Interesting tidbit: He filmed his audition tape for House from his hotel room during the shooting of Flight of the Phoenix.
You can find it on YouTube.
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6·4 days agoMaybe not directly…
7·4 days agoGuess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?
If you’re unfamiliar with the history of the Donner Party it’s a fascinating, if gruesome, read. Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, 45 survived to reach California. Some became quite successful there.
There were 90 wagons in the train and they were trying a newly conceived route to California that obviously didn’t pan out well.
Imagine taking a wrong turn in the wilderness and finding that you’ve led 90 wagons into hard terrain and deep woods. They were at times literally having to cut trees down to clear a path through dense woods for miles and miles. Horrible, slow going, and hard work.
17·10 days agoMy wife is there.
She’s gotten two knee replacements this year and is scheduled for a hip replacement before the end of the year. And last night I reminded her she’s been meaning to go to a dermatologist.
I commend you, but it’s a losing battle.
It really grates on me when I read “sike”.
When I was younger and drank more I did this, and it sure helps with hard liquor.
When you’re drunk that big glass of water can be hard to get down, but do it anyway.
Right? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here that can afford toothpaste. I use hand soap as toothpaste and I’m glad to have it.
She actually said that. What the hell.
And her dad and brother are judges. Who probably all argue that there is no systemic racism in the courts.
The process of training the model is arguably similar to a human learning, and if the model just sat on a server doing nothing but knowing, there’d be no problem. Taking that knowledge and selling it to the public en mass is the issue.
This is precisely what copyrights and patents are here to safeguard. Is there already a book like A Song of Ice and Fire? Write something else, maybe better! There’s already a patent for an idea you have? Change and improve upon it and get your own patent!
You see, copyrights and patents are supposed to spur creativity, not hinder it. OpenAI should improve upon its system so that it actually thinks and is creative itself rather than regurgitating copyrighted materials, themes and ideas. Then they wouldn’t have this problem.
OpenAI wants literally all of human knowledge and creativity for free so that they can sell it back to you. And you’re okay-ish with it?
Or a few years early…
This is essentially what OpenAI is asking for. To profit off of the work of unpaid labor.
There are deniers. They’re wrong.
These companies absolutely do use your microphone to listen.
My wife and I have tested this and you can too.
Have a conversation near your phones about purchasing something offbeat. We used a kitchen garbage disposal in our test. Talk about them for a few minutes, about needing to buy one, different brands, etc.
Almost immediately you’ll be served garbage disposal adds.
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Love that book. There’s some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.
Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.
Coors: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace and medical applications do you?
Islay Scotland has burned a shitton of peat over the last couple of centuries to make malt whisky and it’s very small. Wonder how much if their elevation they’ve burned?