I honestly couldn't disagree more. Spotify's exposed me to a huge wealth of artists I never would have run into otherwise. I'll hear one song somewhere, pop it on Spotify, and end up getting into whole new genres. Some of what have become my favorite musicians I probably never would have heard without it.
It does suck that they're not better to the artists who make them all their money, but I can't really complain about the algorithm.
Kinda stressful. I've been in the same place for 13 years, they're selling the house out from under me, I have to move in June, and I haven't found anything yet. My income is limited and I have allergies, which both limit my options pretty significantly.
I'm on a bunch of wait lists for low income housing and I'm following all the leads I can, but it's getting close and I'm getting worried.
I have a tabletop rpg on the way, but in the mean time I'm getting by driving a cab the days I can manage. It's precarious. I have a lot of tech hobbyist background, but no paper or connections to get me out the gate.
I honestly don't know what to do. Being homeless at 17 was one thing. It'd be a little different coming up on 40. I really don't want to end up living in my car.
The whole capitalizing 'my' thing is a really weird vibe that comes off ironically narcissistic. Also who starts an article with a digit? Does Medium no longer have editors?
Honestly it kind of reminds me of a thread that popped up here a few weeks ago.
I got the impression that Christiane Amanpour was hiding something like this from Jon Stewart when he interviewed her recently, and she works for CNN. I don't think these sorts of guidelines are unique to NYT.
It's kind of wild how much more Dante and Milton seem to have influenced the sort of now fairly standard apocryphal interpretations of the general shape of Abrahamic cosmology than the actual canon. Or like, maybe even Islam, honestly, or like Zoroastrianism. The hellfire and brimstone stuff really seems to come from somewhere else.
Also I'd like to give Christians who gripe about plural they a lesson on the etymology of Elohim.
Granted, I don't assume that LLMs are currently equivalent to a lesser general AI, but like, won't we always be able to say that they're just generating the next token? Like, what level of complexity of 'choice' determines the difference between LLM and general AI? Or is that not the criteria?
Are we talking some internal record of tracking specific reasoning? A long-term record that it can access between sessions? Some prescribed degree of autonomy within the systems it's connected to? Introspection?
Because to me "find the most reasonable next token for the current context" sounds a lot like how animals work. We make our way through a complex sea of sensory information and stored information to produce our next action, over and over again.
I was watching Dr Kevin Mitchell discuss free will with Adam Conover recently, and a lot of their discussion touched on consciousness as basically the choice-making process itself. It's worth watching, and I won't try to summarize it, but it does make me wonder how big of a gap there is between 'come up with the next token' and 'live'.
It does make me suspect that some iteration of LLMs may form the foundation of a more complex proper AI that's not just choosing the next token, but has some form of awareness of the process behind it.
Headline gore. Israel is Intentionally Starving Children to Death would be much more succinct.
But why chop HRW's perfectly good headline up to make it weaker and push responsibility away from Israel? These kids aren't magically dying because of Israel's policies on food, Israel is killing them by taking their food away. It's super weird to put distance between cause and effect here; I expect it from media outlets, I don't expect it from Beehaw posters.
You might really enjoy DayZ. The public servers are pretty brutal, but if you find a comfortable RP server you can settle in and really enjoy exploring the landscape. Once you're used to the mechanics it's so smooth.
Stereo headphones or even like monitors make hunting a lot of fun, listening to distant sounds trying to find a deer or boar is a lot of fun. And once you're used to dealing with zombies and the sthough.l mechanics, crafting and all that, it really opens up.
Plus the ability to expand it with modding is pretty extensive. We've got some neat stuff on our own server (though not much pop atm), and I've seen others that do some next level stuff like player vampires and werewolves and stuff.
Even just the vanilla game is absolutely gorgeous though. If you like exploring, scavenging, and crafting, especially with friends, it's kind of perfect.
Conan Exiles has a somewhat similar vibe but a bit clunkier and in a low fantasy setting. It's also got a lot of D&D roleplay servers.
Because you have to be occupied before you can do guerilla resistance? Also because guerilla activities require fewer personnel than an armed mobilization?
If Ukraine fell to invasion, as in like their lines collapse and they lose the territory they're currently holding, now every Ukrainian who might consider fighting is already behind enemy lines. Instead of being concentrated physically and very obviously defending themselves you'd have a very pissed off post-invasion population able to act inside of occupied territory. Look at the resistance fighters in occupied France in WWII. Putin isn't going to have an easy time even if he manages to push an invasion force through.
Good luck holding a country that fights as hard as Ukraine.
I honestly couldn't disagree more. Spotify's exposed me to a huge wealth of artists I never would have run into otherwise. I'll hear one song somewhere, pop it on Spotify, and end up getting into whole new genres. Some of what have become my favorite musicians I probably never would have heard without it.
It does suck that they're not better to the artists who make them all their money, but I can't really complain about the algorithm.