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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 10h

She just wants to help you accessorize

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 11h

I say this as a fellow vague poster, but I've been offline all day and you're not helping me gawk at things by vague posting.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 11h

I'm in professional meeting about "AI" at least 4 days a week now and I'm begging literally any of them to specify what actual systems they're talking about and how they work. Sure, being specific would require giving up their point. But they could make better points!

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 14h

Did I miss news about Gavin? 👀

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 14h

Not every white man is Pete B, gosh, Alex. That's only like... Most of us.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe Cass can nudge you into liking them.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 18h

Grammarly ad: "in a college setting, you want to put your best foot forward.."

No! Good golly! Your job as a student is to learn, not to impress faculty with your competence! Show us where you're at so we can help you. It's our job!

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

There's a whole world of hobbyists I'm studying who do it locally, but yeah they'll remain fringe for quite some time.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, sure. Real proper thin clients. Not sure they're the ones who would be generating videos tho? I missed a step

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

Or like everyone has an underpowered Chromebook these days and only the 1337 gamerz have 5090s?

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

Like Nvidia Now but for genAI?

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

Yes some people do now have good local image generation, but note how rare they are and how much skill it takes to do well.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

Spend a few hours as even a tech savvy user with civitai and comfyui trying to get static image generation running with reliably good results on your desktop and you'll get more realistic about just who "anyone" is and how far desktop hardware can take them.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

In the abstract, yes. But in the particulars, running decent generative video models on desktop gaming cards is quite a ways off. We will see cheap, no rules or ethics video-as-a-service companies proliferate long before consumer hardware options are decent.

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

This is silly and sappy to be posting on main but... I really like my colleagues. So fortunate to be in a department where I get to feel this way.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

That this happens so often is how I know I've "curated my feed" well.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 2d

Simply run the car with an LLM.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 2d

Creature cam Molly is good Molly.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 3d

That's easy to check, since I already pulled out all the names to do network analysis...

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 3d

Just books. Some of them were originally dissertations that got revised into books.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. We have T (and enby) in the data and analyze them in work using bigger samples, but there aren't enough people in the book sample to do statistics with.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

Something we're working on...

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, the perpetual suffering that is being former tech support staff and now needing tech support. Like, no, seriously, I tried the obvious things already. I only come to you with Real Problems. I'm not like the other boys. Please make me feel special.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

In fairness, that does solve more than half of user problems. 😂😭

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

My IT support staff has a person who does this

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