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throwaway48r7r··on Ski town can't fill a job for $167k cuz potential can't afford to live there
Using "cuz" in the title. For shame.
throwaway48r7r··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
I find that kind of hilarious. Especially as they are the ones providing the tissues.
throwaway48r7r··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
Cheating in online games is big business and is accessible to more than the technically inclined through purchase. There's no reason to think the same won't happen for tests that have actual monetary value.
throwaway48r7r··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
Do you think they have a written tissue protocol?
throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
Because it would be an intelligence but not one we would recognize as human like GI.
throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
I think much like with a basic Turing machine definition compute is possible on a variety of substrates that some kind of intelligence can be created with a whole class of implementations, transformers included. Indeed the video and image input of LLMs is one of the most exiting use cases.
throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
Absolutely. The physical world is the input that creates the feedback loop for learning.

I would propose a definition of AGI. "A model capable of effecting the physical world through speech or physical action in a manner indistinguishable from a human."

throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
This undersells the fact that to a not insignificant degree humans are stochastic parrots too.
throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
This is exactly what's happening.
throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
>the environment we live in

This has changed drastically and thus our definition of smart has too.

throwaway48r7r··on What if AGI is not coming?
LLMs solve for the next word. Human intelligence solves for survival with many types of input, visual, audio etc. You can't create an AGI if you don't solve for the problems that created human GI.
throwaway48r7r··on S.3819 – Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024
America has per weight pricing on labels but the units are often inconsistent.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
The $20 dolphin bar also is a bluetooth adapter.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
The wiimotes are just bluetooth and the tracking is 5 LEDs. I've used candles instead of the sensor bar before. You can buy a "dolphin bar" for $20 and use your wiimotes on the PC. It works great. I dumped my wii games and haven't touched the console in years.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
Pretty much. The term for this is judgement proof.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
Was your name on the lawsuit or was it an LLC?
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
Won't somebody think of the multinationals.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
They're about as likely to get paid as the poor sods the RIAA sued. It's just about using their legal muscle to shut them down.

They will get the assets though. So $30k in patron money for the month, the domain, the trademark, and the copyright to the GPL'd code.

throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
>But, emulating a current console is not about preservation.

Today's present is tomorrow's past.

throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
As far as I know (IANAL) it was Tropic Haize LLC that was sued and is on the hook for the $2M.
throwaway48r7r··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
Personally, I will be boycotting Nintendo and will urge others to do the same.
throwaway48r7r··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
You already have to provide your own encryption keys to the emulator.
throwaway48r7r··on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
The US interceptor missiles are something like 3 million dollars each. The Houthis drones are closer to 20 thousand. Eventually they will win on economic grounds.
throwaway48r7r··on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
It would be nice if people in the region at least pretended to be working towards peaceful solutions.
throwaway48r7r··on NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars
Plausible deniability for his customers
throwaway48r7r··on Apple Spent $1B on the M3 Tape-Out, Says Analyst
Mac revenue is ~7bn/qtr. So 1$bn for tape out is a lot.