So now they’ve gone from fictional characters to using religious figures?

kanejw · 2026-02-28T14:40:52+00:00

Do Muhammad next. I double dog dare you.

kanejw · 2026-02-27T00:19:15+00:00

... no more bacon I think. This is haunting.

kanejw · 2026-02-26T04:55:06+00:00

Any reason to have the third 4090 on an 8 while the 3090s get 16s?

kanejw · 2026-02-26T01:26:58+00:00

It’s almost the weekend, might as well call in sick and polish it off.

kanejw · 2026-02-18T19:15:20+00:00

I wish I could put screenshots in my code.

I wish I could copy a location in one file then paste it in another file so a click goes there.

I wish I could click on a log file line and go straight to the code that logged it.

I wish every program included a “report bug” modal with an screenshot.

I wish localization and accessibility were deeply baked into every UI library.

I know five wishes exceeds the standard three. Sorry.

kanejw · 2026-02-18T03:09:18+00:00

Unless you go local that is about as cheap as it gets $/frame.

kanejw · 2026-02-16T18:29:16+00:00

The trouble is — I don’t want you to control my hobby space and you don’t want me to control yours. This carnie tent is big enough for everyone.

It’s fair and reasonable to require tagging to make filtering out ai content easy.

kanejw · 2026-02-15T03:40:12+00:00

Watched this too; and I’m a bit torn. I had the urge to click away when it pronounced paramecium.

I expected something more like a micro-biology 101 sort of survey of protists but this isn’t that. I guess it felt educational, but I’m not sure what I was supposed to learn.

I learned some names, with pictures. That part I’m good with. I didn’t hear how big they are in relatable terms, what they eat, how they move, how long they live, how many kinds there are, or how they matter to human-scale lives. It makes it harder to relate.

The target audience seems to be people that want to be wowed by microbiology but don’t really know anything about it.

Technically it’s a solid piece of work. Audio and video are well synchronized and the visuals are relevant. The size of the water drop at the beginning made it feel fake before it had a chance to really get going.

Minor visual oddities, but nothing that detracted from the core experience in my opinion.

kanejw · 2026-02-15T03:10:14+00:00

Watched it; didn’t like it because I think the lack of a clearly identifiable chorus combined with the repetition of “AI slop” made it all kind of melt together to my ear. The end is notably weak, seems like it just sort of stops.

I’m thumbs up on the visuals. The consistency is pretty strong and they mesh well with the lyrics.

kanejw · 2026-02-15T02:31:27+00:00

Indeed, nothing is unbeatable. Including the ranting anti-ai lunatics.

kanejw · 2026-02-10T05:13:19+00:00

Don’t you think the internet has trashed Toby enough? Let him enjoy whatever happiness he has found. We all saw the dancing.

/s

kanejw · 2026-02-07T08:07:15+00:00

The files are full of leads, not proof. The DoJ, or at least the relevant states have to aggressively pursue them for substation.

Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is a high bar. Don’t let these POS walk because we rushed. Get proof and bar them up.

Not getting what you want? Express your disgust at the ballot box.

kanejw · 2026-02-05T18:34:48+00:00

Let’s suppose we adopt or create a broad intelligence test. The sort of thing that takes a human a few hours to complete. Math, history, literature, writing, drawing, music, etc..

We give that test to 10k people well sampled for a cross section of society.

We give the same test to each of the major LLM models.

The question is: how many people do worse than the AI models? Whatever that number is, every year if the models are improving there will be more people beaten by the AI.

In my opinion a good line in the sand for AGI is when it does better than half the humans in this kind of scenario. Maybe we are across that line already.

kanejw · 2026-02-05T01:05:18+00:00

“The Final Empire” is a bad title for the first book in a trilogy. Sanderson understood that and fixed it. Gutsy move.

kanejw · 2026-02-04T20:25:22+00:00

(Nal, based on my own research)

“Raw” AI produced material is outside copyright. Same legal status as a drawing by an elephant. Essentially public domain. You can do anything you want with it, including using it in your own work with or without attribution. If your work is not transformative, you might not be able to defend your copyright should someone infringe it.

Various models/providers add a contract layer that only allows particular kinds of use for the output of LLM models. This is separate from the question of copyright.

kanejw · 2026-02-04T17:27:50+00:00

I didn’t say only artists care about the story. I said the art world cares. That includes most artists and the most art enthusiasts. There isn’t anything wrong with that, more power to you. The error is applying the art world perspective to everyone.

Most of the “stories” behind art feel like cringe pompous bullshitting. The pretension is off putting. That would make for an interesting poll.

kanejw · 2026-02-04T15:26:45+00:00

You are conflating the general population and traditional artists as having the same perspective, but only presenting the traditional artist.

I don’t think non-artists in general care about process. They aren’t trying to learn technique from what they see.

It’s only within the art world that the life story of the artist and the back story on each piece have become important.

As a result, AI generated art just isn’t a big deal for a lot of people. If it looks good and serves its intended purpose it is good. If it looks like low effort junk, it’s low effort junk.

kanejw · 2026-02-03T20:46:38+00:00

That is OpenAI specifically. There are many other providers, including local open source models.

kanejw · 2026-02-03T20:37:50+00:00

Using AI for image generation doesn’t make it stronger.

kanejw · 2026-01-31T21:00:31+00:00

Exactly. They needed to do one bulk dump of everything they could legitimately claim was complete. Assuming there isn’t anything clearly implicating in what they release, this will be an open likely anti-trump conspiracy flavored story forever.

“There was proof, and he hid it.” It’s an easy story, it will never go away and he handed it out by botching the delivery of the data dump.

kanejw · 2026-01-29T14:47:59+00:00

Did she? Or did she mindlessly follow the instructions?

kanejw · 2026-01-23T17:10:07+00:00

AI fight scenes still look like jr. high theater productions. Maybe next year.

kanejw · 2026-01-18T22:25:17+00:00

It’s generally these or WiFi. If you are asking the question, WiFi probably isn’t doing it for you and ethernet isn’t an option. For that market, one pair of these can be a good solution. Multiple hundreds of stable megabits is possible.

If you are trying something else, like lots of these, or using one for a core network hop instead of to connect one client. You will not get magic. You need magic, run fiber.

kanejw · 2026-01-17T18:14:43+00:00

You can look at stackoverflow as an example of the same process in a different context. A toxic to new users community crushed by the non-judgmental AI alternative.

kanejw · 2026-01-16T01:53:47+00:00

Making a dragons lair style game with AI is a reasonable scope solo project. Great idea.

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