Zacryon

media player that plays almost everything

What doesn't it play?

The level of your argumentation:
Are you a firefighter or a medical doctor? If not, you're obviously in favour of fires, death and disease.
Why aren't you donating all of your stuff to homeless people? Or are you happy all those people don't have a home?
Why aren't you saving the world already???

You know, demanding change and maybe showing some sort of protest does not mean you need to do those things exactly as you would like to see them, especially if those efforts wouldn't change anything on the larger scale and rather lead to a bunch of problems in your life.

I wonder how you're breathing. /j

Where do you get this attitude that everything should be provided to you for free and you're entitled to it?

From (non-capitalistic) utopic ideas, where humans try to be excellent to each other.

This again?

If we're speaking of transformer models like ChatGPT, BERT or whatever: They don't have memory at all.

The closest thing that resembles memory is the accepted length of the input sequence combined with the attention mechanism. (If left unmodified though, this will lead to a quadratic increase in computation time the longer that sequence becomes.) And since the attention weights are a learned property, it is in practise probable that earlier tokens of the input sequence get basically ignored the further they lie "in the past", as they usually do not contribute much to the current context.

"In the past": Transformers technically "see" the whole input sequence at once. But they are equipped with positional encoding which incorporates spatial and/or temporal ordering into the input sequence (e.g., position of words in a sentence). That way they can model sequential relationships as those found in natural language (sentences), videos, movement trajectories and other kinds of contextually coherent sequences.

Today on the internet: Fun with spherical geometry.

I wonder how it must have been like to be the one who thought one day, "I'll pick coffee beans out of monkey shit and drink that shit!"

NEVER consume media legally

Given our current economic system and supposing that you can't change it for now, how would you support a living for media creators (movies, shows, games, art, music, whatever)?

Genuine question. I find myself on the fence about this. Currently, I consume media legally due to several reasons:

• Supporting the creators and thereby incentivising them to produce more of stuff which I enjoyed.
• I can afford it.
• I would like to keep it legal.

Stuff like this (although not affected since I don't live in a country with that shitty laws), but also the decline of quality products as a result of companies trying to maximize their profit margins by producing a lot of cheap trash, as well as the criminalization of consumers and the fact that the profits are not shared equally among the creators but rather a few get the most while the rest gets some pennies (an issue present in virtually every business), make me really favour the idea of getting a pirate hat.

However:
If everyone would do this, this would lead to the death of the media industry, since no one would be able to pay for the productions and everyone involved anymore.
How would get those productions then?

Really, I think the only way to change this is to impose much better laws on the one hand and switch to a different, better, economic system on the other hand. But I don't see these things coming soon. Which leaves me with staying legal.

I would like to read your thoughts on that. (And those of everyone else who wants to chime in.)

Tramp stamps are out?
Trump stamps are in?

How do the authors know what a dragon speaks like? Were speaking dragons a common thing back then or...?