dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

This is proof lesswrong needs more biologists!

last time one showed up he laughed his ass off at the cryonics bit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

well that was a waste of frickin time. i spent this evening making a lovely vertical video and it can't be a youtube short cos it's over 3 minutes. same limit on instagram/facebook reels.

i put it up unlisted for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MXv2MthMk

i mean it misunderstands the assignment, but hopefully it amuses

at least I can avoid for a bit longer having to contemplate lines like

ffmpeg -i out-sq1.mp4 -lavfi "[0:v]scale=1920/1080*iw:1920/1080*ih,boxblur=luma_radius=min(h\,w)/40:luma_power=3:chroma_radius=min(cw\,ch)/40:chroma_power=1[bg];[bg][0:v]overlay=(W-w)/2:(H-h)/2,setsar=1,crop=w=iw*1080/1920" -crf 10 -x264-params keyint=10:scenecut=0 out-vert1.mp4

^-- statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged

tiktok's limit is 10 minutes but the edit has to be completely different (no title cards or branding) and not clear i can say the website url in the video. also UK monetisation kicks in at 10k followers and 100k views in the past 30 days. i am unconvinced as yet.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

the other two answers are correct, but also they totally do. In particular, the blockchain analysis companies alert companies using their services to the transaction touching tainted coins. This is variably effective, of course.

But also, there are plenty of non-US/EU exchanges that don't give a hoot and once tainted coins hit an exchange they're washed because these exchanges are very good at having pretend KYC/AML.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Leo certainly didn't gatekeep his app's security, hem hem

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

coding with vibes

ChatGPT as the Sybian of coding

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

because they sell that! e.g. Kagi resells Google's actual-search-results API

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an "is it art?" maximalist. But I think it's the wrong question about generative AI. The right question is the corporate incentives.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

especiall when it goes into mangled, uncanny-valley territory

GPT-2 was the peak of LLMs, because it was interestingly broken shit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did today's video at 1080p and ehh, I might as well keep doing that.

Main annoyance is that YouTube takes extra time to render a 720p version as well before it will take your video live.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

an old phone without a SIM and with wifi switched off

 

originally posted by me to tumblr in 2016, but still completely accurate

 

While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

the rest of the site is a stupendous assortment of a very small field of focus that made this ideal for sneerclub and not just techtakes

 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqfWTDp2BI

story spotted by @froztbyte of this parish

 

at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

 

short ranty video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdhf_hDQGU

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