@mcc I feel like an asshole when I say I enjoy (and used to make) "generative art" now.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:47:57 JST datarama
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 22:10:25 JST datarama
I have a *very* hard time picking out a favourite species! There are so many to choose from. I also have a soft spot for Nile monitors, though Argentine black-and-white tegus occupy the same spot. And there's something humbling about the little, unimposing Eurasian viviparous lizards whose geographic distribution puts Genghis Khan's empire to shame.
My favourite individual lizard is an extremely sweet and friendly 16-year-old Northern blue-tongue named Igor.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 18:39:51 JST datarama
@pinkdrunkenelephants @mcc In the EU, there actually is some legislation. Copyright explicitly *doesn't* protect works from being used in machine learning for academic research, but ML training for commercial products must respect a "machine-readable opt-out".
But that's easy enough to get around. That's why eg. Stability funded an "independent research lab" who did the actual data gathering for them.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 18:39:48 JST datarama
@pinkdrunkenelephants @mcc That doesn't work if copyright *itself* doesn't apply to AI training, which is what all those court cases are about. Licenses start from the assumption that the copyright holder reserves all rights, and then the license explicitly waives some of those rights under a set of given conditions.
But with AI, it's up in the air whether a copyright holder has any rights at all.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:26:49 JST datarama
@HauntedOwlbear @nota Also, given this: What *is* your favourite lizard? :)
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:52:24 JST datarama
@HauntedOwlbear @nota I don't know if I am currently outing myself as autistic, a herpetology nerd, an insufferable pedant or any combination thereof, but:
Tuatara are not lizards.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 03:30:20 JST datarama
Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?
(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 02:30:46 JST datarama
@drahardja @thomasfuchs Hanging out with its best buds, practical quantum computing and cold fusion.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 05:05:56 JST datarama
@mattly Mine have been absolutely terrible. I've had three. The first I also thought was a heart attack; the second one had me crawling around the floor crying (my previous reference point for "terrible pain" was diverticulitis). But neither of them had complications beyond the pain.
The third one *did* cause complications (full-on bile duct infection), which is why I'm having it removed.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 04:56:27 JST datarama
@mattly My last attack sent a stone through a bile duct where it did a bit of damage, causing a nasty infection that put me in the hospital for a few days. The attack itself lasted for about 8 hours and they couldn't control the pain with anything short of intravenous morphine.
0/5 would not wish on my worst enemy.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 04:48:22 JST datarama
@mattly Good to hear!
I've been told that some develop digestive issues, but "avoid fatty food or you'll get diarrhea" is still better than "avoid fatty food or you'll be hospitalized in excruciating pain". :-P
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 04:31:33 JST datarama
@mattly I don't really worry about it - I'm pretty sure I'll be in good hands. :-)
(as long as the pain isn't as bad as an actual gallstone attack, I'll manage.)
Have you had any issues post-removal?
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 04:15:33 JST datarama
@mattly Also, what I hear from people is wildly variable! A family member of mine was out of work for two weeks (though she was a kindergarten teacher, which is quite a bit more physically demanding than being a computer toucher), and I also know someone who got knocked out for over three weeks.
A former colleague was on his bed for a month ... and another was fine after three days.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 03:24:48 JST datarama
@mattly Laparoscopy if they can, but sometimes they have to make a larger incision (typically if there's a very large stone in there, or complications happen). I'm not terribly worried.
But I know from experience that I don't handle opioids very well.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 03:02:00 JST datarama
I'm having my gallbladder removed tomorrow. I've been told that the procedure itself is pretty much routine, but also that I can expect to be in quite a bit of pain the next days and that I'll probably need morphine.
So I've stocked up on comic books / "graphical novels"; that's probably around the level my brain will be able to handle.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:17:46 JST datarama
@mary It seems to me like the entirety of generative AI is about replacing creative work with managerial work.
This, perhaps, is why it is so polarizing: This appeals to a certain kind of personality, and deeply repels another.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 08:32:20 JST datarama
@mcc That's also basically how LAION made the dataset for Stable Diffusion. They collected a bunch of links to images with descriptive alt-text.
(Are you taking time to write good alt-text because you respect disabled people? Congratulations, your good work is being exploited by the worst assholes in tech. Silicon Valley never lets a good deed go unpunished.)
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 20:08:46 JST datarama
@aral This is 2024 - they're thinking "I'll just put it in the training set for my ML system, and then the license goes away".
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:40 JST datarama
@jenniferplusplus @hrefna A very long time ago, I wrote a haiku generator in Prolog as a dumb little Sunday afternoon project.
After manually setting up a bunch of (word, word class, syllable count) triples, I decided to see if there was some neat way I could automate identifying and counting syllables. The first search results were actual PhD theses on it, so I figured "neat" was off the table and declared it out of scope.
BTW:
hot processor runs
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 02:50:46 JST datarama
@mhoye I live in a country where kale has the status of "the thing your grandparents ate when they couldn't get anything better", the meme food kids hate being told to eat, and *the* staple green in pretty much all the dullest traditional dishes, in a region that has notoriously dull culinary traditions. The local name for the stuff literally translates to "green cabbage". Watching the rest of the world go nuts for it was pretty surreal.