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The "scarcity" of Nvidia hardware has mad Nvidia the most valuable company in the world. At first this seemed like good news to me, since the economy needs to move in a new direction, the most valuable company should be a fresh name.

Unfortunately since this value is based on actions between Tesla and X of all companies I think it's ... perhaps a little artificial. Are "AI capable chips" really such hot items. Or has the very public performance to get them just made people think they are?

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@SweetAIBelle @futurebird @ariadne CUDA also needs only about a tenth of the memory that competitors do for the same work--it's a formidable lead they've got. But I hope there's now finally some competition

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If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

So much spam!

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@futurebird @Qybat @PTR_K @michaelgemar @mcc I try to find excuses to show folks Perplexity, not because I find it gives better overall results than ChatGPT, but because it has those great (RAG?) footnotes. And I can point to the citations and say, that's where all this comes from

futurebird , to random
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What if when making a "fear monster" for you fantasy or sci fi story you didn't base it on a spider, snake, insect, or a slug?

So many creepy things in nature, I'm sick of spider monsters with "glossy chitinous legs" snake-like monsters that "slither sinisterly."

Cut it out.

Base your scary creature on a chinchilla, a capybara, an orchid, a dove, a human.

Leave the arthropods, snakes and invertebrates out of it.

Or if you MUST do an insect do butterflies. THEY can't be trusted.

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@futurebird Mammalian nightmare fuel https://youtu.be/n4PR9NZlAB4?si=mCZL2CsPYvlCdUhH

futurebird , to random
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The books of the Bible(s) would be extremely challenging ancient texts in the best of circumstances— without complications, or such high stakes they would be very hard to read, even for serious scholars— So, this idea that you can just “go read the Bible” and find wisdom is frankly buck wild and dangerous. I was brought up constantly being told that I should “study the Bible” but of course I didn’t. I don’t think the people who tell you “read the Bible” really expect you to do it. 1/

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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird Talking about the secular history of holy books in mixed company is always going to be a difficult subject, because those details might not match the traditions of people who follow the book, or the contents of the book itself. I once profoundly offended a Hasidic rabbi by sincerely asking about the variants of the Torah that preceded its standardization around 500 BCE...but by tradition the Torah is about 3,500 years old, not 2,500, and the text has never changed.

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