Things have a way of becoming what the ruling class wants them to become. Eventually, every crisis, however minor, becomes another excuse for them to grab more money and power from the rest of us.
It's time for people to start badging projects with a new style of CoC, one line:
"No woke ideology allowed."
That's it. No explanation needed. Those who pretend they don't know what the rule means, or protest, are in violation. The radical left has been co-opting every organization they can get their hands on and kicking out the "non-believers" for years. It's time the handful of sane people that are left band together and start doing the same. The left loves the phrase "toxic," but their ideology genuinely is toxic, and no project, company, or group can thrive once it takes root.
I'm just going to dismiss the second paragraph about angrily finger-pointing at an ambiguous political alignment, "them".
You could replace "left" with "right|antifa|fascists|deep state|elite", or "toxic" with "unconstitutional|dangerous|radical", and that text wouldn't make any more sense.
I have been thinking of when I start a project to add a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.txt file which only contains "No code of conducts are allowed" making proposing a code of conduct a CoC violation. :D
Facebook is not ohnoing anything here. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if their algorithm boosts posts encouraging this kind of low-effort engagement.
That the author is peddling the absurd “Russians hacked muh servers” popular myth makes the comment all the more poignant.
Social networks tolerate fake traffic because it increases their perceived value. The real crime is the fictive usage and engagement metrics they use to set ad pricing.
My understanding is that the only group that ever got access to Hillary's servers to do forensics was a service that Hillary paid directly and is absolutely not "independent".
Oh it most definitely is a partisan issue. I'll wait for your evidence for if any votes were changed in machines, the only thing that could truly be construed as "hacking" a election.
The problem is that we don't know how, how, or why (although, of course, the near-nultimate "why" is likely profit.)
Facebook is a publicly traded company. It may have novel negative externalities, but we're largely comfortable with its impact: maximizing shareholder value. When Facebook manipulates us, we feel we can hold it accountable as an institution. We're wrong, but we're complacent. With these mystery accounts, we're out of our depth. We do not know "cui bono," and that's eerie.
"It comes amid a shortage of fruit and veg pickers due to the Covid crisis and Brexit woes."
This a feature, not a bug. The point of Brexit was to crush the bones of globalists who think it's acceptable to run society on the backs of a quasi-slave class that can't afford a decent life for themselves no matter how hard their work. This whole article is a bunch of hand-wringing because people doing hard, unpleasant work that (unlike most white collar work) ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE are finally getting paid well for it. The horror!
Regardless this is the Sun, and probably all of this is a flash in the pan and the UK will return to slave wages soon. Be nice if it didn't though.
That’s great for the short term but wait till prices explode in the local market and that’s not even considering the reduced opportunities for talent from other parts of the world. It’s a global world, it’s silly to run away from it at this point.
Even if the vaccine(s) are 1000% safe, the fact that people are being coerced by the state to take them, on threat of having their entire lives stolen (no job, no entry to businesses, and soon probably restricted movement) should cause anyone with a few functioning neurons to recoil in horror.
If you simply offer me a product, maybe it's safe, maybe it isn't. If you INSIST on me taking it, and engage in vast, sweeping propaganda campaigns across all media, brutally censoring all opposition and criticism and attempting to brow-beat the public into submission via a campaign of fear and intimidation, for a disease with a minuscule fatality rate, you have utterly convinced me that there's something wrong with the product and I should stay far, far away. At BEST, Big Pharama is once again hellbent on pushing a sketchy frankenstein creation to rake in the cash. At worst, something much more dark is happening.
For almost a year, the "Lab Leak Hypothesis" was scorned as deranged conspiracy blather. Now it is widely accepted as mundane, mainstream fact that ethics-free phrama researchers, in China but with US funding, created this disaster. It took about a year for the media admit reality. Now the "conspiracy theory" is that the vaccines are unsafe, for a variety of reasons ranging from mundane lack of care to more sinister motives. How long will it take for the media, and the establishment, to be forced to admit reality this time? And how many will end up crippled or dead in the meantime?
