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Technology@lemmy.world•Erin Brockovich Launches Public Registry to Track Data Center ComplaintsbyAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
5 daysIf they make a sequel movie based on her current activities, who will they cast to play Julia Roberts in the in-universe version of the film based on the first movie?
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopbyAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
5 daysThe article quotes a post from ISBNdb saying the issue is model collapse from training on synthetic data.
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•do you feel karma on reddit is the social media equivalent to social credit ?byAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
5 days“Credit” implies something you can borrow against—I’m not sure what that would mean in the context of social media.
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you rather be an idiot on a team of intelligent people or the intelligent person on a team of idiots?byAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
6 daysDo you continue being an idiot outside the context of the team?
I’d rather be surrounded by people more capable than me (at least if I care about the success of the task), but not at that cost.
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists confirm that the first black hole ever imaged is actually spinningbyAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
3 yearsThe title kind of misses the point: of course it spins; it would be remarkable if it didn’t.
The really interesting bit is how relativistic frame dragging is causing its spin axis to precess.
(Also, the illustration conflicts with the description: it shows the whole accretion disk wobbling instead of just the jets.)


Reminds me of Judge Holden in Blood Meridian, who sketched ancient artifacts in his personal notebook and then destroyed the originals.