All of summer vacation is about farming, originally

Unless the award is carrots. £1 / lb, all the time.

I've seen a lot of people use "illegal" as if it specifically meant a crime, not a tort. In most cases, copyright infringement is a tort, not a crime.

Energy is at some point causal, but that doesn't have to mean oil in all cases.

What it is is a possible contender to claw away at NVIDIA's history-making margins and profits, slashing AI compute cost and resources through efficiency gains. That's a big deal.

Pfft, buncha Manga-adjacent animation fans turned around 360 degrees by the anti-AI fad. AI, it's a form of animation. If somebody decided Zombee Lovers 2 was going to just be straight CGI or hand animation nobody would say the cast was "replaced" by animators.

To that point, I used to spend a fair amount of time on salon message boards. It was around the height of gay rights around maybe 2005? I remember scrolling down their page, every single 'story' was on gay rights... I checked, one after another... gay... gay, gay, gay. 30 stories in a row. I'm sympathetic to the issue and not averse to the stories but salon.com actually ceased to function as a general news and politics site.

All news outlets report mostly true facts. The most subjective and important act in writing news or history is deciding which facts are 'newsworthy' and deserve reporting on. Salon decide once and for all what side to take on all future issues a long time ago.

"This is why people who do real work don't take kindly to urban midwits telling them they could be forced to buy electric vehicles instead." I feel increasingly that way about taxpayer-funded oil wars. It doesn't seem like oil needs to be this huge, world-controlling thing of the world any more. With any EV you plug in you car, it drives around, no more gas station any more. It's great. I still use my SUV for trips and towing but those are luxuries, I do because I want to, I don't have to.

Do these IRC clients support persistent chat history, file drops, and link summary bots? Because those are among the major features that Discord, Slack, and the like offer compared to IRC. I'm aware that a set of protocol extensions collectively known as "IRCv3" exist, but what sub-64K clients support them? And what public servers offer them?

You are correct that 307 days of the year counts as "most of the time." My city of 200,000 doesn't run any public transit on Sundays or major holidays. Instead, bus drivers on all shifts are scheduled to be home with their respective families.

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I wouldn't mind a required label for it, like the explicit lyrics warning on CD's. Its laguhable to think AI isn't used in games. What are they going to do, have an actor in India mechanical turk every pretend person? That was never a thing. "Make 1000 varying zombie skins" is a fine job for AI.

Who are you going to pay to sit around and draw up 1000 NPC's? Of course there's AI in games.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do... [ieee.org] Abstract from 1990: An experiment was conducted where neural networks compete for survival in an evolving population based on their ability to play checkers. More specifically, multilayer feedforward neural networks were used to evaluate alternative board positions and games were played using a minimax search strategy. At each generation, the extant neural networks were paired in competitions and selection was used to eliminate those that performed poorly relative to other networks. Offspring neural networks were created from the survivors using random variation of all weights and bias terms. After a series of 250 generations, the best-evolved neural network was played against human opponents in a series of 90 games on an Internet website. The neural network was able to defeat two expert-level players and played to a draw against a master. The final rating of the neural network placed it in the "Class A" category using a standard rating system. Of particular importance in the design of the experiment was the fact that no features beyond the piece differential were given to the neural networks as a priori knowledge. The process of evolution was able to extract all of the additional information required to play at this level of competency. It accomplished this based almost solely on the feedback offered in the final aggregated outcome of each game played (i.e., win, lose, or draw). This procedure stands in marked contrast to the typical artifice of explicitly injecting expert knowledge into a game-playing program. Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks ( Volume: 10, Issue: 6, November 1999) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do... [ieee.org]'

I wouldn't mind a required label for it, like the explicit lyrics warning on CD's. Although its laguhable to think AI isn't used in games. What are they going to do, have an actor in India mechanical turk every pretend person? That was never a thing. Who are you going to pay to sit around and draw up 1000 NPC's? Of course there's AI in games. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do... Abstract from 1990: An experiment was conducted where neural networks compete for survival in an evolving population based on their ability to play checkers. More specifically, multilayer feedforward neural networks were used to evaluate alternative board positions and games were played using a minimax search strategy. At each generation, the extant neural networks were paired in competitions and selection was used to eliminate those that performed poorly relative to other networks. Offspring neural networks were created from the survivors using random variation of all weights and bias terms. After a series of 250 generations, the best-evolved neural network was played against human opponents in a series of 90 games on an Internet website. The neural network was able to defeat two expert-level players and played to a draw against a master. The final rating of the neural network placed it in the "Class A" category using a standard rating system. Of particular importance in the design of the experiment was the fact that no features beyond the piece differential were given to the neural networks as a priori knowledge. The process of evolution was able to extract all of the additional information required to play at this level of competency. It accomplished this based almost solely on the feedback offered in the final aggregated outcome of each game played (i.e., win, lose, or draw). This procedure stands in marked contrast to the typical artifice of explicitly injecting expert knowledge into a game-playing program. Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks ( Volume: 10, Issue: 6, November 1999) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do...'

It's this moral panic over water and power for datacenters - results in people going too far to prove a point.

As the price of DRAM, SSD storage, electric power, and data center real estate rise, what prevents LLM service providers from suddenly raising their rates such that it's no longer less expensive than hiring a human? Compare what happened when Broadcom jacked up the price of VMware.

And what prevents programmers whose copyrighted programs have been included in the LLMs' training set from suing LLM service providers for copyright infringement on grounds that the output of the LLM is substantially similar to their programs, and the LLM is not following the license? I remember that demonstration where an LLM had effectively memorized the reciprocal square root routine from the GPL source code of Quake III Arena and failed to include the "appropriate copyright notice" mandated by the GNU GPL. Even permissive licenses, such as Apache 2, MIT, 3BSD, and zlib, require preservation of the copyright notice in derivative works. Doe v. GitHub, pending in the Northern District of California.

In Slashdot's home country, both copyright and radio transmission are regulated at the federal level. So what's the plan for to peterww and tepples to start to change the laissez-mourir policies popular among conservative members of the U.S. Congress? See "antisocialist", "extreme capitalism", and "laissez-mourir" in RMS's glossary.

I wouldn't be so sure of that momentum. Several countries in the European Union have implemented age gating through an application that runs only on an iPhone or a certified Android phone. An iPhone runs proprietary iOS, published by foreign monopolist Apple Inc. A certified Android phone runs proprietary Google Play Services, published by foreign monopolist Google LLC. The EU talks out both sides, regulating foreign "gatekeepers" on one side (the Digital Markets Act and provisions of Digital Services Act that apply to very large online platforms) and requiring use of services provided by said "gatekeepers" (provisions of Digital Services Act that apply to "protection" of minors).