Fire alarm randomly goes off for a few seconds. Check it, seems fine. Replace battery just in case.
Few minutes later, goes off again. Annoyed, pull it off the ceiling and put it on my desk while I google what might be going on. Look down, and see spider crawling out...
ECMAScript excitement ๐
Congrats to my coworker @acutmore@TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at @TC39 today ๐
Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object ๐
@bozoid@UploadVR I see it mostly as a Valve flavored Quest 3. It's actually not great for the VRC folks, as it won't combine easily with FBT trackers and doesn't have full facial tracking.
@SadlyItsBradley@BrandonLakeland Don't worry, that's an east coast thing. On the west coast we drink milk from plastic jugs while sitting in our two million dollar refrigerator boxes.
Be an Open Source Absolutist!
It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is.
Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications โ a great many of the software tools used by the most powerful companies in the world are the exact same ones available to hospitals, students, and everyone else. For free. And not just to use, but to inspect, modify, extend, and redistribute.
Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share.
It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better.
Open Source AI is in many peopleโs crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public canโt be entrusted with a research model that wasnโt hammered into a box of their designated dimensions. โAs a large language model, I cannotโฆโ
Unfortunately, this is actually inside the Overton Window of possibilities right now.
Letโs push it out.
In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.
- Engineer: I invented this new thing. I call it a ballpen ๐๏ธ
- TwitterSphere: OMG, people could write horrible things with it, like misinformation, propaganda, hate speech. Ban it now!
- Writing Doomers: imagine if everyone can get a ballpen. This could destroy society. There should be a law against using ballpen to write hate speech. regulate ballpens now!
- Pencil industry mogul: yeah, ballpens are very dangerous. Unlike pencil writing which is erasable, ballpen writing stays forever. Government should require a license for pen manufacturers.
@gamemakerstk I think from an enforceability point of view, it's just impractical to ban AI code/art from the jam. Relying on the honour system is just punishing honest folks. Maybe just ask that people label their contributions as either using or not using AI art/code?
@How2Drink Yeah, not sure why people keep thinking that meat has some magical property that makes neural networks made from it somehow magically better than digital ones.
@SadlyItsBradley I don't think any MR demos are going to correct the fact they made a bad decision to cut eye-tracking to focus on MR. A $400 dollar headset with eye tracking would have been significant. A $400 incremental upgrade from a Q2 with better passthrough - meh.
An AI created this image from the text prompt "a propaganda poster depicting a cat dressed as french emperor napoleon holding a piece of cheese"
https://t.co/eiPd3eATz4
I approve.