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gyy52380 commented on Krita AI Diffusion github.com/Acly/krita-ai-... · Posted by u/unstuck3958

dthul · 2 years ago

That sounds like a very Luddite view. Why wouldn't artists be able to use AI selectively to automate "boring" tasks (such as filling the sky of an image with clouds) while still retaining overall artistic control?

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

Because that is not what's happening. My friends that work as illustrators for PC and mobile games say it's the exact opposite. AI is used for the bulk of the creative work - composition, posing, even the general artstyle. Illustrators are then tasked with "fixing" visual artefacts, stitching together generated images and giving the final polish. They describe it as being reduced from a creative writer to a grammar checker.

It's tempting to just say that creative work that can be automated this quickly should be automated so that artists can focus on more creative challenges, but this is not how it plays out in practice. Rather, this only allows companies to cut down costs. It is already extremely difficult to find work which will pay a livable wage as a creative. AI has already caused layoffs and negative wage pressure on remaining employees. The only thing that AI has done (at least among my circle of friends) is reduce corporate costs and increase antidepressant prescriptions.

gyy52380 commented on Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb

talldatethrow · 2 years ago

Because I have tried it many times and my body has some intense urge for beef, and ground beef IMO is the easiest to make, digest, and cheapest and has fats that are good for you IMO.

Some people think poorly of ground beef because "you don't know what's in it!" But moments later will tell you it's important to eat all parts of the animal because they have different nutrients. Ok then, sounds like ground beef is a good way to get different portions a butcher doesn't think sells well. Give me some foot meat, bring it on.

There's also the fact that beef is basically the one food you could eat alone 365 days a year your whole life and get everything you need. That doesn't apply to vegetables or chicken or anything else really.

Tldr; many people would say someone that eats a HUGE salad and some meat everyday, no breads or processed garbage would be healthy. Well, drinking 10 lbs of vegetables and having some ground beef is basically that except you're drinking more vegetables even that most people could ever eat in a day.

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

> There's also the fact that beef is basically the one food you could eat alone 365 days a year your whole life and get everything you need. That doesn't apply to vegetables or chicken or anything else really.

Do you have some sources to back this up? I was under the impression that you should really eat red meat in moderation, but this might be outdated info.

gyy52380 commented on Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

Why ground beef?

gyy52380 commented on Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time github.com/normal-computi... · Posted by u/remilouf

aassddffasdf · 2 years ago

You would still have to ensure balancing somehow. Both "]" and "}" are valid "closing brackets" and the correct one to choose is context-dependent.

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

You can determine which brackets you need in which order by parsing the incomplete json which was generated so far.

gyy52380 commented on EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022) protocol.com/bulletins/eu... · Posted by u/sandgiant

prepend · 2 years ago

> it's not a thing here in the Netherlands at least. People use Whatsapp.

Then you have a super blue bubble effect if everyone uses WhatsApp then you don’t communicate with people who aren’t on WhatsApp.

My understanding of the blue bubble isn’t that the color matters it’s that iMessage functions only work with other iMessage users (eg, delivery is slightly different, sync with other devices, special emojis, reactions, etc). So if there’s one “green bubble” (ie, non-iMessage user) then the entire group text is downgraded to not do iMessage stuff.

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

There is no bubble because literally everyone has whatshapp. It's even available on "dumb phones". I've never met anyone of any age who doesn't have it.

gyy52380 commented on “Clean” code, horrible performance computerenhance.com/p/cle... · Posted by u/eapriv

kazinator · 2 years ago

For all the creeping featuritis that C++ is acquiring like a dirty snowball, doesn't it have a solution for this yet?

    virtual u32 CornerCount() = 0;

you should be able to declare a virtual data member

    virtual u32 CornerCount;  // default value zero

how this would be implemented is that it simply goes into the vtable. ptr->CornerCount retrieves the vtable from the object, and CornerCount is found at some offset in that table, just like a virtual function pointer would be.

There is no need to pull out a function pointer and jump to it.

In C I would do it like this

   // Every shape has a pointer to its own type's static instance of this:

   struct shape_ops {
      unsigned (*area)(struct shape *);
      unsigned corner_count;
   }


   // get_area looks like this:

   unsigned shape_area(struct shape *s)
   {
      return s->ops->area(s);
   }

   // the corner count isn't calculated so it's just

   unsigned shape_corner_count(struct shape *s)
   {
      return s->ops->corner_count;
   }

Everyone can override corner_count with their value. What you can't do is implement a calculation which determines the corner count dynamically, but that can be a reasonable constraint.

gyy52380 · 2 years ago

There is only one vtable object per base class; all shapes share the same vtable pointer and your virtual CornerCount would be shared across all Shape instances. You are describing a potential implementation for class static variables.

gyy52380 commented on The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education aisnakeoil.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/randomwalker

account42 · 3 years ago

On the other hand, oral exams can be less stressful as long as the examiner is friendly as there can be opportunity to correct mistakes where you do know the subject matter but just had a brainfart. You also get a chance to spend more times / show off on the parts you do know better.

I am very much not an extroverted person and in University written exams were almost always more stressful than oral ones as they try to cram as much as possible into into the time available or were too easy (so at the top end grading becomes very nitpicky) or too hard (which can be demoralizing if no one even manages to complete all questions). Oral exams have much more flexibility to adapt to the individual here.

gyy52380 · 3 years ago

I think this really depends on your specific university. At my university in Eastern Europe the teachers were bitter and overworked, and that really showed during oral examinations.

Because of the high number students enrolled in the classes, almost all oral exams also featured a written component, very similar to a regular exam. Because of the unstructured nature of oral exams, you would have an arbitrary amount of time to solve it. After that the professor would make you elaborate some of your anwsers, or not, depending how he felt like. The students who performed best were indeed very extroverted and able to convince the professor that they actually meant something other than what they wrote.

The professors also used these exams to give you an arbitrary grade for the subject, depending exclusively on your oral exam "performance". I remember having a high 90% grade in the written part of my Advanced Electronics class. The professor didn't feel I was confident enough in my answers during the oral exam, so he passed me with 1/30 points even though I answered most of the answers correct, thus bringing my grade down to barely a C.

Oral exams sound great in theory but in practice they always felt somewhere between unfair and traumatizing. I much prefer the objectivity of written exams.