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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I tried using and old iPhone. You can’t install anything on it. If you go to the app store, it won’t tell you which apps are compatible. It’ll just download the app, and then show you error.

    Android is better at this, apps generally support old versions for longer, and the play store is better at showing compatible apps.


  • FS2020 does. It uses bing maps satellite imagery, interprets the map and procrdurally generates buildings. It’s impressive, but up close the buildings look generic and rarely accurate. Google Earth looks better.

    However they do have hand made maps of big cities, these are very realistic.




  • The answer lies within the article

    Publishers legally control content that AI companies desperately want, but AI companies don’t always want to negotiate a license. The first-sale doctrine offered a workaround: Once you buy a physical book, you can do what you want with that copy—including destroy it. That meant buying physical books offered a legal workaround.

    And yet buying things is expensive, even if it is legal. So like many AI companies before it, Anthropic initially chose the quick and easy path. In the quest for high-quality training data, the court filing states, Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.