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@nyaaasen ....that's it? That's all they make? Honestly their salaries could be 10-50x that and I'd think that's reasonable What a complete nothingburger

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@PEWilliams_ Jesus Christ, yeah, that's huge! 20% increase!? That's obscene, this is unsustainable.

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@BENZOTOOIE I hate to say it: fate/apocrypha had a cool as shit solution to this. There's a mage who's in a wheelchair 98% of the time... But her wheelchair turns into a badass magic exoskeleton for a fight. Awful show, but 10/10 concept

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen An org with the sheer breadth and social impact of wikipedia? No, it's very hard to run well. Sorry to burst your bubble. They get paid less than 1% what many CEOs are for something more important than what those CEOs do; why get your panties into a bunch over it?

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@eatpraydiehard I like walking barefoot in my home. Dirt caking on my feet in my own home is incredibly unpleasant. It's not complicated.

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@dirtwizardpdx @PEWilliams_ Roughly, 9.3% -> 11.3% implies the change is 11.3/9.3 = 1.21, or a 20%ish change in the initial value.

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@frickeville @kinda_awkward_ @stclairashley If you think this is explicitly taught, you ALSO don't understand AI.

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@Riley_Gaines_ hey, I can't see what you quoted, but aren't you the person trying to ruin a random kid's life?

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@alexiszotos I'll call it a dive bar if they have a singular beer that costs less than eight dollars.

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@ataiiam @yoheinakajima Very few engineers WOULD write this. I'm ngl, I'm overjoyed seeing this. You're guaranteeing dev jobs for years to come, as you produce so much completely unmaintainable tech debt that we'll *need* more engineers to come in and fix it.

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@Demilogic 0 to 100 REAL quick

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen Here's snippets to help you out, since you seem to dislike reading articles? (I see why you might not value Wikipedia, in that case)

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@sorkincel "Hey, you know iPhones have a closed garden ecosystem?"

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@peer_rich Because it's a great way to make everyone hate you.

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@colemanjspilde it feels like the visual effects were made by overworked vfx people who knew their shit looked *obviously* fake to people who'd seen enough vfx, but assumed that only included other vfx professionals and not most of the audience nowadays

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen Who do you think started or oversaw those initiatives? I'm serious. Did they spawn from the aether? Did noone manage those initiatives? Did volunteers spontaneously array themselves to submit content to web servers that assembled themselves?

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen Here's a helpful quickstart:

Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen Your refusal to understand is not my problem.

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@BookTerrorist @stillreezy @RoxyTall honestly, I'd still rather someone with only self interest in mind treat people nicely than like shit, even if only for self interest's sake.

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@zxnoshima 7 months!? You're kidding. Just in terms of maturity and character growth it's a solid 7 years minimum imo, probably a decade

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen Yes, and that's a MASSIVE number of responsibilities under their belt. That's what they do all day. Manage one of the highest social impact organizations in the world. Seriously, your questions are quite answered.

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@whosalex Why not learn to make it for real?

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@Sebastianeczek5 @ttwisted35 They just cancelled riot forge after the yordle game.

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@TeaboyAllStars Was this licensed by Nintendo??

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers Difference is, humans have experience to draw on outside references. An artist might use references as part of a process, but it doesnt end there. There's ideas, feelings, etc to pour in; if one were to just use references, that'd be derivative at best and plagiaristic at worst.

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@HardDriveMag @elonmusk Where are the replies to this

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers Hi! I'm a machine learning engineer; my job description is to either design neural networks, train them, or deploy them. I'm as close as you'll get to an expert without a PhD.

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@drew_beahm @dirtwizardpdx @PEWilliams_ I think you might be commenting on the wrong tweet.

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@EastMilsim @gothgirl_prelaw ...and?

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@pepper1297 @nyaaasen If you start managing my international nonprofit that handles the website with the 7th largest amount of traffic, period, then sure! That's a steal for that rate :)

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@HeavTho @nyaaasen Running massive-traffic websites with extremely high userbases in so many languages is *hard*.

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@zzeforce @nyaaasen Generally, a chief creative officer manages content creation, branding, advertising, etc.

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers At their core, these generative models really can only do that. Their architecture is a bunch of weights and biases; a lot of little linear algebra equations applied many, many times to imitate more complicated logic gates.

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@the_aiju Being decent gets you a lot, but like.... It's also just fun to be nice?

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers Their training process is to run datasets through, see how badly they imitate what's in the dataset, and change those weights and biases to be a little closer to something decent.

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@TKOdarkshadow__ @nyaaasen Holy non sequitur, batman! Sorry you think the people running the modern library of Alexandria should be paid less than a successful software engineer.

