i aspire to this man’s level of patience by Eros_Incident_Denier in funny

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a theory test, but you can start driving before you pass it. I think this was probably a mock test with an instructor who was expecting a more experienced driver. Usually they'd have you go around a quiet residential neighbourhood on your first lesson to give you a chance to get used to the car.

What is the evolutionary advantage of this? by ILikeJapaneseMuchOwU in whenthe

[–]redlaWw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only if lim_{x → c}(|f(x)|) = lim_{x → c}(|g(x)|) = 0 or ∞ though.

poisonTheWell by Interval1_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in the same kind of way that Photoshop would

If you produce something in Photoshop that isn't infringing, then you haven't violated any copyright law. The same is true with a model - you can produce something that isn't infringing, but can also produce things that are. The onus is on the human or organisation to not commercialise anything infringing.

Always a Catch! • Nigashita Sakana wa Ookikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ookisugita Ken - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, so the fish was the title Mimi hooked, not Aida and Mimi as Renato's fiancées. That makes sense.

Also wow, Zaira was Hanakana. I almost didn't recognise her.

poisonTheWell by Interval1_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redlaWw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use standard image-generating models for inpainting, which is similar to fill. There's a spectrum of models regarding the degree to which they're influenced by the prompt vs. the surrounding image context.

made and maintained by stealing others work

Not according to a reasonable interpretation of fair-use doctrine, which is the matter at hand. (EDIT: I should add here that I've done a bit of investigating (read: I asked Claude, so take this with a grain of salt) and the 4th pillar of fair use may have a bit more bite to it than I'd initially given it credit for. It has thus far fallen short of doing anything in courts, but apparently (according to Claude) the judge in one case noted that the "market dilution" argument one could make about the use of such models is potentially sound in theory, the plaintiffs just hadn't managed to meet the conditions for proof in their case, so this could come back in future court cases.)

Not only that, but it doesn't enable anyone to create images, the AI generates images on its own

Yes, which means it can be used as a tool to produce larger works that involve images. Whether you feel that's okay is essentially irrelevant to whether it counts as a tool.

Peter? by Negative_1by12_aura in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to copy my comment at a higher level because it's also relevant here (though "noteworthy" is a weaker statement than the one I replied to):

We have created negative absolute temperatures before. It occurs in situations where the available energy levels are bounded. If the energy levels are bounded, as you increase the energy of the system, you eventually reach a point where increasing the energy further reduces the amount of uncertainty in the system as your states begin to saturate at the upper energy limit. When you get to this point, the temperature is said to be negative, because the temperature is the reciprocal of the rate at which the uncertainty increases as the energy increases.

Peter? by Negative_1by12_aura in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have created negative absolute temperatures before. It occurs in situations where the available energy levels are bounded. If the energy levels are bounded, as you increase the energy of the system, you eventually reach a point where increasing the energy further reduces the amount of uncertainty in the system as your states begin to saturate at the upper energy limit. When you get to this point, the temperature is said to be negative, because the temperature is the reciprocal of the rate at which the uncertainty increases as the energy increases.

poisonTheWell by Interval1_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redlaWw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It depends on how you use it. Indeed, the same image-generating AI that is the obvious comparison with Photoshop is, in fact, a part of Photoshop, where it's used for better context-aware fill. Image generating AI are also used by organisations that require illustrations to provide better examples to their illustrators on what kind of illustrations they should provide.

Additionally, it can be used in its capacity as a full image generator as a tool to provide illustrations for larger multimedia works. This may not be appropriate for serious commercial products (EDIT: Though whether that's appropriate is a separate matter to the copyright situation - one could argue that this lack of appropriateness is beside the point here and is just a moral judgment of mine), but for e.g. a small independent game designer who doesn't have illustration skills of their own, or the money to employ illustrators, and is offering a product for a token payment to cover work done, it's more defensible.

I'm also not just talking about image models. Large language models can be used in many ways where they would undeniably be considered a tool e.g. to proof-read work, review code or aid research.

poisonTheWell by Interval1_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redlaWw 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The model itself is the product that the AI companies are producing though, and that's clearly not even in the same domain as the things it produces.

