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rodhilton, to random
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It's interesting how people are reacting to the OpenAI and Gemini demos on a purely technical achievement level without realizing it.

The audience ooh'd and aah'd when Gemini identified the speaker on the table when asked "what makes sound?"

Indeed, that's very impressive as a technical accomplishment. It's amazing for an AI.

The problem is that Google immediately took the leap to "this will help you in your day-to-day life!" & put it on all our phones.

Bruh I know what a speaker looks like.

unlucio,
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@rodhilton indeed. LLMs more and more feel like dealing with a kid who is incredibly fast at spewing out walls of text, but most of the time the answer is gonna be extremely basic and will need careful checking.
I asked "How would you model Time as a dimension of a 4-dimensions object in a 5-dimensions space" to chatGPT and it took me 12 interactions to get close to the answer I was looking for.
It was just walls of text until I asked: MATH PLEASE
and again, close but fundamentally wrong.

Daojoan, to random
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The vast majority of “business” books can best be categorised as notes on winning a lottery. You’ll get a good deal more value from biographies, history books or a good novel.

unlucio,
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@Daojoan might be because the whole economic system is more of a rigged lottery rather than something that makes sense?

MissingThePt, to random
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They could’ve just borrowed mine. https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/lifestyle/anti-sex-beds-have-arrived-at-paris-olympics-after-horny-athletes-admit-to-orgies/?utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=referral

unlucio,
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@MissingThePt I really don't get why some people are so obsessed with controlling other people's sex lives.

grumpygamer, to random
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Classic version control:

unlucio,
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@grumpygamer OMG Id love to see the content of those on github 😍

GottaLaff, to random
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A video filmed during Donald 's New Jersey rally on Saturday has shown "thousands" of people leaving while the former president was still talking.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-jersey-rally-crowd-walks-out-speech-video-1899832

unlucio,
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@GottaLaff oh wow, seeing like this he looks even more like a blithering idiot.

How do people listen to him is is one of the great mystery of our times.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Mary Trump Reveals How Fred Trump Basically Destroyed His Son Donald, ‘Donald’s Entire Story Has Been One Big Lie’ https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/05/mary-trump-reveals-how-fred-trump-basically-destroyed-his-son-donald-donalds-entire-story-has-been-one-big-lie/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

unlucio,
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@realTuckFrumper this has been known for years.
It's a nice explanation but still not an excuse.

rodhilton, to random
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"anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

unlucio,
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@rodhilton It's called "capitalism".

It's a bit ironic we all lament the effects of capitalism, but no one seems to be really willing to fix it.

vicgrinberg, to random
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Well, that's also a way to solve long-standing dispute...

unlucio,
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@vicgrinberg 😂😂

I never understood the dispute tho, the original paper already showed the correct orientation for a roll:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US465588A/en

sheet forward, ofcourse

unlucio,
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@vicgrinberg ohhh me too, many times. At least once in every campus I visited and in every flat I shared 😂😂

That's why I know about the patent 😁😁

sdw, to random
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Personally, I am just hoping for a titanium iPad today to match my entire house decor which I have carefully coordinated to go with my natural titanium iPhone

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unlucio,
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@sdw Years ago, I read a paper discussing how trends were constricting the dynamic ranges of both music and colors.

Seeing a guy living in grayscale because of Apple's fashion trends is a nice illustration of how prophetic that paper was.

unlucio,
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@sdw oh I see, you live in Bruce Goff's Bavinger House? Neat!
Considering it's from 1955, it kind of further confirms that paper 😆

AnarchistArt, to random
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unlucio,
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@AnarchistArt to be fair this would still happen with anarchy.

xahteiwi, to random
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Serious question: why is it that so many people apparently have real problems adopting ISO 8601 dates and UTC, in a professional context?

As in, are those somehow fundamentally incompatible with human nature? Or do people just completely lack the cultural awareness to understand that some of their colleagues are used to a different date format than they are, or live in a different timezone, or don't use daylight saving time?