The science is not at all clear on this. Tests are being administered at very different rates to the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Transmission rates have never been compared in a properly controlled environment. Many very highly vaccinated states and countries are seeing far higher rates of spread than this time last year before there were any vaccines.
The science is extremely clear. 99% of people now dying of COVID are unvaccinated. Even if the vaccine isn't as effective as hoped against preventing infection, it's wildly effective at reducing severity.
> 99% of people now dying of COVID are unvaccinated.
Flat out wrong. Even when they were saying this earlier in the year before the Delta surge really took off, they had to count from the beginning of the Covid outbreak to get this number.
Well, that a totally different mechanism of inducing immunity and decades of safety data and about a 30x difference in the rate of adverse event reporting to VAERS.
Well, really "Pixar." Pixar at least knew how leverage their weird style; everyone else ran with it and made it god awful. But my thought exactly. Why even do this with something that's so offensively awful to look at?
That gripe aside, if you're just training on a bunch of headshots and generating new ones, it's been done, over and over at this point. Want to impress? Figure out how to generate a full sequence of coherent animation frames.
"Some forecasts have grown even darker. Morgan Stanley strategists warned on Monday about the growing likelihood of more than a 20% decline in the S&P 500."
Thankfully the world is already moving on from these neanderthals. Eluther's GPT-J (https://6b.eleuther.ai/) isn't QUITE as good as GPT-3, but it's getting close, and was, as I understand it, much more efficient to create. This trend will likely continue, and within a year or two GPT-3 will be old news. Considering OpenAI has proved themselves to be vicious liars, greedy soulless fucks and pandering, censorial assholes, obsolescence couldn't happen to a nicer group.
It was the high cost per API call that pulled all the fun out of GPT-3 for me. I hadn’t been following the company at all but believe you based on just that single issue. It looks like GPT-J has open sourced their entire model so I could potentially run it myself for almost-free? If so, that’s going to be much more fun. Thanks for sharing!
That thought was why I added “almost” right before posting! It’s free to run, just, except for the expensive parts... AWS still rents out GPU power, right? That might be a bit easier to get started with.
GNU/Linux requires basically the same hardware as the usual alternative (Windows). If you switch from hosted GPT-3 to selfhosted GPT-J you start needing to get and manage all the hardware, which might go underutilized most of the time depending on what your demand looks like, and which requires lots of software optimizations to use maximally effectively. You can use hosted GPT-J, though, a few companies offer that.
The comment to which you replied is making a useful point actually. Self hosting is not free in the relevant sense when comparing cost vs a third party API.
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
The content is informative (within the poster's partial opinion) and the epithets can just be interpreted as colourful language to lighten up. Is it possible you interpreted it differently? In some cultures that post has the style intentionally used to elicit a warm laughter - styling is legitimate when applied to a valid (promoting "intellectual curiosity") content.
They disappeared into their own fantasy land long ago. They announced that investors will have profit caps because their magical AGI will learn how to achieve infinite profit one day.
Statements like this must be remembered so that in the future we can point to this era's most ridiculous companies and the people behind them.
Learning how to spend an abundance of time is something that TAKES time. If you take someone who is used to having their whole life structured for them by their job and other responsibilities and suddenly free up a bunch of time, of course they're going to struggle at first, even if money isn't an issue. This is one reason why newly retired people often have so much trouble adjusting.
But I can't help reading this whole article between the lines as "back to work wage slave!" Free time is good. Not being forced to waste your time for others is good. You just have to learn how to structure your life, and that's a muscle that atrophies when you're enslaved in the current economic system.
>In the last year, critics of large NLP models, which are trained on huge amounts of text from the web, have raised concerns about the ways that the technology inadvertently picks up biases inherent to the people or viewpoints in this training data. Such critiques gained steam after Google controversially pushed out famed AI researcher Timnit Gebru, in part due to a paper she coauthored analyzing these risks. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says his company has developed new tools and invested a lot of time into making sure the Cohere models don’t ingest such bad data.