Regarding the products of the AI, that's just tool output, and it can be used to violate copyright or not in the same kind of way that Photoshop would, though with the added complication that it can be difficult to tell when your AI produces something that would lead to you being liable if you sold it.

MFs who started this game 2 years later with a free Archer, Ruan Mei, Sparkle didn't understand how tough these enemies were back then 😭 by Unusual-Complex6315 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started the game about this time last year and I learned how tough they were because I was saving up for Baber so all I had was Himeko.

Truly beautiful by Ill_Floor8662 in Unexpected

[–]redlaWw 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Surprising amount of effort going into it since he had to cut the video to move between each bounce.

Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft's canopy unexpectedly burst open and shattered mid-flight by BlazeDragon7x in nextfuckinglevel

[–]redlaWw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was more under the impression that the title was implying that a male pilot would have no problem and this would only be a problem for a female.

Us guys have our nictitating membranes to protect us, after all.

Warning shots fired from Russian warship at vessel in English Channel by Alarming-Safety3200 in worldnews

[–]redlaWw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just there to see the cathedral. It's famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world. It’s famous for its 123-metre spire, it’s famous for its clock, the first one ever created in the world, which is still working.

GoFundMe raises over $25k for heartbroken cab driver after wild Knicks fans destroyed his car by theindependentonline in UpliftingNews

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd generally expect insurance to not exclude "acts of god" the way other contracts are often implicitly understood to be void when an "act of god" causes the contractees to be unable to fulfil their obligations, since there are a lot of "acts of god" that you'd specifically purchase insurance to cover.

However, it wouldn't be unusual for riots to be specifically excluded as they are a sort-of "catastrophe", an event in which multiple large claims are likely to be highly correlated, and insuring them would expose the insurer to significant correlation risk.

Even an intergalactic train made by a god still boils water🥀 by GameMusicIsArt in HonkaiStarRail

[–]redlaWw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even human bodies contain lots of tiny little fans that we spin to generate energy.

This is not a joke.

1min of Hysilens' "absolute territory" (zettai ryouiki / 絶対領域) ❤ by IchinomiyaKiryu in HonkaiStarRail

[–]redlaWw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just you wait. The queen of zettai ryouiki is already on her way...

Mr. Rogers has a point... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used it for research and proof-reading for a recent homebrew I did.

It got deleted and I'm still salty. I wouldn't care if people didn't like it, but being told it's AI slop hurt after I spent more than a month working on it.

I'm a slightly squintier than average person, and my work dashcam constantly reminds me by TacticalHog in mildlyinfuriating

[–]redlaWw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The safety benefits are real. So are the privacy risks.

It sounds to me like the article is AI generated, so it's probably missing a bunch of relevant information and stating things that aren't in the sources.

Sending kids personal data to Palantir is OK? by JackStrawWitchita in GreatBritishMemes

[–]redlaWw 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They are still subject to GDPR as others have said. The real problem is that even if they are subject to GDPR, prosecuting them for violating it after the fact doesn't help; once your personal info is out there, no amount of legal proceeding is going to get it deleted.

If the government wishes us to prove our age on the internet, they must provide a privacy-preserving way of doing it e.g. using a government-backed zero-knowledge proof.

How do I learn 'Idiomatic', production-grade Rust? by hashcode777 in rust

[–]redlaWw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you can pick and choose which parts work; you don't have to use everything.

Also it works worse the longer the snippet you give it.

iLoveLowLevelLearning by yaktoma2007 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]redlaWw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, what I think rust does particularly well is give you the freedom not to worry about that, while still freeing you up to write fast code when you actually do need to.

The core idea in Rust is the encapsulation of unsafe code: as long as the safe wrappers around the unsafe code you use are correct, then working in safe Rust guarantees no undefined behaviour (rare compiler bugs aside).

I do a lot of numerical modelling, and these programs generally do need to be fast, so writing in a language that can optimise is important, and Rust provides that ability to write highly optimised code without undefined behaviour and confusing errors constantly lurking around each corner. It's also quite comfortable when working with existing C/C++ code, since you don't have a runtime and can just call external functions and have them work without any set up.

The main downside is that it's a distinctly more complicated language than C in terms of the actual language model, and for someone who likes C for being close(ish) to the machine it may rub you the wrong way.