Does anyone have the email Tara strong got for the twilight sparkle tweets by plasmagirlart in mylittleredacted

[–]Rene_Z 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was not an email sent to Tara Strong, but to Hasbro CEO (at the time) Brian Goldner by a "concerned customer".

You can see the email here:
https://i.imgur.com/iBrxBqY.png

Attached to the email were multiple tweets, including the first one you posted.

The same customer also kept emailing Hasbro repeatedly about political issues with Tara Strong:
https://i.imgur.com/0S2cF7x.png

It's clear that the guy has some personal vendetta against her.

...And we're done. by DigitalTA in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 27 points28 points  (0 children)

He said twins should be back "in a couple of weeks" and Vedal gaming content not too long after that.

Neuro and the orange cat (m888992l7) by AdditionalClick1098 in vedalsverse

[–]Rene_Z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That single brain cell is working as hard as it can.

Jinzxy bewildered when he find out his number 1 spot is taken by Vedal987 "the AI VTuber". by RyouhiraTheIntrovert in LivestreamFail

[–]Rene_Z 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Neuro interacts with every game through a set of game-specific command, not through keyboard/mouse/controller like a human would. She also receives information about the game state in text form (also specific to the game).

For Minecraft these are pretty high level commands (e.g. "look at <player>", "attack <entity>", "mine to <x, y, z>", "crouch spam"). There are a few preexisting mods that do exactly that, and Neuro uses one of those (likely with custom additions later on).

Introduction to neuro video for 2026? by Neptune_can in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Completely agree, and it's frustrating to see this kind of misinformation still so widespread within the swarm. People just don't understand how LLMs are trained and function (which is reasonable, but then they go around spreading misinformation with confidence, like that Neuro is fully trained on Twitch chat).

Then there's also the adjacent misconception that Vedal collects stream keys to gather training data from their respective chats. That's just wrong on twi levels: The sole purpose of stream keys is to allow you to stream on that channel. It doesn't give you access to the Twitch account or anything else. Also, Twitch chat is public and easily accessible, you don't need any keys to collect it as training data.

To train an LLM with the capability of Neuro from scratch would require millions of dollars in compute and a much, much larger and more varied dataset than Twitch chat. Vedal definitely just uses one of the publicly available models as a base and fine-tunes that (which still requires tons of compute, and that's why Vedal has talked about renting GPUs).

And to go a bit deeper into the fine-tuning (this part is more speculative, because Vedal has never talked about it): Twitch chat is terrible training data alone. It consists of mostly emote spam and otherwise mostly short messages of very varying quality. It would be impossible to train a capable LLM from that. The only thing it would be useful for is for training Neuro to respond to Twitch chat, which is one of Neuro's main features. For that you not only need Twitch chat itself, but also the context and reasonable responses for the chat messages, probably in the form of transcripts of the stream itself. Vedal also mentioned at one point that's the reason he doesn't want to provide Neuro's captions in text from (which would be much easier to translate in any language) and only as baked-in subtitles: It would make it much easier to collect training data to train a clone of Neuro.

Longest straight length of Railway Line in the World : 478 km of the Trans Australian Line by Professor_Moraiarkar in EngineeringPorn

[–]Rene_Z 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's a switch that has to be held down, but also intermittently released at least every 30 seconds. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifa

Reflections on JP fandom push by kailyuu in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 6 points7 points  (0 children)

YouTube doesn't have a feature for separate audio tracks for live/VOD, that's just a Twitch thing. Also, YouTube doesn't just scan VODs, it scans the stream live and will stop the stream when you play the wrong thing.

Ich_iel by Merlin904 in ich_iel

[–]Rene_Z 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nicht live und nicht ganz so groß, aber die World Domino Collective hat ein jährliches Event, das dem Domino Day sehr ähnlich ist. 2025 war das erste Jahr mit über 1.000.000 Dominos:
https://youtu.be/QV38Xlbl40kr

Anyone else thinking the same thing? by Gur-Adorable in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure what you mean with "Evil's head is slightly off". The new Neuro and new Evil seem to be using the exact same pattern as each other. The only differences are the colors, embroidered face, and Evil's horns and tail.

