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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Not sure if you want to label it as a “captcha alternative”. In most cases I’m sure the captcha is used because they want a real person looking at the page (and the ads on the page). In this case it seems more like a way to keep either bots or people from doing nothing but consuming content (or hacking) without giving back something of value. Either way I really like the idea.

    Other ways, in theory, I think you could do this kind of thing are torrent ratios (e.g. hosting one or moreLinux ISOs), general archiving (e.g. you get asked to return a random range of bytes from a file you’re supposed to be backing up), you run a weather station that reports temperature to the National Weather Service. You might think about a more general framework for just verifying if user X has been contributing something of value.


  • I’ve never heard anyone explicitly say this but I’m sure a lot of people (i.e. management) think that AI is a replacement for static code. If you have a component with constantly changing requirements then it can make sense, but don’t ask an llm to perform a process that’s done every single day in the exact same way. Chief among my AI concerns is the amount of energy it uses. It feels like we could mostly wean off of carbon emitting fuels in 50 years but if energy demand skyrockets will be pushing those dates back by decades.





  • Deliberate was gone for a little while (available in HuggingFace now) and I think I’ve seen others be taken down too for violating licenses or the author doing shady things to boost stats. Some older models are also really hard to find. Even though they’re low quality by current standards they did seem to have a bit more creativity.

    Might be misremember on the subscription thing. Maybe it was v1-v2 of some model was free to download and anything newer was API only. Regardless I think authors are free to pull stuff whenever they choose.