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Comment · 3 months ago
Indeed, you can filter the graphs to see these the values for alternative reasoning settings of the models. Opus 5 High reasoning scored 59 on the index (exactly the same as GPT 5.6 Sol Max), and costs $1.06 per task (vs $1.04 Sol Max). So these seem essentially equivalent on both metrics.
Comment · 3 months ago
I was in OiNK, and later I was an Elite on what.cd. I had access to college radio station cd shipments at the time too. Filled my fair share of requests. Nothing that has come since compares to those days
Comment · 7 months ago
6 months notice + 12 months salary, which is what you are proposing, seems strictly worse to me than just 18 months salary and no notice.
Comment · 9 months ago
For student assignment cheating, only really the em dashes would still be in the output. But there are specific words and turns of phrases, specific constructions (e.g., 'it's not just x, but y'), and commonly used word choices. Really it's just a prim and proper corporate press release style voice -- this is not a usual university student's writing voice. I'm actually quite sure that you'd be able to easily pick out a first pass AI generated student assignment with em dashes removed from a set of legitimate assignments, especially if you are a native English speaker. You may not be able to systematically explain it, but your native speaker intuition can do it surprisingly well.

What AI detectors have largely done is try to formalize that intuition. They do work pretty well on simple adversaries (so basically, the most lazy student), but a more sophisticated user will do first, second, third passes to change the voice.

Comment · 9 months ago
The benefit to the person is going to vary. For one reason or another they prefer to be in US rather than wherever they currently are. I'm sure each person has their own unique set of reasons, but it's not hard to imagine.

A benefit for the US is increased GDP, tax revenue, etc.

Comment · 11 months ago
No interest in this exactly, but I am interested in the idea that third parties are now targeting the Framework form factor explicitly to sell upgrades/replacements outside of the Framework marketplace.
Comment · 11 months ago
Succession, Hacks, The Last of Us, White Lotus and Euphoria have all been recent buzzy TV hits for HBO post Game of Thrones
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Have you tried waypipe? Does it not fit your use case?

Last time I tested this, which was a few years ago, it worked just fine. But to be fair, this is not part of my workflow, just something I was testing out of curiosity.

If it doesn't do what you need for whatever reason, then I understand, but it just not true at all that the Wayland ecosystem has not been addressing these use cases.

Comment · 1 year ago
The Brexit referendum was not binding and the decision with what to do with the results, if anything, was still entirely left to parliament.
Comment · 2 years ago
Surely revising the numbers downward close to election when people are paying most attention to them is exactly the opposite thing you would want to do to get re-elected? I'd argue the motivation for malfeasance only makes sense the opposite -- BLS does not want the administration reelected and thus is releasing worse numbers close to the election.
Comment · 2 years ago
We can seriously say that, yes. The courts have been saying this in the US for over 30 years. See Midler v. Ford Motor Co.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are two similar famous cases I know offhand. Probably there are more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Bette Middler successfully sued Ford for impersonating her likeness in a commercial.

Then also:

https://casetext.com/case/waits-v-frito-lay-inc

Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay for using an imitator without approval in a radio commercial.

The key seems to be that if someone is famous and their voice is distinctly attributeable to them, there is a case. In both of these cases, the artists in question were also solicited first and refused.

Comment · 2 years ago
He worked there for 5 years. It probably didn't feel "random" for him.

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