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Re: on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:05AM (#35688519)
I think there should be explicit penalties for passing off movies with special effects as movies. There are externalities to society when you create something that isn't real! There should be a "MadeWith" stack for all special effects you use - no more undisclosed animatronics, makeup, or miniatures! Soon, all our trust in film will be destroyed from everyone making stop-motion movies!
Re:Not by AI on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:08PM (#35184898)
This is monumentally stupid lmao
Can someone leak the weights please
Re:MusicLM: Generating music from text on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:24PM (#34548829)
Google: kings of releasing papers but never shipping anything
Re:AI startup Scale lays off 20% of its staff on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:06PM (#34329816)
I interviewed with them a few months ago, got rejected, and then was contacted by the SAME RECRUITER to interview again a month and a half later. He'd forgotten who I was or that I interviewed. From what I could tell, they're a mess; this doesn't surprise me at all
Re:AI startup Scale lays off 20% of its staff on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:04PM (#34329790)
I interviewed with them recently, they've brought on lots of (expensive) new MLE type employees to provide ML SaaS services. Open-source might be putting pressure on them as these things become more commoditized
Yeah suuuure, Emad
Just call yourself diverse if you have a problem with this. It's dumb and illiberal, but there are easy hacks to get around it
Re:Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan? on Monday August 29, 2022 @04:03PM (#32642867)
Clothing manufacturing ethics: will you be a textile manufacturing vegan?
Pretty big red flag that Max Hodak and now Merolla have departed
Re:The Case for a Confederal Europe on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:15PM (#31852204)
Yeah idk what OP was on about, the EU is huge for allowing Europe to punch at the level of the US, China etc
Re:The Case for a Confederal Europe on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:40PM (#31851621)
Counterpoint: not necessarily?
Re:Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:24AM (#31850426)
Only on HN do you only get like 2 "nice" comments smh
Sounds like Michael Scott is going to need to organize another fun run
Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:42PM (#29630043)
That's a lot of words to rationalize away what is very clearly and obviously a cloaking device at work!!
You'd need negative mass either way. Bending spacetime is the most plausible implementation of FTL travel a la Star Trek; doesn't matter a whole lot if you're using the negative matter to keep the wormhole open or create an Alcubierre drive-style spacetime wave on which to surf
He discusses it extensively in The Physics of Star Trek.

Also, supposed locally FTL travel for subatomic particles is pretty different from locally non-FTL but globally FTL travel a la Star Trek, Alcubierre drives, etc

Generally I'm suspicious whenever anyone seems to imply that an entire field is barking up the wrong tree
Probably a pretty good analogy! Even now, it's not known whether time has directionality in any way that is meaningful in physics. FTL travel would resolve the "Arrow of Time" question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) but this wouldn't invalidate much/any of physics because the arrow is essentially non-observable at the micro level
Re:Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:06AM (#29471208)
I don't know if 69% seems suspicious as much as it seems...nice
Causality isn't nearly as central to physics as it may be to your worldview. Lawrence Krauss and others who have commented on the matter have argued that FTL travel, would mostly require a re-evaluation of our perspectives rather than a re-evaluation of physics
Dude just pirate it and then if you really want send a donation directly to the content creator so you're not sending part of the money to Disney/Comcast/etc lol

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