About 20% of young adults are functionally illiterate, half still get highschool diplomas. 13% actually sounds a bit low.
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ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually. And it might be working.English
2·9 days agoThe judge in that case ruled the training wasn’t fair use for pirated books, which left them on the hook for potentially all revenue (likely a court determined percentage) that the model generated for them in addition to statutory damages. That is well north of 1.5 billion.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually. And it might be working.English
2·9 days agoThe model doesn’t stream out anyone’s content though. The article mentions that the plaintiffs have provided no examples of a prompt that creates anything substantial.
Streaming a lossy compression would generally be infringement, but there is definitely a point where it becomes not infringement if it’s lossy enough.
What a model generally stores, is factual information that isn’t copyright in the first place. It’s storing word counts, sentence lengths, sentiment analysis, and so on.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually. And it might be working.English
61·9 days agoArguing that training models isn’t fair use us going to be a massive uphill battle, it’s basically reading the book but with a computer. It’s not actually a big deal to people, unless you hold the copyright to a ton of works and want to get a percentage of all the AI income these companies have made.
Torrenting the books is likely absolutely copyright infringement, but that has relatively low payout compared to the money these companies are getting for their models. The training being fair use means that rights holders can’t try to take any money from the model’s use. The statutory limits for infringement even at per work levels aren’t significant compared to the legal cost of proving it happened.
Government.
The quotes are also common when copying from word as well.
A move was actually made, there’s some hope after all.
Getting Hughes, even at the cost of Edvinsson would have been a net positive. Any other D that isn’t a borderline AHL talent would be nice, several were traded and a few more have been thought available.
A legitimate top 6 player would also be a great addition, their 5v5 offense is garbage. Trochek would be huge.
The Wings have a glut of prospects and fringe talent that can be leveraged to better use than a record setting AHL team. We also don’t need another mid to late 1st round pick that won’t play for 3 years.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
11·12 days agoThe god’s name in vain thing has nothing to do with not saying God’s name. It also doesn’t really mean saying things like “god damn it.” It’s meant to be about not using God as a justification or excuse to do something you want. Throughout history it’s probably the least followed commandment, except for maybe throw shalt not kill.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
11·12 days agoThe Christian Jesus is literally god. The Quran changed that to just a prophet, that’s a significant change. That’s pretty similar to how the Christian Bible treats the old testament, it’s part of it, but the new testament recontextualizes it to be something different than the Jewish Torah.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
Games@lemmy.world•Xbox as a platform is officially deadEnglish
1·12 days agoXbox 360 emulation is getting better, so it would be playable on pc.
I’m immensely disappointed in the lack of my team being involved in anything meaningful. Can’t wait for the GM to say prices were crazy again this year.
Here’s to yet another disappointing season for the wings.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?
2·13 days agoThe Saturn V rocket was also massive overkill on power. It had about 50% more thrust than a falcon heavy that is currently being used for planned moon missions.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
11·13 days agoNone of that changes what I said. He’s not really part of the core of the religion. It’s just like with Judaism and Christianity. The Torah is a big part of the Christian Bible, but the focus and context are vastly different.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The Steam Machine is actually a great prospect — we're just looking at it wrongEnglish
7·13 days agoFree multiplayer is a pretty good selling point either way.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The Steam Machine is actually a great prospect — we're just looking at it wrongEnglish
13·13 days agoA $900 price tag would make it cheaper than a ps5 pro after 2 years due to needing ps+. It’s likely very attractive vs a next gen console with tiny library as well.
I’m surprised it’s not a thing for this. Games Workshop is generally pretty protective of their IP. They license it out like crazy, but generally in pretty restricted bits unless you prove some level of respect.
The writers were forced into using Halo for that show. They wanted to do their own thing and the producers made them use the license.
ryathal@sh.itjust.worksto
World News@lemmy.world•Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study foundEnglish
1·13 days agoThese studies aren’t very useful without considering the base rate. From Google, the lifetime risk for men for pancreatic cancer is about 1.8% (1.7% for women). the article said vegetarians had 21% less chance, which means it’s a 1.4% chance.
To me this smells like a study with a lot of data massaging to get something publishable.






Nintendo mostly lost. They did have to make some minor game updates, glider pals no longer appear when gliding, and you can’t throw a captured pal’s sphere on summon.