DaDragon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The short hand answer I’d try to give people is ‘it’s statistics’. Based on training data, there’s a certain chance of certain words being in proximity of each other. There’s no reasoning behind placement, other than whatever pattern is discernible from known situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve literally never paid for Star Citizen. Not sure how I’m supposed to be a sweaty fanboy…

  It’s a large scoped game, and from what I’ve seen, they’ve slowly been turning it into an incredibly feature-filled game that goes beyond the scope of what most other games deliver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawsuits for what? They never promised any customer that they would immediately deliver a working end product. As far as I can make out, they offer early access to an in-development product, with your purchase going toward funding development. It’s more akin to a donation with strings (access to the product).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because development has a high ongoing cost that they do not have any other product to take up? Star citizen has a fairly large scope, and the fact that they have even gotten to the point where a fairly high number of gameplay loops are fully integrated is quite impressive. If you look at their ship designs, for example, you can see just how much care was put into a lot of the designs (see the architectural reviews, for example)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is out of ideas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy the fact that there’s more and more money in your bank account? I personally find solace in that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that lead to the same argument as originally brought against photography, though?

  A photographer is effectively negotiating with the sun, the sky and everything else to hopefully get the result they are looking for on their device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s the reason why LLM generated content isn’t considered creative.

  I do believe that the person using the device has a right to copyright the unique method they used to generate the content, but the content itself isn’t anything worth protecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So why is so much information (data) freely available on the internet? How do you expect a human artist to learn drawing, if not looking at tutorials and improving their skills through emulating what they see?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what humans do, though. Maybe not probability directly, but we all know that some words should be put in a certain order. We still operate within standard norms that apply to aparte group of people. LLM’s just go about it in a different way, but they achieve the same general result. If I’m drawing a human, that means there’s a ‘hand’ here, and a ‘head’ there. ‘Head’ is a weird combination of pixels that mostly look like this, ‘hand’ looks kinda like that. All depends on how the model is structured, but tell me that’s not very similar to a simplified version of how humans operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gone through at least 5 or so Philips sonicare brushes, and it’s almost universally the linkage to the brush head that fails. Seems like they can’t handle the vibration for more than a couple years.

  The buttons aren’t terribly insulated from water/other crap too, but honestly I’ve never had them fail, so it’s certainly not that huge of a concern

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It tastes a bit sweeter and looks better, really. You can also use the charger to froth cold soups or to make foamy suspensions.

  It’s a better alternative to prepackaged whipped cream, in my mind. It also doesn’t contain sweeteners (unless you put them in, of course) which is a benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nitrous whipped cream is sweeter, but apart from that and presentation, you’re correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nicer, for when you have guests over, for example. You could always pipe the cream, I guess, but that’s even more work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon dioxide would produce curdled cream, that much I know.

  Looks like it’s only a half-ban, really.

  For example, someone buying a single canister on a weekday alongside other household and baking goods differs to young people buying a number of nitrous oxide canisters on a weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I were living in the UK, I’d be a criminal, got it.

  But on a more serious note, how am I supposed to whip cream now? I understand banning it as a drug, but what about the main purpose of nitrous?