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Florida law defines anything under the age of 18 as "child porn" - so if your catgirl doesn't look at least 30 you are probably heading to prison or an expensive court battle or bo…

Florida defines child porn as anyone under the age of 18 so all they need to do is say the AI image depicts a 17 year old. Vaguely written laws are very expensive to fight

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true they could be fiddling w things as the EU AI Act moves forward

The more they force the model into politically-fashionable responses, the further they get away from rational thought process. CodeT5+ looks promising though

Context windows are continuing to grow. Yes I would put almost all text columns into a vector store. However I am sacrificing flexibility. It's much much easier to administer a dat…

Why bother connecting an LLM to external systems when you can get a lot of work done directly just with hallucinations alone in context memory. I expect this trend to accelerate as…

Obviously I wrote that before learning about Paul Schmidt

Oakland and San Jose usually had more violent crime than SF but founders knew better than to put an office there, knowing ppl will be regularly working well past midnight

Vancouver is just as gorgeous as SF and much safer (downtown was kinda sketch years ago) but kinda tech hostile All of the west coast suffers from high structural costs. People rea…

NOLA used to be quite terrifying. Yet downtown French Qtr is a different world now. You can walk Warehouse to Frenchmen Marigny 3am just fine. Canal St. is really the only dicey ar…

Yep same here. Estonia is a dream compared to Bay Area even with the cold winters and old Soviet buildings (which means lots of cheap rent btw). San Francisco has a powerful market…

SF is very very good at marketing itself Crime was pretty crazy during dot com days, just tolerated more. Maritime Park next to the Hyatt / Embarcadero was always hip deep in homel…

It's literally across the 101 The Facebook / Sun campus is there because it was cheap land

I thought we were gonna avoid politics I've lived in SF PDX SEA and I've lived in Europe In the past decade, US cities enjoyed a renaissance / gentrification in otherwise formerly …

Yes Eastern Europe is much cheaper The nice thing about Bay Area is that everyone is on the "same page" (call it an echo chamber maybe) You can go into any meeting and mention some…

If startups were really worried about avoiding crime, they would be in high rent Mill Valley Sausalito etc In startup world, you tolerate the crime to get cheap office space Salesf…

In fairness, downtown SF SJ and Oakland were always a tad dicey even back in dot com days so most startups preferred to be in more expensive PA MV Even East PA was the hood. Oaklan…