Related:
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2023/02/10/brown-mms/

unlucio,
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@xahteiwi the USA are still using medieval units and they throw a tantrum if you only slightly suggest that they might want to align them selfs with the 99% of the planet.
It doesn't surprise me they're doing the same with dates 🤷‍♂️

Daojoan, to random
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I don’t particularly care what celebrities are wearing to the met gala.

But some people do.

Some people are passionate about fashion. Some people have had a shit week and just want to talk about something fun and not think about hard things for a few minutes. All of which is ok.

You can just let folks enjoy things.

unlucio,
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@Daojoan I find things to be more enjoyable when they're not the product of the slavery the fashion industry is well known for 😅

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
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unlucio,
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@Edent whenever you receive and
unsolicited call from whatever company simply hang up and call customer care:
if the problem is real the call center will take care of it, if it's just a scam you'll find out before they can scam you.

ErikJonker, to Bulgaria
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Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

unlucio,
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@ErikJonker funds for independent European Fediverse servers should come from sanctions on digital monopolies.

Make the techbors pay.
It's called "You break it, you pay for it

vicgrinberg, to animals
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It's a good morning that starts with petting a friendly dog.

unlucio,
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@vicgrinberg
I've 3 Italian ones and all they bring me are problems 🤔 I need a Spanish PhD student too.

taylorlorenz, to random
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“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

unlucio,
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@taylorlorenz and yet again I wonder why people are still surprised by these fundamentally inevitable consequences of capitalism.
Until the priority is growth and investor's dividends stuff like this will keep happening over and over.
If we wanna fix it we need to fix the system at its base and change the core rules that drive the game, starting with all the toxicity that Reagan and Thatcher dropped on all the world.

dangillmor, to random
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Media companies are pleading for presidential "debates" -- knowing perfectly well that these events would mostly be platforms for Trump's relentless lying and bluster on LIVE TV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-major-news-outlets-joint-statement-presidential-debates/

What media orgs want above all else is money, and they are certain that they'll make money by putting on these programs and "covering" them.

unlucio,
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@dangillmor Conservatives don't have logic, integrity, and rationality.
They have beliefs, loyalty, and stubbornness.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Exercising my EU-given right to run an alternative app store (AltStore) 😜

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unlucio,
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@stroughtonsmith @rileytestut @altstore
Oh wow, I thought Apple put in place a bunch of evil policies aiming to make alternate stores impossible.

How did you guys work around that?

Best wishes for your endeavor 🙌

protonmail, to random
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If you think big fines work on , think again.

Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.

Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.

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unlucio,
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@protonmail seems like a big absolute number, but they don't seem to have learned any lessons tho. Perhaps they need bigger fines.

Sheril, to history
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Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on.

unlucio,
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@Sheril some untalented greedy twat getting rich over someone's ideas and talents, and not giving credit.
The history of capitalism in a nutshell

Sheril, to science
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Over 100M years ago, titanosaur ‘Patagotitan mayorum‘ wandered around what is now Argentina. It grew >120 feet long, 28 feet tall & weighed ~ 70 tons. (That’s longer than a blue whale!)

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/meet-patagotitan-mayorum

unlucio,
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@Sheril are those human or dinosaur's feet?

micchiato, to politics
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The gist: people are worse off than they were 3 years ago because is doing less under than it did under , and voters expected more than they got from , more than the shoulder shrugs they ended up getting from and his groupies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/consumer-sentiment-safety-net_n_656e053be4b07b937ff58143

unlucio,
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@micchiato and hilariously enough they'll get dictatorship: what trump always craved
😂😂😂

I'm not sure how will be the world once the US of A will be turned into a crazy dictatorship, but I hope it'll be a major lesson for the rest of the world.

unlucio,
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@micchiato well you know, being form the other side of the pond gave me 4000+ years of history to study at school, so you'll excuse me if I didn't go so much in depth on the USA's 246 years 😅

That said I wrote dictatorship not fascism.

Imho conservatism and nationalism breed fascism, and that's been all over the places in human history even before Mussolini labelled it.

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