What other schemes?
Nice try, FBI.
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zdkl commented on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform nytimes.com/2023/09/19/ar... · Posted by u/mhb
> It sounds like YouTube will continue to host his content, but will now pocket the money they would have paid him.
If he is demonetized, then his videos won’t get ad placement, so Google won’t make the money in the first place, as it will contribute neither to advertising revenue nor to the marginal benefit from the Premium users derived compared to non-Premium users in avoiding ads.
Since Google pays creators less than it makes from their content, Google is giving up money (in a narrow analysis) by demonetizing Brand, not keeping additional money. (In a broader analysis, the rational for demonetizing is that monetizing toxic content hurts the brand and alienates advvertisers, so it is profitable to demonetize that content in the long run despite the immediate hit from any particular decision to do so.)
The exception is demonetization for certain copyright claims, which effectively isn’t “really” demonetization, its letting the copyright holder take the creators place for monetization.
> marginal benefit
While Youtube may be discounting direct revenue from this specific and limited set of content, Alphabet recognises the value of ostensibly being the quasi-exclusive repository & catalogue of video content.
Denying to their "users"/viewers the availability of some subset of content hurts their reputation more than "losing" a negligeable fraction of direct monetisation.
Leaving aside the morality of repudiating monetisation while allowing access, this is a sound strategy for maintaining the Youtube platform's monopoly and raison d'être. Which is after all the core of their ability to maximise shareholder value, and what else matters to a corporation?
zdkl commented on Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation guochengqian.github.io/pr... · Posted by u/GaggiX
Why are researchers focusing on single-image reconstruction? It seems like a party trick which isn't very useful, and pretty much impossible to reconstruct the original object accurately. It would be much more useful if many images from different angles could be used. Somewhat like NERF, but also predict missing views with 2D diffusion. Adding more images would get the model closer to ground truth.
zdkl commented on Fundamental Math for Game Developers pikuma.com/blog/math-for-... · Posted by u/signa11
Yes, of course there are. Now, imagine you're a language model, and given the prompt "I'm going to write code to explain what a finite summation is", try to predict the probability that what follows is "and I'm going to do it in Idris".
To pick even more nits, symbolic calculus libraries à là Sympy for python get you the best of both worlds IME.
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It frankly just looks like a derelict Air Force base. Even has the munitions bunkers.
It reminds of a (somewhat recent) article and discussion here on the design parameters for long-term nuclear waste storage facilities. One of the points was that to deter interference from pesky curious humans across the time scales considered, pictographic or lexical warnings may get degraded or lose meaning: the structure and area itself must convey a message of menace, drabness or inhospitability.
I'd have bet this was a test site for such a project. Which given the name of the installation might be the goal. If anyone remembers the paper in question, my algolia-fu is failing me.
The example source in the paper is in Malaysia which I think is a bit too warm for sturgeon.
The same process can be applied to many species of fish. I highly recommend finding some Poutargue or Tarama for alternative examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottargahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taramasalata
zdkl commented on SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees fly.io/blog/sqlite-intern... · Posted by u/eatonphil
At what point does one “need” to move to Postgres / MySQL? It feels like much of DBA is all style points - not necessarily objective.
It becomes necessary at some (low) value of concurrent write usage basically. Or if you want to lean on logic built into one of the "proper" RDBMS (GIS, granular access managment, ...).
AFAIK, we are all still programming browser UI with Javascript. It is an imperative language, about as stateful as you can get.
Now, if you managed to do your frontends with Haskell or Prolog, I'd be interested on learning how.
https://clojurescript.org/