I have nothing to base this on except my gut but it seems sort of implausible that engineers with the funding of a state, modern computer simulations and physics that is 80 years newer couldn't reproduce what the Americans did in the 40s in just a couple of years
It really is, another thing I find remarkable is that all the magic vectors (features) were produced automatically without looking at the actual output of the model, only activations in a middle layer of the network, and using a loss function that is purely geometric in nature, it has no idea the meaning of the various features it is discovering.
And the fact that this works seems to confirm, or at least almost confirm, a non trivial fact about how transformers do what they do. I always like to point out that we know more about the workings of the human brain than we do about the neural networks we have ourselves created. Probably still true, but this makes me optimistic we'll at least cross that very low bar in the near future.
Clothing should in a way express your feelings and the way you see yourself relating to the world no? It's called honesty bucko
I don't hate people I disagree with, given the opportunity I'll deal with them quickly and humanely!
The charging document notes that Heyman broke the trooper's "state-issued bike bell," which costs $62.
And through the grapevine I've heard at least one student received notification from campus police that they are banned from campus with no mention of exceptions for educational reasons. It seems they are planning to suspend or expel at least some students.
A poisonous cloud is hanging over Berlin...
what a shitty metaphor
...after a chemical factory blaze
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Okay I'm posting this in news even though I don't have a link, but my source is super solid...
In the first round of arrests at UT Austin the Travis county DA cited "copy pasted" probable cause affidavits as reason for dropping the charges. This time around the campus police took their time with the paperwork, which is why we haven't heard yet whether the charges are going forward. They were instructed to "personalize" all the PC stuff and ... they're still copy pasted, at least some of them are. With the thousands of hours of video and all the effort they could muster they still couldn't do it, as far as is known the only difference from last time is that they're trickling in gradually rather than all being filed at once.
I've used them both, both are pretty impressive but I am much more impressed with Udio even though it has some limitations which suno does not. Basically it's more flexible and creative, both are bad at mixing/defying genres but Udio is better, the sound quality is better, it's easier to get something that sounds like a particular artist (for better or worse), but most importantly Udio is much much better at producing things that sound good outside of 4-5 popular genres. On the downside, it's not as good at adhering to lyrics and it is impossible to get compositional coherence over 1 minute, I'm fairly sure this is built into the architecture, the "context window" is between 30 and 60 seconds, with Suno it isn't great at coherence but it will remember things that happened more than 60 sec ago. So if you want something with verse/chorus type structure, or you want intermittent vocals and the same voice the whole way through you're out of luck. Anyway, here's some of the more interesting stuff I made:
Only track that I consider entirely good, modern classical acapella chamber choir, nonsense lyrics: https://www.udio.com/songs/r6zuQYrhZoUhG2BPjJfkZ6
Piano and female vocalist, lyrics by a family member: https://www.udio.com/songs/vZin6X5CFsbU8CXhwhRMGC
A mix of genres that ends up turning into DubStep, lyrics by chatgpt and based on navy seal copypasta. In my opinion this isn't good music but dear god does it go hard in spots. I'd rather listen to an album of this than Skrillex: https://www.udio.com/songs/i7xtbbgnsGNkriS27BYkx3
It seems plausible it could be a poison, for example:
Symptoms of ricin poisoning depend on whether a person breathes in the ricin, eats it or gets it in a shot. When breathed in, ricin causes fever, chest tightness, cough and breathing problems. Ricin can cause a fluid buildup in the lungs, known as pulmonary edema.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being
Empress Of - For Your Consideration
Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4
Palestinian Solidarity Committee at UT is collecting for bail fund: Venmo @psc_atx
Some of the students, and particularly the Greek culture, are really not okay, they regularly harass anyone displaying solidarity with palestine. https://texashillel.org/israel-block-party/
My oldest was there, according to them a protester was violently tackled leading to a crowd reaction that led another person to be nearly trampled by a horse
It really seems like, by attacking Iran, they've extracted significant concessions and bribes from the US, additional ones, since the US is constantly bribing and conceding to them for no apparent reason. Gotta hand it to them, it's not a tactic that would have occured to most people.
They will respond and Iran knows this, it's a measured response, clearly, but not measured to conclude the exchange
It's perfectly possible to be racist and still not on board with genocide. Also just the general vibe is bad for Biden. People wanted a return to normalcy after trump/COVID and if anything the world has gotten more bizarre. Personally I am somewhat nostalgic for the trump years, the last 4 years have been the worst of my life and I'm surely not the only one. Not that that should have anything to do with who is president but also people are even dumber about politics than they are in general
"For Your Consideration" by Empress Of is out now! Stream / Download: https://empressof.ffm.to/foryourconsideration Lyrics: I wanna be sweet But there’s too many scars I wanna love you free But I can’t see the stars All I taste is bitter When you kiss my lips I know you’ve been with her Cuz your mo...
It's from this I believe: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
I'm not going to read it but I believe they compared amplification of hashtags on tiktok to Instagram or something and found that "anti us" and "pro China" tags got more traction. Idk if that's deliberate, if so then good! But how do they know it's not Instagram de amplifying the same links and/or the userbase just being more, uh, based.
I know it doesn't seem like it but not all of them are the same, society isn't as polarized as it claims to be, it's an illusion! Okay cards on the table I've only convinced one lib to not vote Joe and they were family and they were already using the g word about gaza.. still I fancy myself a lib whisperer and am therefore hyper qualified to give advice so, what you need to do is become them a bit first, rotate your talent for disagreeableness into finely honed debate skills, squint your eyes and imagine the eggs benedict and mimosas they shove to you at the crack of 11am is harmless pizza and whiskey, now you're catching on good job
I don't care about confirming fantasies of insufferable and genocidal libs, they will believe these fantasies regardless. As to whether society can produce like a more effective version of Trump, idk I feel like it's not that hard. This hypothetical person doesn't have to match Trump's charisma, the bar is incredibly low, and they don't have to be that smart either, just smart enough to fill their cabinet with non-clowns.
