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- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 3 days ago:
A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 3 days ago:
A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.
After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.
“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” smithsonianmag.com/…/this-award-winning-japanese-…
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the hardware so it can keep up with updates? The article mentioned a law that requires manufacturers to offer repairs and recalls for 15 years after sale. That could be expanded to include computer hardware.
- Comment on Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” 4 days ago:
Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 6 days ago:
Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 1 week ago:
Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 1 week ago:
No my irritation was with how it was written. Why break the rhythm when listing 3 things? Why mention Vietnam and the Philippines and then immediately move on? The writing was very disjointed.
Some of the embedded links were useful and interesting, others just went to random pages that had nothing to do with what was discussed.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 1 week ago:
Japan’s MHI, Germany’s Siemens, and GE Vernova
I’ve heard of Japan and Germany but where is GE?
A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) notes the effect this is having in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.
What is the effect? Why bring it up if you don’t want to discuss it?
What a poorly written article. I couldn’t follow the author’s incomplete thoughts for much of it.
- Comment on Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more 2 weeks ago:
If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 2 weeks ago:
You tax dollars at work. Let’s spend a month investigating something the DA immediately shuts down.
Your primary complaint is that the police wasted their time? I’m sure they’ll get better at identifying what cases are worth pursuing with time and experience.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 1 month ago:
I love how all of facebook’s privacy settings are set to ‘use and abuse me’ and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg’s answer was basically, “Yes.”
- Comment on The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones. 2 months ago:
There’s a movement in Spain and people put stickers in their shop windows that say, “You can use my phone” so kids can call home without the need to carry their own phone.
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- Comment on Ideas coming down the track 2 months ago:
Trains are designed to operate for 30 or more years so the turnover is slower than cars, which have an average age of 12 in USA.
- Comment on Ideas coming down the track 2 months ago:
12 foot ladder- archive.ph/iZqnd
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- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 2 months ago:
12 foot ladder- archive.ph/XRppG
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 2 months ago:
A somewhat shallow look at China’s HSR network that nevertheless provides some insights into how new lines are transforming some regions.
I don’t understand why western media is so reluctant to acknowledge the broader social, economic and political benefits these lines are intended to provide. Failing to consider such questions means they will never understand China.
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- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 months ago:
I read an article about China’s HSR that stated that a line with a top speed of 350km/h was 90% more expensive to build than a line built for 250km/h. The trains don’t spend much time at top speed during short journeys either. economist.com/…/china-has-built-the-worlds-larges…
A cubic meter of air weighs 1kg according to a Big, Bigger, Biggest episode about France’s TGV. Japan’s new Maglev is significantly smaller than the Shinkansen and the tunnels it runs through are 20% bigger since standard HSR already has problems with tunnel boom that can be mitigated at the tunnel entrance and exit. I also wonder how trains traveling in opposite directions will handle passing each other at 1000km/h given China is already working on next gen trains with that speed as a goal.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 months ago:
Doubling the speed turns a 4 hour journey into a 2 hour journey saving you 2 hours. Double speed again and it drops to 1 hour so you only save 1 hour, double again and you save 30 minutes. So the time saving is cut in half each time.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 months ago:
Concorde only flew 2 routes; NYC to London and NYC to Paris so in exchange for training pilots and engineers and securing supply chains for the aircraft you got a tiny return on investment. BA also kept a spare aircraft permanently parked in New York that could step in if there were any problems with the primary craft, another significant expense.
Installing lie flat beds and suites in standard jumbo jets provided similar profits with way fewer headaches.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 months ago:
I feel that even if someone succeeds with Maglev it will at best be the Concorde of the railways due to the higher costs and inconvenience of using a niche technology with a limited supply chain and limited number of engineers available to build and maintain lines. Proprietary tech also limits your ability to shop around or negotiate better prices. Remember that Concode was profitable but was retired because it was uneconomical.
I also wanted to draw attention to the diminishing returns higher speeds deliver: 100km/h train = 4 hour journey 200km/h train = 2 hours 300km/h train = 1 hour 20 mins 400km/h train = 1 hour 500km/h train = 48 mins 600km/h train = 40 mins
This ignores acceleration and breaking times and the faster your train the sooner it has to start decelerating in order to avoid overshooting it’s destination. One overlooked time saving that HSR delivers is that the need to build straight tracks and skip stops to maintain speed means a more direct route to your destination delivered at the expense of the places in between. High speed service is actually a downgrade for many communities as the trains no longer serve local stations.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 22 comments
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 6 months ago:
I was expecting a much stronger argument based on the headline.
Personally I’d prefer regulation on how social media is structured and how algorithms operate. First thing I’d do is ban infinite scroll, which corporations like because it increases ‘engagement’ whilst harming the quality of the experience for their users.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 6 months ago:
They only want to ban social media and even then only the big ones with an exception for youtube.
- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 7 months ago:
These AI models require huge amounts of electricity. If governments wanted to they could destroy their ability to operate, like when China banned bitcoin mining.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 8 months ago:
The crash at Charles de Galle contributed along with 9/11, the sonic boom limiting flights and the inability to fly across the Pacific. Also the plane is super narrow making seating uncomfortable.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 8 months ago:
My favourite example is Concorde, which remained profitable throughout its service life but was cancelled because bigger profits can be made with slower planes.
Patents expire after 10 years so technology being locked away isn’t the biggest concern. The bigger problem is the dismantling of supply chains and loss of skills and experience when the workforce moves on.
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 8 months ago:
Some of us live overseas and need to make official calls to government agencies and companies from time to time.