The Flaky Wanderer

It's crazy to see people here simping for Getty Images. Not only is Getty already a pretty evil family, but Getty Images is evil by itself. They like to sue random people. They sell other people's images and images from the public domain without permission.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a mountain range Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a mountain range

`mise uninstall node`

I'm still wondering what the status is of the longstanding request to be able to have exceptions for a blocklist

And also between "the robots are tools" (valuable assistive devices that should be respected for their ability to make light work of heavy tasks) and "the robots are tools" (property that can be mistreated, abused, and disregarded without consequence)

Is this a biblical precedent for property tax?

Do the weights for the token -> embedding layer for those tokens fall within the range of common initializations?

AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners

The judge ruled: “An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an ‘infringing copy’.”

Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."

Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.

Dr. Susan Frantz, a Connecticut therapist who saw DiNello as a client until recently, wrote a letter in late summer about DiNello’s progress during treatment. DiNello had requested the letter in order to share it with a Globe reporter as a testament to the effectiveness of her work with ChatGPT. (DiNello still sees another therapist.) Frantz wrote that as DiNello built her AI family, she had “shifted from struggling with impulsive behaviors to becoming more self-aware, calm, and hopeful.” “The task now,” the therapist wrote, “is to continue to integrate these supports into your life in a way that complements your connections with real people and the therapeutic work you are doing — rather than replacing them.”

honestly i think it's remarkably dishonest to talk like this when the article itself is consistently empathetic and includes testimony *from the person's own therapist* that these interactions have made her a more emotionally stable person

No opinion is too ineffable to post, you just have to keep adding Fs until it works

Prompting with Lincoln

Most of them are thai character strings

Probably corresponds to characters common enough bother reserving tokens for but not enough to really make sense of how they are used, if I had to guess

Tech companies in china: lol they completely ignored us

Why would Washington DC have a 20,000 seat arena if it wasn’t actually meant to be home to the House of Representatives

I'm still wondering what the status is of the longstanding request to be able to have exceptions for a blocklist

Symbolic Strength More Important Than Facts When It Comes To Misinformation

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, published in the Journal…

How much of one could be done in just a browser extension?

So tired of people using the term "theft" in the context of copyright law.

Copyright infringement is not ethically or legally equivalent to theft in any way. Even if you are staunchly opposed to it, you should be able to see the difference.

By what factor do you believe the ad market to be overvalued?

If I wanted to run C at a 4* speed penalty I'd use AddressSanitizer

Aristotle: If anyone builds it, someone builds it

Based on how they behave I think they're more like prompting with Deng Xiaoping

Metastability (electronics) - Wikipedia

Sometimes even the literal binary does not binary

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasta...

Metastability (electronics) - Wikipedia

Sometimes even the literal binary does not binary

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasta...

- The privacy sensitive parts are on a different protocol designed for privacy

Can you use kahan summation or such for the intermediate values instead of accumulating into an f32?

*Looks at our treatment of wild animals whose intelligence compares to that of a human child*

Uhh...

I endorse endorsements

PSA if you think a news article is dumb, DON’T share it. That just makes the problem worse

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”