Rhaedas

Languages change over time. As long as the intent is clear, don’t get hung up on what is and isn’t “correct”. “You’re welcome” probably was seen as extreme at some point itself.

Watching some reaction videos of people discovering Pink Floyd, one of them made an observation that clicked during “Time”. That Pink Floyd likes to first set the mood with the opening, then drop a few profound lyrics, and follow with a long solo that sets a mood of introspection where your mind goes back to those lyrics letting them hit harder during the musical interlude…then they follow with deeper lyrics to hit again.

I’ll admit that I’m one of those who enjoyed Pink Floyd when I was younger mainly because of the music. It’s coming around again and the lyrics are now my focus because some of it hits far harder once you have experience in life.

I just got a replacement router (bad lightning storm) and to set up the wifi information or anything else I had to download an app on a phone to access it. 192.168.1.1 shows the QR code to install. And what I can change on this new one is even less than the limited version I had before. Total overkill.

The disturbing part is that other than when the last ones happened and their very broad frequency (400-2500 years based on the ones known from data), we don’t really know where they come from, or how we could handle it with a technological-dependent society. Last one was more than 1000 years ago.

A subset of the kerning problem. Space layout is important.

I don’t know why they’d be ashamed of a lower case t though…

That’s not even realistic. I know that Starfield isn’t meant to be a simulator, but if you put in something to try and be “real”, you should do it right. Gravity would affect the weight of something, but the inertia is still the same. Moving and stopping a big object in space with no gravity at all is still hard to do.

Unfortunately a literal reading of Genesis 1:28 says to subdue the Earth (master or control in a few translations, and use all the resources for God’s purpose in one). Those trying to paint a nicer picture might change it to being stewards of the planet (which is what I always heard as a kid), but that’s not what’s there. To be fair, it was written in a time where the world seemed endless and humans couldn’t possibly destroy everything, a mindset that lasts to this very day. Even less than a century ago we were okay with dumping stuff into the water or burying it, or burning things because it was a huge world and the smoke disappeared into the sky.

There is no “proper” English, there are only various versions of the original. If you really want to nitpick, American English stayed “truer” to the original English because of various reasons while the British version diverged more over the 18th-19th centuries.

Or in a shorter form, adding a ‘u’ to make some words sound more…French…is just silly.

Seems to have all sides covered to prevent rolling away, anything more is just fluff.

The article has a few caveats to the idea as well, it’s not as certain as the title suggests. I’d suggest that this may hold up as well as the idea that the Toba eruption created an extinction-level bottleneck in our history. Later findings threw doubt on that initial conclusion too. We know of various other species that have definitely gone through severe genetic bottlenecks of their own, and the results are a lot clearly. The cheetah is a prime example.

That would make vaccination for anything useless if the requirement was to prevent any spread. Reducing spread involves other factors, vaccines just help lessen the effects of getting sick when those fail (or aren’t used at all, i.e. American anti-maskers and crowds because economy is priority).

Nothing has a survival rate of 100%. Want people to stop eating or drinking, or taking a shower, or just getting out of bed?

JPEG is the best direct example. Who pronounces the F sound?

93% with Firefox and Ghostery behind Windscribe VPN. I’ve got a few other addons disabled like Decentraleyes and Ublock, but a combination of those with Ghostery didn’t do any higher. Pretty sure I disabled them because Ghostery did everything they did. The stuff let in are to make websites like Youtube and Google usable. It’s a tradeoff.

Methanol fires in racing are scary. No flame, no smoke, just burning you.

I wonder how Firefox’s new reader toggle would handle this. It basically strips things down to the core textual content of the page.

True, and then because it’s a black box there wouldn’t be a known issue at all. Or maybe it would be much less of an issue because the words might have blended others into the mix, and his style wouldn’t be as obvious in the outputs, and/or it would be easier to dismiss. Did the training involve actual input of his name, or was that pulled from the source trained on? How much control was in the training?

I totally agree with you on protecting the basics of creativity and growth. I think the core issue is using “imitate” here. Is that what the LLM is doing, or is that an anthropomorphism of some sense that there’s intelligence guiding the process? I know it seems like I’m nitpicking things to further my point, but the fact that this is an issue to many even outside artwork says there is a question here of what is and isn’t okay.

And yet the artist’s name is used to push the weights towards pictures in their style. I don’t know what the correct semantics are for it, nor the legalities. That’s part of the problem, the tech is ahead of our laws, as is usually the case.

they charge money to generate his style of art without compensating him.

That’s really the big thing, not just here but any material that’s been used to train on without permission or compensation. The difference is that most of it is so subtle it can’t be picked out, but an artist style is obviously a huge parameter since his name was being used to call out those particular training aspects during generations. It’s a bit hypocritical to say you aren’t stealing someone’s work when you stick his actual name in the prompt. It doesn’t really matter how many levels the art style has been laundered, it still originated from him.