SkyNTP

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

Remember clipart and wordart? It was colourful and flashy and easy, and everywhere in PowerPoint presentations and word documents and even online. For a few years. Then it vanished.

Turns out, easy and flashy doesn't have a lot of staying power because when something is easy, it is ubiquitous, and when it is ubiquitous it stops being impressive.

AI slop is easy and flashy, and will probably run its course as people become tired of it.

There will still exist AI content, but it will not resemble the slop we see today.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Maybe? Or maybe it's just a byproduct of a very finely tuned system used to tell individual humans apart.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Nothing is stopping programmers from inventing and using new words. Getting people to use those words is another matter. You are hand waving the ability for programmers to dictate to non-programmers how language is used, but I think that hand waving also hand waves the idea of language to begin with. So I don't think any answer you get will be meaningful.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Nunavut is a territory, not a province, btw.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not really. You can get manual pumps for PEX A which are about the same price as a tile cutter... They are fine. You only need those 500$ power tool expanders if you were doing plumbing all day every day.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Similarly, everyone benefits from roads, even if they don't drive, even if they are a house hermit. What you thought you amazon package was just teleporting? Your life saving medicine? Your food?

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

The left-right linear political spectrum is a simplified fiction. I think it is a waste of time to try to fit people on this spectrum.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

If my laptop is offline can I just not use it because it can't confirm my id?

Yes. The powers at be will stop at nothing to take more, and more, and more power away from you. This is human nature.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

In a way, science is just a formal way of recording things, obvious or not, in a way that the crap can be vetted out. Would you prefer podcasts to be our recorded history?

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it is safe to say that OP's question was lay speak for "what is the mean time to get to a result". Other than that I don't think you actually addressed the question.

Let me try to get it started:

Randomly generating music might be akin to password cracking. Cracking short or simple passwords can be very fast, while cracking long or complex passwords can be very long. The rate of password guessing also affects the time to get a result.

To calculate an answer, we need the following information:

  • Guessing speed (how fast is each "song" generated and checked?)
  • Minimum "song" length that needs to be generated
  • Complexity of "song": how many instruments ("voices"), resolution (are whole notes only ok, or do we need. Half or quarter notes?)
  • Settle on some subjective definition of "song". Is S.O.S. in morse code a "song"

You might be able to take a genre of music, and decompose the songs within to get some answers... I don't have the time for that. Anyone want to take a stab at estimating the calculation?

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Do nothing about school shootings. Destroy hobbies and manufacturing instead. America is rotting from the inside.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

There are two ways to make a game that leads the industry in a genre: invent a new genre, or be the preeminent example of the genre. The GTA franchise has a reputation of consistently being in the latter category.

 

This is currently my primary frustration with Connect: complete opaqueness regarding instances.

I understand that one design philosophy might argue that instances shouldn't matter, so why show it at all. But it does matter, especially on All, and in comments. I think at the current and near-term state of development, obscuring instances creates more confusion than it alleviates.

  • In this example, I have no idea what community this is. Where is "here"? "General" is a super broad category (does a multi-community even make sense for this type of community name?). Is this /c/general for a general purpose instance, or /c/general of an instance dedicated to a very specific topic? Is that instance worth checking out? Who knows?
  • Is this an instance I'm subscribed to yet?
  • is this the same /c/general I was in last time with a moderation policy and moderators I didn't like, or a new one?
  • Is my instance defederated from seal_of_approval and will they receive my message? Who knows?
  • Are most responders coming from lemmy.world, from sketchy instances loaded with bots or is there good traction from smaller instances? Is there instance brigading going on?
  • Is this an impersonator of seal_of_approval?
  • is this a specific community that spams a lot and I should block it?
  • What moderation rules apply to this instance?

I can't block entire instances myself...

I realize that a lot of these problems have some sort of workaround by drilling down into community details and profiles. Ain't nobody have time for that.

I realize that specific UI solutions could be introduced to tackle each of these problems individually in a user-friendly manner. But we're not there and who knows when we will get there.

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