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ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says
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Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
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Boeing wants US FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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‘Fish Bandit’ arrested for taping fish to ATMs
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George Carlin estate sues creators of AI-generated comedy special in key lawsuit over stars’ likenesses
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73% of the top 1000 games on Steam run on the Steam Deck
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Beatriz Flamini, the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave
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Interaction Isn't Explicit。| Announcement trailer
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Dave Mills, inventor and longtime coordinator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died at age 85
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How would you teach math differently to young kids if budget was not a concern?
It seems to me we teach kids math in a way that prioritizes mass teaching and resource management over the actual learning of mathematical concepts. We rely on paper and pencil, and maybe some...
It seems to me we teach kids math in a way that prioritizes mass teaching and resource management over the actual learning of mathematical concepts.
We rely on paper and pencil, and maybe some limited manipulatives like unit blocks, and there’s 1 teacher for every 15-30 kids or so.
What are some methods that might work better to establish a strong understanding of math if we were able to approach it differently?
Or what are some methods that have been proven to work in other settings and why are they able to be successful?
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Brentford's deal to sign teenage Norwegian winger Antonio Nusa from Club Brugge is stalling
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How a huge rainfall simulator helps Japan study and prevent landslides
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Prediction markets have an elections problem
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New Music Fridays: The Smile, Phillip Glass, Squid and more
This is a thread to discuss 2024 releases that have recently arrived on our doorstep, or been announced for the future. Feel free to share albums, singles, EPs or reissues that have caught your...
This is a thread to discuss 2024 releases that have recently arrived on our doorstep, or been announced for the future. Feel free to share albums, singles, EPs or reissues that have caught your eye and interest, or share your thoughts about any new music that you've had the chance to listen to this week.
Discussion Points
Is there anything you've been looking forward to listening to?
Any releases that have surprised you?
Have you listened to any new music recently? What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past? How does their latest work compare?~~ Feedback on the format welcome
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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How to watch Super Bowl 2024: All the best streaming options
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Beyond Utopia | The gripping story of families who risk everything escaping North Korea | PBS
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Welcome to Sealand, the world's smallest state
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First of YouTuber Joel Haver's "12 Feature-Length Films in 12 Months" released
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Despicable Me 4 | Official trailer
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Why Walmart pays its truck drivers six figures
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Amber Glenn becomes first LGBTQ+ woman to win US Women's Figure Skating Championship
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Tiny ant species disrupts lion's hunting behavior
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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Opportunities abound for sumo's governing body as centenary nears
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What prevents and what drives gendered ideological polarisation?
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Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research
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Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months
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United States to return to staging nuclear weapons in UK
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doukutsu-rs, an open-source re-implementation of the Cave Story engine
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The parliament of Imperial Austria
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The debate over subtitles, explained
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Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges
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Show Tildes - Gametje
Gametje Hi all been working on this project for a while in my spare time. I wanted to share it with this community to see what you all thought. What is it? It is a set of online games (currently...
Gametje
Hi all been working on this project for a while in my spare time. I wanted to share it with this community to see what you all thought.
What is it?
It is a set of online games (currently only 2) which can be played in person with a central screen (like a TV) or remotely via video chat with screen sharing. Essentially there is a host screen and then each player has their own player screen (laptop or phone etc). It is playable in 8 languages at the moment (feel free to request any others!) It also has an integrated ChatGPT player which can be turned on/off in game settings if you prefer to play without it. There are some game mechanics to identify a ChatGPT answer which can yield some funny reactions if you choose a human's answer! It has Chromecast support and works well on Amazon Fire sticks. Visually, it is still a little rough around the edges as frontend design isn't my forte but the core concept is there. I have been play testing it with friends but have not shared it publicly yet.
Why is it called Gametje?
I have been living in the Netherlands for some years and my original motivation for starting this project was to create a game that supported languages other than English. I wanted to incorporate something Dutch into the name.
tje
is one of the diminutive endings in Dutch. It is usually meant to soften a word or make it "smaller". So Gametje ->a little game
.Where can I try it?
You can either create an account (user/pass with email confirm) or try it out as a guest (navigate to either game, then choose
continue as guest
). Currently it is free to host a game. Happy to hear any feedback (both good and bad). Hopefully the host provider I am using to run the game will hold up.Thanks!
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What do you guys think of these AI-generated stand up comedy specials?
So I came across this new dudesy video titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead" and it put me down a weird rabbit hole. I'm not a Carlin super fan but I know some of his famous bits and respect...
So I came across this new dudesy video titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead" and it put me down a weird rabbit hole. I'm not a Carlin super fan but I know some of his famous bits and respect his work and maybe that's the perfect setup for watching this because... I'm honestly blown away. I planned on listening to 3 minutes of it to make fun of stupid AI but ended up letting it run for the entire hour and actually laughed quite a bit. It all makes sense. It does sound like him. I don't know how much editing went into it, how much prompting and discarded material. I especially don't know if it just dug up old jokes somewhere else and copied them. But still.
It feels like we just had awkward AI-wordsalad experiments and things like the infinite Seinfeld stream which was fun in a so-bad-it's-good kinda way but... I mean, it obviously was bad. The funny part was that it was unpredictably bad.
But only a year later we're having some uncanny valley shit. I looked it up and apparently this started with a comedy podcast with an AI co-host which produced a clip for a fictional Tom Brady standup routine which turned out popular enough to get them sued, apparently.
There's this part in the fake Carlin special where he talks about the future of entertainment being 24-hour streams where an AI comedian comments on daily news events in real time or something and I can't say I wouldn't watch that. Just to see what it's like. But I also get people calling it disgusting. It kinda is. I get [his daughter says "machine will ever replace his genius"](machine will ever replace his genius), she's right of course. But that video got close IMO.
You can still point at little flaws here and there with AI generated content but with this trend, it will be 3 or 5 years before we get perfectly polished content machines that don't trip over any of the easy and obvious stuff. What place would such content have in the entertainment industry?
What do you guys think?
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Greta Thunberg marched with activists to protest against Farnborough Airport expansion, which mainly serves private jets – planned increase from 50,000 to 70,000 flights per year
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Gaza ceasefire deal matters more than deterrence
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Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia's rare earths stronghold
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The worst masterpiece: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100
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Alexander Stubb won the first round of Finland's presidential election and will face runner-up Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month
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Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions?
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Long Term Refactors
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The speed of outrage: Tom Scott at Thinking Digital 2015
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Court orders China Evergrande property developer to liquidate after it failed to reach debt deal
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NFL reaches ‘major milestone’ with record nine minority head coaches in place for the 2024 season
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Astronomers accidentally discover dark primordial galaxy without stars
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