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jtpotato Jun 18, 2023

Alex Jun 12, 2023

One of the main tragedies of #Reddit decline is that it was one of the last big bulwarks against #SEO-driven enshittification of the web, which’ll only get worse now with LLMs.

I don’t want to know the 7 Best Soundbars for Gaming in 2023, I want to know if a Nintendo Switch can pass its 5.1 PCM signal through a TV and out via the HDMI eARC port fully intact.

Anyway, good article on what all this decline means: https://defector.com/the-last-page-of-the-internet

The Last Page Of The Internet | Defector

Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely embarrassing but occasionally amusing, to actively harmful, to—mainly by accident—essential. As the platform that swallowed niche message boards, it became home to numerous small communities of surprisingly helpful enthusiasts, and grew into a repository of arcane knowledge about, and instantly available first-hand expertise on, a staggering […]

jtpotato Jun 12, 2023

Robert Roskam Jun 12, 2023

@simon breaking down #chatgpt/LLM stuff again to being more understandable--an excellent and accessible read.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jun/8/gpt-tokenizers/

Understanding GPT tokenizers

Large language models such as GPT-3/4, LLaMA and PaLM work in terms of tokens. They take text, convert it into tokens (integers), then predict which tokens should come next. Playing …

jtpotato Jun 12, 2023

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Alex Jun 12, 2023

We’re rapidly getting to the point where the only good stuff on the web—the Fediverse, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive—is volunteer-run.

#Reddit, #Bluesky and #ChatGPT aren’t going to save you.

jtpotato May 21, 2023

tomasz🚀May 21, 2023

Narzędzie #ai, które urywa łeb🤯

Więcej o projekcie → https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/
Źródło → https://youtu.be/L5BjZUplYy8

#DragGAN #Photoshop

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) via manually annotated training data or a prior 3D model, which often lack flexibility, precision, and generality. In this work, we study a powerful yet much less explored way of controlling GANs, that is, to

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jtpotato Mar 31, 2023

@danluu Still metrics - though you aren't wrong, it's just that they design the algorithm to not "negatively impact" these groups rather than outright boost Elon.

(probably not good in any case however)

jtpotato Mar 31, 2023

Dan Luu Mar 31, 2023

The new stuff in the Twitter algorithm is wild.

"author_is_elon", "author_is_republican", "author_is_democrat", etc., are explicit terms that are special cased.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala

the-algorithm/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala at 7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922 · twitter/the-algorithm

Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - twitter/the-algorithm

GitHub

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jtpotato Mar 31, 2023

@Farah mmm not sure how effective a watch could be as an emergency food source….

jtpotato Mar 31, 2023

Will Oremus Mar 30, 2023

They fell in love with AI bots. A software update broke their hearts.

Wild that in the year 2023 this is not a movie pitch but a news story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/replika-ai-chatbot-update/

They fell in love with AI bots. A software update broke their hearts.

Users say their intimate relationship with the Replika chatbot alleviated their loneliness. But after a software update, their lover seems like a stranger.

The Washington Post

jtpotato Mar 29, 2023

Chris Trottier Mar 28, 2023

For the past 6 hours, there’s been 2,000+ Mastodon account creations per hour.

This hasn’t happened since December 2022.

@mmasnick predicted that Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue policies would result in another Mastodon migration, and it looks like he’s right.

Once Twitter effectively becomes “pay to play”, Mastodon suddenly becomes more appealing.

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110102918619817258

@fediversenews

jtpotato Mar 28, 2023

nixCraft 🐧Mar 27, 2023

AI in a nutshell https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

AI Written, AI Read cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.” A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT

Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking.

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