As someone who grew up in Missouri and has had countless guns pulled on me for defending my property, I guess I would have still gotten out and dealt with the situation there. No sense in being scared and abused. At least that's kind of how I feel about life on this planet. Maybe just get out of Texas? Or get a gun. I don't really have any helpful suggestions I guess. I am sorry that you had to deal with that though. That's fucked up.
"According to the ByteDance researchers, OmniHuman-1 only needs a single reference image and audio, like speech or vocals, to generate a clip of an arbitrary length."
I am SO glad I never did a youtue channel, a vine, an IG, or really anything. This is creepy as fuck.
Exactly. And even if there isn't an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.
I was referred to read the book "They Thought They Were Free" by one of the bees here and it's great. I have a copy of it on document and my library has the audiobook version. I am studying Spanish and sometimes I think I'm such a hack at it but today's lesson with my sweetheart Argentinian teacher made me feel like I'm making progress. Some dickwad at a karaoke bday party gave me covid last week. Today is the first day of being covid negative. Paxlovid sucks, though. I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be. I also finished studying pixelfed and cherry pick last week. Old friends are reaching out to me because the state of this country (the US) is scaring the shit out of everyone and they are coming to me to teach them about decentralized socials and because I worked as a human rights journalist/analyst for over a decade.* I guess they find comfort in talking to me. I donated money to archive.today and uhhh sh.itjust.works. Will donate to beehaw. My cherry pick instance is worried about being hosted here in the US and I told the mod I'll try and help them figure out a move. So any thoughts on that would be great.
The article discusses the recent disruption in the generative AI industry caused by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company. Here are the key points:
DeepSeek has introduced AI models that are competitive with OpenAI's but significantly more efficient and cheaper to run.
This development challenges the prevailing narrative that AI models must be expensive and require massive infrastructure investments.
DeepSeek's models are open-source and can be run locally on modest hardware, unlike OpenAI's closed and resource-intensive models.
The company's V3 model is competitive with OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude, while being 53 times cheaper to run.
DeepSeek's R1 model competes with OpenAI's reasoning model (o1) at a fraction of the cost.
The company has also released an image generation model that reportedly outperforms StableDiffusion and DALL-E 3.
DeepSeek's approach has raised questions about the massive investments made by tech giants in AI infrastructure.
There are concerns about DeepSeek's funding sources and potential Chinese state involvement, though these remain speculative.
The article suggests that OpenAI and Anthropic may have been less incentivized to pursue efficiency due to their abundant funding and lack of profitability pressure.
This development could potentially reshape the AI industry, challenging the dominance of well-funded Western tech companies.
As someone who grew up in Missouri and has had countless guns pulled on me for defending my property, I guess I would have still gotten out and dealt with the situation there. No sense in being scared and abused. At least that's kind of how I feel about life on this planet. Maybe just get out of Texas? Or get a gun. I don't really have any helpful suggestions I guess. I am sorry that you had to deal with that though. That's fucked up.