halyconWays

This reads like a high schooler discovering that film can manipulate you, but doesn't go any further than that.

"We like to believe that we form our opinions by gathering evidence, weighing facts, and arriving at reasonable conclusions. Be for real. No we do not."

She speaks for herself. The author then doesn't bring up a single fact, piece of evidence, or anything else besides just restating the pedestrian premise a few times. I don't share her inability to study a topic in-depth, come to a conclusion or challenge my previously held beliefs, and then pass judgment while attaching a calibrated degree of certainty to the soundness of my conviction.

It may be a good model, but I'm not reading scrollslop. It annoys me to much when I'm just trying to get information about something.

Everyone was obsessed with classification prior to transformers, then we had 5+ years of everyone (rightfully) obsessed with next-token prediction. What's this sudden resurgence of interest in classifiers? I thought we all agreed that ML tasks generally require something far more advanced than pretrained classifiers. My timeline was also absolutely filled with mentions of Jev, which makes me think it's a successful viral marketing campaign, like langchain. It's now so popular that the dialog is whether or not [frontier company] is poised to catch up to it or not? We already have openjev...anyone can use it. I don't get it, and usually that means it's marketing.

Those sites are also scrollslop. "Slop," as a term, is independent of AI

I call it scrollslop

I never thought I'd see someone else in the wild who remembers Stars! Next we'll be talking about Anacreon and Talisman.

Yes, and when they contain pithy little mic-drop LLM phrases they're intolerable. But I'll still take them over marketing department scrollslop.

I imagine that's why they're pushing them so hard, especially given Google's recent anti-user lockdowns. I have a hard time imagining they'd expend so many resources to protect a tiny percentage of users from having their accounts hacked...there's no way they actually give a shit about that. Their bread and butter is instead protecting the value of their product, which is their captive userbase.

I did LFS once, a long long time ago (days of RedHat 7.3, I'd say, 2002), and it was quite educational! It's a good way to learn the fundamentals of what comprises an actual Linux system

The music that YuE2 is makes is cleaner that Minimax Music 3, but I can't make it generate anything that isn't extremely bland. Songs fail to develop, they always sound like they're stuck in the intro. The composition feels extremely music-school-ey.

>GitHub still remained meritorious enough to merit being bought by one of the biggest companies

You can't just use the word "merit" and claim the CEO's literal statement about meritocracy no longer being one of their virtues means nothing.

"Your honor, my client may have committed grand larceny, but he was certainly GRAND enough to order the GRAND SLAM at Denny's."

>do you even know if they work there anymore?

Yes

>And despite this strong conviction you have, you've provided 0 references (you didn't even cite the original incident, I had to figure out...

So you're unfamiliar with the period of GitHub history you're speaking about as if you have knowledge and authority. Why didn't you ask questions and seek to learn? At what point did you disagree with my theory, before or after you did a cursory search on a single facet of my argument?

>I won't be responding again since I've made my point thoroughly

>Feel free to have the last word

>there hasn't been anything added to the discussion since 3 posts ago

>cheers.

Spoken like a man who feels his argument is defensible and reasoned, clearly, because if this is the manner in which you have debates, you likely always feel that way.

"For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else."

lol. lamo, even.

And yet 2014 was when the company culture completely changed. The co-founder resigned. The company switched to having bosses for everyone (previously they had an informal hierarchy). They moved to having serious HR, PMs, tech leads, 1:1 reporting, etc. They had a brain drain, like firing Zach Holman, a prominent leader. There was that "Dear GitHub" letter about it, when prominent orgs made a public letter about how GitHub was getting shittier. Reliability got worse and worse, steadily. Pre-2014 was called GitHub 1.0. AKA it's institutional rot.

Company: "We're no longer going to focus on merit as a virtue."

Company slowly becomes worse and worse.

Me: "That starting gun surely signaled the start of the decline."

You: "That was a long time ago. Couldn't have been that."

What are second-order consequences?

You don't think that sudden, radical, and politically motivated change in the core leadership of a company doesn't have long-lasting and compounding effects?