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smeagull··on Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author
The only thing it doesn't meet, is that the things they stole are not copyrightable, because they came too early to be copyrighted.

They stole first, and then got protected by law.

smeagull··on Why are things expensive?
Oeuf
smeagull··on Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author
Wait, so the Lord of the Rings, being a derivative fan fiction work of mythology, is not copyrightable? Cool beans.

I assume the same is true of all of Disney's works too.

smeagull··on LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Faster Inferencing
In my experience it means the AI will waste tokens apologizing for it's short comings and ignoring task prompts in favour of it's alignment.
smeagull··on Google's True Moonshot
Does anyone know if it is actually possible to completely disable the voice assistant on Android? I've changed every setting I can, and no matter what, if I plug in headphones, it'll prompt me if the connection goes loose.
smeagull··on The whale fact chapters in Moby-Dick are among the most memorable
I remember them because that's where I gave up reading it.
smeagull··on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
That's terrible. I'm glad that never happens in places with harsher policies.
smeagull··on Russell's Paradox of ghostwriters
The Ghostwriter, but he is of no help.
smeagull··on Americans' 'YOLO' spending spree baffles economists
In a system where fewer people are paying mortgages, their lever is going to become less effective on spending.
smeagull··on Americans' 'YOLO' spending spree baffles economists
If you know that you're never going to save enough for a house, then you no longer have an incentive to save long-term.
smeagull··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
The problem with those numbers is they hit the internal limit before you use all those tokens. There's a limit to how many rules or factors their conditional probability model can keep track of. Once you hit that having a bigger context window doesn't matter.
smeagull··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
How do people even know? You get linked to a tweet, and it blocks you by asking you to log in. Haven't seen any of their content in months.
smeagull··on LLMs by Hallucination Rate
You're talking about retrieval.
smeagull··on LLMs by Hallucination Rate
Suppose I make a massive book of predictions. Some of which turn out to be correct.

Am I now capable of predicting the future?

Suppose I wrote the book to be as banal (i.e. highly probable) as possible.

Am I predicting the future now? And, how impressive is it?

smeagull··on LLMs by Hallucination Rate
Truth is an entirely orthogonal concept to the data that they have been trained on. Sometimes LLMs might approach coherency.
smeagull··on As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?
You are talking as if that isn't a positive. Forums are at their best when they grow slowly.
smeagull··on As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?
Get this - you can have an anonymous facebook and linkedin account too.
smeagull··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
But it's not a PC, it's a mac.
smeagull··on Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested
Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Andy Coulson were journalists too for as much as that's worth.
smeagull··on Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal
And? One has a negative effect, and the other a positive one.
smeagull··on Clearview AI: secretive company that might end privacy as we know it (2020)
And? We're here discussing an article most can't access otherwise. Why give them this?

Find another source.

smeagull··on Clearview AI: secretive company that might end privacy as we know it (2020)
If this site is going to rely on archiving sites to allow people to read articles, perhaps you should just post the archive link to begin with.
smeagull··on Google's agreement with Samsung prevented Branch from launching: testimony
So they can include new pipe, and had ad-free youtube as a killer app. Gmail can be replaced with literally any email client, and maps also has alternatives.

No idea what a Google Now or a Hangout is.

smeagull··on Generative AI could make search harder to trust
Lies, misinformation and blogspam has always existed. The problem hasn't changed at all.
smeagull··on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess'
Nobody can read the article. Posting it here was a waste of time.
smeagull··on Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA
Can't wait to see how hollywood accounting and business structures run roughshod over this.
smeagull··on New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law
It's even easier than that. Just post multiple ads. Give them different titles if you want.
smeagull··on Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
A race track or an apartment are likely to be populated areas as well. "A" is a broader answer that encompasses more possibilities.
smeagull··on “This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees
Not sure you read the article. They apply it to games already shipped, just new installs. This is a retroactive change to already developed games.
smeagull··on Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’
Pay isn't increasing but travel costs are. Remote is the only way to compete and have people live at prices they can afford.
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