Posts by Lusty 1713 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Can we please stop saying suicide? There’s no evidence he committed suicide, and that conclusion was thrown out at a later inquest. It’s just as likely it was an accident but more likely he was murdered by the government due to being gay and a “threat to national security”.
It’s an insult to his memory to continue the suicide story at every opportunity.
“ (*) London's exploding footpaths are mostly overloaded distribution cables finally letting go”
Mostly that’s been a drug gang illegally splicing into the grid to run drug farms in abandoned department stores. It’s been widely reported now that the gang was caught.
They seem to have removed the balloon element which leaves this as just another point to point wireless network option. They say light is better due to congestion but point to point radio isn’t congested at all as it’s directional. Nice that there’s another option but if a bird can block the laser I’m not sure it’s a step forward.
Microsoft included some older chips originally because Surface devices used them, so the OEM at fault was them. I imagine those devices are now discontinued so they’re correcting the error and it probably affects nobody else. It will mean though that a Surface Studio won’t continue to get updates despite being a recent purchase.
There are laws to compel suspects to provide encryption keys in the UK so iTunes wouldn’t change a thing. You’d sit in prison gloating how they don’t have access to your data. Under that provision they never have to release you.
I don’t think now is a good time for anyone in the US to be lecturing about data privacy, do you?
How do you ensure the two are never on in the same location? It’s trivial to track devices which are related using various techniques including public IPs, WiFi, phone network data. It’s this sort of confidence that makes tracking criminals easy as the authorities can build up a nice bunch of evidence.
They worked in an almost identical way, assigning statistical significance weightings to things and using vector maths to find stuff.
Fun fact, Google were also sued for copyright and lost, it's why they no longer put all the content on their page, robbing others of ad revenue. They now use sources like wikipedia directly, and pay for the privelege.
It’s interesting that OpenAI has started buying licences. That sets the expectation that they know they need a licence. Any and all content for which they don’t have a licence must therefore be excluded from the training set as per their own understanding of the law.
This puts everyone with a website or YouTube channel in a very good position when the class action starts.
This is the stupidest use of technology. The costs are massively increased doing unnecessary admin.
Buy some A-Z maps and some felt tip pens. Get the people who fill potholes to drive down roads and fill every hole they find. Don’t “assess” the holes, just fill them. When a road is done, use the felt tip to mark it in the map. Eventually all roads are complete and you buy new A-Z maps.
We shouldn’t celebrate people making these solutions, we should fire them.
Really? Most folk struggle with taking a screenshot on Mac so I don’t think that’s true at all. If Apple ever work out what the GUI is for they might get parity with Windows, but from what I can see they’re still a graphical keyboard driven OS. For the average user Linux is and always will be problematic.
“The only thing an LLM can do code wise is spit out example code of the sort you might find in a stack overflow answer”
So either you’ve not tried GitHub copilot or you’re not asking it for the right help. Try asking it to write your unit tests for you, you’ll be surprised how useful it then seems.
“The average British driver drives 18 miles per day”
Indeed. Electric scooters would solve the problem for the majority of the population but evidently we’re not looking at solutions where vast sums of money can’t be made so instead we banned them and got the police to steal them from kids as a deterrent to this outrageous planet friendly behaviour.
Nobody would vote for someone who tells the truth, especially in the USA.
Imagine being told "our problems are actually our own fault" and "when we fix it, you'll be slightly worse off"
Now compare to "it's everyone else's fault, and we're going to war to fix it" and "we'll make you richer, once we sort out these <insert enemy here>"
"BTW the unhealthy lifestyle was personal choice."
No it wasn't, it was government mandated lockdown for a very large part of it. Working in an office and commuting isn't healthy but it's a huge step up from being locked indoors for months on end without exercise.
"Long term incapacitation can result from the after effects ('long covid') of sub-critical covid infection"
The data would seem to suggest the same of lock down measures. Excess deaths without Covid are higher than usual and it's expected this will continue into the future as three years of extremely unhealthy lifestyle takes its toll.
Meanwhile, yes, some people are still getting a grade three/four* cold.
