antonim@lemmy.world

Done.

1w ago

villain tier list rule

The part that made me doubt posting the meme D: And not the heinousness of it, but suggesting such an understanding of "honor" is someone's nature...

1w ago

Sorry buddy, you just ain't it anymore.

What culture are we going to be for the aliens who discover our remains ten thousand years from now?

1w ago

Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity.

At least intuitively it seems to me that 8-shaped paths would be extremely unlikely and unstable. Wikipedia describes two types of orbits:

So the planet can orbit both stars elliptically, or just one of them - but the latter can be the case only when the other star is a dwarf that can't affect the planet too much.

1w ago

Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one.

A Russian news site talks about Russia. If that distracts you from talking about Israel, you may have some cognitive issues.

1w ago

China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes

The state is restricting innovation? This is literally communism!

1w ago

Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

It wasn't off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could've talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.

International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?

1w ago

Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

To all the people downvoting the above comment, when was the last time you've read a WP article of 10k+ characters from top to bottom?

1w ago

Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'

Article is not available without registering. As for the title, "destructive" book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you're not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.

Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can "teach their AI tool how to write well". They're still pushing for more and more training data, even though it's clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.

2w ago

Rule

She "clears air" simply with this tweet:

This is beyond silly. Neither I, nor anybody on my team, ever met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything.

(The rest of the article is just irrelevant context to make it longer.)

Neither informative nor particularly convincing.

2w ago

Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion

Apparently it's legal and acceptable to demand, through a court, enough money to destroy the world economy.

Seriously, if I were the judge I'd throw out the lawsuit until they come up with a remotely realistic number. As it is, it makes the whole lawsuit look like a joke.

2w ago

Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion

Perhaps Anna can pay them off with theoretical potential money too? Like, a big collection of monkey NFTs.

2w ago

MEGA file-sharing site open letter to Hollywood from founder Kim Dotcom

Dotcom is now effectively Musk's hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn't had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he's been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he's isolated and mentally deteriorating.

2w ago

Which is the better perspective?

don’t let some asshole tell you how you should feel

But that asshole is myself...

2w ago

Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

I watched it like thrice and it only got better and more fascinating on every rewatch.

2w ago

Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

I don't want to sound rude, but have you actually looked at the chart?

2w ago

Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

Umm actually ☝️🤓

2w ago

Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say