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sjvn, 1 month ago to random

Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes https://theonion.com/tesla-lays-off-entire-team-behind-brakes-1851449223

For just the briefest moment, I thought this might be real.

williamgunn, 1 month ago to random

@juancommander It's been a while! How are things with you?

Gargron, 1 month ago to random

Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐

kfury, 2 months ago to random

Before trusting an AI to tell you about stuff you don’t know, ask it to tell you about things you’re an expert in.

williamgunn, 2 months ago to random

The eternal election year refrain is voiced by Ben Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/10/authoritarians-are-on-the-march

dansup, 2 months ago to random

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williamgunn, 2 months ago to llm

Wiley licenses content for training an #LLM. The company was not named, but I would suspect it's the one which has been signing a lot of licensing deals lately. Access to STM content could be a big differentiator, though I wouldn't expect it to be exclusive. Also, $23M sounds small. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/q3-2024-john-wiley-sons-043941097.html?guccounter=1
#ai #artificialintelligence #LLMs #openai

selzero, 2 months ago to random

You think the perfect job doesn't exist.

But Samuel L. Jackson has made over $300,000,000 from his 150+ movies.

He says around 2000 words per movie, that comes to about $1000 per word.

"Motherfucker" was 1116 of those words.

Therefore Samuel L. Jackson has made over 1 million dollars for saying "Motherfucker".

That's the kind of job we would all aspire to.

Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction having some tasty beverage to wash down his big kahuna burger.

williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

#mosstodon

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williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

One of the real ones I thought was fake and one of the fake ones I thought was real, but overall I'm pretty impressed with myself. https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu/ I like that they ask you how confident you are in your guess, but I wish they'd tell me how well calibrated my confidence is.

williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

Move over GenAI hands challenge, here's lots of detailed text:
https://mastodon.social/

gordon, 3 months ago to random

Feeling very grateful that email happened when it did.

We're so centralization-pilled at this point, that users sometimes even see interop as a threat.

williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

Windows that are also solar panels would be huge, but if femtosecond laser is required, that seems not ideal for manufacturing. https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-generation-solar-transparent-glass

clive, 3 months ago to random

For some reason the Police song "Don't Stand So Close To Me" came to mind and I googled the lyrics

I'd never really paid attention to them before

what the actual f

williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

AdBlock for signs and billboards would actually be a legit use for AR googles. Not compelling enough to get me to strap a few thousand dollars of hardware to my face and walk around, to be sure, but mentioning it just to say something positive.
https://berlin.social/@ainmosni/111953636089137730

williamgunn, 3 months ago to random

First academic conference post - 2020 & no mention of Twitter anywhere. It used to be "join the conversation", with hashtags everywhere. Worth noting!

jwz, 4 months ago to random

All you people getting excited that Jack Dorsey's new social media site no longer requires invite codes are like those people tearing off their masks and throwing them in the air as soon as they weren't legally required.

You have learned nothing.

And you are making the world worse.

williamgunn, 4 months ago to random

On that other platform, more people might see your stuff than they will here, but it has to be a certain kind of stuff. The recommender systems only know how to do popularity, not taste. It doesn't have to be this way; the developers just don't know the difference.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/111867699091067139

williamgunn, 4 months ago to random

You don't have to use your ISPs DNS servers, BTW.
https://mstdn.social/@stux/111845095465102667

Iconfactory, 4 months ago to fediverse

Online media can be overwhelming. It's fragmented between countless services, websites, social networks, and apps.

You need an app that weaves together an overview of nearly everything that’s happening across all the different services you follow.

That’s our vision for Project Tapestry, the new Kickstarter we're launching today.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

#ProjectTapestry #Fediverse #iOSDev

F100, 4 months ago to ai

Holy shit AI “art” is bad. Please stop making it. Please make a way to filter it all. Thanks. #ai #aiArt

mike, 4 months ago to random

My son sent me this, I have no idea where it's from but it's perfect.

malwaretech, 4 months ago to random

Am I the only one who feels like still using employment rate as a metric for a healthy economy is basically just gaslighting at this point?

Employment used to mean you had a good chance of affording a home, maybe two kids, and potentially even on just a single income. Now you can have a full time job and still need food stamps or a side job just to pay bills.

Then of course, because salaries are so low relative to the cost of living, it makes employment numbers look even better because people who wouldn't have been forced to work now are. You have households where both parents have full time jobs, people with disabilities forced to work because they can't cover bills, students dropping out of college because it's now unaffordable.

Then some goober economist comes on TV and goes "well, unemployment is at record lows so obviously everything is fine"