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  1. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Bandsaw is the right power tool for deep through cuts. If you don't have one but do have a table saw, it's very common to take a max depth partial cut on the table saw, finish the rest with a hand saw in the same kerf, and clean up the edge with a plane/chisel/sander/flush trim bit. Practice on...
  2. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That's just a super long bit for the setup you have, plus it's thin. I'm kinda surprised it works at all and isn't just a shrapnel machine. Doesn't look like the right (or safe) tool for the job. What cut are you making there? Are you eventually going through the material? If so, just use a...
  3. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    It's not compression in the sense that we typically use the term in computing. The neural net is tuned to fundamental relationships in latent space between the training set features. Yes, with the right prompts it can reproduce specific items of the training set (with loss, but close). But it's...
  4. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    You're completely misconstruing the legal side of the argument. Copyright law is about ideas and works. Compressing data (which isn't really what's happening in GPTs, it's more nuanced than that) is not a work and does not infringe. Only the works produced by the model could be infringing. Some...
  5. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Efficiency doesn't mean that the approaches aren't similar, and neither does generalization. We can't say definitively anyway because we definitely don't know how the human brain works at the level of information processing. Edit: Also, for the purpose of this comparison did you include the...
  6. Captain Suave

    Chess

    Lol, Nepo and Dubov get double forfeited at the World Blitz for playing a meme draw where they reversed their knights and finished in the starting position.
  7. Captain Suave

    AI images

    https://www.rosebud.ai/sprites-animation
  8. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is some backwards shit. You're SUPPOSED to leave your progeny advantages that you didn't have so that they can be more successful. My grandfather, greatest generation, made for himself some money and paid for the educations of his children and grandchildren. Still maintained a very...
  9. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    More vacation homes for lawyers: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67826601
  10. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    The jury is literally still out on this. To the extent that people making GPTs are re-training and otherwise avoiding copyrighted works it's because they don't want to invest in lawyers until the courts rule. If it were truly as cut and be dry as you imply, Google and OpenAI would have settled...
  11. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Some people will believe anything. They're wrong, though. Returns scale negatively with expenses for mutual funds. And perhaps positively (this may not be a statistically significant trend) but still not enough to make up costs for ETFs. Most people don't invest at all. Most of those who...
  12. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    People who don't pay attention, blindly take advice from advisors not fully performing fiduciary duties, or who are stuck in 401k's, etc, with fund choices set up by assholes. Essentially every study says normal investors achieve the best returns by choosing standard index funds with the lowest...
  13. Captain Suave

    A (not so?) crazy proposal.

    My uncle's sailboat has a sign in the cabin that reads, "A boat is a hole in the ocean... into which you throw money."
  14. Captain Suave

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    How important is the seasonal content?
  15. Captain Suave

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Thanks man, that helps a bunch. I appreciate the effort of the writeup.
  16. Captain Suave

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Anyone have general advice for how to get started on this game as a new player? I've seen various guides, but they don't give a lot of context on how one is supposed to build a character. I've been doing missions as I see them in the quest log (despite that the game keeps suggesting dungeons to...
  17. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    You are not fucking kidding. I picked up the free offering on the Epic store and gave it a spin. Once you get out of the tutorial mission it's just a light show of dozens choices with shit flashing up at you full of terms, item/currency, and systems you have no context for. I read a third party...
  18. Captain Suave

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Crazy at work, even.
  19. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    These days, pretty much yes as the base for general long-term investing. Small cap sucks per Blazin's explanation, international sucks. Bonds only if you're looking to lower volatility at the expense of returns.
  20. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

  21. Captain Suave

    If you had to pick one Christmas Album...

    My family's go-to for 60 years.
  22. Captain Suave

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My wife asked for a vacuum and it's what she actually wanted! Unfortunately, it was for me to use...
  23. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    I don't think it's as clear-cut as that. The current state of understanding is not definitive and muddied by the vagaries and limitations of the studies. tldr; "The inconsistencies in the literature are synopsized by trials in sucralose: one study reported higher blood glucose levels, one study...
  24. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think the trades themselves would be information that would help doxxing, rather that they could be incentive for singling someone out. This already happened a couple weeks ago in the housing thread, admittedly as a PSA to discourage people from posting pictures of their houses...
  25. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Even better, applied projects. In my experience on both the writing and grading end of essays, they mostly measure your ability to generate well-structured academic prose. That's not without value, but it's not exactly the same thing as demonstrating durable subject matter understanding and...
  26. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Whatever we define "smarter" to be, modern people are almost certainly more so than their 1900 counterparts just on the basis of nutrition and medicine. Human genetics simply can't change that much in 3-4 generations. What we're really arguing about is education, and the fact that the average...
  27. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Better educated, at least. But because mid/upper education tiers now have vastly larger participant populations the bottom of the distribution is much more visible. I don't think the average human intelligence has changed much over the last 100 years.
  28. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Question is ambiguously phrased as to whether it wants relative or absolute risk by color. With those incident rates a given red dog is more likely to bite than a given blue dog, but with that population distribution someone walking into this guy's canine compound is more likely to be bitten by...
  29. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Most of us are looking at at least one more asset doubling before we retire, if not two, assuming average historical returns. Extra income saved now will definitely move the needle, if maybe not be life-transforming. As you say, saving EARLY is at least as big a lever as increasing savings or...
  30. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  31. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Sorry, I thought you were making a different point. My bad. Edit: I guess I find the average performance of students less important than the average performance of the total age cohort.
  32. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I'm not sure that data says what you think it says. In 1900, 89% of children didn't go to high school and less than 11% graduated. My and Sanrith's anecdotes notwithstanding, the bias here which we don't have information to sort out is that circa 1900 the average kid wasn't educated AT ALL...
  33. Captain Suave

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    My dad taught a graduate business program at U. Nebraska for a while. He had students he was 99% sure that they couldn't read, and were either failed upwards or cheated their entire educational career.
  34. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Apparently this guy got a standing ovation from Paco de Lucia. I believe it.
  35. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Unless you think the Indians are in on the gag, their lunar orbiter from a few years ago already took pics good enough to resolve the Apollo lander.
  36. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    That's hilarious.
  37. Captain Suave

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My wife hates fans, and she wins.