I reblog lots of different things. My blog is very random. There's probably something for everyone here if you search enough. I don't like everything I reblog. Sometimes I don't even know how I feel about it. But I just want to help the world see it. I'm not telling you anything about myself. That's not how Tumblr works in my mind. Also, I follow everyone who follows me. If I reblog my own post, it wasn't on purpose.
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one of my fav tumblr phenomenons is when there's a poll where all the answers are just patently absurd and yet somehow there's a clear winner
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ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:
if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?
what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.
the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?
people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...
all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads
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Assume all your living expenses are also paid for the entire course of study and you will have any reasonable accommodation you need, and you'll have good health insurance and access to all your meds.
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of all Riccardo Estli's compositions, I think his "Katya's Waltz" from the Goncharov score is one of his most beautiful
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Virginia tourism board should pay me to visit and review the saddest little towns in Virginia.
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reading about serial killers in the 1800s and they had female incels I guess
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Kristóf Kállay, Hungarian champion figure skater with Vajdahunyad castle in the background, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Scenes from northern Gaza this morning (18 Nov 2023), dozens of victims as a result of Israeli airstrikes. Estimated 1,000 Palestinians were killed today. No accurate numbers are available due to Al-Shifa Hospital effectively shutting down.
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imagine making a vent piece about world war II and the horrors of facism and childhood trauma only for someone to make a parody film off of it decades later and equating it to getting cancelled on twitter oh and there are voluptuous furries in it too.
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