wewbull

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

...or builder.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

No, I don't believe that to be true.

Writing these shows is now so industrial that inspiration is never the driving factor.

It's the difficult second album problem. Your first album was a big success because you'd been polishing the tracks for 5-10 years whilst you were trying to get noticed. Youve now got 6 months to write the next album.

TV and film writers are never given the time to properly develop ideas because the industry needs more content now.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's just such a shame the filtering process for good training material is by hand. I've yet to find anything of high enough quality.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

Can people see now that when people clamour for controls on things like hate speech and disinformation, the question of "who defines what is/is not disinformation" isn't just sea-lioning?

It's a fundamentally critical argument against such controls. Sooner or later, people you agree with will be at the receiving end of them.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In your mind are the publishers the rich chumps, or Microsoft?

For copyleft to work, copyright needs to be strong.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This story is about a non-fiction work.

What is the purpose of a non-fiction work? It's to give the reader further knowledge on a subject.

Why does an LLM manufacturer train their model on a non-fiction work? To be able to act as a substitute source of the knowledge.

End result is that

  • the original is made redundant.
  • the original author is no longer credited.

So, not only have they stolen their work, they've stolen their income and reputation.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not that you can't train using generated images, but the watermarking is there to allow you to filter training data for them.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

The problem is atmosphere and the water vapor in it. Drop the temp too much and the water condenses out of the air on to the electronics. That can cause ice which causes extreme mechanical stress as it form and expands. Also you can get high thermal gradient across components. All of this causes mechanical stress and things crack.

Really the limits are more about packaging / jointing material science rather that the electronics. For the electronics themselves, the limit is absolute zero when the electrons stop moving.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Engineering (esp. electronic) is out of fashion with the current generation coming through higher education, and I think most of it is down to the industry being seen as magic in the high school period.

At the time I came through, to use high technology you needed to understand it to some level. Now, you don't need to know anything. Interviewing students for internships now, you find that people are only getting exposed to the basics of digital electronics at university and suddenly this whole world of opportunities appears in front of them. This is after they are already on the course though. We're missing out on so many potential engineers who go do different things because they have zero concept of how anything works, and what they might be able to do in the industry.

There's no reason a 12yo can't build simple digital logic circuits except that they're not exposed to it.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bought my 2yo BMW i3 EV in 2019 for £18k. Granted, they weren't as popular back then, but cheaper second hand EVs do exist. You just can't go for the big SUV types.

Just hit 60k miles with my only issue being a broken suspension mount. Damn potholes.

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