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New comment by bluetwo in "B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person"

bluetwo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:53:32 +0000

I am pretty sure CNN is also doing this, using some content from real people, then having the AI write the article. Check out their bylines and who "contributed" when you real an article.

New comment by bluetwo in "Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer"

bluetwo — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:33:57 +0000

Minor point: Creativity doesn't need a lot of tech.

New comment by bluetwo in "Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM"

bluetwo — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:30:38 +0000

Yep. I'll never need or use this implementation, but the tricks used will make it to other tools, which will be great.

New comment by bluetwo in "Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity"

bluetwo — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:35:48 +0000

I appreciate the attempt to create objective evaluations by leveraging existing tools. It isn't a perfect experiment or article, but I like the goal.

New comment by bluetwo in "Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats"

bluetwo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:52:51 +0000

The problem I have with Reddit is every subreddit seems filled with amateurs posting the same starter questions daily, never looking at the feed to see these questions have been asked and answered daily.

New comment by bluetwo in "No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy"

bluetwo — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:17:44 +0000

The last episode of the last season of "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is about this.

"What happened to the days when a THING was a THING?!"

New comment by bluetwo in "Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead"

bluetwo — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:48:42 +0000

At a music festival last summer I counted 4 drones in the sky monitoring 24/7 over 5 days. Never saw them come down. They were each tethered to a base station which seemed to run electric and probably returned a video feed.

I expect to see this everywhere.

New comment by bluetwo in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

bluetwo — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:23:35 +0000

Currently working on building a virtual art gallery populated with fictitious works from dead artists generated by Stable Diffusion. Users in the same room can talk to each other using WebRTC.

New comment by bluetwo in "How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)"

bluetwo — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:06:29 +0000

Use FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) tool to find your coverage and figure out how to maximize it:

https://edie.fdic.gov/calculator.html

New comment by bluetwo in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

bluetwo — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 20:57:27 +0000

There are some big parts to this story we don't know.

Yes, they sold the treasuries and took a bath. But if that was their best option, it speaks very poorly to the other "assets" they held on their balance sheet.

We may find out in the coming days that they had a big position in Silvergate, which went bankrupt yesterday, and they had to mark their position to zero, creating the need for liquidity.

New comment by bluetwo in "A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system"

bluetwo — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:38:15 +0000

Unicode. AmI right?

New comment by bluetwo in "The End of Programming"

bluetwo — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:57:52 +0000

It would be nice if the AI was used to build libraries for targeted purposes. That would actually be pretty handy.

And then it would also be handy for it to design a programming language for both readability and writability that leveraged those libraries.

New comment by bluetwo in "We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)"

bluetwo — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:49:49 +0000

Pages filled with crappy generated AI are what I get every time I have searched for anything recently.

Which leads people to post what would be their google search to Reddit, after finding any group related to the topic.

Which is leading to Reddit forums being filled with the same beginner questions over and over and over and over...

... from people who don't even bother to join the group.

New comment by bluetwo in "FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall"

bluetwo — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:36:43 +0000

Actually this is not correct either.

A married couple each have 250k coverage for their personal accounts, and each have 250k for shared account(s), so they could in theory have 1M coverage at a single institution.

Other qualified relationships work similarly.

New comment by bluetwo in "CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments"

bluetwo — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:20:15 +0000

> What technology didn't get cheaper?

Insulin.

New comment by bluetwo in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

bluetwo — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:17:00 +0000

I always said it was an argument between the counting of things versus the relative offset of things.

This is a great example.

New comment by bluetwo in "DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby"

bluetwo — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 02:45:51 +0000

To add to that, often EDITORS are the ones who come up with the titles, for reasons beyond being clear, like using words that draw attention and to fit in a specific space.

New comment by bluetwo in "Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school"

bluetwo — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:01:11 +0000

You nailed it.

New comment by bluetwo in "The Balloon Learning Environment"

bluetwo — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:21:18 +0000

I thought this project was pretty impressive. I feel like this is a thing that is going to come back around once costs come down and a killer app is found for it.

New comment by bluetwo in "USWDS: The United States Web Design System"

bluetwo — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:03:31 +0000

I have used this several times, and I have to say I really like the lightweight setup of the V1 version of this and can't stand the V2 version they now support.

The V1, which you can still download, just works so well out of the box it is amazing. It adds styles to the base tags and is easy to just drop into an html site you are already working on. You only have to add classes when you need to do something different than the defaults.

V2 makes you add classes everywhere, which means content managed by HTML editors like CKedit won't work without extra pain.