The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For all that though, there’s a frontier it hasn’t yet entirely conquered, which exists in the realm of silicon. To address this [comes] the ever awesome…
I thought it would be nice to put together my own introductory guide, and in the process improve my own understanding. After a lot of reading, and a lot of questions answered by my excellent colleague Dr Amy Hughes, I’ve put something together that covers some of what I was hoping. https://mcla.ug/blog/qc-intro.html
I’ve been a critic of Musk since long before it was popular for people in media. It was obvious long before his acquisition of Twitter that Musk was a bad person who mistreated his partners, his workers, and was selling a false persona to the public. But far too few people would call it out…
This is a great intro into why these dudes (always dudes) think the way they do. In a New Zealand context, David Seymour shows many of the same characteristics.
The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…
Watching JD Vance unravel has given me lots to think about. Reflecting on the weird men that Thiel seems to boost, I’ve come to a conclusion on why he’s so bad at politics. Money and Misanthropy Based on image by Androidmarsexpress – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93026655 Thiel uses money has a cudgel. He…
Researchers have found that the buildup of AI-generated content on the web is set to “collapse” machine learning models unless the industry can mitigate the risks. The University of Oxford team found that using AI-generated datasets to train future models may generate gibberish, a concept known as model collapse. In one example, a model started…