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Didn’t somebody claim Battlemage was canceled? But they shipped it?

There really was a time when “make no mistakes” was thought to increase response quality. Maybe it steered the content of the thought channel?

Nobody said anything about “going for slop.” You can watch today’s models actively trying to check themselves. Just use Google’s AI mode, for example. It’s far from perfect—it doesn’t fact-check every single claim, nor does it correctly understand 100% of the sources it does cite. But I’ve found it pretty useful for research as long as I use my brain and check its citations.

If I cite an incorrect Wikipedia article, I didn’t hallucinate it. The citation points to a real article that happens to be incorrect.

Lens flare effects have gotten decidedly more camera-like in recent years as other cinematic postprocessing effects have become common. You’ll see lens distortion and chromatic aberration along with aperture-shaped lens flares in many titles nowadays.

A “hallucination” is an authoritative counterfactual statement returned as a response. Why do you think it is impossible to engineer an LLM (by which I am including tool usage and RAG) that catches and prevents such statements?

I once came across a (picture of a) test print made by one of the old black-and-white street photography greats, and it was all marked up with development adjustments for better lighting, contrast, and subject separation.

Likewise, Ansel Adams is particularly famous for popularizing manipulation of exposure, both in-camera snd during development.

Ok, but an RCE in WP Core still seems pretty dang valuable, especially if you want to hit non-commercial websites that are less likely to have as many plugins installed?

Aren’t WP exploits valuable for watering hole attacks?

A couple years ago Apple Maps did not know that roads in downtown SF were closed for Bay to Breakers. Thankfully the cops were still setting up barriers and I was able to weave around them to reach the Bay Bridge.

This kind of thing happens regularly.

Nowadays it’s common for SSAO to actually do local radiosity approximation via ray marching. But back in the day when this article was written, that was too expensive so you approximated it by detecting sharp transitions in the depth buffer.

I’m not on the ARC Raiders art team, nor have I even played the game. But I can say with some confidence that what people react to in computer graphics isn’t realism per se, it’s verisimilitude.

This site is unreadable on phone. The quote block takes up 80% of the viewport and does not scroll with the page.

Hardware engineers call them errata ;-)

The chips in an active TB cable perform signal retiming. https://plugable.com/blogs/news/what-s-the-difference-betwee...

As another commenter said, number of bugs increases with lines of code changed.

Or Linux development is significantly more active.

It’s called a tax sale. The delinquent tax was assessed on the value of the ”improved property”.

There’s a relevant structural difference between 401(k)s/IRAs and pensions. You get to choose how to invest your personal retirement accounts, while pensions are institutional investors with active managers. An individual retiree can adjust their retirement account’s risk profile over time, but a pension fund needs to be generating sufficient revenue to cover any upcoming disbursements. There are also often other constraints on the pension fund, such as being substantially invested in the sponsoring company or only investing in investment-grade securities. If a single significant investment blows up, this can threaten the solvency of the fund for all beneficiaries. There have been pension funds that have zeroed out their unvested beneficiaries due to insolvency.

My point in bringing this up is that the fact that most American retirements are self-directed rather than fixed-benefit means that the catastrophic scenario implied by the OP is less likely.

Pensions? You’re not from the U.S., are you?

I fear the core gaming demographic is too young to get this reference.

And they have hiked the prices of the current gen very late in the cycle to reflect component costs.

Yeah, that is what I was referring to about the lack of detail on restructuring. I want to know if people are losing their jobs and/or titles are being cancelled as part of these sales.

Any details about the studio spin-outs? The rumors were that Double Fine etc. would be closed, but all we know now is that some of them are being sold to management and others are being sold to other investors. Nothing about any commensurate restructurings.

Generative autocomplete with an underpowered model is pretty annoying. It hallucinates parameters and APIs. Something like Sonnet seems like the right level of sophistication.

The entire LLMaaS industry is priced below cost. Even if the marginal cost of electricity and bandwidth to produce one token is less than the price of that token, the amortized infrastructure and R&D costs make the entire venture unprofitable.

If pricing below cost were illegal, it would essentially make starting up a business—any business—impossible.

16% less battery life in a controller is pretty significant!

Do you also think all you can eat buffets should be illegal? What about early bird specials? Free soda with a large fry? Happy hour wings? Where does the “bundling” end?

This is a poor attempt to imply an equivalence between deletionism and non-impartiality (influence campaigns and reputation managers).

(Note: I asked AI for the integral of the Gaussian, I hope it got it right!)

It seems like malpractice to not even check this.