dma

dma, 13 days ago to newmusic

It's out! Northern Lights, my first EP. available (now ish) on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, and YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUlwwr11s0omFSP4g05n4tn7Sjx5ODPfM&feature=shared

#newmusic #ambient #synth #eurorack

thomasfuchs, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

@hachyderm heya, running into the issue that GIF uploads aren’t processed a lot in the last few days, just a heads-up; I usually need to retry 3 or 4 times before it goes through. assume stuck worker or other queueing issue.

hazelweakly, 5 months ago to random

The week after Thanksgiving will always be deeply bittersweet to me now.

This month, and next week in particular, mark the anniversary of the Hachyderm incident. @nova, @Taniwha, @dma, @malte, @quintessence, and I worked around the clock for over a week to migrate Hachyderm from Nóva's basement into Europe

I am forever indebted to that incident for launching my public speaking career, and to this team for becoming my beloved friends

And to Nóva, for chasing the dopamine, for tying us together

grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

Writing this Garden Gnome quest is a lot harder than I thought. There is a subtext to the quest that I'm having a hard time capturing. I think I need to leave the temp dialog in and return to it later.

P.S. Who am I kidding, the temp dialog is totally going to ship in the game.

evacide, 8 months ago to random

This startup claimed it would take your 2D sketches and turn them into 3D models using AI "magic." It turns out that the "magic" is poorly-paid workers in the developing world.

https://www.404media.co/kaedim-ai-startup-2d-to-3d-used-cheap-human-labor/

mcc, 9 months ago to random

Observation:

2021: The big deal in tech investing is MLMs (cryptocurrency)

2023: The big deal in tech investing is LLMs ("AI")

From this we can conclude the big deal in 2025 will be MLLs. So if you want to get ahead of the curve, all you have to do is figure out what an "MLL" is and have an investor-ready example of one by 2025, and you'll be golden

dma, 9 months ago to ai

a great piece by Joseph Gordon-Levitt on how we might start thinking about IP and residuals in the world of AI-generated content.

I think the hard bit is possibly not the tracking of training data through the generative process (hand-waving some deep technical problems) as much as it is the funnel of attribution and payment. tracking this, maintaining it, is a whole other scale of organisational complexity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/26/joseph-gordon-levitt-artificial-intelligence-residuals/

#genai #ai

mekkaokereke, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to aliens

If the US government really had alien bodies, then the US president would know about it.

If the US president knew about it, then Trump would know about it.

If Trump knew about it, he would have told everyone, bragged about it, kept boxes of documents about it at Mar-A-Lago, etc. There would be a ketchup stained original photograph of an alien autopsy on the floor of his bathroom.

Since we haven't heard him brag about having seen a photo of an alien, we know that he hasn't seen one.

#aliens

dma, 9 months ago to random

creating a programming language brings into clarity all those seemingly odd and arbitrary constraints other languages have.

like how to define functions in your assembly language but not have the execution engine (or VM) pile through them as if they were part of the main flow.

thus the "globals are special and here's the well known entry point" rule is born.

dma, 9 months ago to rust

the power of #rust in action.. an upgrade from nom 4 to nom 7 (yeah, I know) brought with it some breaking changes. like fundamental changes to the API and integration surface.

I thought I was looking at a full rewrite for my pet language (compiler, assembler, VM, repl) but it took all of a couple of hours, with the support of the robust testing, logging, and borrow checker frameworks.

in any other language this would have been a burn-it-down moment I think.

robpike, 10 months ago to random

Never better! Went for a nice trip.

annika, 10 months ago to random

how many chocolate-covered coffee (espresso?) beans is a normal amount to eat in one sitting

thegibson, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

You want to know more about Veilid?

Veilid is privacy focused from first principles.

Veilid is serverless.

Veilid is distributed.

Veilid is open source, and you can build on top of this framework.

Public Launch is at DefCon, August 11. Biggest launch party you're ever gonna see.

Time to take back the wires.

Https://veilid.com

thegibson, 1 year ago to random

TFW you see people say things, but you KNOW evidence to the contrary, but you choose not to say anything, because there's no point...

Is there a word for that?

dma, 1 year ago to random

police using facial recognition at scale here. the moment a chant crosses a line into crudeness or mild aggression the cameras come out and the tracking starts.

legal observers are out in force too though.

maegul, 1 year ago to fediversenews

@fediversenews

So, I think I've dug as deeply into the #hachyderm drama as I need to, and settled on some conclusions.

• Most basically, the best insights came from seeing conversations on another platform: discord.

Admins from both sides were talking. And as it's a chat platform, the engagement and conversation was clearly more direct, free, expressive and clarifying.

If the fediverse wants to be the new internet, seriously, it needs to growup and move on from just microblogging.

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