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rose, 11 hours ago to random

If I'm understanding this correctly, then it seems that the more generalized a GPT is the exponentially larger the size of the training data needs to be. Which implies a computational space and time barrier to the growth of "AI".

No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125

rose, 21 hours ago to random

when I walk around the neighborhood the teens are chanting "O-V-Hoe", their playing Not Like Us at NBA games, and the newscaster just read "Certified loverboy; certified pedophile" out loud on national news.

🍿 😆

rose, 22 hours ago to random

welp, they made me exec VP of my union 👀

... 😱

rose, 1 day ago to random

Flipboard started their own Mastodon instance 🤨

rose, 2 days ago to random

one of the things I like doing these days, is whenever someone talks about buying a thing on Amazon with a strange company name, I find the manufacturer overseas and point out that the $60 item costs $3.50 and is just being reposted by a drop shipper.

cyronimose, 3 days ago to random

at a time whenntheres an intersection of teachers not being paid enough and students not liking what their universities are doing, i wonder if people will say fuck it and just directly pay the teachers

rose, 4 days ago to random

I made it through all of yesterday without seeing a single Star Wars joke or advertisement 😌

rose, 5 days ago to random

my steam deck ended up getting some fractures in the plastic. To Valve's credit they offered to repair it for free.

Unfortunately, it took a month for them to replace the back panel. I think it's due to needing a new mold and run of them made due to weak structural issues. I can see the new one has additional support around the screw areas in the mold.

The also replaced the audio board without me mentioning that it was faulty before (had a ground loop), and I fixed it myself. My repair was invisible unless they took it out and looked at it under a microscope. The new version is also a new revision with the faulty component of the previous one replaced.

That leaves me pretty confident that the Steam Deck Limited Edition had systemic issues with the back cover and the original audio boards. I'm glad they made it right, but it's still not great.

rose, 6 days ago to random

the appeal to private property is a logical fallacy I will never understand

rose, 6 days ago to random

the new Kamasi Washington is out

rose, 11 days ago to random

holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.

sidereal, 2 months ago to random

Awhile back I met my ex-girlfriend's dad and we started talking about what was possibly our only shared passion, country music

I made some crack about how a lot of my friends were train hopping country musicians and he got real uncomfy. Like. "Whoa I don't know any of those fringes-of-society people"

It was like. What fringes of society? My grandpa hopped trains and so did Jimmie Rodgers. Where I come from, this is just wholesome Americana.

riotmuffin, 2 months ago to random

OK, so Sam Kerr, superstar footballer and Aboriginal Australian badass lesbian heroine, was charged in the UK with “racially aggravated harassment of a police officer”, which had everyone scratching their heads concerned for a few days

Then it came out that all she did (for better or worse) was call a cop a “stupid white bastard”, which is of course a completely regular and good thing to call a cop, and now she is even more beloved in Australia and beyond

rose, 2 months ago to random

no, you're crying at the opening of the Snufkin game that literally opens with Sigur Ros. WTF!? How is this game real? 😭

rose, 2 months ago to random

listening to music on an iPod for the first time in at least a decade

rose, 2 months ago to random

it cleaned up pretty nice

Back of a pink DS lite
A pink DS lite playing Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin

rose, 2 months ago to random

grumble grumble

a year ago I said that using an ad blocker was one of the most important and first steps a person can do to protect themselves on technology these days.

I then got a people telling me that was ridiculous and it was bad that I dared to suggest such a thing.

since then, CISA and the NSA have suggested that people use ad blockers to protect themselves online.

who are these people still defending using the internet without basic security that blocks entities trying to gather your PII and trick you into clicking malware links?

sometimes, I do actually know what I'm talking about.

end grumbling

rose, 2 months ago to random

what's happening in 2024 can no longer rightfully be referred to as "mental gymnastics". we are now witnessing "mental ragdolling"

rose, 3 months ago to portland

wow, wweek was never super left leaning, but I didn't expect them to take such a hard right turn in the past few years.

Today they have an article that argues #Portland should abolish the bottle deposit bill because it's a way for poor people and those suffering from drug addiction to get money. The article is very concerned that a drug addict may be able to get $5 a day by recycling.

losdrogas, 4 months ago to random

What was the general consensus on here re bluesky? Do we hate them or nah

rose, 5 months ago to random

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