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…
Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books, films, television shows, and video has changed over the past 70 years.
In short, only one company—SpaceX—is thriving in NASA’s commercial space ecosystem. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-just-stomped-the-competition-for-a-new-contract-thats-not-great/ There seems to be a whiff of regulatory capture…
So. I fell down a rabbit hole last month. I was writing python to talk to a motion control platform using raw TCP messages. I was doing this on Windows (don’t ask). My initial prototyping worked just fine, but as soon as I went to integrate the work into a PyQt app is started to…
I’m on record as a critic of Thiel. The way the NZ govt and rich “technologists” brainlessly gifted him citizenship makes me want to vomit. Having said that, there is no denying his capabilities… … and yet, here’s the question: What has he surrounded himself with weird dipshits? It’s a weird blind spot. Does he…
Many thanks to Prasanth Chaduvula for putting this down in writing: CSS units are used to style the HTML elements by specifying the size, position, and other properties of HTML elements. There are several types of CSS units like rem, em, px, vh, vw, percentage and each with its own specific use case. CSS units…