative.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
They also tend to rely heavily on textures for detail. When they can do clay renders with textures removed and still retain detail, I'll be impressed.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
I think knowing the names of things is useful and gets unfairly maligned. It gives your mind a set of symbols with which it can make connections, which is how understanding forms. Rote memorisation of names is a precursor to understanding.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Could you really survive without trucks delivering food to stores on your city? I couldn't.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Do they need new training data? I'm pretty sure Midjourney, OpenAI etc. already scraped all of the images in existence long before the well was poisoned. They can use other methods, such as improved tagging, to improve their models.
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Do you reply with this when anyone tells you their experience? Just to clarify, is your argument that the data shows no link between depression and lifestyle factors, and that I'm an outlier, so my experience can be dismissed?
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by dorkwood 2y ago
I had depression and it was eventually cured through lifestyle changes (getting a job, learning a skill, and making new friends). What would you say about my case?
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by dorkwood 2y ago
Too bad you didn't tweet this. You could have got 100k likes! https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238

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