Ioper
1mo ago
a shame that Egypt can't do a better job allowing academic research to these places. But I can appreciate the bind they're in... a very poor nation, with a history of foreign archaeologists destroying their monuments, and also a hotbed of religious strife that might react poorly to sudden discoveries of ancient relics from a heretical religion.
I thought it wasn't so much that as Zahi Hawass ego standing in the way.
I don't really have this problem at all and I'm curious why you do. In not saying that everything I'm getting recommended is a hit but the vast majority is at least in my areas of interest and I don't really get recommended locally trending stuff. Could it perhaps be a difference between in how treat users based on how they make revenue from them?
I'm on YouTube premium. Are you using the free client? Possibly with an adblocker?
While i have issues with wokeness in Hades 2 Hestia isn't really it.
She is the goddess of the hearth and having skin like coal and ash feels like a thematically appropriate take. I didn't even consider that they tried to do something ridiculous like vitiligo representation.
I got more irritated at retarded stuff like Hephaestus wheelchair or the uglification and darkening of Athena making her look like a racist caricature.
Principles such as tension and release, foreshadowing, thematic development, chord resolution are the essential tools of virtually every composer, regardless of genre and whether the composer is actively aware of it or not. While often discussed in a classical context, their application is universal and apply to pretty much all genres.
This seems like a consistent weakness in at least current AI-generated music, which often does well with short-term musical grammar but fails to build a cohesive, long-form structure, resulting in a piece that feels aimless and unsatisfying, IE "it doesn't go anywhere".
These same concepts of building expectation and providing resolution are fundamental to other time-based art forms, such as literature and film, and to effective communication in general.
I think this feels similar to how earlier text generating models wrote and similar to how they still struggle to write longer form text. Perhaps the issue is an insufficiently large context window or perhaps it's something else more fundamental to how the models function, I don't know.
I actually found it comparable to a lot of the early GPT3 written content. The models were able to produce grammatically coherent text that mostly stayed on topic, it just didn't go anywhere and after reading a few paragraphs you'd get pissed having been duped into reading essentially verbal diarrhea.
This music is much the same, there is no purpose and it doesn't go anywhere. Its like 10 second segments stitched together without much thought except having smooth transitions and staying in the sameish genre.
Perhaps there are decent songs produced and it's down to prompting and iteration, but I haven't heard them yet.
Ioper
2mo ago
Another possible error here could be that the weaving the compensation is intended for isn't actually skilled labour.
Basic weaving mass producing basic cloth isn't skilled labour. It's extremely simple and repetitive. You could be shown how to do it in 10 minutes. Furthermore, it's not physically strenuous (unlike the farmwork you describe) or dangerous and you can do it indoors.
Given the above the relative compensation makes sense.
There is weaving that absolutely would count as skilled labour but that is explicitly excluded.
Ioper
2mo ago
I meant in the sense of hiring someone to do it for you. There is such an insane overproduction of these kinds of competences and it's been going on for like 50 years.
Ioper
2mo ago
I've been playing the game for quite a bit in early access and while I enjoy it well enough this does feel like "safe horny" the game, but extended to every single character and interaction. Everything is so HR approved and "safe" that I find myself just skipping through all the dialogue. Nothing is said and while it's mildly witty at times it's never funny.
I think a major issue is that they've replaced many of the major roles with women for the sequel and they don't think it's ok to make jokes at the expense of women so what we get is a whole load of anodyne nothing.
Ioper
2mo ago
Maybe, but people seem to reuse the same tracks from every video so the actual time to find a track might not matter much if at all. I guess the question becomes, what do you care more about? The $10 for a month of suno + whatever time it takes to generate a song you're satisfied with, or spending ~1 hour in the free audio library?
Ioper
2mo ago
I suppose background music for YouTube channels that are very small or even solo operations could be a good use case. These people want to pay nothing (and licenses for use in videos is not cheap), might not want to use the same audio library as everyone else and the music itself isn't the focus.
You don't notice the very clear artifacts in the sound?
