jacksilver

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I was going to ask how this is different than a Reinforcement Learning algorithm but then they called out Deep Minds Alpha-Go

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It says they'd been tricking investors for 8 years, we'll before ChatGPT. I assume they overpromised in the early years, leveraging labor as a "stopgap" for the developing AI. Then things eventually caught up and they couldn't deliver, leading to the current situation.

Eight years is a long time, so who was "duped" when can really change the narrative of the headline.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

All of them. If you're seeing sources cited, it means it's a RAG (LLM with extra bits). The extra bits make a big difference as it means the response is limited to a select few points of reference and isn't comparing all known knowledge on a subject matter.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Almost like the "Big Beautiful Bill's" language wasn't very well thought out.

I mean, why exclude this random subsection of work in the first place.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the details, seems like that may be why the older Chromecasts are still supported.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I thought for Chromecast the "casting" part is just telling the Chromecast what to play. Do you need your phone on while Chromecast shows content?

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It used to be a lot better. For the SNES they made a collection of all super Mario games (literally all up to that point) as a single game for the SNES "Super Mario All Stars +".

I think the biggest issue with the Mario galaxy bundle, is they had released the "3D All stars collection" a couple years back (which got flack for not containing Super Mario Galaxy 2). So if you bought that game, you now have to pay $70 ($100 CAD) just for Galaxy 2 (Making the re-release of the game more expensive than the original).

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The qoute says the "authors", so this law is not exclusively tied to actors, but generally works of art and the people involved in creating it. Thats why I called out things like remakes.

And while you are right that in many of my examples there would probably be contracts to avoid these issues, my point was to show how easy it is to break this law (and that copyright owners do it all the time themselves).

Also, fair use for parodies is not a thing in all countries - not sure if it is in Denmark.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

That only works up to a point before nations push back. Additionally it assumes there is value in those assets. If there really is a train that stops in the middle of nowhere, you're probably never recouping those costs.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, it also seems weird cause things like remakes, parodies, trailers, etc. all would technically violate that law.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Deflation can be really damaging because it disincentivizes things like investments and longterm projects. Here are a couple of examples:

  • One of the biggest issues with mortgages is if you are under water (can you pay off your debt if you sell the house). With deflation, you could buy a house today and owe more than the house is worth tomorrow.
  • If the total cost to manufacture a car is $X, but by the time I can sell the car the market would only pay $X-50, then I'm actually better off not making the car.

Essentially, high deflationary pressure causes people to hold their money and not spend it. It's what happened in Japan around 1990s-2010s resulting in basically negative growth in their economy - Source

Hyper inflation is a similar issue, but on the other end. The value of money is lost so quickly that things like life savings can become worthless due to money losing its value so rapidly.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I couldn't find an article going into that level of detail on what "packaging" meant, but I have to imagine it's the more involved process.

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