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@Socratesweeps @nyaaasen Yes. That's specifically about how they invest excess profits: back into the functioning of the org Getting competent management is hard if they're paid like shit.

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@WeAllNeedJesus1 @sacha_coward So you agree you're intentionally making it less safe for queer people?

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@TheLordFlygon @mSanterre @nyaaasen I'm committed to Wikipedia's mission

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@StephTweetAgain @kathbarbadoro @J_Thomas_Ganzer I'm not saying that voting for Biden or not is right, but If the guy doesn't do the policies voters care about, he's not doing his job. You can blame the voter if you want, but you should also blame the people who nominated Biden and gave us this awful choice, and Biden himself.

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers Any large generative network, or "AI", is fed everything in its dataset, over and over, until the metrics tracking them meet a threshold. These metrics are a standin for if what it's producing could be distinguished from what it was trained on by a skilled observer, generally.

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@LionsSpectre I wonder why you're having trouble with such a wonderful and kind personality....

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers You might think that sounds like how an actual person learns, because at some level it is! A writer needs to read a lot of what other people write. An artist should reference other people's art. A musician should turn on the radio sometimes.

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@zachsilberberg Fuck, I watched the whole thing and it was a fucking trainwreck the whole way through

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@stefonrogers @Nicolasombroso @fuckyouiquit Then the employers could have cited those errors to justify termination.

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@MickPow58926197 @DisturbdWaffles @JUNlPER @elonmusk you're simply not using it much then. sorry bucko, good luck

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@pcfreak30 @BronxLaugher @Jesse_Brenneman As someone ALSO qualified to answer it: Wikipedia does have hundreds of employees besides the server costs. Any clever workaround also needs employees to implement the workaround, and at some point costs come knocking. It's one of the cornerstones of the internet. No skimping.

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@vagrantwires I'm literally in awe at the capacity of certain people to miss the point. It's not accidental that Paul is compelling. He's supposed to be very compelling, to show by example how charismatic leaders can pull together a following to do great evil. Chani is *right*.

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@bonobomindset @H1TWOM4N So you know how pregnancy is like an inverted mecha? Well..

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@peer_rich I don't like robo spam and corporate harassment, thanks.

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@BenRiggs_ Do you have any evidence that a single system being extremely dominant is good for the ecosystem? Seems to me that it stifles people finding systems that might better suit their needs if 80% of people are playing one particular system, personally.

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@Luis1991234 @enbyourself tell me you've never worked service without saying you've never worked service

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@WomensSocIre @KatyMontgomerie That's literally the clearest example of sarcasm I've read today. You might want to reread it several times

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers I'm not saying generative models are useless. They have their place; they really can fill in existing datasets, or fill in gaps. But they're no standin for art. Art is all about being new, creative, and distinctive. Generative models just reproduce what they trained on.

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@probablyalissa I am both deeply executively dysfunctional and, separately, very lazy Every time I don't want to do something I have to gauge which it is, I promise there's a difference

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@drew_beahm @dirtwizardpdx @PEWilliams_ My apologies. By "initial value", I meant the 2020 percentage of the budget food costs took up. Sorry for being unclear!

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@FreeNortherner dude, this is such a miserable lens to look at the world through

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@owomuwu I legitimately can't imagine confronting an interviewer on live TV and using their discomfort with repeating a slur on demand to claim they're lying. What on earth?

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@wokehammerLs Its a demonstration of the clear through lines of western culture, past and present, from an outside, influenced perspective. Kingship, knighthood, masculinity, consumerism, and the American global hegemony are all touched on here.

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@sidereal111 @pattymo that's worse. you understand why that's worse, right?

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@RandyTreibel @luke_metro Jesus, no, that's literally just employment discrimination. It is *literally* super duper illegal.

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@FranklyGaming @echochlo @GameOverGreggy Twitter, "run fine"? Uhhhh

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@xsphi The.. tension necessary for attraction? am I missing something here?

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@haunthtml ...are we talking about the hot one who sounds like a disastrous brat, or someone else?

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@AlexCaswen @peer_rich

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@peer_rich I don't like robo spam and corporate harassment, thanks.

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@karlmac1 @H_H_Gray Look, I'd love to take the rest of the cars off the road and just leave public transit too, but I don't think that's realistic yet. Carbrain is a bitch, but it's a hard problem to solve :(

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@Nexuist ...that seems like a positive indicator that they're competent, though? They saw a graph that's from a distinct process than they're used to and correctly judged that it's different for some reason.

