They’ve been working on decoding dolphin sounds for a long time - Thad was telling me about this project in 2015 and it had been ongoing for a while. One challenge is doing this realtime is extremely difficult because of the frequency the dolphin speech occurs in. And they want to do this realtime which adds to the difficulty level. The other challenge on the AI side is that traditional AI is done using supervised learning whereas dolphin speech would require unsupervised learning. It would be interesting to learn more about how Gemma is helping here.
I'm not saying this is the case here, but every time I've been in internal or promotional videos related to my work, I've been performing for a camera. I'm not playing a theater character, but it's also not what you'd get if you dropped by my desk and asked me the same questions. Calling it acting might seem strong. But it's not not acting. So it's acting.
Does the general principle "we're always performing, in a particular costume, for our audience" help confirm the excited marine biologist desperately wanted to keep their job in spite of a "nothing that's not AI" mandate, so they made up some bullshit?
Separately, could invoking it anytime someone appears excited be described as distrustful of human sincerity or integrity?
After working through these exercises, my answers are no/yes, which leaves me having to agree its clearly cynical. (because "define:cynical" returns "distrustful of human sincerity or integrity")
Xe here. If I had to guess in two words: timing and luck. As the G-man said: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. I was the right shitposter in the right place at the right time.
And then the universe blessed me with a natural 20. Never had these problems before. This shit is wild.
Honestly it's a fair assumption on bot filtering software that no more than like 8 people will share an IPv4. This is going to make IP reputation solutions hard. Argh.
Apparently user-agent switchers don't work for fetch() requests, which means that Anubis can't work with people that do that. I know of someone that set up a version of brave from 2022 with a user-agent saying it's chrome 150 and then complaining about it not working for them.
Basically what they said. This is a hack, and it's specifically designed to exploit the infrastructure behind industrial-scale scraping. They usually have a different IP address do the scraping for each page load _but share the cookies between them_. This means that if they use headless chrome, they have to do the proof of work check every time, which scales poorly with the rates I know the headless chrome vendors charge for compute time per page.
I used to have an ISP that would load balance your connection between different providers, this meant that pretty much every single request would use a different IP. I know it's not that common, but that would mean real users would find pages using anubis unusable.
Do you think that, if this behavior of Anubis gets well-known and Anubis cookies are specifically handled to avoid pathological PoW checks, does Anubis need a significant rework? Because if it's indeed true this hack wouldn't last much longer and I have no further idea to avoid user-visible annoyances.
Well, if they rework things so that requests all originate from the same IP address or a small set of addresses, then regular IP-based rate limits should work fine right?
The point is just to stop what is effectively a DDoS because of shitty web crawlers, not to stop the crawling entirely.
> Well, if [...], then regular IP-based rate limits should work fine right?
I'm not sure. IP-based rate limits have a well-known issue with shared public IPs for example. Technically they are also more resource-intensive than cryptographic approaches too (but I don't think that's not a big issue in IPv4).
I have seen some projects that require acknowledging certain politically-charged statements before they will allow you to participate, like "you must agree that sovereign country X is at war with aggressor country Y".
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