A beautiful scyphozoan (true jelly). For whatever reason, it's relatively uncommon for us to see true jellies in Okinawa.
Something about this is telling my brain that it is lemon-flavored (it is not)
This curious worm uprooted itself from the sand like a carrot being pulled up by an invisible person, and rolled around in the current for a bit before starting to dig itself back in. You can see the sand grains slowly traveling over some mucous layer as it slowly reverses into the sand.
Framed in green
Exactly what I first thought of
An AI model is not a person or an employee. Not the same thing for the side receiving the request.
But from the user's side, writing an AI prompt is not much different than emailing an artist saying "I want this and this". The requester isn't the one creating the art in either case.
I've said often that generative AI is not like just another tool for creating art like photoshop or a word processor, because it's very much like something else instead: commissioning art. Except you ask a machine instead of an artist.
Makes sense that you can't copyright a REQUEST for art.
Moss-covered foxes of Inari shrine, Kyoto
Lichen and ume (plum flowers), Kyoto
I don't miss his books. His were the first non-children's literature that I read, so he was important to my development as a reader, but the books were never satisfying. They created good intrigue, but the endings just fizzle out. I hold that Jurassic Park is just a good premise and nothing more
He wrote an entire novel (State of Fear) about how anthropogenic global warming is fake and is a front by eco-terrorists. He was invited to talk at GOP events as a supposed expert on global warming (and how it is fake)
I might still go back one day and read one or two of his books that have been in limbo on the back of my reading list for probably 15 years. I never actively made a choice to boycott, but his works just lost any urgency/priority for me when there is so much else to also read
Actually another one that I'm only reminded of because I saw that he just died: Dan Simmons. The Terror is probably my favorite horror novel. I forget details but I remember peeking into his forum and seeing him say that he thinks global warming is fake. People say he also got weirdly racist
I feel lucky that I started growing apart from the books from maybe Book 5? I did enjoy each book at the time that I read them cannot for the life of me remember almost anything that happened in books 5-7. Except that Sirius dies, Dumbledore dies, and then Snape dies (but don't remember how).
I think I'm lucky that not many artists I care about much turned out bad (that I know of). The singer from Rammstein being a sex pest (allegedly, anyway) was disappointing. Also John Cleese being pretty anti-trans was also disappointing
For hire: abattoir quality tester
Requirements: must be pig
I think it's not like any other 'growth phase' like Amazon or Uber or Google. LLMs cost so much to run and that can't be solved by reaching a wider user base or building infrastructure. Infrastructure here are consumables (GPUs) and have to be continuously rebuilt, and use is already widespread
Sounds like a genuine moron
Someone else once put it - LLMs can't actually answer questions, instead they stimulate what the answer to the question would kinda sound like. Which in this context is to say that they operate on the same principle as the writers for dubiously researched legal dramas
IDK, when the AI financial bubble bursts, will it make sense to anyone to keep these enormously expensive data centers operational? Improving the models have diminishing returns relative to the resource cost, and AI companies are deep in the red with no apparent plan how to turn a profit
This reminds me of when techbros said that nfts and self-executing 'smart contacts' will make lawyers obsolete. You still need a lawyer to draft your smart contract unless you want it to automatically and irreversibly do something illegal...? And you'll still sue when you're unhappy with what it did
Immediately thought of this video too
This is insane. They got, like, rule of law or some shit over there
My answer too. To me, the matter with Prometheus in a nutshell is this: It caters hard to the sense of wonder about the origin of life, but at the same time, its writers were so uninterested in the topic they bothered to learn nothing about it. Empty cargo cult version of wonder and intrigue
I know that song
A translucent nudibranch, a nomad of the sandy dunes
It will never stop being funny that jpegs are in fact the most fungible things that have ever been invented. The copyright of an image is a unique commodity, but usually isn't transferred with the NFTs at all.
Honestly, odds are you do understand nfts, but the people really into them didn't, and you kept waiting for there to be more to this when there wasn't. Like a plan so dumb that you expect the explanation to continue but the guy has finished talking, grinning at you with stupid triumph
Let's go
The SAVE act is one of the most cunning attempts at voter suppression I have ever seen. They know women are less likely to vote for the GOP, and they found a way to make most married women have to pay to vote.
Underwater snowfall. A bloom of what I think are radiolarians