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@BlazyPika2 @BENZOTOOIE Sieg is a bad protagonist, the writing was messy even by fate standards, and the character moments weren't strong enough to make up for it, imo

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@JonCrowell47029 @arlenparsa I tried keeping him unblocked for a while, but he really just lowers the quality of any feed. It's not worth it.

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@HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers It's not learning in a human sense, where you synthesize meaning and experience into something more than either. It's just repeatedly trying to recreate what it was fed until it does a good enough job imitating it.

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@alifnomad @LisaBloom Technically, yes, but you try convincing a court that half of the employees of a household-name company are bad enough workers that you're firing each of them for cause in just a week. They won't buy it.

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@Vahn16 ...ok, not to say good things about sony corporate, but... Doing this at this specific moment is literally the best time for everyone involved, isn't it? Bunlith gains from bloodborne association as long as legally possible, Sony protects brand, consumers support game they want?

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@z3r0C007 @hipearlrose you don't have to say "weak men", you can just say "Reagan" and "Nixon".

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@thatchthoughts @esjesjesj is this satire?

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@BriansMindHouse @TKOdarkshadow__ @nyaaasen source????? again, it's the modern library of Alexandria. Seems to be working pretty good to me.

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@kelly_cadigan Tbh, seems kinda arbitrary to say "my experience of gender non conformity is valid, but other people's isn't".

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@RepealTCPA1947 @Pretefunkera @ArmandDoma Living rooms definitionally aren't third spaces. Parks, malls, and streets you end up harassed for loitering, while pubs and cafes are pricey.

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@AdiraPasifika @TheMarySue I hadn't realized JK Rowling was into denying the Holocaust until she strong armed this reporter. Now, it's pretty common knowledge that JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier.

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@Jeera_Nah @TPGRoberts Let's get you to bed, grandma

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@kelly_cadigan @nominalnaomi The Nazis literally started out targeting trans and gay people, cuz they were easier targets. Are you familiar with those images of Nazi book burnings? They're likely of the burning of the Institute of Sexology, one of their first targets.

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@whstancil I just hate that it's inefficient and exploits literally everyone involved

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@HariSel57511397 Hey man, you did a great job illustrating what satire is with the thread! Way over the top, absurdist, and thoughtless, with no eye for beauty. It's perfect. I'd love to hear your real thoughts on the movie sometime though, funny as this was.

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@darkwizard04 @PEWilliams_ Nah. We have governments for a reason.

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@SonicSoup1 @TeaboyAllStars Lord on high

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@taylorgrayson @DolphinMossad @ModeledBehavior For a few dollars a week?

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@notCursedE A little hint of whimsy for everyone involved in an otherwise unfeeling and bland institution, maybe?

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@z3r0C007 @xANoellex @hipearlrose These are the good times? Seriously? Get real.

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@realGeorgeHotz @Twitter @TayFromCA What on earth? Why would you have an intern build this? Why would your *interview* for the internship be solving the problem? That stinks of bad practices and stolen, cheaply made work. Do it right or don't do it at all.

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@NateSilver538 It's.. pretty terrible though? The bot spam is out of control, the moderation is worse than useless, the actual flow of information is degraded, and the UI is constantly breaking. I don't see what you're saying at all.

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@mSanterre @nyaaasen One of us has provided plenty of evidence that wikipedia foundation does what they claim.

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@DependsAll @HeartFlaw @FailedHeatsink @OrdinaryGamers I'm happy to help! Honestly, it's a huge problem how hard it is to get good info on this; if you're non-technical, telling grift from truth is crazy difficult and the misinformation I see people buy into drives me crazy 😭

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@krembeni It's cool as fuck and I'd like to live in a world where star wars fans are less boring You should build your fictional world to maximize the amount of cool shit in it. If the rules stop you from doing cool shit more than allow you to do it, the rules suck.

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@TheFamousArtBR @cmclymer @AmoneyResists @AnaKasparian trans men and non-binary people exist, bucko.

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@Daytona_Sans @MattBinder I'm sorry, scraping the website? Do you know what that means?

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@KristiNoem ....isn't abortion banned there? Why do you think they left

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@JorgeEscobar @cassiecodes And what teams are going to write the new codebase? The ones whose maintenance work got more than doubled today?

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@ApeNHAT @Trashbag5859771 @jhoiras If you're so passionate about it, you should follow the best path to success, which in this case is redirecting anyone looking to get a gotcha to the best possible person, ie, a media spokesperson.

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@DThompsonDev The biggest coding no-no is coding. We should all stop programming. Chuck the computers into the ocean and know peace again

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@Zepiereite For me it's "before 2pm"; I'm useless before then unfortunately

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@SavageAssMF127 @amy_sargeant_ Christ alive. This is why people hate you.

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