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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I can give some insight. Partially I do watch video content like YouTube or Formula 1, but on my PC instead of on the TV. The rest of my free time is just spent on other hobbies like gaming, programming, running, walking, going to music festivals, music production, etc. I always have so much that I want to do, and the TV just isn't very enticing to me. I no longer have a cable subscription, and I usually don't really have the patience to watch a series on Netflix or something, so I'm not subscribed to a streaming service either. I'd rather do something interactive like a game.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Obviously this is a privacy community, and this ain't great in that regard, but as someone who's interested in AI this is absolutely fascinating. I'm now starting to wonder whether the model could theoretically encode the entire dataset in its weights. Surely some compression and generalization is taking place, otherwise it couldn't generate all the amazing responses it does give to novel inputs, but apparently it can also just recite long chunks of the dataset. And also why would these specific inputs trigger such a response. Maybe there are issues in the training data (or process) that cause it to do this. Or maybe this is just a fundamental flaw of the model architecture? And maybe it's even an expected thing. After all, we as humans also have the ability to recite pieces of "training data" if we seem them interesting enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As someone with a huge intrest in machine learning, it kinda pains me to see all this empty hype. All the buzzword fetishists seem to have picked AI as their next big thing, without properly understanding what it does. Most businesses don't need AI. For them it'd be a huge money and time sink. They could maybe benefit from existing tools like Copilot or ChatGPT, but they don't need their own AI features in their apps. Once their post-nut clarity kicks in and they find out how much money they've wasted on something that was barely useful to their products, they'll probably start hating AI for their own mistakes.

AI/ML is a very cool and useful tool. But most products don't need AI currently. It's not worth it in most cases, appart from maybe using off-the-shelf solutions that are easily Integrated.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because I have nothing to share that I find important enough. I'd rather comment on something

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That may be so, but they also got deals with quite some games that were supposed to be cross-laumcher to become (timed) Epic exclusive instead. This forces you to use their garbage-teir launcher. Besides that, Epic doesn't really seem to take any action to help Linux adoption like Steam does. And as a Rocket League fan I'm also specifically pissed about how they have been running my favorite game into the ground slowly.

Epic isn't trying to beat monopolies, it's just trying to become another one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To be a portable computer. They do so much more than open social media. You can learn new information on Wikipedia, read the weather predictions, organize you calendar, edit a spreadsheet, play games, etc. All from the palm of your hand. As someone who grew up in the time before smartphones, it's truly magnificent how fast we've progressed and where we are now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Netherlands.

Honestly, things could be way worse, but could also definitely be better. After many many years of rule under cabinets led by the neoliberal VVD party, earlier this year the cabinet fell. Mark Rutte, leader of the VVD and prime minister for forever, also announced that he was stepping down. Under his party, many scandals erupted and the living standards for many normal people got worse.

And thus it is time for change, but it's not exactly certain what that change will be. The last polls I saw had the VVD (with a new candidate and seemingly a different course), PvDA/GL (combined list of labour and green party), and a new party called "New Social Contract" (NSC) going pretty even for the lead. But many other parties are also in the mix.

Time will tell of this goes the right or the wrong way, but it's surely an exciting time for politics. Hopefully income inequality will decrease, people will be happier again, etc.

Overall I'm slightly hopeful about the future. Despite all the problems, it's still a great country to be in, and I don't think that that'll change too much in the grand scheme.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why I use poetry for python nowadays. Pip just feels like something ancient next to Cargo, Stack, Julia, npm, etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even though I regularly read papers in this field and I generally try to keep up with the state of the art, I keep finding myself exclaiming "wtf" whenever something like this comes out. Like, you can see it made the same mistakes other generatie models make, but then it corrects them (mostly) once we get closer. It wasn't the sharpest or completely flawless, but I'm in awe about the stability across such a long video and about how lifelike it all looks.

Edit: ah it's using world models just like PlaNet did for reinforcement learning. I suspected something like that because of the stability of the generation. Absolutely amazing results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mind region specific news if it's about tech regulations or something. But a PSA about a regular emergency system test is not that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that would not work, since a lot of people are in the US and have no consideration for other countries. I don't see how this is relevant to a community about technology. Sure, if they were using some cool and new technology, or a major law had changed, or even an article about how this works, it would be relevant. But this seems like a US-only PSA that doesn't really tell us anything.

Using upvotes only to moderate this type of content will just result in the Reddit issue, where a lot of general-purpose subreddits (like Politics or News) were completely dominated by US topics.

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