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by Ukv 1y ago
> People are pretty rational. When you find a lot of people doing something that looks irrational and there isn't a clear link to ideology or coercion, then it probably makes sense given information you don't have. It can be in
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by Ukv 1y ago
For a depth-first solution (backtracking), I'd assume mostly just the partial solutions and a few small counters/indices/masks - like for tracking the cell we're up to and which cells were prefilled. Specifics will depen
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by Ukv 1y ago
> My point is that your initial argument was missing several key pieces My initial example was a response to "If you think it is possible then I'd like to see an implementation of a sudoku puzzle solver as Markov chain", d
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by Ukv 1y ago
> That still won't work b/c there is no backtracking. It's essentially just a lookup table mapping from input board to the set of valid output boards - there's no real way for it not to work (obviously not practical
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by Ukv 1y ago
> but whereas the Prolog solver will backtrack there is no backtracking in the Markov chain and you have to re-run the chain multiple times to find all the solutions If you want it to give all possible solutions at once, you can just exp
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by Ukv 1y ago
> If you think it is possible then I'd like to see an implementation of a sudoku puzzle solver as Markov chain Have each of the Markov chain's states be one of 10^81 possible sudoku grids (a 9x9 grid of digits 1-9 and blank), t
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Question is why would you need to have the computer sound more human I think translation would be a big use - maybe translating your voice to another language while maintaining emotion and intonation, or dubbing content (videos, movies
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by Ukv 1y ago
> a spokesman said that the department never relied on it alone to make an arrest, and that the victim’s identification of Mr. Williams provided the evidence to charge him. As a layman, it looks to me like the legal system is unprepared
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by Ukv 1y ago
The refrigerator is presumably an example to illustrate the general point, that scope is limited to where there's reason to believe there is likely evidence. If a suspect is alleged to have been on the phone with an accomplice while co
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by Ukv 1y ago
That there are fuzzy boundaries is not a blocker for a field that is largely built on drawing lines on fuzzy boundaries - a judge can make the determination if necessary. My answer would be: yes "text messages" includes RCS as wel
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by Ukv 1y ago
Something like "call logs and text messages sent between 22nd and 26th of August" would be common, to my understanding.
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Is the removal of any content for any reason "censorship"? I don't think that fits conventional usage of the term I think censorship is generally already considered to be any suppression of speech/communication&#x2F
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Again, this is all a narrow and militant interpretation of "necessary for contractual reason", Given "necessary for contractual reason" is on its own a lawful basis, I don't see how your interpretation (that se
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Why would the GDPR even describe consent and consent in relations to contract, then? Freely given consent is a lawful basis, allowing for processing even if it's not necessary for legal/contractual reasons that would qualify
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Why not? It doesn't seem to allow separate consent to different personal data processing operations to be given, for one. > Is it not necessary to pay for the service? That it is possible to pay instead implies that the process
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by Ukv 1y ago
> > Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.
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by Ukv 1y ago
> That's exactly my point. The GDPR does not say that it is illegal. It says that people must have a genuine choice [...] arguing that "accept or you need to pay to access this news website" is the same and not a genuine c
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by Ukv 1y ago
I don't think this trick would do anything - you're still conditioning a contract on consent (and it's no more necessary than before), so still don't have "freely given consent" if you wanted to rely on that ba
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by Ukv 1y ago
I feel that's only really true in the way it is of a JS bitcoin miner. Locally appears to make something free (if ignoring time/energy) that wasn't before, but is overall a detriment to average affordability because it's
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by Ukv 1y ago
> For a chatbot to only recommend professional human interactions as an alternative to more time with the chatbot is unconscionable [...] It didn't only recommend prodessional support: "I urge you to reach out to someone — rig
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Note that the mother’s request is not for chatbot reporting Not from the mother, but it is something the article floats as in idea: " Should Harry have been programmed to report the danger “he” was learning about to someone who co
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by Ukv 1y ago
If goal is to improve access to information, favoring sources that don't paywall content seems reasonable, or at least it would be if they weren't easy to bypass. That doesn't mean not paying journalists (but noncommerical bl
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by Ukv 1y ago
> that's no excuse for a system such as Windows to brick SSDs like that [...] it either has to be part of windows quality control to test these low end systems or it should make it very clear about the system requirements If this wa
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by Ukv 1y ago
Feels unfortunate that their proof-of-space is just (to my understanding) random data. Would've thought that proof-of-space might be more amenable to having the proof be actually useful, since you can check the right data was returned
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by Ukv 1y ago
If an attacker has control over the page to edit arbitrary HTML, that chain is already compromised. Even if the attacker's exploit only allowed certain attributes, just the href and rel attributes needed for this protocol would already
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by Ukv 1y ago
By the XFN spec, it "demonstrates that the same person has control over [the pages]". The docs page I linked links to two further specs for using it for authentication in the way that Mastodon does.
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by Ukv 1y ago
A regular link won't do, since it requires the rel="me" attribute, which is intended for this purpose: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... Adding a <met
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Funny. GPT-5 will confidently tell you that Willian H. Brusen is a former US president Checking the link, it seems this mistake occurred when generating an image of the names of all the presidents, I believe using gpt-image-1 (the mo
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by Ukv 1y ago
> AI might replicate human decisions without improving on them, carrying forward the same biases Definitely true that by default models have the same biases as the data they're trained on, but I think one nice property is that you c
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by Ukv 1y ago
> change over time and all these changes can add to the AI judgement snapshot being out of date after some period The detector can be fine-tuned over time to improve accuracy and account for distribution shift. We should still have acces

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