#New API

[linterteatime]

Ref sheet’s of some of my Oc’s! They are all from the same funky universe :P

[rootytootydroppindoody]

Here’s a fun little update on the status of Reddit.

Reddit has rolled back its enforcement regarding botnets and fake accounts - specifically with cryptocurrency scams.

90% of the time, if you view r/all with the “rising” filter, you will see a new scam. These stay up for hours at a time now. Every comment and account in them is a bot, controlled by scammers.

Take a look at the subreddits this one is in - AIart and NorthernIreland - completely unrelated to crypto, yet it’s been up for almost 30 minutes. This should have been instantly detected by Reddits back-end, and removed purely for the bot manipulation. But due to the rollback of enforcement, these scams will stay up a long time.

Reddit is a cesspool.

[nightpool]

Great news, Slack has announced that they've deprecated "sending messages" in favor of, uh...

"not sending messages", I guess?

[cementcornfield]

the way i know it's taking everything in him not to say some ridiculous comment to the press rn 😭

[dreissigconversion]

sighhh i rly gotta get back into the swing of k8s

[vanillaxoshi]

I'm curious, when and how did you found boboiboy? I only started knowing about him from you and thought it was some mystery anime

Love the show though so thank you for introducing it to me!

Oh wow! Im glad you were able to find this show through me!

I found boboiboy through disney channel when i was a kid

I think it would go through lunch times then change to 1 pm

And then galaxy showed up and i was like "FINALLY!! THEY AGED UP A KID CHARACTER!"

I found it later on youtube and was super into the last episodes, aka where cahaya shows up, i was waiting for it to show in disney channel but never did, i caught it one time at 6 am but it was ending already so yeah

[stereax]

[govindhtech]

Pegasus 1.2: High-Performance Video Language Model

Pegasus 1.2 revolutionises long-form video AI with high accuracy and low latency. Scalable video querying is supported by this commercial tool.

TwelveLabs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Amazon Bedrock will soon provide Marengo and Pegasus, TwelveLabs' cutting-edge multimodal foundation models. Amazon Bedrock, a managed service, lets developers access top AI models from leading organisations via a single API. With seamless access to TwelveLabs' comprehensive video comprehension capabilities, developers and companies can revolutionise how they search for, assess, and derive insights from video content using AWS's security, privacy, and performance. TwelveLabs models were initially offered by AWS.

Introducing Pegasus 1.2

Unlike many academic contexts, real-world video applications face two challenges:

Real-world videos might be seconds or hours lengthy.

Proper temporal understanding is needed.

TwelveLabs is announcing Pegasus 1.2, a substantial industry-grade video language model upgrade, to meet commercial demands. Pegasus 1.2 interprets long films at cutting-edge levels. With low latency, low cost, and best-in-class accuracy, model can handle hour-long videos. Their embedded storage ingeniously caches movies, making it faster and cheaper to query the same film repeatedly.

Pegasus 1.2 is a cutting-edge technology that delivers corporate value through its intelligent, focused system architecture and excels in production-grade video processing pipelines.

Superior video language model for extended videos

Business requires handling long films, yet processing time and time-to-value are important concerns. As input films increase longer, a standard video processing/inference system cannot handle orders of magnitude more frames, making it unsuitable for general adoption and commercial use. A commercial system must also answer input prompts and enquiries accurately across larger time periods.

Latency

To evaluate Pegasus 1.2's speed, it compares time-to-first-token (TTFT) for 3–60-minute videos utilising frontier model APIs GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro. Pegasus 1.2 consistently displays time-to-first-token latency for films up to 15 minutes and responds faster to lengthier material because to its video-focused model design and optimised inference engine.

Performance

Pegasus 1.2 is compared to frontier model APIs using VideoMME-Long, a subset of Video-MME that contains films longer than 30 minutes. Pegasus 1.2 excels above all flagship APIs, displaying cutting-edge performance.

Pricing

Cost Pegasus 1.2 provides best-in-class commercial video processing at low cost. TwelveLabs focusses on long videos and accurate temporal information rather than everything. Its highly optimised system performs well at a competitive price with a focused approach.

Better still, system can generate many video-to-text without costing much. Pegasus 1.2 produces rich video embeddings from indexed movies and saves them in the database for future API queries, allowing clients to build continually at little cost. Google Gemini 1.5 Pro's cache cost is $4.5 per hour of storage, or 1 million tokens, which is around the token count for an hour of video. However, integrated storage costs $0.09 per video hour per month, x36,000 less. Concept benefits customers with large video archives that need to understand everything cheaply.

Model Overview & Limitations

Architecture

Pegasus 1.2's encoder-decoder architecture for video understanding includes a video encoder, tokeniser, and big language model. Though efficient, its design allows for full textual and visual data analysis.

These pieces provide a cohesive system that can understand long-term contextual information and fine-grained specifics. It architecture illustrates that tiny models may interpret video by making careful design decisions and solving fundamental multimodal processing difficulties creatively.

Restrictions

Safety and bias

Pegasus 1.2 contains safety protections, but like any AI model, it might produce objectionable or hazardous material without enough oversight and control. Video foundation model safety and ethics are being studied. It will provide a complete assessment and ethics report after more testing and input.

Hallucinations

Occasionally, Pegasus 1.2 may produce incorrect findings. Despite advances since Pegasus 1.1 to reduce hallucinations, users should be aware of this constraint, especially for precise and factual tasks.