*There is some debate as to the grading system and whether "man flu" is a real grade or just due to men being better at handling real flu or worse at handling the sniffles. Either way, Covid is top grade cold right now and calling in sick is probably usually required.
Grade 1 - A case of the sniffles
Grade 2 - man flu
Grade 3 - actual flu
Grade 4 - Covid
I certainly do disapprove, and have certainly considered the outcomes. I think the opposite is also true though, a lot of people are abandoning reasonable and fair IP protections because they think AI is cool. I agree it's cool, but that doesn't make it acceptable to steal all of the IP in the world and use it for your own commercial gain.
Even ignoring the IP issue - this has cost real money to organisations like Reddit, whose API was hit so hard and so often they had to cripple the platform and charge for the API as a result. Even if you agreed with the IP theft you'd have to acknowledge that the compute costs racked up as a direct result of pillaging the Internet ought to be paid for out of the many billions of profit from the models?
"For reference, the Wikipedia payments are not for appearing in the search results but in the summarising block of text that appears to the right of some searches."
The point is, they have to pay to provide someone else's IP. Doesn't matter if it's in the results or on a bumber sticker, you pay for what you use and how you use it and importantly it's the IP owner that decides the terms.
sorry but you've misunderstood what it's doing. Hallucinations in this stuff is when it comes up with a statistically reasonable load of bullshit. Take the example where it quoted some laws in a US case and it took months for everyone to realise those cases don't exist, they just sound plausible. That's not imagination, it's pure statistics.
"There is absolutely no way that any original drafters of copyright law had AI in mind"
They didn't need to, it's generic enough as it is to cover the situation.
If I have an image and put it online you can assume the right to view that photo since I placed it in a public platform to be consumed. That does not give you a licence to redistribute that photo, nor to use that photo in any of your own commercial offerings.
If I write some text and put it online you can assume the right to read that text since I placed it in a public platform to be consumed. That does not give you a licence to redistribute that text, nor to use that text in any of your own commercial offerings.
If you wish to create a textbook, that would be a commercial undertaking and you will need to seek licenses from me to include my work, whether wholly or in part. The AI organisations have such a "text book" in their possession as an offline copy of the Internet and its history, and are using it for commercial purposes right now.
If you wish to use my IP in a commercial product such as a statistical model, then again you'll need to seek a licence.
If you don't have a licence for the type of commercial usage you are carrying out then you are outside of the law and will either need to buy a licence or accept any and all legal consequences.
Pretty much all of the above was covered by the Windows 3.1 EULA back in the '90s. What's good for the goose...
Google were hit hard a while ago (probably 20 years) for essentially providing the results in their pages riddled with ads, robbing the actual source of the opportunity to monetise. Any actual information Google returns now, such as Wikipedia data, is licenced and they pay a fee. I believe the newspapers were the ones with the beef originally.
The child isn’t being commercialised as a product. In this instance they are creating a commercial product based on copyright work, and no it’s not learning it’s a statistical model much like a search engine, and we have case law for search engines providing copyright material instead of linking back to source.
And all that is also ignoring the enormous costs to platforms they have pillaged to get the data. Reddit famously crippled their platform to stop it as they couldn’t afford to supply the API access to feed these beasts.
"They might work, but what big corporation is going to take a punt?"
Apple did. In doing so, they proved that having an effective monopoly and giving away a free quality alternative isn't sufficient to gain traction against MS Office. To me that suggests MS Office might not be winning due to antics so much as it's the best option for most people.
It must be time to stop with the propaganda by now. From what I can see there is plenty of evidence showing Wuhan wasn't even where it originated, they just spotted it faster because there were experts there. Many reported cases of identical symptoms globally in late 2018, many predating Wuhan.
If the FBI want to save lives, take a look at gun crime and stop trying to start a global war just because the USD is collapsing.
Smart washing machines tell you when they’re done through your phone. If you have an office the other end of the house this can be the difference of finishing the washing in a day or not as you’ll know when the dryer is ready for the next load.
Not a huge advantage but I do find this handy.
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