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EU protects a database creator if there has been a qualitative or quantitative "substantial investment" in obtaining, verifying, or presenting the content, regardless of creative e…

Well, there is precedence: Google can scrape the web, but you can't scrape Google. Laws around compiled databases exist for a reason: you can't just copy the phone book if effort h…

As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons: - Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the s…

Distributed ledgers were not a Bitcoin invention. Proof of Work was - largely a waste of electricity. There's no reason why SWIFT or any other institution can't have far more effic…

Yes, DCT coefficients work even better than pixels: https://www.uber.com/blog/neural-networks-jpeg/

I think this will fail for the same reason RSS failed - the business case just isn't there.

Now if only we could get LLMs to this sort of size! I don't know much about how TTS works under the hood, why is it so much easier?

Double spending & verifying identities isn't really an issue in a mutual credit system because credit lines are set between trusted parties. You’re replacing an algorithmic double‑…

You don't really need to. In IOU systems you extend credit to someone you know, based on ones reputation or credit score. How back in the day your local milk man would just keep a …

I've been toying with a concept for a cryptocurrency that works without internet access (like physical money) - peer to peer credit. I believe it is the only real use case for this…

How are concert tickets different to airplane tickets? Allocation of scarce resources is based on demand for them, expressed in monetary terms. "Deserving" has nothing to do with i…

You can't hand out money (which you're doing if you're giving away something of market value for nothing) without taking on the responsibility of deciding who gets it. Even chariti…

What's wrong with giving out some free tickets to low income members of the community?

It's "fair" in any society that has capitalism. Going down the rabbit hole of deciding who deserves money is playing God.

You mean there's a point to banks after all?

Could someone explain why tickets aren't sold via an auction mechanism? Surely that's the only fair way to distribute anything of limited supply

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But this is not easy, it's the real challenge here as there are lots of text-to-audio models out there. It is far from solved for Stable Diffusion as well. ControlNet is pretty bad…

I really wish this trend of prompting gen AI models with text would stop. It's really meaningless. Musicians need gen AI they can prompt with a melody on their keyboard. Or a bit o…

I may be an outlier but I don't get it - I much prefer a visual interface of Google Flights that gives me all the options. I'd hate to have to explain to a real PA all my preferenc…

Fantastic result, on par with another similar effort: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.02528 It seems to me that we've stumbled upon this method of GPU-heavy matrix-multiplications in de…

Google's AdWords business is worth about 10X that of Open AI ($1.5T) and does $250B of revenue. P/S of about 6X. If everyone stops googling and starts talking to ChatGPT instead, a…