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Show threadSankaraStoneSep 30, 2024
It’s mostly the color of the light that’s the problem right? Our brains register the cooler light in the contrasting darkness as blindingly bright as opposed to warmer incandescent light, despite both lights having the same measured brightness (lumens).
Show threadSankaraStoneSep 16, 2024
Yeah, you can, haha (almost like the switch). You stick it in a dock with HDMI out and add a controller by USB, USB dongle, or Bluetooth.
Show threadSankaraStoneSep 16, 2024
And I can install games from other store fronts if I want.
Show threadSankaraStoneSep 16, 2024

They have a first past the post parliamentary system, derived from the UK. The US has a separation of powers between its executive branch and its legislative branch.

The way to build third parties is by reforming the democratic system state by state to have a ranked choice system open non-partisan primary to select the top two final candidates followed by a general election between these two candidates for each election to elect a representative or president.

It helps mitigate the flaws of the ranked choice system to have it stop at the final two and let the voters choose between these final two choices. It helps get candidates that are at the center of voter opinion distribution.

Show threadSankaraStoneSep 11, 2024
IMO, it should be two rounds. The first (the “primary” round) should be ranked choice voting to pick the top two and the second should be majority vote between these final two choices.
Show threadSankaraStoneSep 7, 2024
Yeah, all training ends up being pattern learning in some form or fashion. But acceptable patterns end up matching logic. So for example if you ask ChatGPT a question, it will use its learned pattern to provide its estimate of the correct ouptut. That pattern it’s learned encompasses/matches logical processing of the user input and the output that it’s been trained to see as acceptable output. So with enough training, it should and does go from simple memorization of individual examples to learning these broad acceptable rules, like logic (or a pattern that matches logical rules and “understanding of language”) so that it can provide acceptable responses to situations that it hasn’t seen in training. And because of this pattern learning and prediction nature of how it works, it often “hallucinates” information like citations (creating a novel citation matching the pattern its seen instead of the exact citation that you want, where you actually want memorized information) that you might ask of it as sources for what its telling you.
Show threadSankaraStoneSep 5, 2024

I’m less worried about a system that learns from the information and then incorporates it when it has to provide an answer (ex. learning facts) than I am of something that steals someone’s likeness, something we’ve clearly have established people have a right to (ex. voice acting, action figures, and sports video games). And by that extension/logic, I am concerned as to whether AI that is trained to produce something in the style of someone else, especially in digital/visual art also violates the likeness principle logically and maybe even comes close to violating copyright law.

But at the same time, I’m a skeptic of software patents and api/UeX copyrighs. So I don’t know. Shit gets complicated.

I still think AI should get rid of mundane, repetitive, boring tasks. But it shouldn’t be eliminating creative, fun asks. It should improve productivity without replacing or reducing the value of the labor of the scientist/artist/physician. But if AI replaced scribes and constructionists in order to make doctors more productive and able to spend more time with patients instead of documenting everything, then that would be the ideal use of this stuff.

Show threadSankaraStoneSep 5, 2024
Isn’t copyright about the right to make and distribute or sell copies or the lack there of? As long as they can prevent jailbreaking the AI, reading copyrighted material and learning from it to produce something else is not a copyright violation.
Show threadSankaraStoneAug 31, 2024
Here’s a more recent update and discussion of the state of the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamA5Oz-G5w
Servo: A web rendering engine for the future

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SankaraStoneAug 31, 2024

This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

https://lemmy.world/post/19243136

This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine - Lemmy.World

I’m just posting an update on the Servo project, a Web Engine written in memory-safe and secure Web Engine, that Mozilla ditched when it laid off 25% of the workforce (including the Rust and Servo developers) in 2020, and raised CEO Mitchell Baker’s salary from $2.4M in 2018 to $6.9M in 2022. As much as many of us love Firefox and the early spirit of Firefox and have a strong attachment to the branding, there is an argument to be made that that a new, modern non-legacy based web engine is the way to compete with Blink and Chromium. And perhaps its a way to create a viable alternative that is out of the control of the disappointing direction the leadership keeps taking Firefox and Mozilla, including with decisions related to user privacy. So with the steady progress Servo has made in the last year and half since it was created, I think there’s an argument to be made for the community to step up community funding of Servo and help it flourish and see what it can kind of beautiful and super fast thing it can become. Here’s the year of progress report from Rakhi Sharma at the Open Source Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtlD_7JAs8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtlD_7JAs8] You can follow their progress on their blog: https://servo.org/blog [https://servo.org/blog] their social media: https://twitter.com/ServoDev [https://twitter.com/ServoDev] and https://floss.social/@servo [https://floss.social/@servo] You can help sponsor Servo development here: https://github.com/sponsors/servo [https://github.com/sponsors/servo] I downloaded the newest build of their very basic, basic Servo shell, and loaded up ESPN.com [http://ESPN.com] and it loaded up so fast and rendered it so nicely (post writing, pre posting edit: and then crashed by the time I wrote this up and got to this part and decided to take a look at it again, haha). It reminded me of the first time Firefox took in elements of Servo in the Firefox Quantum release. https://servo.org/download/ [https://servo.org/download/] And you can see some people trying to build a browser around it: https://github.com/versotile-org/verso [https://github.com/versotile-org/verso]