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Cake day: February 5th, 2025

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  • I think generators have some kind of inherent style that we somehow learn to recognise

    Like sure they have learned on thousands of styles for each type of image, and you have some control of the style through prompt, but one issue with the transformer decoder model (the principles of which back almost all genAI at this point) is that at each generation step it gets the stuff generated so far as input.

    This feedback loop might induce repeated choices even on different prompts in the later stages of the generation. This is not apparent on images because they are seen all at once, but it is pretty evident on Suno (at least v3): later parts of different songs might share sounds. At least in my experiments making it generate EDM. I’m now able to spot the synth it often ends up creating.

    In terms of pictures and videos, that might be a reason generated stuff are consistently uncanny across image types.







  • Difference being that the ? in URLs separates the resource from additional information

    So unless some website decides to identify the resource in those query field (for example search results pages in a web search), you are generally safe

    In any case, messaging apps will try to navigate to the site to create a caption for your message, and that can be a way to check if it works or not







  • The bulk of my salary depends on the company I work in and my boss’ decisions

    I have a much higher ability and chance to change that, compared to changing the tax system.

    Taxes are just a fraction of my salary, and they supposedly also cover for my future pension. Meanwhile, most of my taxes pays for state jobs for essential services, such as schools and healthcare. Others pay for debt interests, for money that was used to invest in the country or pay said services.

    Sure, a part of it is bad management and ill intentions, but that’s such a small portion of my salary. Depending where you live, you might be paying some vere generous retirement plans, but most of the retirement money goes to old people who would otherwise require help from their family.

    So no, I don’t really care about my taxes. If I feel I don’t have enough money, there are other things I can do than complaining about them







  • Not to mention that currency from a specific country is valuable if others are interested in investing there or in their products

    As less and less governments and banks want to invest in the US, they lose interest in selling products in dollars, since the US doesn’t produce much anymore, just services

    So they create currency in absolute value, but in terms of real buying power they are dependent on the opinions of the rest of the world