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« Ontolography, then, suggests a system of calling forth images without any direct observation or documentation at all. It’s all built on past documentation, like a photographer who only takes photographs of magazines. It’s an acknowledgement that we don’t need to do the things we want to document. We’ve done every pose enough that a machine could produce it, and now we don’t need to pose but only to reference past poses from our imagination and call them up.
The images that rise up from this movement are “pictures of pictures,” to steal DeLillo’s phrase. We don’t need events, we just need event categories. We can create documentation of a birthday party without eating a single piece of cake.
Ontolographs are images made from information categories instead of events. »

🎵 Introducing Diffusion Radio - A 24/7 livestream of AI-generated music! 🎵

The Harmonai team has been working hard on diffusion models for music generation. We're happy to bring you this stream to share the progress of our experiments!

We definitely appreciate any feedback you have on the music. These models aren't fully trained and are being worked on as we speak. We will keep sharing fresh new output. Keep tuning in if you want to hear our progress over the weeks and months.

Disclaimer: The music is shared for research / educational / fair use purposes only. Any overfitting or similarity to real music is accidental (we're trying to avoid it).

Harmonai - [[ AI music R&D lab ]]
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by Darius

Yeah the rate-limit approach makes sense! I've been using Nginx's req-limit (http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html) and fail2ban to do so. Importantly it accounts for the "burstiness" of a lot of HTTP traffic and allows you to set thresholds yourself. Can recommend! So you built it in as part of the forum software @cblgh?

The ngx_http_limit_req_module module (0.7.21) is used to limit the request processing rate per a defined key, in particular, the processing rate of requests coming from a single IP address. The limitation is done using the “leaky bucket” method.

Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal hypothesis despite growing challenge by empirical evidence. This paper suggests that this mounting evidence provides not only reason to reject the echo chamber hypothesis but also the foundation for an alternative causal mechanism. To propose such a mechanism , the paper draws on the literatures on affective polarization, digital media, and opinion dynamics. From the affective polarization literature, we follow the move from seeing polarization as diverging issue positions to rooted in sorting: an alignment of differences which is effectively dividing the electorate into two increasingly homogeneous megaparties. To explain the rise in sorting, the paper draws on opinion dynamics and digital media research to present a model which essentially turns the echo chamber on its head: it is not isolation from opposing views that drives polarization but precisely the fact that digital media bring us to interact outside our local bubble. When individuals interact locally, the outcome is a stable plural patchwork of cross-cutting conflicts. By encouraging nonlocal interaction, digital media drive an alignment of conflicts along partisan lines, thus effacing the counterbalancing effects of local heterogeneity. The result is polarization, even if individual interaction leads to convergence. The model thus suggests that digital media polarize through partisan sorting, creating a maelstrom in which more and more identities, beliefs, and cultural preferences become drawn into an all-encompassing societal division.

Preserving Worlds is a documentary series about aging virtual worlds.

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