I don't really understand why these exist and would have assumed that would have been easy to fix but seeing as they haven't been perhaps it's much harder than I imagine.
Beyond that the music itself is bland and the audiomixing poor, but perhaps these are prompting issues with these particular tracks.
If the technical issues can be ironed out this seems fine for stuff like background music in shops and receptions. Given that a Spotify subscription costs as much why would anyone switch though?
What is the use case here? I'm not being facetious, I think this is cool as hell but what is the use case? Composing and recording music is already dirt cheap. Extremely quick prototyping? Perhaps as a way to create temp music?
Ioper
2mo ago
Perhaps kind is too strong a word but unlike Hillary she didn't seem actively malevolent, which is within striking distance of as good as you're going to get with a politician.
Ioper
2mo ago
I think you have that backwards. International students are subsidising native students. For cost to come down other things need to happen. University services, wages and administrative bloat needs to be reduced.
One might still believe you have little to gain from them and that they might be bad in some other way (culturally or a security threat).
The characters are interesting enough, although I found most of them to be two dimensional rather than three dimensional, although this may change in the later books.
It does not, Sanderson is not good at writing characters and this is an issue that becomes worse as the series goes on due its length and what he tries to explore with the characters. The characters are flat and the more you're exposed to them the more obvious it becomes.
Friends have told me his writing improves over time, which bodes well for my future reading experience,
This was true until about the Way of Kings but I would say that he peaked there and even started to decline a few books after, possibly due to his insane schedule.
Ioper
2mo ago
For literary vocabulary i could see that this might be an issue but isn't most technical vocabulary imported words from English and German?
Ioper
2mo ago
Korean and Japanese in particular have a frustrating amount of homophones due to the dropping of tones that could use the disambiguation
I thought Japanese solved the issue of homophones with pitch accent. Many of the more famous examples are clearly distinguishable, to the extent that I feel like "homophones" is a misnomer. Regardless, I don't think need tones for disambiguation and nor am I aware of that they ever had tones, unlike the more mixed situation in Korea.
Ioper
2mo ago
Plenty people are and its trivially easy find information about this online.
For instance, in 2016 there were 306 persons in France alone that were convicted of apologia for terrorism and 232 of those were sentenced to jail.
Ioper
2mo ago
He has claimed previously that grammar isn't really a thing in Chinese.
Do not trust this man.
Ioper
2mo ago
That is more of an artifact of how logographs work than evidence of that the languages are the same or even meaningfully related.
The characters are pronounced differently in the different languages and and used very differently grammatically.
You could write English nouns with Chinese characters, that doesn't make English Chinese.
Is your coworker perhaps a Han supremacist?
I'd argue that Korean and Chinese are more separate languages than Italian and French.
Chinese is a tonal language and Korean is not, and they have different writing systems.
Italian and French have nothing that divides them to this extent, either in spoken or written language.
As for Chinese and Cantonese I have no idea, I'm not terribly familiar with them even if I've studied some Mandarin. My general rule though is that languages are separate if they aren't mutually intelligible.
I genuinely don't understand why your coworker put spoken Korean and spoken Chinese in the same bubble, they're mutually unintelligible and come from different language families, even if they used the same writing system for a long period. This on its own makes the rest of your coworkers claims suspect to me.
Take the Nordic languages: Swedish and Norwegian are clearly the same language as they are easily mutually intelligble both in written and spoken form. With Danish it's a bit murkier but seeing as the written form is clearly mutually intelligble with both Norwegian and Swedish, as well as large amounts of the local dialects, even if it can be a bit difficult, I would still put it as being the same language but at the outer edge.
Icelandic on the other hand is its own language seeing as both written but especially spoken Icelandic is not really mutually intelligble with the other Nordic languages.
Broadening things to the Germanic languages it's easy to see that German is separate from the Nordic languages. It uses mostly different words and even has different grammatical structure, it's clearly a separate language even if there are overlaps and a common history.
Ioper
2mo ago
Yes they can. There are just valid and non valid causes for firing. Going to jail for glorifying terrorism is one such valid reason.
So why the opposition to non-invasive research?
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