So far, I’ve only found it really useful for two things. One is generating text, where I’ve found using an LLM to generate a title based on a given piece of text is more effective than using other summarisation models, especially for a short piece of text.
I’ve also found it okay for basic, generic scripts, like trying to figure out what the equivalent Powershell commands for a bash script would be to do something quick, rather than try and learn it from scratch.
They might even use a second finger!
There are many reasons for a pregnancy to be terminated, and not all of them are for fun, or because of casual sex. Maybe the child has defects incompatible with life, or the mother is not capable of carrying to term, and attempting to do so will kill them both.
People don’t tend to go “oh, it’s a nice Sunday today. I think I’ll pop by the abortion clinic.”
Although we already know what would likely happen if someone did that. It would just be made illegal to track the locations of congresspeople (and only congresspeople), like it was made illegal to do so during the BLM protests.
And chances are, the company has got away with it before. It just didn’t work this time.
For example Twitter when it was blocked in Brazil for a little while because they didn’t want to pay a fine for not complying with some of their regulations.
Though the bigger part of that was that their representative quit, and by Brazilian law, companies that operate in Brazil must have a representative in the country.
Twitter tried to sidestep that by not paying the fine, and also not having a representative, so the fine couldn’t be applied that way. In response, the judge presiding over the cause required Twitter be blocked.
They do, but they’d still need someone to go through the flagging and check. Reddit gets away with it as it is like Facebook groups do, by offloading the moderation to users, with the admins only being roped in for ostensibly big things like ban evasion/site wide bans, or lately, if the moderators don’t toe the company line exactly.
I doubt that they would use an LLM for that. That’s very expensive and slow, especially for the volume of images that they would need to process. Existing CSAM detectors aren’t as expensive, and are faster. They basically compute a hash for the image, and compare it to known hashes for CSAM.
In fairness, he did state that one of the reasons that he never wrote Susan was that he believed that he couldn’t do her justice, and invited readers to come up with their own theories/stories.
But this isn’t mood altering substances, it’s an obsesity drug.
Like antibiotics, it should be fine as long as it isn’t forced on people.
The original effects for the Doomsday Machine are nicer and hold up better than their rematered counterparts. It looks more metallic and less plasticky.
Dr. Zoidberg is a fully-qualified medical doctor, though, and a good one at that. Just not for humans. Even so, he’s quite good, given that he hasn’t killed any of his human patients, though they may come out a little different.
As is Doctor Who, who has high qualifications in literally everything. It took them a few goes, but they got there in the end.
They still passed the academy, though. That’s probably incredibly good by human standards, given that Time Lord studies encompasses literally everything.
And that the requirements for those minimal improvements are vast. If you need to pull down 200GB for a minor graphical upgrade, that’s just not really worth it compared to an older game that is a bit graphically worse, but is both smaller, and runs better on newer hardware.
And in some cases, the author also paid the publisher, so they’re dipping into things from either end.
Although it also helps that places like BlueSky have less of a barrier to entry.
Alternatives like Mastodon are a bit more confusing, compared to a centralised site, where everything is linked in through the one interface.
It’s kind of bizarre that if I pay 7 bucks in the US for a pastry and coffee I might need to sign the receipt.
You half-expect them to pull out the old card-roller and carbon paper at that point.
No. Tap to pay only requires a PIN for large purchases ($100 or so), or if you turn on the setting to ask for a PIN for small purchases too.
I’ve only needed to enter my PIN for small purchases when inserting and using debit/EFT@POS functions.
Those pattern buffer filters aren’t getting any better over the decades, are they?
To be fair, they are designed to work with all kinds of species, and samples and things. You don’t want it to delete someone’s liver just because they haven’t been on a starship before, or the new plant sample taken from a new planet.
Humans are full of necessary bacteria, and deleting all of that would be quite bad for you. But at the same time, them being in some place they’re not supposed to be is also going to cause problems.
You know, they should not even let the doors on shuttle craft open in dock, and just beam people in and out of them. That’d solve an entire other vector of infection.
What’s more surprising is that they don’t employ the sterilisation/quarantine fields that the older model transporters used to have, where they’d wall off the transport pad, blast them, and then open it up. That doesn’t seem unreasonable to apply to a shuttle before landing.
Your LLMs are furries. That is their fursona.
Matplotlib is a fairly popular one, but it depends on what it is you want to do with the data.