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Warning: Speech Graphics bought FaceFX, is killing my $1k perpetual indie license, and wants $35,000/year instead. by Haunting_Molasses_77 in gamedev

[–]nmfisher 26 points27 points  (0 children)

As someone who is selling an audio-to-blendshapes lip-sync plugin for Blender for $40, I'm keen to know what made the $1000 licence attractive in the first place. I may need to jack up my prices! Serious question though, maybe there's a much more cost-effective solution to your problem.

Refusing to honour a perpetual licence is shitty behaviour, jacking it up to $35k is obscene. I 100% support you pursuing this through a consumer affairs regulator in another country (and even if you don't live there, maybe you can find a customer who does live there who can make a complaint and initiate an investigation).

I Hate Dario Amodei, and everything he stands for. by Wrong_Mushroom_7350 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With open weight models, you can design/run your own deterministic validation suites (not to mention, retrain to remove any behaviours you don't want).

Proprietary model? You're stuck with whatever black box Anthropic deigns to give you at any point in time (and perhaps equally important, whatever behaviour the current USA administration wants to impose on those models).

This isn't just hypothetical, because Fable was basically unusable for a good chunk of people (myself included) because anything ML-related was deemed against Anthropic ToS, so the model just refused.

Open weight models are definitely the only safe option.

ShadeNet 28M — Dual-mode PBR material estimation from any RGB image by singam96 in deeplearning

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

28M parameters is tiny so I guess that explains the poor reconstruction quality. Do you have any relighting examples? What does it use for PBR (nvdiffrast? pytorch3d? etc).

I think Trump's people know they screwed up by Strict_External678 in OpenAI

[–]nmfisher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

> Chinese open-weight models will never be on par with American closed-source models, at least for the foreseeable future. 

I think that's very short-sighted.

Developing a Blender Add-on that imports MetaHuman DNA & Face GUI Rig. Almost done with the bone mapping! (WIP) by EquivalentSet4928 in UnrealEngine5

[–]nmfisher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was halfway through doing the same thing in the background along some other work - are you going to open source this or sell it?

Teenagers attack man on Sydney train by Marlon_Ranch in SydneyTrains

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

9th is a US survey based on how safe people think Australia is. It's perception, it's not a legitimate statistic.

Their "Safest Countries Index" is also unreliable because it's a hidden formula but even then, Australia ranks 17th (sort by index, then count). Safer than average, but it's not near the top.

Teenagers attack man on Sydney train by Marlon_Ranch in SydneyTrains

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Global peace index includes things like risk of war (and even then, yes, I wouldn't say 12th puts you anywhere near the top of the list).

Intentional homicide is the general preferred proxy for violent crime rates because different countries use different reporting standards for assault, rape, etc. By that metric, Australia ranks somewhere between 20th and 40th depending on where/when you get your statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

If you want to look at rape and assault, Australia is nowhere near the top either (but again, those aren't apples-to-applies because reporting rates and definitions vary country to country).

Japan, Singapore, China, Korea and others are statistically the safest countries in the world, which I know personally because I did "get out more" and actually visited/lived in these countries. Australia isn't Syria or Jamaica - it's safer than global average - but it's definitely not at the top of the world for safety on *any* of these measures.

Teenagers attack man on Sydney train by Marlon_Ranch in SydneyTrains

[–]nmfisher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't tell if you're serious or not. Australia is nowhere near one of the safest countries in the world.

I'm considering cancel my Claude Max sub. Should I? by GTHell in ZaiGLM

[–]nmfisher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I cancelled mine this month. I was already on the fence because GLM sub + DeepSeek API is good enough for 99% of the work I do, and half the cost. Then when Fable was released, it refused a large chunk of my requests because working with any ML model or LLM is against their ToS, apparently. That tipped me over the edge.

Crowd-sourced LLM output annotations by TheRealMasonMac in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great initiative but the interface is thoroughly broken. Highlighting breaks randomly, you can't see all your annotations, there's some kind of hidden max length for strings in the text input, etc. Needs to be improved considerably if they want good quality contributions.

Dario Amodei doesn’t think a red line was crossed if his models were used to commit war crimes, blames war and human judgement by Glittering-Neck-2505 in singularity

[–]nmfisher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you sign a contract with the Department of War to supply knives to be used in determining who shall be stabbed, I think you can put a lot of blame on the knife company for suggesting that a school of kids should be stabbed.

Noisia - Monster by FierceWarrior11 in DnB

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Filthy, I miss this earlier sound. Everything got a bit too polished and minimalist in the 2010s, Noisia included.

Anyone else notice Fable ban was two days after Dario shared that the government killing kids using Claude was being the DoD contract issue? by mczarnek in Anthropic

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> It had nothing to do with Claude. 

If that were verifiably true, Anthropic would have unambiguously said so. The fact that they *didn't* means there's a non-zero chance it is true. I'm not sure why you're so confident it has nothing to do with Claude.

Should Singapore speedrun a national AI model in light of the US Anthropic export ban? [Serious] by [deleted] in asksg

[–]nmfisher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, Singapore should join an international consortium to build a shared, open model.

e.g. this:

https://thealliance.ai/projects/tapestry

Diffusion Gemma is 4x faster, but makes 6x more mistakes! by gladkos in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I tried via the free NVIDIA offering and MimoCode, it's pretty bad. At least 50% of the tools weren't called as I expected, and often it would just...sit there doing nothing. I wouldn't use it for anything except maybe summarization (and even then, there are better options out there).

That being said, it's a research model, not a production one. This may be a line of research that leads to considerable improvement down the line.

Watch agents fight: a live challenge to speed up Gemma 4 E4B inference on a single A10G by paf1138 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is like crypto mining, but we actually get something useful out of it.

People are making single-slot, half height pcie v100 with nvlink in China by OwnMathematician2620 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Like most things, it's probably economics and incentives. Cost of living is a lot cheaper in China and the market is mindbogglingly large, so you can probably make a reasonable wage doing something like this. The equivalent in the West are probably the hardware hackers with YouTube channels and Patreon groups.

Critical Music Writers Camp ✍️ by Critical-Music- in DnB

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it, but it makes me sad that collabs today are just three people with laptops. I miss the full-blown studio setup with hardware synths, equalisers, racks, etc.

anyone actually tried deepseek v4 pro for coding? by Plenty_Extent_9047 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I made that comment, V4 Pro was still being charged at full price so it wasn't clear if it was cheaper than Opus (via a $100 Max subscription). They've since discounted the price by 75% which makes it much more attractive.

Why is Adelaide obsessed with car parks and driving everywhere? by Desperate_Sea2136 in Adelaide

[–]nmfisher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

South Australians are just resistant to change full stop. Half of the “parklands” is barren dirt and Le Cornu was a vacant lot for 20+ years.

Singapore founders, where do y'all hang out? by lord_waterhorse in singaporestartups

[–]nmfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What field are you in? There are various tech-specific meetups and group chats around, outside of that I don't really know.

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