I didn’t realize how significant the issue is, at most I was thinking maybe just barely double but not significantly beyond it.

On it being in the “empty” space or void between galaxies, could it be some of quirk of gravity? What I mean is that the absence of sufficient mass would lead to these voids “expanding”. Using the typical example of a stretched elastic sheet, the demonstration is to show how mass pulls space in upon itself. Except this would be the inverse with the mass collecting on the border of the void, causing it to be stretched apart instead.

Any chance you could recommend reading material on this?

wouldn’t want to risk the user learning how to do something with it.

thanks to AI I don’t believe this is real. that said I wonder what the snipers on top of the white house thought as this was being assembled.

“The too big to fail” part might be claims that private equity is using “leveraged debt” to finance the data centers using the AI claims of crazy projected income.

The money they’re using is your savings and checking account balances being loaned out. The banks don’t give a fuck if/when this blows up as its not actually their money and their socket puppets in the government won’t actually punish any of them.

That was linked to something I said elsewhere. To sum it up: I am a veteran with connections to other veterans through out the government. The damages to the foundations of the USA are worse than what most people know. Just one example, FEMA is bleeding irreplaceable experts every month along with competent people every week.

Not in the linked comment. The USA is no longer pretending to be a democracy, get out if you can.

Another way of viewing the use of “wild west” was exactly that, the lack of over regulation and a more hands off government. In reality it wasn’t the utopia some want to make it out to be as slang like “snake oil salesmen” alludes.

ah man that sucks. I kinda like XDA and polygon.

As I understand it, because SCOTUS refused to hear the latest AI copyright case, that leaves the door open for them to reconsider later.

Reminded me. Human creators of procedurally generated content often “cheat”. Best example is Valheim which most people believe is 100% procedurally generated landscapes/geography. Reality is Valheim has a hidden super or master map with the gaming copying a small circle of it and then uses the procedural generator to decorate that.

If not for all the modders its unlikely anyone would know.

They’re certainly trying their damnest to outspend each other to be the last man standing.

The open models vs the leviathans (Gemini, Claude, OpenGPT, etc) share a lot of the same architecture with some major differences:

the first difference is parameter count. Very rough example: we know the difference between right vs right or green vs green. That distinction or concept is basically what a parameter is. These tiny little details may be an entire parameter or just a marginal shift between 0 to 1. Each parameter is anywhere from one bit to two bytes with the size further influencing the nuances of various patterns. In application, a model with 300 billion parameters needs 600+ gigabytes of fragile and difficult to mass memory chips.

Second difference is the ability to handle a large context window. I understand this enough that it gives me a headache but not enough to explain fairly well enough. Models you can run on consumer hardware is unlikely to a have a large context window.

Third difference is speed. There is a scifi book series about space faring clones of a guy named Bob. In one of the books, two Bob clones are slowly losing their minds because an alien librarian will only answer one question at a time when it reaches the front of a massive queue of other questions. Every time I have worked with a model, its usually a rapid fire process to zero in one the desired result. That’s not happening for most normal people who don’t have a micro cluster of computers in their home.

On the tail of that last one, they are seriously trying to hook these things up to nuclear power plants to make them financially viable. At home, having a computer running full tilt can translate to a dollar or more of extra electrical costs. $100 added to the power bill at the end of the month on top of not being able to do anything else with an expensive computer is dead on arrival.

edit: please don’t downvote people because you don’t like the question, think its too obvious, or whatever. Discussion and debate is a good thing! If we shun people for asking questions, we end up with a bunch of stupid people. Also I don’t think this was a bait or leading question.

Three issues I see:

I actually don’t mind some parts of “AI” technology but I start heading into Neo Luddite when you factor in these models used massive amounts of stolen material to make them. Furthermore AI is only going to benefit a tiny minority of people. They stole the public library and now want to charge you money to access it.

Completely procedural generated content is generally kind of crap. Humans are so good at spotting patterns that our brains create patterns where they don’t exist. As AI generated content floods the market with “slop”, it will (has already in some cases) drown out the real creative work of individuals. The quality is guaranteed to never improve because “AI” isn’t actually intelligent and is only designed to make a pattern of data that is acceptable to humans. Eventually humans detect that pattern. This is one driving force behind our ever evolving cultures and is something “AI” can’t do. Feed slop back to AI and it breaks. Feed existing culture to a human and it evolves to create something new (eg Mozart synthesized into dubstep)

Two parts to this: The end goal of the current “AI” war by the tech houses is to obliterate the competition. Our reality is recursive. In nature when there is no competition you end up with an extreme collapse of the ecosystem. The winning tech house will lead to a similar dystopian nightmare. The other part is that in the process of getting to that point, the winning tech house will ratchet the price up as high as it can. The coding tech houses have been forced to raise prices but its still not high enough to be profitable. Economic pressure of competition is preventing any of them from raising their prices higher.

I have no idea as everyone I knew has been driven out of PC. last time I was there it felt like it had been hollowed out.

which one? linked comment?

Putin surrounded himself with yes men while rampant corruption rotted away his military.

Park City was so different before the Olympics

I dunno. There was that one point in his life where he alienated all of his friends because of his infatuation with Madonna. Though I guess he got better after killing Pablo Escobar but refusing to join Madonna in becoming drug lords, for which she had him assassinated.

Thank you! I loved Weird Al’s facial expression when he conveyed that story.

Super paraphrasing because my memory sucks.

During an interview Weird Al mentioned briefly talking with Kurt Cobain and saying one of the reasons for the parody was because no one knew what Kurt was saying.

Totally agree and things are already really bad here but the average US citizen doesn’t know it it yet - https://piefed.social/comment/11954439

My priority is getting my partner out of this mess before they get permanently deployed to one of the three country killing disasters on the horizon.

Not related or that important; I’ve been making a concerted effort to not refer to the USA as America and saying US citizens as Americans. The situation in North America kinda feels like this https://imgur.com/a/w2GWXoZ with the question being who is the survivor: Mexico or Canada?

Yankovic is well into the “I don’t fucking give a fuck” stage of life and could easily have just said “Fuck yeah” like a certain pot smoking rapper performing at a controversial political event or the comedians that are OK with blood money.

I am happy people like him exist.

edit: typo/spaling fix