greendestiny

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Comment · 6 months ago
Nonsense, the reluctance of governments to reduce carbon emissions has been driven by the reluctance for entrenched industries to give up their gravy train. There are many ways for power to be produced with lower carbon emissions, it's absolutely not a binary situation at all.

What nuclear is is a wedge issue that can successfully split the opposition to the fossil fuel industry. People should be incredibly wary of the argument being forced into these positions, its artificial and contrary to the desires of people who want action on climate change who support nuclear and don't.

Comment · 6 months ago
I understand the article - the point about 'learning' is that if the model and its outputs are a derivative works then the copyright belongs to the human creators of the works it was trained on.

Edit*: Or perhaps put more pseudo legally that the created works infringe on the copyrights of the original human creators.

Comment · 6 months ago
I think that it's absurd that we've jumped to the conclusion backpropagation in neural networks should be legally treated the same as human learning.

I mean I don't think think I could find a better description for following the derivatives of error in reproducing a set of works as creating a "derivative work".

Comment · 6 months ago
Sure as a word it can be broad, as a concept in our legal system that should be much more nuanced.

The relevant extension of your analogy is should birds be required to obey FAA rules? Or should plane factories be protected as nesting sites?

Comment · 3 years ago
You can get chatGPT to generate plantUML
Comment · 7 years ago
Disclosing vulnerabilities.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think the theory is suggesting that the photon was emitted with less energy.
Comment · 7 years ago
You and me both. :(
Comment · 8 years ago
Actually despite your skepticism Tesla's PR spin has already beaten you.

"but autopilot still lowers the death rate on average"

That's not what they said, they said the death rate was lower than the average. And yet you can't help hearing that it lowered the death rate. I think it's very likely turning on autopilot massively increases the rate of death for Tesla drivers, but they've managed to deflect from that so skilfully.

Comment · 9 years ago
Hah!
Comment · 10 years ago
I don't think it's going to emerge without significant effort to make it happen. I think most of the 'intelligence' we desire will be attainable without sentience. Sentience itself will require a lot of specific research directed at the goal. It's certainly a risk though.
Comment · 10 years ago
Right there with you on this, love react's rendering model. Redux seems to get all the hype but I'm sort of beginning to suspect it might be mostly the wrong way to do things. It reminds me of TDD, most of the benefits seem to be moral in character rather than concrete.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yeah but in defence of the guy you're replying to, once you render them they are 2d images.
Comment · 10 years ago
You can try it yourself with commercial software: http://www.123dapp.com/catch

Scale can be hard to capture in photogrammetry, but in general the unrealness probably has more to do with the somewhat smoothed out (triangulated) surface that doesn't capture too fine a level of detail and the textureless (uncoloured) model they are rendering.

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