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SankaraStone

@ SankaraStone @lemmy.world

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  • I just want to talk

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  • It's mostly the color of the light that's the problem right? Our brains register the cooler light in the contrasting darkness as blindingly bright as opposed to warmer incandescent light, despite both lights having the same measured brightness (lumens).

  • Jill Stein is a plant to nobody's surprise.

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  • IMO, it should be two rounds. The first (the "primary" round) should be ranked choice voting to pick the top two and the second should be majority vote between these final two choices.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • Yeah, all training ends up being pattern learning in some form or fashion. But acceptable patterns end up matching logic. So for example if you ask ChatGPT a question, it will use its learned pattern to provide its estimate of the correct ouptut. That pattern it's learned encompasses/matches logical processing of the user input and the output that it's been trained to see as acceptable output. So with enough training, it should and does go from simple memorization of individual examples to learning these broad acceptable rules, like logic (or a pattern that matches logical rules and "understanding of language") so that it can provide acceptable responses to situations that it hasn't seen in training. And because of this pattern learning and prediction nature of how it works, it often "hallucinates" information like citations (creating a novel citation matching the pattern its seen instead of the exact citation that you want, where you actually want memorized information) that you might ask of it as sources for what its telling you.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • I'm less worried about a system that learns from the information and then incorporates it when it has to provide an answer (ex. learning facts) than I am of something that steals someone's likeness, something we've clearly have established people have a right to (ex. voice acting, action figures, and sports video games). And by that extension/logic, I am concerned as to whether AI that is trained to produce something in the style of someone else, especially in digital/visual art also violates the likeness principle logically and maybe even comes close to violating copyright law.

    But at the same time, I'm a skeptic of software patents and api/UeX copyrighs. So I don't know. Shit gets complicated.

    I still think AI should get rid of mundane, repetitive, boring tasks. But it shouldn't be eliminating creative, fun asks. It should improve productivity without replacing or reducing the value of the labor of the scientist/artist/physician. But if AI replaced scribes and constructionists in order to make doctors more productive and able to spend more time with patients instead of documenting everything, then that would be the ideal use of this stuff.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • Isn't copyright about the right to make and distribute or sell copies or the lack there of? As long as they can prevent jailbreaking the AI, reading copyrighted material and learning from it to produce something else is not a copyright violation.

  • This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

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  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

    servo.org /blog/2024/07/31/this-month-in-servo/

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • Mozilla (not Google) got rid of the side projects, increased the CEO's salary, and laid off a bunch of employees during the pandemic. It basically got rid of the innovation that could have made Firefox a faster, more secure, and pleasant experience. Rust and Rust-based Servo, as a replacement for Gecko, were two of those side projects. These are the things Mozilla needs to invest in.

    Also, I think Mozilla needs to ask the user upon install what the default search engine should be from a list of search engines including Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, and Yahoo. Maybe the order of those could be arranged based on how much they're able to finagle from the search engines.

    The real monopoly is their control over Chrome. That's what they should be forced to split from the company that owns the search engine. Development and design of Chrome should not and cannot be done by the company that runs the search engine and gets its revenue from ads.

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

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  • Would you mate with somebody who didn't have a chin? Chins are sexy.

  • USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

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  • The moment they canceled the Valedictorian speech, I would have simply failed to show up to the commencement. And I would have done my best to surprise USC of it. And I'd have organized or at least hoped other people would do the same thing.

  • Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis

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  • He should required to be up there to answer questions from congress and the Feds.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    U.S. urges Israel against Gaza ground invasion, pushes surgical campaign

    www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2023/10/27/us-urging-israel-rethinkg-gaza-ground-invasion/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    U.S., in policy switch, urges humanitarian pauses in Gaza

    www.washingtonpost.com /national-security/2023/10/27/gaza-israel-humanitarian-pause/
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Asking Palestinians to say that Israel has a right to exist is like asking Native Americans to say the USA has a right to exist. What about Israel exists and has the right to continue to exist?

  • Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

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  • The Book of Eli with Denzel Washington (who said his son got him to sign on to the movie) and Mila Kunis. It's 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Two new communities on Lemmy.world geared towards starting collective movements and organizing collective action: !movement and !organize

  • Start a Movement! @lemmy.world
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    An example of movement that can be started here on Lemmy: Petitioning the FTC, DOJ, and the European Commission to address the anticompetitive practices of Google with its Chrome browser

    lemmy.world /post/2060683
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation?

    www.ftc.gov /enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

  • If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

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  • I don't trust the libertarian Brave guy (formerly of Firefox, haha): https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/

    Vivaldi and Opera with Chromium as a back up are my Blink browsers.

    Firefox and Firefox Beta are my main browsers. I use the containers add on with FF Beta to basically use it as a sort of equivalent of Ferdi but with Firefox Beta allowing Google services in one account can talk to each other, all contained in one container that corresponds to one tab group/window.