Not just that it's a crapshoot, if you are taking other medications some meds are not possible because of potential drug interactions.
I mean, I understand you need to make money but if you choose to use the name of an ancient Greek Goddess as your trade name, you can't get exclusivity. You just can't.
You should not be allowed to do DMCA searches on words that are over two thousand years old.
Still doing the Final Draft on Alan Wake 2 but might switch back to a replay of Spider-Man 2.
All 3 of the current series. Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2. The first one was released in 2019, I think.
If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.
Because the assholes got to "men's rights" "men's movement" en masse, and you'll spend your whole life critiquing individuals and find communities full of those individuals when you see those words.
Older folks: What would our kids generation do in the event of a terrorism attack?
Millennials who lived through 9/11: Seriously?
Zoomers who have to have active shooter drills: SERIOUSLY?!
They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.
The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.
For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That's not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.
The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn't expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn't she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.
I was planning to go for an island on the edge of the world that you can only find after stealing the single eye shared between my 3 sisters and forcing them to give you directions.
Wish I could offer more than my upvote and my boost for this.
The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.
The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.
Garak being really good at buying cheap leftover fabrics and using them up just explains all the clothes on DS9.
Or the novelty of AI-created art will wear off and we'll go on with our lives.
I feel like the only difference between Riker and a Betazoid man is that a Betazoid man tells his stupid jokes over telepathy.
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
"In March, the copyright office affirmed that most works generated by AI aren’t copyrightable but clarified that AI-assisted materials qualify for protection in certain instances. An application for a work created with the help of AI can support a copyright claim if a human “selected or arranged” it in a “sufficiently creative way that the resulting work constitutes an original work of authorship,” it said."
Thaler was appealing this, and his appeal was denied.
On Prosecraft and why data analysis of fiction rarely says anything at all
Here's another perspective on Prosecraft being taken offline. It goes into the actual use case of the program, and it is indicative about what AI makers are getting wrong about making art.
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.
"The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion."
It's getting worse. And because it's a black box model they don't know why. The computer science professor here likens it to how human students make mistakes... but human students make mistakes because they don't have perfect recall, mishear things being told to them, are tired and/or not paying attention... A bunch of reason that basically relate to having a human body that needs food, rest and water. A thing a computer does not have.
The only reason ChatGPT should be getting math wrong is that it's getting inputs that are wrong, but without view into it they can't figure out where it's getting it wrong and who told it the wrong info.
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
This comic goes over the political history of technology in the workforce, showing that even automation to reduce manual labor was introduced as class warfare against the laborers, and that sabotage, protests and legal action were needed to preserve worker's rights.
I've been saying for a while we need a wiki and I finally stumbled across one. But is it a good resource? Anybody use this site?
Dan McQuillan, author of 'Resisting AI' looks at how the publication of his book has helped move the AI discussion away from ‘is it good or bad?’ to the more radical and worrying aspects of the technology as it is being implemented, in terms of augmenting society’s existing disparities.
Dan McQuillan, author of 'Resisting AI' looks at how the publication of his book has helped move the AI discussion away from ‘is it good or bad?’ to the more radical and worrying aspects of the technology as it is being implemented, in terms of augmenting society’s existing disparities.
I used to blog on blogger and livejournal before using Twitter destroyed my discipline and I find myself writing longer comments and mastodon posts right now. I'm thinking about a WriteFreely account. Does anyone know a good instance to start with?
As social media breaks into splinters and conditions deteriorate in general, I want to ask once again for your support. A lot of what I detail in this article has already taken place in academia, which was at the forefront of this new, exploitative push, and having left the halls of higher education...
As social media breaks into splinters and conditions deteriorate in general, I want to ask once again for your support. A lot of what I detail in this article has already taken place in academia, which was at the forefront of this new, exploitative push, and having left the halls of higher education to provide analysis and work to find solutions, I rely on DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE,
I'm researching network monitoring software. We looked into LogicMonitor, Paessler, and Solarwinds. My company is reluctant to trust Solarwinds again, LogicMonitor is EXTREMELY expensive and Paessler just ghosted us.
Does anyone know who else is doing network monitoring? My boss would prefer a cloud-based solution because he'd like to cut out all the server upkeep but at this point I can't seem to get my hands on an on-prem setup.
Landlords are using AI to screen their tenants, heightening errors and discrimination.
Landlords are using AI to screen their tenants, heightening errors and discrimination.
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
This is an article by Cat Valente during the Twitter Migration, discussing the cycle of enschittification and the history of social media.
We found it very perceptive and helpful when leaving Twitter, and I think people leaving Reddit may feel the same.
