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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to NateBrei, of vbforums.com, labelled "hyperactive poster" with a total of 270 posts. I make that many posts in a day! Nate remarked on April 5th 2002, "Boggles the mind doesn't it. That would be one honkin' machine to have 2+G's of memory." by twovests

thank u nate brei for ur contributions to early visualbasic development in conversation with <redacted>

it's kind of bonkers to see so many people using their full names on the internet in 2002.

EDIT: i redacted the name because, by pure coincidence, someone else with the same full name died and had some intense internetsleuth investigations. i don't want truecrimers coming here thinking they found a clue.

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to Transy update!!! by voxpoplar

having just heard of transy, here are my top 3 reviews:

  • wow, i love transy

  • wow, i love transy being scanned and i wish i knew what desktop environment/wm that was and also the scanning app

  • "don't worry transy" -- i would die for transy and transys friends. i hope sally knows what she is doing

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to Signal added stories but is removing SMS. by flabberghaster

I'm actually of the opposite opinion.

Stories are ephemeral and are lower effort and lower commitment, and it goes to all your friends. They usually come in a quasi-chronological order. It'd be inappropriate to post "makin soup", "empty bowl (done with the soup)", etc and tag every person i know

i wish signal had stories earlier, in time for each of the big adoption upticks.

also yah loosing the sms support sucks. in the forums they also cited that it was increasingly time consuming to support. but i really liked having sms in the same app.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by Moonside in AI art endgame by twovests

Yeah, this is exactly what I fear. Disney gets stronger, copyright gets stronger, and individual artists lose out even more.

AI art generation is one of the most comprehensible horrors, but there are plenty which are harder to comprehend and which are more horrific!

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in computer student in the 1995: "Wow! My professor brought in an IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility disk from 1975! It was HUGE!" computer student student in 2022: "My professor brought in a flashdrive from 2002 and it was not surprising at all actually" by twovests

I think comparisons between desktop computers and SBCs would be the most common?

This 2002 high-end PC gaming guide has a 533MHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, a Ti 4600, and an 80GB hard drive. It comes out to $1070 without the accessories. (Probably like $2000 today?)

I don't know how well we can compare the graphics, but a Raspberry Pi 4B with a flashdrive handily beats this in many respects for under $100. Or a phone, etc.

I think VR is a fun one too, because we've settled on the idea of head-mounted displays decades ago but it took so long for it to be good enough to be interesting.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by Dogmantra in john wick appreciation post. (spoilers, cw movie violence) by twovests

just so u know i would also subscribe to a blog where u review movies

yeah!! i didn't wanna sound silly espousing the fight scenes but they're quite refreshingly physical. i'm writing this while watching john wick 2, and they definitely get a bit silly at the end of the movie. (the start of what i assume is the third act?

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to AI art endgame by twovests

I've worked in "AI" for awhile (machine learning primarily with deep neural networks) and things are moving way faster than I imagined they would.

I assumed "fine tuning models based on a small corpus from one artist" would be something four-years down the road, but in the 30 minutes since I wrote this post, I learned this is happening in practice: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/photos-used-to-generate-ai-images-for-client-so-photographer-never-shoots-again/

The tone of this article is so fucked up. "Wow! From just a few samples, this photographer was quickly put out of work! Amazing! I understand both sides of the coin, buy my AI art NFTs!"

The most technologically surprising thing to me:

After the shoot was done, Karpinnen collected the model’s own selfies to better train the image synthesizer model. In total, the Finnish photographer has 20 different images of each model.

Training a model to have even slightly interesting results usually requires vast amounts of samples. Fine-tuning that model traditionally requires a fraction of samples, but that's still usually a vast number. It's really quite scary that a tiny corpus is being used effectively.

I searched a bit more, and I found this is already commonplace. People are fine-tuning models on specific artists work: https://twitter.com/jdebbiel/status/1601663197031075840

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