[marxist-kasaneteto]

i dont think ive complained enough about how absolutely shitty the tumblr api is. the documentation is like. mediocre, to begin with. the actual api? the /blocks route gives you the blogs a blog has blocked if you GET it, but POST it? well now youre blocking a blog. dont be deceived by the plural though - to block multiple blogs you need /blocks/bulk. oh also using the... DELETE method (??) you can remove a block, still via /blocks. the /post route is the legacy post format. /posts is what youre looking for, but dont GET it, because then youre fetching a blogs posts. again, dont be deceived by the plural, but this time there is no bulk route. oh and of course /posts/{post id} gets a post... but with POST it edits the post. now with this theme of incorrect plurals, youd at least expect them to have correct plurals, but no! in order to retrieve drafts you use... /posts/draft. there are some communities routes, but guess what? theyre listed in a different format in the documentation to everything else! to be honest, its a better format, but i guess they couldnt be bothered to update their docs.

and then, the /user/dashboard route. heres what the docs say:

(this the ONLY way to get random posts btw)

simple enough... naturally you would scroll down for more info but... thats it. after that tiny description, there is a horribly layed out list of arguments and their descriptions, info on the response format, and nothing else. what dashboard is it getting? who knows! it doesnt seem to be the Following tab - which is in order of recency - so i can only assume its For You. it also, by default, returns posts in the legacy format, which is much less convenient than their Neue Post Format (??). posts are also returned without blog info and instead with just a blog name, and, for whatever reason, there is no argument to change this. i dont remember what i did to get around this, but it was probably taking that blog name and running it through the /info route or getting the posts and then getting them again with the /posts/... route (which does return blog info).

ok.. so its badly documented and inconvenient to use. big deal! except... theres more. if youre going through dashboard posts individually, like i do for my bot, youll probably use the offset argument parameter - the offset from the first post on the dash - to specify which post to get. however at somewhere around an offset of 250, it stops returning new posts. just the same one over and over. probably a rate limit right?

?????

you might be thinking "its probably that 300 api calls limit and youre just using a few extra calls" but thats wrong. for starters around 50 extra calls just doesnt sound accurate for what im doing. it would most likely be way more than that or way less. and even if im wrong, it doesnt reset after a minute. i have no idea when it resets, in fact. sometimes it feels like more than an hour, but i havent timed it. i also havent tested what happens if i go straight to 250, which i probably should do. on top of all that, i dont think this is what would actually happen if i got rate limited, its just the only remotely possible explanation i can think of.

another thing is that you cant get the full text of a post natively, only the content of the reblog. i had to write my own method for that. also - this is kinda nitpicky - you cant easily get the blog that last contributed in the thread, only whoever last reblogged it (who might have reblogged it without saying anything). by that i mean 5 people might have reblogged it without saying anything since anyone added anything to the thread, but you can only find that 5th person (easily). the workaround is to check if the person who last reblogged it said anything, if not get the last person in the 'trail', which is a list of reblogs in the thread that said something that doesnt include the last reblog. this also... doesnt work sometimes i guess? i didnt bother figuring out why, but one time out of the blue it gave me an error when trying to get the name of the last person in the trail.

i hate the tumblr api

[arioagio]

Memulai saja itu sudah sulit, apalagi kalau dari awal saja sudah membayangkan apakah nantinya bisa berhasil, dan juga terkadang membayangkan kalau tiba-tiba di tengah jalan gagal apa yang harus dilakukan.

Keinginan banyak, tapi di saat yang sama keraguan juga semakin memuncak, ditambah rasa malas dan rasa tidak percaya diri datang beriringan, bahkan kadang-kadang hampir setiap saat bisa terjadi.

Apapun itu, cobalah untuk memulai. Apapun yang dirasakan saat ini, jangan dijadikan penghalang. Teruslah maju. Teruslah berusaha. Berhenti khawatir akan hal-hal yang belum terjadi. Kalaupun itu terjadi, setidaknya diri ini mampu untuk mengatasinya. Belajar dari kegagalan, perbaiki kesalahan. Mulai saja. Ayo mulai bersama. Pasti bisa. Semangat!

--- @arioagio ☀️

[pmdwildfire]

Meant to post a little update in February, now it's March, oops.

TLDR If nothing comes up, I'm hoping to get this chapter out in late March/early April.

Chapter 6 progress is looking good! I'm about 92% done with the chapter overall. What's left is:

Finishing one last page (which has a lot of cameos* on it 👀)

Making the cover

Finalizing all the pages, which is mostly just going through each page and doing any final effects or corrections.

I also got my personal website updates (including Tumblr API pipeline) to the "good for now" stage (website has a few features I'd like to add, but nothing critical; I got the API working for 95% of my posts, but I want to throw it off a bridge so I'm calling that done for now).

Given all that, I think I could get this done and ready this month, but given how much things have popped up and pushed back my expectations...*knock on wood* hopefully March, maybe April.

*Quick note on cameos: I'm finding many submissions now have broken images. This is mostly because of Discord's changes (they now delete images after a time). If you think you may be impacted or just want to make sure your character's information is correct/up-to-date, please feel free to resubmit. I'll make sure to use the most recent version that's been sent in, thanks!

[mametupa]

She wasn't wrong about the hair...

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