It’s not that it’s more dangerous, it’s that raising the corn — because of the fertilizer, the fuel that goes into tilling the earth and then harvesting it — and then fermenting it leads to 24% more emissions than if we’d just used unadulterated petroleum.

But the real solution is to wean ourselves off of cars and…

Bud, I appreciate the attempt, but this article is not a great summary of machine and deep learning.

The judge also expressed skepticism towards the artists’ theory that the billions of supposedly scrapped works were “compressed” into Stable Diffusion’s program. Stability AI has previously denied accusations that training its AI model requires complete copies of copyrighted works. Instead, Stability claims it trains…

As a snarky kid from Ottawa, Matthew Perry’s death has hit me hard. A lot of folks in my extended family have substance abuse issues, and it just bums me out that folks try to solve that gnawing emptiness with whatever they can find in a bottle, be that opiates or alcohol.

Do you have a citation for the neuroplasticity contention?

My insomnia was driven by racing, anxious thoughts and intrusive memories of embarrassment. When I started listening to podcasts as I fell asleep, I found that putting my attention on someone else’s speech prevented me from ruminating. I usually set the podcast to turn off after 30 minutes, though, because once I’m…

Also me.

Can we talk about Spotify’s AI DJ’s blaccent? Maybe I’m being a sensitive white queer, but it kind of makes me cringe. “This thing needs to sound cool. Let’s make it sound like a robot african american.”

Funny how that’s also the ranked list of population size.

Like Frasier, but in SPAAAAACE.

List is lacking Shaxs.

This is also just generally how count variables tend to work. Zipf’s law holds for cities, words in a corpus, number of employees at businesses, sizes of astronomical bodies....

I mean — every Canadian province has its own horrific history of racism, and the 60s was a great time for urban renewal programs that fucked with the poor (my grandfather’s entire neighborhood in Ottawa was destroyed because you could see poors from Parliament Hill and that upset the city planner who decided that…

Buprenorphine is an anti-addiction medication. Its use is to wean opiate addicts off of opiates safely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprenorphine

Language models — large or small — are essentially prior distributions on words in context. They’re useful for attenuating predictions of models that are based on on other signals — for instance, the thumb gestural input from your phone keyboard, or the acoustic information in a speech to text system. In these cases,…

Yes. They use a small amount of radioactive material in the detector, and once there’s too little of that radioactive material to get reliable measurements through radioactive decay, they will die.

It’s very, very likely that those sites are violating copyright by hosting the lyrics -- and note that hosting those lyrics is not the same as purporting to “generate” them de novo. People are using LLMs as creative aids, which means that there is a high risk of creating infringing, plagiarized or derivative work.

Generative models, especially generative language models, have a bad habit of barfing up, verbatim, their training data. You can get them to produce the exact lyrics to copyrighted songs quite easily.

This is not what “me too” means, and if you can’t recognize that you probably shouldn’t be playing with the consensual non-consent you seem to believe women “especially in their 40s” want.

I love a clothesline in an arid, birdless and treeless environment. When I lived in San Diego, I restrung the clotheslines behind my rental building complex and used them as often as possible. But now that I live in New York, well.... pigeons, pollen and oppressive humidity make drying things outside difficult. And…