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angrais··on LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns
Less than 0.01% of the 5.8 billion images have an associated license. This license was taken from the webpage so cannot be trusted.
angrais··on LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns
What is the cost for each dataset for commercial uses?
angrais··on MMC4: An open, billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text
All this data is taken from common crawl, a web crawler that clones the web.

How can companies such as OpenAI use that data when no licenses can be identified for most web pages or the associated images? In other words, the user/owner of the content has not agreed for it to be used in these ways.

What's people's experiences with training models using such data?

Is there any way to identify if my photos appear in common crawl or are used in such datasets?

angrais··on Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
Interesting, thanks for the link.

For reference, my debate approach was not sealioning. Given the extremely bold claims made by OP, I wanted to know if they had consider ed alternative views as their comment read as unrealistic "hype".

angrais··on Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
What "cusp of the next step function" are we on? Please be as specific as possible.

>> Even with just chatgpt4 level performance, millions of people are in the process of losing their jobs

What jobs specifically, in which sectors, and what aspects of the role (or is it the entire one) will be replaced by "AI"?

Also, who is implementing all these changes? Who will run the "AI", who will pay for it?

angrais··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
That's an opinion framed as a fact. It's equally likely that more people will have jobs as "AI" becomes increasingly adopted across sectors, where new jobs will emerge to integrate them, of existing jobs are supplemented by them.

Why half research "immediately"?

angrais··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
That's dialects though. The same could be said for most regions in the UK from people living in the UK or abroad, e.g., a Scouse understanding a Glaswegian. This is similar in Italia across regions.
angrais··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
telefono is telephone though?
angrais··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
I'm not sure that's quite correct given the banking sector (Medici) originates in Florence (Tuscany generally) who had considered political power over the pope (Rome), and hence across the kingdoms/country.
angrais··on GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code
Although that is an outdated generated snippet as it doesn't use pathlib?

What if you added a type annotation to filename as Path?

angrais··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
That's been the case for literally more than 20 years via Appen, Amazon crowd workers, etc.
angrais··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
It is illegal for you to download copyrighted material and distribute it as your own. Models trained on such data can (and are statistically more likely) to produce similar output as their (training) input.

So training must consider licencing where copyright material is used and not consume all data.

Your brain is not a model. You can not reproduce most of what you see. You're not "training" your brain by glancing at an image as your recall concerning that image will be terrible.

angrais··on FFmpeg 6.0
>> Do you have a use case where being off by a few frames might be a deal breaker?

Yes, in action recognition tasks (machine learning), e.g., if you have a large video with temporal annotations (start/end times where an action occurs) you may want to extract clips to sense-check the annotations. Being exact is important.

angrais··on Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
You're right, sorry. I'd two days selected rather than one. £450 is still quite a lot, but like you say, manageable as a one-off event and certainly seems worth it from how you've described it.

>> NB I've no connection to the place other than really liking it

Understand. How you described it made me consider a visit. Great venue and location.

angrais··on Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
I suppose since there's only three buildings they can choose to charge whatever they want. I had a look on the hotels website and it was £700 per night. While I'm sure it's lovely, a room for the night is certainly not affordable for most of the UK population.
angrais··on FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
1. Automatically detect when (timestamp) change in slide, e.g., large % of colour change in the image of the video (I assume video is slide-deck only else we can crop to the area that is);

2. Use the timestamps provided by whisper to group and align with (1).

angrais··on Ultra-processed food consumption, cancer risk and cancer mortality
Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946744/#:~:tex...).
angrais··on 'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening
My mistake. I wanted to link a pdf (EU report) and thought this guardian link was similar as it appeared in the same list of search results. The original link when copied on phone was long and didn't look "clean". Google got me again, damn!

The infographic that I wanted to link [1] also has a link to the original data.

[1]: http://inequalitybriefing.org/graphics/briefing_43_UK_region...

angrais··on 'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening
>> The poor are not as poor elsewhere, this should be borne in mind when discussing where funds are allocated.

For reference, London does not have the poorest towns/area in the UK. They tend to be seaside towns or towns in the northeast.

Of course, London is most poor when factoring in housing costs, but it is also massive compared to any other town [1]. The poorest area in the UK are the poorest in Europe [2].

1. https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/poverty-rates-by-regi... (data focused on London highlights that London is the worst.)

2. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/28/england-poor...

angrais··on Why I'm still using Python
>> and (probably the biggest thing) comprehensions ARE NOT SUFFICIENT replacements for easy anonymous inline functions (JS () => , or Ruby's blocks).

I'm confused by this statement. As I understand it, list comprehensions exist to transform data. Inline functions in JS would be equal to lambdas in python, I.e. anonymous functions. So what differences between JS and python do you think is missing?

angrais··on I became a software engineer after 5 years in data science
>> I've had to write short inductive proofs in several of the systems I've built.

In what context was this necessary?

angrais··on Show HN: Pbproxy – Send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh
Would it be possible to use hostnames rather than IP addresses then you'd not have to worry as the resolution would be done for you?
angrais··on Bra size calculator
One problem is likely that manufactures cut the material differently so the cut/fit differs.

It's like buying a pair of jeans from five companies in the same waist size and leg lengths. Some will be tight around the waist while another fits well.

angrais··on Tell HN: Thank you all, from a former noob
Your sales pitch at the end made this truly a hackernews post. You've certainly learned a lot!
angrais··on Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
I'm not sure Ireland would want to directly associate themselves with English (=England | UK) in that way. Clearly this is a very political question and so we can discard it from Christmas discussion :)

>> It's native to Ireland, surely; in which case it seems fine.

English is also "native" to many people in all countries around the world. In Ireland, many families speak Irish at home, not English.

angrais··on Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
> Take sterile cotton swab and rub it on your 'clean' post-shower butthole and grow a culture from it and tell me how 'clean' it really is.

Great idea for the weekend, thanks!

angrais··on Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos
How's this differ from using git LFS?
angrais··on What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer
I'm confused. Do you eat 500-1k calories of sugar a day or calories overall?
angrais··on What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer
How can you get 2x bw squats at home? What are you squatting? Your fridge and oven?
angrais··on Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow
What sort of role is it for?

I'm asking as I doubt "know about how computers work" is necessary for most tech roles.

I get it, having technical expertise is important, but still ...

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