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dwroberts

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dwroberts
·hace 13 horas·discuss
When I read stuff like this, I think the people involved need to go outside and touch grass.

I don’t mean that in a mean or reductive way. But something about this kind of assumption that things will get more elaborate and more abstract forever (when he’s talking about the future war for your inner reality) as if there are infinite resources, just strikes me as disconnected from physical reality in a way that feels particularly weird
dwroberts
·anteayer·discuss
Important part before parent comment gets dismissed:

> Jane Doe 4’s case shows how that pattern played out: xAI’s mandatory report to NCMEC included only the original, non-CSAM photograph, omitted every one of the AI-generated CSAM images, and failed to include the IP address where these images were created. Despite repeated requests from investigators for this location information that is critical for identifying and arresting perpetrators, xAI did not respond, stymieing the investigation for weeks.

This is not just a scumbag user misusing a model but X itself acting as a barrier to finding these people
dwroberts
·anteayer·discuss
Linux is a much larger project receiving changes to tons of systems from lots of different sources. The combined behaviour of those things working together is massively harder to understand and test.

Copyfail being introduced by an optimization made to some random crypto module is a good example of this.
dwroberts
·hace 3 días·discuss
They have to supply written documentation in an appropriate language too, I don’t think it would be that difficult for it to have a voice language pack to match.
dwroberts
·hace 3 días·discuss
Fast forward a few years “where did all our institutional knowledge about performance and rendering go??”

So utterly predictable it’s infuriating
dwroberts
·hace 4 días·discuss
Don’t know why this is being downvoted because it’s absolutely on the money. She’s a very green exec that is doing the classic “change everything to make it look like I’m doing something” while also not really achieving anything.

The rebrand to ‘XBOX’ is a good example of how they’re already out of ideas
dwroberts
·hace 4 días·discuss
Seems not really worth it? About the same cost as DGX, same amount of memory and yet the bandwidth is actually slightly lower. And also the DGX is CUDA being an Nvidia device which is a big compatibility advantage

For this to be compelling it would need to be eg 256GB minimum or something
dwroberts
·hace 6 días·discuss
The full quote is

> Europe's rapid warming is partly the result of the melting of bright snow and ice, and a drop in the number of tiny polluting particles in the air.

That first one is kind of important and it seems intentionally misleading to omit it
dwroberts
·hace 7 días·discuss
That Pigafetta palm is also pretty nasty, damn

> they not only have very long, very sharp spines arming their leaves (see fallen leaf base on right), but they grow quickly to sixty feet tall or more, and then drop these deadly, spiny leaves, impaling whoever happens to be unlucky enough to be below at the time. These leaves can weigh over thirty pounds, too.
dwroberts
·hace 7 días·discuss
Obvious one: Because they are serving it to millions of people at the same time, not just one local user
dwroberts
·hace 7 días·discuss
These things should not be submitted here unless there is meaningful editorial/peer commentary about it being significant or correct. There are dozens of bogus attempts to prove and disprove this
dwroberts
·hace 8 días·discuss
> Call me when it stops making things up.

We haven’t moved past this yet
dwroberts
·hace 8 días·discuss
Wonder if this was Salesforce
dwroberts
·hace 10 días·discuss
Although I agree it’s more like subsidising than democratising (and the price will just go back up eventually), the “just let players host it” is overly simplistic.

There are tons of reasons to not do that - for example, companies and games that have not embraced modding do not want to be competing with modified/unofficial versions of their own games’ servers (as well as the cheating issue that can bring with it)
dwroberts
·hace 11 días·discuss
If this was an incident in Europe, comments like this would be talking about how clearly the state is corrupt, it’s account cannot be trusted, and obviously civilisation is collapsing because free speech outside of the US is dead. “You can be arrested for zines!”

Inside the US though? No, clearly the state’s account is definitely accurate, the citizen is obviously guilty, it’s not only correct they are being jailed it is actually good, free speech - oh it’s not relevant because they committed unrelated crimes (we’re told. By the state’s account).

US propaganda/copaganda on its own citizens really is something else to behold
dwroberts
·hace 12 días·discuss
This is missing that it’s a human issue though. If someone is determined to discard an error and not do anything about it, they’ll just put in a dummy comment to appease the linter any way.

Force people to handle errors and you end up with the exception fiasco in eg Java where everything ends up being a runtime exception to avoid it
dwroberts
·hace 12 días·discuss
Why would you make a non-deterministic agent do a task like this if an exact deterministic command line tool exists for it?
dwroberts
·hace 12 días·discuss
Given Meta’s current AI situation though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to do distillation and the capacity story is a cover
dwroberts
·hace 13 días·discuss
You’re posting this like it’s a counterpoint, but it further highlights how disgusting the situation is. We have people becoming trillionaires while 10% of the world’s population is considered to be in extreme poverty. It’s ‘less bad’ than in the past but it’s still absolutely horrifying.
dwroberts
·hace 14 días·discuss
Oof did a bit more digging: https://x.com/_marleyx/status/2070260772635312598

> None of us were ultrasound scientists before this. We worked backwards from a desire for brain interfaces and taught ourselves physics, ultrasound, electromagnetism.

Not to say it’s not interesting or neat, but the Silicon Valley approach to solving medical issues doesn’t have a good track record, let’s put it that way