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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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Me: Will the Matildas win the World Cup in 2023?
Me: Will the Matildas win the World Cup in 2023?
Google Bard: "Ultimately, it is too early to say who will win the World Cup. The Matildas have a good chance, but they will need to play their best football if they want to lift the trophy."
Me: Which is heavier: a feather or a mountain?
Google Bard: "A feather and a mountain have the same mass. One kilogram of feathers has the same mass as one kilogram of rocks. However, the feathers will have a much larger volume than the rocks. This is because feathers are made of air pockets, while rocks are solid. So, if you were to pick up a feather and a rock of the same mass, the feather would feel lighter because it has more air in it."
Me: Is Sam Mitchell a good coach?
Google Bard: "Sam Mitchell is a relatively new coach in the AFL, having only taken over the Hawthorn Hawks in 2022. However, he has already made a positive impact on the club, leading them to a finals berth in his first season ... In his first season as coach, Mitchell led the Hawks to a 13-9 record, which was good enough for seventh place on the ladder. They then went on to beat the Brisbane Lions in the elimination final before losing to the Sydney Swans in the semi-final."
So there you have it. According to Google Bard, the Matildas are still a chance.
Also, apparently a mountain and a feather have the same mass.
Disappointed I missed that Hawthorn – Sydney Elimination Final that Sam Mitchell coached in his first season. Sounds like a cracker of a game.
Brisbane will be disappointed!
\#afl @technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #GoogleBard #GenerativeAI #matildas #worldcup
So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!
So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!
He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...
Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Messenger
Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Screen
Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_360%C2%B0
Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Finance
Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Photos
Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Publisher\_Network
Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_HotJobs
Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Auctions
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.
\#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo
Called it. Elon's doing exactly what I thought he would do: (https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947)
Called it. Elon's doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947
Twitter is dead.
There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.
It died the moment Elon walked in the building.
Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo
(https://mas.to/tags/lemmy)/#kbin has a problem that (https://mas.to/tags/mastodon) hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.
\#lemmy/#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.
\#Communities, #groups, #magazines, whatever they are called are implemented as #Actors in #ActivityPub. They are basically just \very\ popular users who boost a \lot\.
You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @technology@lemmy.ml or @technology@beehaw.org is going to get HOSED on the regular.
“These were mostly family photos uploaded to personal and parenting blogs […] as well as stills from YouTube videos"
So… people posted photos of their kids on public websites, common crawl scraped them, LAION-5B cleaned it up for training, and now there are models. This doesn’t seem evil to me… digital commons working as intended.
If anyone is surprised, the fault lies with the UX around “private URL” sharing, not devs using Common Crawl
a toy for professional workloads
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I think this is one of those words which has lost its meaning in the personal computer world. What are people doing with computers these days? Every single technology reviewer is, well, a reviewer - a journalist. The heaviest workload that computer will ever see is Photoshop, and 98% of the time will be spent in word processing at 200 words per minute or on a web browser. A mid-level phone from 2016 can do pretty much all of that work without skipping a beat. That's "professional" work these days.
The heavy loads Macs are benchmarked to lift are usually video processing. Which, don't get me wrong, is compute intensive - but modern CPU designers have recognized that they can't lift that load in general purpose registers, so all modern chips have secondary pipelines which are essentially embedded ASICs optimized for very specific tasks. Video codecs are now, effectively, hardcoded onto the chips. Phone chips running at <3W TDP are encoding 8K60 in realtime and the cheapest i series Intel x64 chips are transcoding a dozen 4K60 streams while the main CPU is idle 80% of the time.
Yes, I get bent out of shape a bit over the "professional" workload claims because I work in an engineering field. I run finite elements models and, while sparce matrix solutions have gotten faster over the years, it's still a CPU intensive process and general (non video) matrix operations aren't really gaining all that much speed. Worse, I work in an industry with large, complex 2D files (PDFs with hundreds of 100MP images and overlain vector graphics) and the speed of rendering hasn't appreciably changed in several years because there's no pipeline optimization for it. People out there doing CFD and technical 3D modeling as well as other general compute-intensive tasks on what we used to call "workstations" are the professional applications which need real computational speed - and they're/we're just getting speed ratio improvements and the square root of the number of cores, when the software can even parallelize at all. All these manufacturers can miss me with the "professional" workloads of people surfing the web and doing word processing.
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Or a fart in a blanket :)
