The number of people with strong opinions on AI vastly exceeds the number of people who understand transformers architecture.

Copyright law does not explicitly cover inclusion in a training data set, though that will be tested by a number of court cases currently underway.

Copyright historically is exactly what it says in its name: the right to copy or reproduce an image for commercial purposes. Because an AI doesn’t reproduce the images in its training data set, and because AI generation models do not include the image data of their training set, it’s not explicitly covered.

My personal opinion is that copyright law would need to be updated to cover the training data case, but the courts could circumvent that and declare it covered under existing law. That would be based on a misunderstanding of how image generation works, but courts don’t always necessarily act based on technical understanding.

I hope you got yourself a library card. The idea of limiting kids who are reading above the average level is insane to me. Why restrict everyone to the mean?

No, that’s just completely wrong. Taiwan’s government was created when Chiang Kai-Shek fled mainland China in the 1950s. It’s the continuation of the Republic of China that governed the entire country of China before the PRC government took over.

Saying that the PRC created the ROC name is ridiculous. The ROC predates the creation of the PRC and is the older name. The PRC didn’t even exist when it was created. Also suggesting that the PRC would ever endorse the ROC in any format is silly. Their entire position is that the ROC doesn’t exist.

You should go read a Wikipedia article on the history of Taiwan as your grasp of the history here is not strong.

The official name of Taiwan’s government is Republic of China, and it’s the continuation of the government that controlled all of China before Mao’s uprising.

So I’m not sure your argument makes sense. They claim to be the legitimate Chinese government in their own name.

Are you a Hollywood film studio?

Did you read the article?

That’s also for newborns. Speak to the kids normally.

You can ask the seven-year-old:

• How they like school
• If they learned anything interesting lately
• If they have a favorite book
• If they have a favorite meal
• If they like making or listening to music
• If they like drawing or making art

Kids are people with emerging preferences. Ask simple questions about who they are and what interests them. Avoid literary criticism or discussion of geopolitics.

I dunno, I think he sold a heck of a lot of lumpy jesus pillows. If he didn’t decide to start lying about the election he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.

Exploding head syndrome is something different and a potential side effect of rapid discontinuation of SSRIs. I’ve had it and it’s different from a migraine.

Besides architecture. Cathedrals are dope. But everything else, yeah.

Lol, the caption under the second frame is Japanese instead of Chinese and reads “I’m a little removed who doesn’t speak Chinese.”

Horribly google translated tho. Japanese doesn’t literally use “female dog” to mean “removed” and the verb should also be in the potential conjugation.

This is why many tournaments are broadcast with a delay. I mean not just for buttplugs, but an earpiece or any other way of getting third-party assistance.

Gilbert and Sullivan intensifies

The Common Descent podcast has two paleontologists discussing ancient life on Earth. Every episode focuses on a specific era or group of creatures and what we know about their evolution and speciation. There are really good episodes on the “big five” mass extinctions when major changes led to a fundamental reorganization of living groups on the planet.

That beeping from your BS detector means it’s time to change the battery

I am sick of seeing this guy everywhere just like everyone else… but don’t you get just a little bit of pleasure out of watching him fuck this up at every single turn?

He’s still raging because the “bots” were supposed to get him out of having to purchase the company on wildly unfavorable terms. He’ll ride this excuse along with the whole business straight into the ground.

The Biden administration has already put huge political pressure behind unionization of EV production, with the lucrative 30D tax credits only available for EVs produced with union labor. So pointing the finger at Democratic policies as being the cause is still misleading.

The Red Mars series of books by Kim Stanley Robinson includes a range of measures that humans take to terraform the red planet, one of which is building robots to drill “moholes,” or holes that reach the Mohorovicic discontinuity between crust and mantle layers. Yes, they are giant volcanoes, and in the books the outgassing from these volcanoes is a strategy to increase the density and particularly the infrared absorption of the Martian atmosphere.

Probably depends on the worker but in my case productivity is way up. I spend half the time I used to spend commuting still on the PC doing work, and I don’t even mind since I can eat dinner and relax the second I close my computer. They get an extra eight hours out of me as a result of WFH.