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First, tweening. If you can get an AI to do the job of a tweener you've already massively impacted the VFX/Animation pipeline.
Because the models are not creating a 1:1 replacement of the original work.
As mentioned before "style" is not something subject to copyright and the model creates a model of that style. The process of finetuning a model generally means that one would not want to recreate the original images as that would overfit it and render it, essentially useless.
When it comes to code, there is a higher chance of getting a one-to-one clone of the input as the options used in creating an algorithm, or even a simple function are dramatically reduced imo.
It doesn't "copy". These are not collages patched together from different original images.
Well...Wintermute wasn't essentially hostile to humanity - it just had it's own goals. I find that way more cyberpunk than a dystopian AI bent on humanity's destruction.
From the Ruby side Sinatra is just as fast as flask to get something going. Having supported all three ( Rails, flask, Sinatra ) if it's going to be an API. I usually start with Sinatra.
Kinda shocked that someone would apply for a patent for a tool that is essentially a decision tree.
Oddly enough last week I showed this video to my 9 year old daughter who has a passing interest in animation and she understood the technology clearly.
That fact alone means that we have to step up our game in modern technical documentation.
Mostly unenforceable in Canada as well.
The major problem I see for the "gig economy" is that as a contract worker one is essentially on their own for things like health insurance and unemployment benefits. While neither are things often talked about on the HN boards, here outside the Valley those become real concerns for employees with families.
You also need to take into consideration how incredibly lucky you were. "Pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" is a myth and always has been.
6 month emergency fund? Have you seen how many people in the US are living paycheque to paycheque? I know many people who make six figures who would struggle to meet that requirement.
Having grown up as a military brat I know about poor and I know that this kind of self-serving look-down-your-nose "advice" is just rationalization for living well in a society that enables sociopathy
The problem with the hacker mindset as it applies to algorithms affecting lives is that most folk who studied computer science ( or any of the hard sciences for that matter ) usually went through programs that never approach the human interaction beyond, how to hook the user and keep them involved.
CS majors should be required to take at least 20 hours of philosophy or history. Or, be required to do 20 hours of community service. It's too easy to live in a code bubble and forget the rest of the world lives on $2 a day. That's why we have Uber which solves problems for the first world and the third world remains a disaster.
Actually modern advertising ( post WW2 ) was built by psychologists - the artists just dressed up the intentions. Edward Bernays pivoted from being a propagandist to advertising and virtually created the foundation for Madison Avenue as we understand it. Until social media and it's dopamine manipulation strategies, advertising was focused on the manipulation of the viewer.
The CIC site crashes under load every time a Republican wins the White House.
I have 'jj' mapped to ESC.
"which would fundamentally alter what it means to be human in a profound and everlasting way"
This has periodically happened over the long course of our species existence. A hundred years ago the average lifespan was half what it was today. Simply because medicine improved. Treating death as a disease instead of a natural thing seems perfectly rational to me.
Probably about as many parents who are fighting to get their kids in French Immersion in the rest of Canada. I can't speak about anywhere other than Toronto but here it's quite sought after, second language for children.
Especially amongst first generation immigrants like myself.
Dumping the radioactive waste into the ocean is an insanely bad idea.
Distraction by Bruce Sterling sometimes seems like it's literally just right around the corner.
A side effect of living on a continent separated by two oceans and having one single language. It's far easier and practical in Canada to be bi-lingual as English/French are the official languages.
Having spent a portion of my childhood in Europe I saw first hand how much of a difference their default state of speaking 2 or 3 languages has on a society. Trust me, learning a second language is worth the time.