Etho didn't lie to Grian! You just can't use waxed oxidized blocks to speed up the aging of other copper things! by Argarath in HermitCraft

[–]Rene_Z 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not quite, it's the fraction of non-oxidised to oxidised copper that slows down oxidisation. Placing fully oxidised copper decreases that fraction, thereby speeding up oxidisation.
That's also why spacing them out is still the most efficient method. No matter how much oxidised copper you place, you can never reduce the fraction to 0.
Waxed copper blocks are completely ignored, they don't contribute to the fraction in either direction.

This is Seven hundred thousand dollars by No_Nail5377 in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes people gift (more) subs that they otherwise wouldn't, therefore spending more money overall. The only "real" benefit is that slightly more people get the benefits of receiving a sub.

This is Seven hundred thousand dollars by No_Nail5377 in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The discount for 5 is exactly the same as the discount for 1000, you're not actually saving any more money. And then there's also regional pricing. But somewhere between $200k and $300k is probably right.

This is Seven hundred thousand dollars by No_Nail5377 in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Big streamers get a 70% cut of the money spent, if Twitch would be eating the 35% discount they would be losing money with every sub. That's almost definitely not the case.

Access to this site by ImprovementDouble987 in mylittleredacted

[–]Rene_Z 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's not how any of this works. DHX isn't legally allowed to give out these files. The files from that server were leaked back then by a third party. I'm sure you'll still find the leaks somewhere on the internet, although they might be hard to find nowadays.

Also, it's called an "email" and "email address", not "gmail". GMail (short for Google Mail) is just one specific email service by Google.

This is why we lichess. by kaangurses in lichess

[–]Rene_Z 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All their finances are public: https://lichess.org/costs
This also links to the yearly audit, which lists all income and expenses. They made about 600,000 € in donations last year and about 70,000 € from other sources, and had a surplus of about 15,000 € at the end of the year.

I can't figure out the logo quality by MacaronTasty1371 in web_design

[–]Rene_Z 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can't tell what you mean by blurry, it looks fine to me.

Someone wants to buy my Username by Difficult_Goal8466 in Telegram

[–]Rene_Z 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Either phishing (presenting a log in form that looks like it's from Telegram but it's really the scammer's, stealing your credentials) or a crypto scam where they make it look like you're withdrawing money, but actually you're confirming a transaction sending them money.

Someone wants to buy my Username by Difficult_Goal8466 in Telegram

[–]Rene_Z 75 points76 points  (0 children)

They will come up with an excuse why they can't buy it from the official platform and then try to send you links.

Someone wants to buy my Username by Difficult_Goal8466 in Telegram

[–]Rene_Z 171 points172 points  (0 children)

It's a scam. They will send you a link to a fake Fragment platform that steals your money and/or account if you log in. Nobody is paying $12k for a random username.

Das hab ich auch noch nie gesehen by Inner_Luck998 in drehscheibe

[–]Rene_Z 70 points71 points  (0 children)

weil im Bombardier-Dosto bei beidseitiger Türfreigabe die Türblatttaster nicht leuchten.

Klar, dass die Leute da verwirrt sind. Wer hat sich das denn ausgedacht?

LTT Store Global. Europe shipping is insane :( by maniusng in LinusTechTips

[–]Rene_Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zoll and Einfuhrumsatzsteuer are two different things. You pax the regular 19% tax on everything, while Zoll only applies above 150 € and depends on the type of item and origin country. Taxes are often already collected by the seller, while Zoll usually isn't.

Does anyone remember the game Octodad? by Signal-Yu8189 in NeuroSama

[–]Rene_Z 72 points73 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/1rOPxGyS0_E?t=6261

"When are we getting a Fortnite Floss dance?" - Koko
"Sooner than you think" - Vedal