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Google launched similar functionality in NotebookLM today. You can generate podcasts from a wide range of sources: https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews... L…

possibly: request to be forgotten triggering model retraining if user data has been used to train it. dma means permissions can be revoked iirc

I love blogs like this. reminds me of 2005.

Today.

This is an extremely insightful article. Strong agree with the core points made that these are copilots or co-processors rather than replacements. Maybe at some point in the future…

I did it through Dry January - it's socially normalized. Made it through Jan 2019, then just keep going.

doubtful - I'm tuning GPT3 with good midjourney prompts as we speak

https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/

Do folks know that 55% of ad revenue goes directly to the creators whose content you are watching? Apps like this sound great, but ultimately damage ecosystems. YT Premium is like …

this. if a Google/IG ads team was put on Twitter ads, their revenue and user satisfaction would likely go through the roof

How mission driven teams at FAANG build $1Tn+ market cap: 1. Product teams create utility at ~zero marginal cost per additional user 2. Platform teams drive distribution 3. Monetiz…

I'm by far not an expert in this space, but governance coins can also be utility coins - eg provide you with certain rights to use a service, or use a service at a discount or prio…

I understand. Governance tokens are equity (usually with voting rights), and are used to generate a capital base for a decentralised product (think: crowdfunding). Not all governan…

they will release their own governance token through an airdrop. It's the new way to fund decentralised startups - no need for VC. Essentially it's the equivalent of an IPO on day …

'78 reporting in. We had a BBC Micro in our school library in Derbyshire. That coupled with the Speccys and c64's floating around at the time are probably a large part of why I'm s…

It's testament to Canonical that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS still gets security patches backported to 8.3. If you (still) have servers running Hardy, it's 'apt-get upgrade' time: http://www.u…

Does anyone know of a patched version of rails 2.3 series on rubygems?

Visualisation of 1M datapoints transcribed by citizen scientists of the OldWeather project from Royal Navy logbooks.

Hey Alastair, great post! Understanding OSM labels and so on can be pretty time consuming. You might like the mapdig library for CartoDB that lets you drill down into your spatial …

For those that are curious, the motherboard in these systems is a ASUSTeK P8H67-M PRO. Seems like it's a gaming board - understandable given it's an i7 platform.

I can't find one either. In fact, AWS doesn't seem to be running with ECC RAM except for some of the GPU instances. Happy to be corrected here.

I'm not sure AWS have updated their specs since then (all the specs for an ECU refer to a 1Ghz 2007 Xeon). We also tested our staging c1.xlarge and it scored less than the cloudhar…