eRac

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[–] eRac 4 points 1 year ago

They have two avenues to make money:

  1. Sell commercial services such as customer support bots. They get customers thanks to the massive buzz their free services generated.
  2. Milking investors, the real way to make money.
[–] eRac 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Generative AI doesn't get any training in use. The explosion in public AI offerings falls into three categories:

  1. Saves the company labor by replacing support staff
  2. Used to entice users by offering features competitors lack (or as catch-up after competitors have added it for this reason)
  3. Because AI is the current hot thing that gets investors excited

To make a good model you need two things:

  1. Clean data that is tagged in a way that allows you to grade model performance
  2. Lots of it

User data might meet need 2, but it fails at need 1. Running random data through neural networks to make it more exploitable (more accurate interest extraction, etc) makes sense, but training on that data doesn't.

This is clearly demonstrated by Google's search AI, which learned lots of useful info from Reddit but also learned absurd lies with the same weight. Not just overtuned-for-confidence lies, straight up glue-the-cheese-on lies.

[–] eRac 1 points 1 year ago

They are predicting the pixel layout of the user's screen, prerendering the passwords, and then transmitting them as images?!

That's commitment to crisp text rendering!

[–] eRac 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article seems to have misunderstood the stats that he provided.

He was showing crashes of a single component of Nvidia drivers while running Warframe. Any crashes within Warframe proper aren't included.

It still demonstrates that a CPU flaw is causing stability issues in areas that are rock-solid for everyone else.

[–] eRac 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Warhammer or Gears of War?

I can only think of one TPS currently released (another on the way) in the Warhammer series. It's more known for strategy and tactics games.

[–] eRac 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.

A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.

I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.

[–] eRac 7 points 1 year ago

Windows has OpenRA, which is a modern open-source engine that runs Dune II, C&C, and RA. It also has WIP support for TibSun and RA2, though they can't distribute the content for those as easily.

[–] eRac 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The blade and tool company.

[–] eRac 2 points 1 year ago

That's what usually happens with tarrifs. Unless there's a ton of other competition, domestic producers just increase their prices by the same amount.

[–] eRac 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Banks like to think that branch employees (bank tellers) are sales people. Most of them give 'goals' to each employee requiring them to open a certain number of new accounts, land a certain number of loans, etc each week/month. It isn't ethical since the only people you can really sell on those services are the ones who should least get them. Anyone who actually wants/needs the services will come to you.

Wells Fargo differed from the rest of the industry by setting completely impossible goals, not just unethical ones. This led to them developing a culture where signing people up for services they didn't agree to became commonplace.

[–] eRac 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the need to point out that a float isn't an integer with a decimal stuck on. A floating point number is called that because the precision on both sides of the decimal point changes depending on the size of the number.

It's actually stored as an exponent and a value to apply the exponent to. This allows you to express incredibly tiny numbers and incredibly large numbers, but the gaps between representable numbers is inconsistent.

You know how 10 / 3 * 3 is often not 10 because the decimal representation loses the repeating .33? In float, you run into the same issue but in much less predictable places.

[–] eRac 7 points 1 year ago

Check out the demo if you have a chance. The game is a lot of fun and it has some pretty funny demo-exclusive writing.

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