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Summary missed any mention of Khalistan, a Sikh separatist movement which is an important aspect of the article. It's the purported reason the activist was killed.

The Cowboy Bebop TTRPG seemed easier to setup, less involved character creation, and works nicely for one shots.

The rules are not very well written imo, not a lot of support for DMs, so I had to kind of lean on my past experience, and there wasn't really any guidance on how to use the clocks so one session was great, the other just slogged because I think I messed up the pacing since it was a lot fewer players.

Its also somewhat predicated on most people being familiar with the aesthetic of the show cowboy bebop.

I like DnD more as a video game, in BG3. A while ago, I started exploring more narratively centered systems, like Fate, or even the new Cowboy Bebop TTRPG, for actual role playing.

If this is the one in thinking of, they disclosed it was made using midjourney, but the judges didn't know what that meant and didn't ask.

I kind of thought so at first, but what I think breaks it for me is where does the back of the cat go? It looks like the cat is either just the front half, or the back of the cat is protruding through the back of the sofa. Also, looking at the paws, some of the yarn near the toes just kind of looks fused together, not knit.

Dude what does mine say? Sweet what does mine say?

Can you link the source? I recall the last time that story popped up, it was a hypothetical situation that someone was saying in a conference, not something that they observed either in practice or a simulation.

America definitely has its issues, but I think we have historically been good about surfacing problems and making sure they're at least talked about publicly, even if they're not fixed. This probably makes it look worse than it is. I feel like even in countries with reasonable free speech, there can be social taboos against talking about certain things.

So, as someone who doesn't do visual art, mainly writing and music as hobbies, my opinion is if there is intent, ie from the prompt or there editorial process of tweaking the model, then there is at last an attempt by a human to convey a message through the piece.

Whether or not it has good composition, or achieves something that resonates with a human viewer is valid criticism, but I think irrelevant as to whether or not it is art or a piece of creative expression. If someone has bad technique and can't really get their idea across well in a painting, is it no longer art? Is a painting made during a paint and sip where you're coached through the painting not art because there is no intent? These are more to gauge what you mean by art than as gotcha questions.

I did notice the invalidation of women's titles if you transitioned to male, but not if you transitioned to male. It seems like the general view is because the women's league is the easier league to achieve titles in, if you go to the "more competitive" league you then could game the system to "farm titles" or something if you transition and detransition.

The whole thing does seem a bit ridiculous as you mentioned based on my understanding of the system. The titles are clearly qualified as for a specific league, you don't lose junior league titles because you get older. Maybe this factors into elo calculations?

Either way, I appreciate the well written response. In my personal experience, the onus of trying to understand seemingly transphobic positions to potentially change them seems to fall on trans people, while allies seem more than happy to stick to the shouting and protesting. I had mentioned a point from a trans women who felt the discourse around pronouns was counter productive in her view, and someone immediately jumped to the defense of his partner who wasn't there before I could finish the sentence.

Reading between the lines, I can kind of see this one. The point appears to be to correct for societal inequities in the space of chess. If you learned chess and came up as a masculine presenting individual, they believe that the environment was more advantageous to you, so transitioning later in life doesn't change that advantage.

Better to insulate the major instances from potential liability. If people want to find the piracy channels, they can.

I don't actually think education is the main problem with obesity. People generally know when something is healthy or unhealthy. It's a lack of access to healthy food options, or a mental issue. Sugar can be addictive, and food can be a coping method for certain people too.

I think the knee jerk reaction to just not use credit cards is an over reaction. If you are in a state where you can safely maintain a few hundred dollars in a bank account month to month, then it's perfectly reasonable to have a credit card that is used responsibly as long as you don't carry a balance. I would just roll it into good budgeting and it helps you build a credit history which, though a shitty system, is still a useful thing to have.

It's not for everyone based on that criteria, but a good amount of people do fit that condition, especially if they have a moderately well paying job in a lower cost of living area, or do things like live with their parents.

AI is a super broad topic, I've heard people refer to Principal Component Analysis, which is from the 1930s, as "Machine Learning" or "AI". In reality its just that we have infrastructure and data at scale to start applying techniques in larger contexts.

I know pharmaceutical companies have been using AI in drug discovery for probably a decade now, but those models are very different from what a large language model looks like, and you still have a human sifting through the results and performing validation on a physical system to make sure the compounds do what is predicted safely, most of which do not.

When you ask something like ChatGPT a question like that, its doing something akin to looking up the most recent papers on the subject that it was trained on, and outputting something that looks like a chemical compound that the paper would be generated. It doesn't have an understanding of what that formula means, only that when you arrange letters in that way, it looks superficially similar to what would have been in the paper. Its like in movies, when they need to express someone doing math, they just fill a chalk board with random equations that look like advanced math at first glance, but might be introductory level material, or even just gibberish.

I assume you are referring to transformers, which came out in the literature around 2017. Attention on its own is significantly older, but wasn't really used in a context that came close to being used as a large language model until the early / mid 2010s.

While attention is fairly simplistic, a trait which helps it parallelize well and scale well, there is a lot of research that came about recently around how the text is presented to the model, and the size of the models. There is also a lot of sophistication around instruction tuning and alignment as well which is how you get from simple text continuation to something that can answer questions. I don't think you could make something like chatGPT using just the 2017 "Attention is All You Need" paper.

I suspect that publicly released models lags whatever google or OpenAI has figured out by 6 months to a year, especially because there is now a lot of shareholder pressure around releasing LLM based products. Advancement that are developed in the open source community, like apply LoRA and quantization in various contexts, has a significantly shorter time between development and release.

It feels like we're saying the same thing at different levels of skepticism. Their primary motivation is going to be money as they're private companies. Most people will stop contributing to an open source project when it stops being important to them. Either its not profitable for them, or its no longer cutting edge, or they just don't like the direction of the project.

My main point is that private companies can and do contribute to the FOSS ecosystem and can do so in helpful, non-nefarious ways. Most aren't google, most just want a useful and reliable message queue or database or kernel without trying to profit directly from the component itself and instead just using the component to do the thing that actually makes them profitable.

They don't care about free software in the same way that many others in the FOSS community do. They don't believe all information should be free, or copyleft, but they will contribute significantly to an ecosystem if it results in software that is cheaper for them because they can spread the cost of maintenance and enhancement, and is not subject to exploitative contracts from vendor lock in.

A lot of the infrastructure I use at work is open source, some of it, like Chrome, is open source because the primary contributing company wants to use it to exert influence over the ecosystem, but other software, like PostGres, is maintained by a bunch of different for- and non-profit institutions because they hate oracle and want to make a cheaper to maintain relational database or sell services to companies using said cheaper relational database, but the latter is definitely kept in check by the former.

If they're pushing into enterprise servers, like for AI, those are almost guaranteed to be running on some form of linux. I guess companies are willing pay for support contracts so their use cases will probably work pretty well.

12 years, I was kind of surprised reddit just kept chugging along.