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901.
by alwa 3y ago
Figure 2 is incredible. With only passing familiarity with the norms in this kind of work, the accuracy rates of all models on this benchmark suite seem suspiciously (and uniformly) high. Is choosing the right intention among “20 vehicle fu
902.
by alwa 3y ago
I’m not sure that’s correct, at least if you mean the determination that the official accident investigation reached [0]. Pilot error and insufficient training on the new approach (being flown for the first time into the new airport), but I
903.
by alwa 3y ago
Not this kind! See for example page 35 in the Justice Department’s computer crimes handbook (dated, but basically AIUI the same way they still do things) [0] [0] https://www.justice.gov/d9/criminal-ccips/legacy&#x2
904.
by alwa 3y ago
If you don’t set high expectations and hold decisionmakers accountable to the consequences of their decisions, why would you expect the quality of their decisions to be high rather than merely expedient? It sounds like the pay for that posi
905.
by alwa 3y ago
Frustratingly, even when you pay handsomely for subscriptions to major news providers, they still show ads (and quite a lot of them). A few are willing to sell you an ad-free subscription if you can establish a connection to the EU, but tho
906.
by alwa 3y ago
You may be interested in the Content Authenticity Initiative’s Content Credentials. The idea seems to be to keep a more-or-less-tamperproof provenance of changes to an image from the moment the light hits the camera’s sensor. It sounds like
907.
by alwa 3y ago
> “They made the point for us,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R., Fla.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in an interview Friday. “They hurt themselves pretty tremendously by doing what they did in targeting members of Congr
908.
Biden backs effort to force sale of TikTok by Chinese owners(wsj.com)
7 points by alwa 3y ago|3 comments
909.
by alwa 3y ago
Isn’t it the case that all high-level nuclear waste generated in the entire course of human history could fit in a relatively shallow layer over a piece of land the size of a football field? (e.g. [0]) I understood nuclear to be, from most
910.
by alwa 3y ago
“Many” seems to mean only a dozen-odd. Which seems like an awfully small number to image the entire earth at meaningful levels of resolution or frequency. Which also seems to be the article’s lesson. FWIW, it looks like Starlink alone is up
911.
by alwa 3y ago
Based on their hype banners, I was ready for a major overhaul, too. Or at least something obviously different about the login flow. It sure looks like somebody just clicked the left-align button and spit-shined the typeface a tiny bit. Whic
912.
by alwa 3y ago
Perhaps we could call it the North American Charging Standard, and get the SAE to formalize it as an automotive standard! It looks like the standard got published in December- https://driveelectric.gov/charging-connector
913.
by alwa 3y ago
+1 for Windy! Note that there are two apps named Windy, one with a red icon and one with a blue icon. The one you linked to has a red icon and lists its developer as Windyty, SE. The one with the blue icon has a site at Windy.app. Their pri
914.
Avería – The Average Font (2011)(iotic.com)
2 points by alwa 3y ago|0 comments
915.
by alwa 3y ago
I was curious about this... On the Font tab in Safari's Web Inspector, that's what it reported, but in actual practice it seemed to be using the second, serif font, Averia. Do you know why it would work that way? Maybe the Western
916.
by alwa 3y ago
I had exactly the same reaction, so much so that I took a moment to view source and track down the font. On my machine, this entry used Avería, which turns out [0] to be cool in its own regard: it's a font of "generative typograph
917.
by alwa 3y ago
You mean Kagi? They’re pretty transparent about how they approach query data, and it’s as privacy-friendly as any I’ve seen. https://kagi.com/privacy
918.
by alwa 3y ago
That odd association seems pretty well-established by prior work. But the study at hand does seem like very well-done research to me: exploiting existing data to achieve a virtually perfect snapshot of a well-defined population at the scale
919.
by alwa 3y ago
But in cases where the bribe is to expedite an official act—they give the example of getting a driver license issued—why wouldn’t the official just give the smile then shuffle your application to the bottom of the pile?
920.
by alwa 3y ago
So have I! I’m puzzled but delighted by how widespread they are-and in fact I’m personally aware of vending locations in several places not reflected on the official map [0]. [0] http://www.euro-souvenirscheine.de/map.php
921.
by alwa 3y ago
I may be misunderstanding the way LLM practitioners use the word “hallucination,” but I understood it to describe it as something different from the kind of “random” nonsense-word failures that happen, for example, when the temperature is t
922.
by alwa 3y ago
I’d be interested to learn more about pre-power-tool techniques for dismantling a meteorite of that size. Do you have any reading recommendations? I’m having trouble getting much further than https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
923.
by alwa 3y ago
That seems like a smart and actionable heuristic to me. Although I have to imagine there will remain an irreducible tension between people who would like to see what is and those who like to see what they imagine should be. Admittedly I don
924.
by alwa 3y ago
> "The flooding of U.S. rice into Haiti is not only economically violent for Haitian peyizan who struggle to sell their local product, but also violent toward the long-term health of Haitian consumers," the report said. This se
925.
by alwa 3y ago
And to emphasize your point, it seems from the coverage like the problem isn’t so much that overbearing managers are setting out to nanny the users as it is that they’re approaching this task in kind of a lazy, box-ticking kind of way rathe
926.
by alwa 3y ago
There’s a fairly recent movie [0] that charmingly dramatizes the efforts of New York City activist Roger Sharpe to overturn the city’s ban. It’s aesthetically satisfying and good-humored, and it weaves a fair amount of history into a lighth
927.
by alwa 3y ago
Did you ever have the pleasure of encountering the US drugstore that replaced the entire set of doors of its entire refrigerated section with hulking, bright, animated, human-height-and-ultra-heavy TV screens? [0] https://www.cnn
928.
by alwa 3y ago
That's quite the brochure. My favorite selling point is the way you can make the machine display products that it's doesn't actually have inside , sell them, and give the punter a digital IOU instead of the soda they tried t
929.
by alwa 3y ago
Earlier today somebody introduced me to Riffusion.com, which seems to do something like this.
930.
by alwa 3y ago
At least in the US, isn’t the stored biometric data just a JPEG of the person’s face? In that sense, a photograph should suffice to reproduce it :) If the intention is in fact to communicate some fact about the passenger to other parties in

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