I just started out today myself. It's a little hard to get into a sandbox game with my kids ruining the vibe, though, so I may need to wait until I have a bit of late night time to build a base properly and whatnot.

I've also never been a huge fan of over the shoulder perspective... I wonder if I can go first person somehow...

When playing with prompts before I realized how stupid this whole thing was (in 2023 lol), I found myself also copying and pasting a lot so.. it's probably not even going to speed things up in prompting, even ignoring the whole thinking part that we'll omit here since, well, they probably aren't.

Feels like an enemy in Earthbound.

Since having kids, anytime I make a mistake or jump to a conclusion, I try to model for them how to say sorry and make it right.

That said, I don't make mistakes that often; I'm much more likely to just say I don't know or I have no opinion. I think it's most important to teach people it's ok to not know or have enough information to make a judgement.

There has been machine learning for decades, but you're right in that interpolating frames is quite different from the way generative AI works. Both DLSS versions rely on a form of neural network but the latest ones are diffusion models which are more controversial, for reasons I'm sure you know.

I will dare to mention the new version; LMNOP is knocked down a peg because those bastards have confused young children for centuries! The new king is XYZ, especially with that non-letter &.

Forget that Mozart played the original melody in the Twelve Variations!

That said, shout out to the rollercoaster one Simple Songs did. I am partial to their ABCDEFGH.

That solution assumes it's a quarter of the remaining bars. How is worded, it could be 4 more bars she wants, making it half the bars at that point.

It's badly worded, and deserves a slap.

I think it's a good step while the rest of the world seems to just let it and other "prediction sites" operate. Gambling itself should be at least heavily regulated because of a variety of reasons, but this is even worse because gambling is the best possible use. The worst cases being things like betting a wildfire will start on a specific day and then... starting a wildfire. That's closer to a website hiring hitmen, something more dark web than new tech.

Now is it a slippery slope? Maybe, especially since it's not a direct way to stop the problem. Dark web services are there because they are illegal, they aren't just blocked by an ISP. Laws need to clarify how much of this is gambling (which is legal in France and subject to rules) and how much of this is dangerous activity. Legally clarifying these rules is essential to a long term solution, but again I think it's ok to take a quick first step while that process plays out.

He likely doesn't understand how they work (or if he does, is using it as a way to implement sales tax illegally).

That said, traditionally they are used to discourage US consumers from buying competition to US businesses, like the tariffs they've had on light pickup trucks for a very long time that contributed to the shitty choices decades later. Also these are typically targeted on select products, since as you've seen, blanket tariffs on all goods from a country fuck up supply chains and screw everyone pretty badly.

Both are bad, of course, just the latest ones are also very very stupid.

God that ending to the world cup would have been amazing. Too bad, but I like the way you think.

Sometimes I like teaching, sometimes I don't. I think it's usually a net positive, but since ChatGPT became a thing it's becoming a bit of a burden. Either I'm worried about them cheating or I'm noticing each semester the students get worse at thinking for themselves, or both.

It's a fairly open enrollment university so there's a pretty low bar for base knowledge and scholarly ability but like... this is something else. I have successfully taught statistics to a 6th grade drop out single mom from Mexico through motivation and patience, but now a 19 year old fresh out of American high school fails the basic logic required of the course and argues when I give them an F over it. Something is very wrong lately and I'm hating it lately.

So I guess the answer is I used to love it and now loathe it? We'll see next month...

I actually like this exchange; you know how many people I know who think they've got a 160+ IQ because of an online test they took that then tried to sell them something?

At least a dozen, a few of which are even family members. Statistically impossible, but do they care? No, they're super geniuses. God what I'd pay to see what they respond to their real score, lol