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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
This isn't a new issue, and it predates the internet. There were publishers of magazines containing pornography (or anything else unsuitable for children). These were sold in shops. A publisher had to ensure that the material in t
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
From about ten years ago, ISPs were required to block web sites which were unsuitable for children by default . Any ISP's customer (the person paying for internet access, who would therefore be over 18) could ask for the block to be
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
https://news.sky.com/story/neil-parish-mp-accused-of-watchin... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12535038
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
> Xah's complaint appears to be that cons cells are too low level a construct to expose to the user On his web page, he writes: > Lisp's cons forces programer (sic) to think of list in a low-level nested of 2-item constructi
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
You mean Lisp isn't purely functional, as it has rarely used functions which destructively modify cons cells and lists. The cons function itself has no side effects, so is purely functional. As long as you avoid list-modifying func
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
The cons is integral to Lisp, and is used to construct the list, which is a purely functional data structure. Other languages also have lists, e.g. Prolog and Haskell (as well as similar pure functional languages). Saying that they'r
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
Thanks, this might be what I'm looking for. It's covered here: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html and https://www.mankier.com/1/Xwayland
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
Specifically, I mean functions such as XCreateSimpleWindow, XDrawRectangle, XDrawArc, XmbDrawString, XNextEvent, etc.
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
I understand that Wayland doesn't support Xlib function calls. What are the options for those of us who rely on C code which which uses Xlib for 2d graphics and event handling? If I have to switch to e.g. GTK, I'd not only hav
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake#Energy_consumpt...
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
Bitcoin, yes. But Ethereum uses proof of stake, which has around 0.1% of proof of work's energy requirements. If only there was a way of reducing AI's energy requirements by a similar amount.
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
This is very interesting. You should post a link to https://www.voynich.ninja/index.php I'm not familiar with SBERT, or with modern statistical NLP in general, but SBERT works on sentences, and there are no obvious s
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
Random Texts Exhibit Zipf’s-Law-Like Word Frequency Distribution: https://www.nslij-genetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ie... It also applies to a range of natural phenomena, e.g. lunar craters and e
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
> In the last recorded statistics, the White British population in Britain had been reduced to 54% by births According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_British , "In the 2021 Census, the White British gro
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
The thing that sets us apart from other animals is that we're able to control fire. By a strict definition of writing (e.g. what we're doing now), people have only been able to write for a few thousand years, and much of the adult
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
Source code for Eurisko: github.com/seveno4/EURISKO Source code for AM: https://github.com/white-flame/am
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
> People receiving UBI will have any additional income they generate deducted from UBI. This is human nature. Then it isn't UBI. By definition, you get exactly the same amount as everybody else, regardless of their income from wha
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
> If it increases cost to tax payers over all then the tax payers (people/voters) have every right to oppose this. They should be informed. There are various proposals (this one is new to me), and issues with it which are still un
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?". Not: "Does this feel like the best use of our tax dollars?". There have been numerous pilot studies, e.g. those listed on http
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
In English Celt is generally pronounced kelt nowadays. Celtic is always pronounced seltik when referring to sports teams (e.g. Celtic Football Club), but keltik otherwise, e.g. Celtic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
> We’re eating today the same bananas as our grandparents were eating in the 1950s. No, we're not. Back in the 1950s our grandparents were eating Gros Michel bananas. Now, we're eating (by all accounts) inferior Cavendish b
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
There are examples from five language families shown here: Indo-European, Basque, Uralic, Turkic, and Afro-Asiatic. The words for bridge split neatly into language subfamilies. The only exception appears to be Welsh.
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
This does not prove that whale songs are natural language, as Zipf's law is also true for random texts: https://www.nslij-genetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ie... Nor does it prove cultural lea
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
Presumably each training speech sample is labelled with native language. For Portuguese there would be two distinct clusters: Portugal and Brazil. If your speech is in either cluster, it would just tell you that your native language is
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
A couple of comments implied this. If you just read some text, security is much less of an issue. So I tried it. It guessed (correctly) that I'm a native English speaker. It only tells you which foreign accent you have.
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
I haven't tried it, as you get asked for the answers to common security questions, and supply a voice sample. You could lie but many people won't. My other issue is that it will have been trained on a large number of voice sampl
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
Also the name of a documentary series by Adam Curtis: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines...
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> Someone who's literate in Chinese would only be able to infer the meaning of an unfamiliar character if they already knew all of the surrounding characters. In what I wrote, I was assuming there would be no unfamiliar characters
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
In normal texts, that's correct. However, written Chinese does contains semantic information which the spoken language and Pinyin lack and, unlike English, has fewer distinct syllables, and seldom borrows words from other languages.
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
The poem is written in Classical Chinese, which was spoken over 2000 years ago, and back then would have been intelligible to a listener because the words would have sounded different. Even today, they sound different in e.g. Cantonese. T

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