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Comment · 3 months ago
Those are still both proprietary. Open weights != open-source
Comment · 3 months ago
Riots
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Comment · 3 months ago
is this bad for my SSD?
Comment · 3 months ago
What do you mean 'resets on the bench?
Comment · 3 months ago
all useful models are proprietary.
Comment · 3 months ago
Sorry, please elaborate.
Comment · 3 months ago
>contemporary rich country education systems

I'm from such a country and this tracks. I often look to individuals of the past with the same academic credentials as me and it seems they are much better read & educated. And when I was in school, it often felt like my education was diluted to cater to the LCD.

Comment · 3 months ago
Less worldly, how so? Been considering an FT sub.
Comment · 3 months ago
When I studied economics and finance, I thought it was very dumb that we created a position where an individual's words can have that kind of power.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, but despite that they work pretty good lately if what you're asking is verifiable, like searching for the name of a book.
Comment · 4 months ago
>there are people amassing something like 1/3 of the world that look like kids until they must retire from all work including use of gas stoves to boil water.

What are you talking about?

Comment · 4 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 4 months ago
5.6 isn't available to subscribers at all. "Better" on the optics front because they didn't tease users, but they're not better for subscribers regarding latest model access.
Comment · 4 months ago
Any suggestion for paths into tech art? I'm very strong in traditional media, I know my way around photoshop & blender very well[0] and I've self-studied programming to a level where I can read lower-level (c/c++) code and know what it's doing. I even got a PR merged into blender once!

But I have no industry connection and my public portfolio is mostly charcoal and oil. The company that flew my drone animations is small & didn't get good video of them (there's a cellphone video or two from the audience, but that's not very good for a showreel). I've been thinking of just getting some good footage of a field & using blender to render & composite the designs, but doing that well will be time consuming and I feel like I might be better off doing something else.

Any advice on breaking in?

[0] I made a small blender workflow & add-on before AI to coordinate droneshow animations that I was selling to a small company, used renderdoc to insert gl.readcolors into the renderloop in a very ugly so I could get the benefit of the shader engine, which no commercial drone-animation software could do at the time. Almost worked for a bigger drone company but the contract was untenable.

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