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Womble

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  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • Read my edit, anything patented for the original pokemon is past the point of expiry in Japan (where the suit is filed).

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • Nope, because Nintendo arent suing over copyright (like how the pals look) they are suing over patents, so either gameplay mechanics or under the hood processes. They are complete bullshit and involve things like a patent filed in 2024 for riding a mount in a game.

    As others have pointed out patents in Japan expire after 20 years so it cant be anything that was in the original pokemon as that has already termed out.

  • OpenAI threatens bans for probing new AI model’s “reasoning” process

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  • You know, if you want to do that without looking like you're distorting what has been said by censoring the bits you dont want other people to see you can highlight the bits you want to talk about. That way other people can see the context and make their own decisions.

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    Is "retard" a slur?

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  • Any excuse you use to explain why you can use a slur is exactly that: an excuse.

    I guess that is what I take issue with, that statement makes it sounds like any use of a slur is always wrong regardless of context and that any reason for using it is just to wiggle out of you being a bad person.

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    Is "retard" a slur?

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  • Youre right that irony doesnt stopbit being a slur, but usage absolutely matters. Unless you think its inexcusable black people using the n word with each other? Context is incredibly important.

  • This Windows 11 Start menu change is now coming to Windows 10

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  • There’s no apparent way to disable the Microsoft 365 account manager in the Start menu, and there’s no option to deactivate the constant nagging to upgrade to a paid Microsoft 365 subscription.

    Sounds like an ad to me.

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  • Its wild how some people's blind hate of gen AI has got them thinking "corporate control of culture is good actually"

  • The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

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  • Where is the LLM that can reproduce specific whole copyrighted works on demand? All ive seen is reproductions of quotes of a few sentences (fair use) and hacks that can make it ocasionally vomit up random larger fragments of its training data, maybe up to a few paragraphs.

  • The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

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  • Yep, its definitely not possible that nice small businesses like universal and sony would sue without an actual case in order to try and crush competitors with costs.

  • The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble

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  • Estimates for chatgpt usage per query are on the order of 20-50 Wh, which is about the same as playing a demanding game on a gaming pc for a few minutes. Local models are significantly less.

  • Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

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  • The purpose of twitter like platforms is to have people to listen to and people to listen to you, so yes vastly lower user counts is a drawback.

  • Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

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  • Have you considered that maybe other people have different priorities, needs and desires to you, and that for people coming around to your point of view you should encourage them rather than castigate them for taking too long?

  • Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

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  • hmmm I wonder if that is considered in the thousands of words of this article...

    It got more unpleasant after the blue-tick fiasco: identity verification became something you could buy, which destroyed the trust quotient. So I joined the rival platform Mastodon, but fast realised that I would never get 70,000 followers on there like I had on Twitter. It wasn’t that I wanted the attention per se, just that my gang wasn’t varied or noisy enough. There’s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn’t refresh often enough, like walking into a shopping mall where half the shops have closed down and the rest are all selling the same thing.

  • Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

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  • I just honestly don't believe Musk is competent enough to pull off such a conspiracy. Far more likely that he just fucked up into buying twitter at a massively inflated price then ran it into the ground by being an idiot who thinks he's a genius.

  • How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

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  • If you read the article it explains why the fact that it is an ordinary failure is a bad thing. Ordinary failures (like some one not installing some bolts) are not supposed to happen in high reliability systems like passenger aircraft. Failures tend to come through "extraordinary" failures where multiple factors line up in an over looked way in order to create an unexpected failure mode.

    A 10 year old could tell you not installing safety bolts where they are supposed to be would make things dangerous. The fact that that is how a potentially lethal failure happened is damming.

  • The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion

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  • In a Ted Talk in April, Li further explained the field of research her startup will work on advancing, which involves algorithms capable of realistically extrapolating images and text into three-dimensional environments and acting on those predictions, using a concept known as “spatial intelligence.” This could bolster work in various fields such as robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, and computer vision. If these capabilities continue to advance in the ambitious ways Li plans, it has the potential to transform industries like healthcare and manufacturing.

    I mean that sounds a lot more interesting than 99% of the LLM work going on at the moment, and given that she lead the team that cracked the computer vision problem of recognising objects she has pedigree.

  • Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with!

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  • Nope, if you're working on large arrays of data you can get significant speed ups using well optimised BLAS functions that are vectorised (numpy) which beats out simply written c++ operating on each array element in turn. There's also Numba which uses LLVM to jit compile a subset of python to get compiled performance, though I didnt go to that in this case.

    You could link the BLAS libraries to c++ but its significantly more work than just importing numpy from python.

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  • Python can be extremely slow, it doesn't have to be. I recently re-wrote a stats program at work and got a ~500x speedup over the original python and a 10x speed up over the c++ rewrite of that. If you know how python works and avoid the performance foot-guns like nested loops you can often (though not always) get good performance.