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by boxerab 1y ago
The French Bourbaki school certainly had a large influence on increasing abstraction in math, with their rallying cry "Down With Triangles". The more fundamental reason is that generalizing a problem works; it distills the essence
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by boxerab 1y ago
"Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better"
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by boxerab 1y ago
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. This rinse cycle is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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by boxerab 1y ago
leftism is truly an inversion of reality - current govt is not outsourcing censorship to do end run around 1A, Biden admin did.
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by boxerab 1y ago
tl;dr The Biden Administration has been caught using the government to force Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to censor its political enemies.
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by boxerab 1y ago
Yes! This MUST be why the VAERS adverse event tracker went through the roof right after the rollout began, and why excess death remains sky high in many countries to this day - because a product that didn't stop you from catching or sp
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by boxerab 1y ago
Here's why we should be wary of the "wonder drug" being touted by GAVI: RFK Jr.: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen. This vaccine targets millions of preteens and teens for whom
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by boxerab 1y ago
"jumps into bed" - gotta love that totally unbiased reporting at The Register.
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by boxerab 1y ago
I am heartbroken to see the way Jimmy Kimmel has been treated. I believe he is, in his heart of hearts, a good and decent fellow, devoid of malice and hate. Just kidding! He's a humorless scold who thought he could lie about Kirk'
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by boxerab 1y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
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by boxerab 1y ago
From John Spencer, a retired United States Army officer, researcher of urban warfare, and author. > The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking https://freebeacon.com/israel/the-u-n-gen
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by boxerab 1y ago
I continue to be amazed by people rushing to give away even more of their personal data to a large corporation, especially one with Meta's privacy-challenged history.
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by boxerab 1y ago
Time to switch to Mattermost.
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by boxerab 1y ago
I think you missed the point. Granted the disease is dangerous, but what if the cure is worse ? If we don't know this is true, we ought to assume the risk outweighs the benefits until PROVEN otherwise- that is the precautionary princi
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by boxerab 1y ago
facts don't care about your feelings, can you answer the question ?
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by boxerab 1y ago
very few people are against vaccines per se, they are just against *unsafe* vaccines. "anti-vax" is a term used to dismiss dissident without having to deal with their arguments i.e an ad hominem. As an analogy, if I object to high
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by boxerab 1y ago
And yet, this is a valid concern for any new drug - does it have a net positive benefit ? And can you guess why DTP was replaced by DTaP in the developed world, while people like Gates and orgs like GAVI are still promoting it in the third
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by boxerab 1y ago
> Sure. This one hasn’t. That is exactly why we need to apply the precautionary principle for new drugs like this one. > That said, I frankly think people should be free to vaccinate as they please Never said they shouldn't be. J
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by boxerab 1y ago
Doesn't answer the question. Other vaccines, for example DTP, have been shown to cause higher long term mortality rate over those who didn't get it. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/3/e000707
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by boxerab 1y ago
Yes, that's one missing piece. Excellent software but there is a steep learning curve, and it has its own format that you need to convert back and forth from.
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by boxerab 1y ago
nice. If you aren't already familiar, you might be interested in this platform for Dutch geospatial data: https://github.com/PDOK . They use mapserver on the cloud at massive scale, and all of their infra is open.
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by boxerab 1y ago
QGIS is fantastic - it's the only OSS viewer I know of that can consistently and efficiently display multi-GB TIFF images without crashing. It has been a long journey - 20 years to capture ~8% of the geospatial market. ESRI still rules
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by boxerab 1y ago
"How to Think About NVIDIA GPUS" is a better title
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by boxerab 1y ago
Excellent presentation - I like that the design bakes in rendering efficiency from the get go.
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by boxerab 1y ago
As an article in The Nation noted, ‘When asked in 1996 what values he retained from his Marxist days, MacIntyre answered, “I would still like to see every rich person hanged from the nearest lamp post.”’
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Unleashing gst-python-ml: Python-powered ML for GStreamer(collabora.com)
2 points by boxerab 1y ago|0 comments
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Full upstream support coming for MediaTek's IoT Edge AI Genio platforms(collabora.com)
12 points by boxerab 2y ago|1 comments
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by boxerab 2y ago
Full upstream support coming for MediaTek's IoT Edge AI Genio platforms
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by boxerab 4y ago
It certainly was a risk in 2013, when the open source libraries were slow and riddled with bugs. Today, there are two stable, well maintained and fast open source libraries available: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjp
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by boxerab 5y ago
read Gulag Archipelago, then get back to me.

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