Are they going to pick and choose which subreddits get paywalled, or pull some revenue sharing scheme with the moderators to get them to voluntarily paywall their subs? I could see the latter “working” by getting enough buy-in with super-users.

It appears that the US’s attempt to reshore the semiconductor industry is going well.

Looking at this International Crisis Group’s list of donors:

BP

Chevron

ENI

Open Society Foundation

Rockerfeller Brothers Trust

As well as various Western European & gulf state governments, billionaires and billionaire-founded NGOs. Of course they’re coping: their backers were hoping to get a piece of PDVSA.

Meta’s business model is about collecting user data for advertisers. All of their services are a means to that end.

Wow, another project abandoned by Google. Add it to the pile.

I use diffusion models a fair bit for VTT assets for TTRPGs. I’ve used LLMs a little bit for suggesting solutions for coding problems, and I do want to use one to mass produce customized cover letter drafts for my upcoming job hunt.

Neither model class is sufficiently competent for any zero-shot task yet, or at least has too high of a failure rate to run without active supervision.

As for use in a socialist society, even the current version of the technology has some potential for helping with workers’ tasks’. Obviously, it would need to be rationed per its actual environmental and energy costs as opposed to the current underwriting by VCs. You’d also want to focus on specialized models for specific tasks, as opposed to less efficient generalized models.

The proposal is for a globally-levied tax. Where exactly is capital going to fly to?

Surprised that Microsoft is letting them compete in search engines while they’re spending boatloads of money/compute on trying to make Bing relevant.

It’s been an absurd mishandling of the IP by Take Two. Will probably be permanently stuck in early access with only maintenance development at best.

A lot of people (myself included) had the update installed automatically by Steam with no option for rollback, so it caught people off guard.

I can’t believe that some actually Vax-maxxed. Absolute legend.

Works fine for me. What browser are you using?

I agree that D&D will always exist, I am just personally uninterested in the direction the game is going with the OneD&D, and I think the source of this muddling path is do to the failure of the original business maneuver with the OGL revision. I don’t really see things getting better under Hasbro, so any major shakeup might be a good thing overall.

Kinda .

I don’t think Tencent would be a particularly great owner for the D&D brand, but they might have been more hands-off than Hasbro went it comes to mucking with the business model, and a major shakeup for D&D could be good. Honestly, WotC (or just D&D) could be doing better if it was an independent operation as opposed to subsidizing the Hasbro revenue sink.

From reading the article, “pre-recorded” and “artificial” voices are already prohibited for unsolicited calls, so I don’t see what this ruling would actually change other than a slight clarification. It’s not like robocallers are actually prosecuted in any meaningful way.

The Zhao lab is allergic to open sourcing their code, to the point of having a history of violating licenses on the code they use, due to a fear of folks reverse-engineering the process to detect and maybe cleanup the outputs (to be fair, people would reverse engineer that, and people are probably working on cracking Nightshade like they did for Glaze as we speak.)

Hasbro has no clue what to do with the game since their games-as-service, closed ecosystem plan went kaput after they backed down on the OGL revision (which would have been necessary to shut out other VTTs and ensure player & DM subscriptions). I think the recent lay offs of senior people in the D&D related teams suggests this as well. This article doesn’t seem well sourced at all, but a shake-up would be very interesting at this point.

Side-stepping some of the speculation and impact on the traditional market/fanbase, I am curious about the interest in D&D in China, as a Tencent acquisition would presumably make it much easier to market the game there. From the searching I’ve done, there doesn’t seem to be a ton of interest in D&D, and there’s no official translation into Mandarin. The movie didn’t do great at the Chinese box office, although Baldur’s Gate 3 did fine? Obviously, if Tencent does put together a subsidiary to design a version for the Chinese market, I’m not sure if they’d want to start by translating/adapting existing books or using the ruleset to design a bespoke version (either with a fantasy setting or based on relevant Chinese IP.)

AI models are inefficient by necessity, since they’re general purpose. For example, if you ask a LLM based model like ChatGPT to do dissimilar tasks, like let’s say format a table in a specific markdown language and then also to serve as a proofreading tool, the model has to perform inference on the entire architecture to get an output even though the majority of weights are unlikely to be active.

Overall, the commercial AI boom was enabled by the transformer architecture, which can be scaled quite easily but has always been pretty inefficient compared to convolutional approaches. This is why ensemble of expert models, where you have made-for-purpose models doing specific tasks in a pipeline, are a hot topic in order to save on inference time/cost/energy/hardware. There is also a growing body of work on post-transformer architectures, which are supposed to be more data and energy-efficient.

Obviously, these attacks are bad, but the impressive resistance by the Jenin fighters (as well as the reconciliation between Saudi and Iran, and Israel’s domestic turmoil) do give me some hope for a renewal of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

I don’t really care about the honor of Rian Johnson, but I don’t think your points are correct.

why are there suddenly cloaking devices in star wars

Cloaking devices were introduced in Episode I

why don’t the imperials hyperjump in front of the fleeing rebels?

The tracking device makes hyperspace jumping a game of hopscotch. There’s not really a point.

why can several characters leave a chase in progress visit some planet and come back to the chase still in progress?

Yeah, this one is kinda dumb, but it’d be possible for a small ship to escape unnoticed and get out of range in order to jump to lightspeed.

the holdo maneuver breaks several in-universe rules about how hyperdrive works.

Those rules are established in the books/supplemental materials, which aren’t canon to the film series. The film-makers have no obligation to respect them. Episode 7 also breaks/rewrites the hyperspace rules.

Luke’s character “development” happening entirely off-screen (and throwing out better character development from decades of books) makes the flashback scene completely unbelievable.

None of the books are canon. It makes sense that people change over long time skips, and they did outline the rationale for his mindset changes in the flashback.