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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s not a new exhibit being introduced, and the zoomed in form is not evidence. Therefore there’s no chain of custody question. It was being used to show the footage to the witness on the stand, in order for them to explain what’s shown on
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I think you may want to read the transcript. Also, things like Deep Fusion are capture-time technologies, they don't alter the photo or video each time it's viewed. There's also already precedent in US courts for handling aut
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This wasn't 'new evidence', it was an iPad being used to play a video for Rittenhouse during cross-examination, in which he was being asked to describe the events being shown. Both prosecutors and defence attorneys have used
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The judge did not give the prosecution time to find an expert witness, did not ask his clerks to search for similar usage of iPad zooming in previous cases, and did not require the defence to provide expert testimony of their own to substan
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That's not what happened. The judge placed the burden of proving that zooming didn't do that on the prosecution, and only afforded them a few minutes to find an expert witness. In the end the iPad was not used.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
'Built-in' matters it's not custom software used by the prosecution on which no expert could be consulted. It's also likely that precedent testimony exists on using an iPad to zoom into an image or video in other cases.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Asking a question is fine, accepting the defence's claim without further substantiation and the rest of the follow up is less so.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Nothing wrong with that, but a common sense explanation by an expert witness ought to be enough. Does Apple need to be dragged into each and every case to testify as to how pinch to zoom works, as was demanded here? Courts have established
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by _djo_ 5y ago
> I have a feeling that if the person on trial had a different political affiliation you would also be claiming they do not. That's an ad hominem argument. In truth I don't care who's on trial, as the outcome of this spe
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by _djo_ 5y ago
A zooming or scaling algorithm that only uses available image data is deterministic, it should get the same result every time. One that relies on a neural network trained on other images is not, it might produce a subtly different image eac
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Come now, you're reaching. The defence attorney specifically claimed that "iPads, which are made by Apple, have artificial intelligence in them that allow things to be viewed through three dimensions and logarithms." and &quo
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Zooming into a video using the built-in feature on a device is modified evidence now? We'd have to rerun a bunch of trials in that case. The fantastical claim was from the defence. Onus should be on them to prove it, rather than making
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It was a claim made by the defence, which the judge insisted that the prosecution prove the absence of, rather than requiring the defence to substantiate. That's not how technical claims of that nature are normally handled.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It's a simple enough thing to verify, or require the defence (in this case) to substantiate the claim without throwing out the method of showing evidence entirely. Courts have to deal with questions like this all the time and handle th
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Bearing in mind that transmission effectiveness data is only just becoming available from multiple countries, it certainly isn't showing that duration of carrying is the only factor. Dutch data, for instance, has recently shown substan
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by _djo_ 5y ago
AI-driven upscaling which fills in pixels using data from other images is quite different to algorithmic interpolation that only uses the available information in the image being worked on.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
As Twisol said, zooming doesn't inherently require interpolation. But when it does require interpolation, it's usually an extremely simple and well-understood form like nearest neighbour interpolation that's not going to resu
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Anyone would be supportive of judges being cautious over upscaling, which we know has the potential to introduce false information because it's doing inference and interpolation. Zooming is another issue entirely.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s a false dichotomy to claim that they’re non-sterilising. They’re partially sterilising, at to at least 50% effectiveness even after waning. With boosters, it seems that returns to 90%+.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It's not just the US and UK supporting Saudi Arabia (and other Middle Eastern dictatorships like the UAE), but pretty much all of the EU as well. Look at the sort of military tech they're able to get quite easily from Germany (des
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Sorry, afraid not. Will try to find it again. According to the person I spoke to on the team that responded, and helped set up the new replacement system and network, there had been warnings for years about the adoption of the system and th
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The original news source was African, as I recall. As was the team I’m talking about that investigated the breach.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I'm sorry, that sounds extremely unpleasant. The only advice I can offer is to look into professional therapy, as that sort of a negative self-talk pattern is extremely difficult to break out of on your own.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
African Union, not African National Congress. Having spoken to someone involved in the investigation, it really did happen but like anything this politically sensitive it was quickly hushed up to avoid making it more of a diplomatic inciden
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Almost no vaccines work that way. They’re not magic shields. In reality protection is slightly variable depending on a host of factors including age & immune response, but on a _population_ level they work to bring the disease under con
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by _djo_ 5y ago
They’re partially sterilising, with studies showing up to six times lower infection rates amongst the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. That’s a huge difference, and not just reducing the likelihood of hospitalisation.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Using double quotes for something you've paraphrased is misleading. In addition, reading the UNOCHR's report does not show any indication that they're in favour of such additional restrictions. It's just research that sh
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CureVac has abandoned further development.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Africa is not as poor, or as lacking in infrastructure, as you might think. A number of countries already have, or can set up, the cold chain requirements. Indeed, South Africa (which is where this company is based) has safely administered
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Yep. As far as I know all the current geosurvey ones are Basler conversions, but there are different engine options if I recall correctly. e.g. https://www.bellgeo.com/aircraft and http://www.dc-3.co.za/dc-3

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