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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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The trouble is just volume and time, even just reading through the description and "proof it works" would take a few minutes, and if you're getting 10s of these a day it can easily eat up time to find the ones worth reviewing. (and these volunteers are working in their free time after a normal work day, so wasting 15 or 30 minutes out of the volunteers one or two hours of work is throwing away a lot of time.

Plus, when volunteering is annoying the volunteers stop showing up which kills projects

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'Are you insane?': Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are 'telling their people to use less AI'

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That's true to an extend, but the interactions are only useful for training if you can mark it as good / bad etc (which is why sometimes apps will ask you if they were useful). But the 'best' training data like professional programming etc is usually sold at a premium tier with a promise not to use your data for training (since corporations don't want their secrets getting out).

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If I recall correctly, it's actually a throw back to the American Mexican war, when the war ended one of the terms of the treaty was that Hispanics would legally be white, and thus safe from things like slavery. So later when the government census wanted to know they invented "white, Hispanic".

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‘Project Hail Mary’ Becomes Amazon MGM Studios’ Highest-Grossing Film Worldwide With $300 Million Overtaking ‘Creed III’

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Part of the book is that everything is slower, it took them weeks to get to the planet from where they met, and Rocky had already spent time retro fitting graces ship to let him live there. (they did not go to the planet with the intention of sampling it, they were just going to sample the line and orbit the planet as an easy way to get close to the line)

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I think they considered the danger relatively low for the ship with their plan to stay high up and were more focused on "maybe we'll lose the bucket risks" and didn't want to go back to rocky ship until they were done because travel time and stuff.

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‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home

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Not a dairy farmer, used to live by some and when I've seen them using machines it's still labor intensive, they guide the cows in, clean the machines, attach the machine, make sure the cows move out once done etc, so still requires them up and working. The machine just means they aren't physicality doing the milking part

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What do you think of homeschooling?

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I've heard that before, and would be a fan of making it illegal in America as well, there's a strong argument that doing so would improve the quality of American schools significantly.

The idea being that if rich children go to public schools then the rich will be more focused on improving public school instead of attempting to defund it

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The real problem is the system operates on an expectation you will wave the right to a speedy trial, and once waved its my non lawyer understanding you can't reassert it. So they push you to wave it, additionally you and your lawyer often wants it waved too because the government has as much time as they want to prepare their case before your arrest but you and your lawyer are playing catch up so more time means you're more prepared for trial.

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Just a little... why not?

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You probably can make it believe your it's owner, but that only matters for your conversation and it doesn't have control over itself so it can't give you anything interesting, maybe the prompt they use at the start of every chat before your input

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An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall

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I don't think it will make enough difference, but RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation.

There's a few ways to do it, but basically it's a way add extra information to the conversation. By default the model only knows what it generates, plus what is in the conversation. RAG adds extra information to the mix.

The simplest approach is to scan the conversation for keywords and add information based on them.

So you ask "what is the capital of France" and instead of the model answering/hallucinating by itself, your app could send the full Wikipedia page for France along with your question, and the model will almost always return the correct answer from the Wikipedia page and hallucinate much less. In practice it gets a lot more complicated and I'm not up to date on recent RAG but the idea is the same.

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Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker

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People misunderstand 3d printed guns. We use mostly normal gun parts bought anywhere, but legally the pistol handle is considered the gun, and the most popular commercial ones have been plastic for decades. So 3d print that glock frame and put a glock slide on it and you've got a cheap glock (and outside of like 3 States, that's totally legal).

There's fairly large 3d printing gun communities, mostly because it's just fun to build things.

3d printed silencers are much more rare / fragile because those are illegal to make without ATF approval and silencers need to withstand heat and pressure, so the typical plastic can't withstand prolonged use.

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What are they not telling us!?

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They make the plan as a training exercise, not something they actually think will happen, but if they ask a new planner to plan a war with China he's probably thought a lot about it and you learn more about what plans he's read than what unique and out of the box thinking he has, if you ask him to make plans for zombie outbreak or idaho rebelling or an alien invasion in Montana you get unique answers, so they have thousands of plans that no one ever reads again but it's less competence and more " 1999 q4 training exercise"

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US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign

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It's more complicated than it should be, only Congress can declare we are at war, however over the past 200 years they have passed laws allowing the president to do things before that vote out of a sense of being flexible and Congress being slow , and keep allowing more and more things, I think currently the president can do almost anything with the military so long as Congress leaders are told and they then can vote to stop it, instead of voting to approve it.