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therealadam

@therealadam@ruby.social

Telling a joke, trying to, or making a joke of myself. Engineering lead and full-stack developer. Porsches, Disney parks, pub quiz, Star Wars, Destiny, music, television. We should all write more words.

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agiletortoise, to random
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    therealadam,
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    @agiletortoise my childhood thanks you. Hopefully you weren’t responsible for seeing November Rain and Runaway Train ad nauseum that one summer. 🫠

    therealadam, to random
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    “Try harder” is the worst kind of plan. It's almost a non-plan, the 🤷🏻‍♂️ of planning.

    tenderlove, to random
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    Found some photos from when I was running Slackware on my transmeta front path ProGear. Enjoy the Enlightenment nostalgia 😂

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    therealadam,
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    @tenderlove I have so much nostalgia for compiling e12 or 13? The one where you couldn’t minimize windows.

    ps Transmeta dang you fancy

    tenderlove, to random
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    It's wild that people are able to record such high quality video with only 4k. My videos are never that good and they usually require at least several megabytes

    therealadam,
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    @tenderlove the demo scene is wild

    therealadam,
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    @tenderlove many would say the classics from the 0.5K era like Citizen Kane and “Badger Badger” are better though

    simon, to random
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    Anyone know if any of these T&Cs about not training new models on the output been explained publicly by expert lawyers, or tested in court yet?

    Feels like a huge elephant in the room, especially given the vast number of models fine-tuned on generated data

    Yet another part of the AI space that seems to be running on "vibes" - I'm not sure "OpenAI train on crawled data so they can't complain if we train on their stuff" is a robust legal argument, but maybe it is?

    therealadam,
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    @simon trying not to get dismal here, but “vibes-only" runs rampant through quasi-legal thought, especially in state legislatures, EU tech regulation, and check notes SCOTUS 🤦🏻‍♂️

    savetheclocktower, to random
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    We are supposed to post statuses on this thing, so here is my status

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    therealadam,
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    @savetheclocktower excellent choice

    simon, (edited ) to random
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    Have you seen 1987 sci-fi comedy Innerspace, starring Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan?

    therealadam,
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    @simon if you’re going down the Martin Short rabbit hole, there is a ton of Jimminy Glick on YouTube and it is all delightful

    agiletortoise, to random
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    If you are a high school student in Texas, and not taking AP classes, there's a high likelihood the honorific you use for your math and science teachers is “Coach” and I'm not sure that's how we're supposed to be prioritizing any of this.

    therealadam,
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    @agiletortoise a lot of people learned the wrong lessons from Hank Hill

    therealadam, to random
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    I can't get over how great @simon distills working with LLMs and generative AI: "In a weird way, though, these are functions that fight back."
    https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/27/wordcamp-llms/

    tenderlove, to random
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    Can't you solve N+1 problems by just subtracting 1?

    therealadam,
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    @tenderlove the +1, that’s how they get ya!

    harrisj, to random

    I sometimes laugh that, despite the obsessively detailed nature of most of the canon, medicine in Star Wars is just “there’s an all-purpose spray that heals every species of alien. If things are really bad, sometimes they soak people in it as a liquid.”

    therealadam,
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    @harrisj sometimes soaking in it reveals deep truths about your last. Like an isolation bath does in Yellowjackets.

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