kazinator

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by kazinator 2mo ago
I can tell right away that is stupid because one of the things I've used AI for was for deciphering someone's illegible handwriting, which it did amazingly. Once it figures out for you what is written, you can't unsee it, so
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Suppose that an artist trains an AI model purely on their own works, and then the AI generates something similar to that artist's work. I would say that the artist must be allowed to assert copyright over that. The artist has copyright
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> Time to look into privacy settings. Here is a privacy setting: leave the "about:" field blank in your profile, if you don't want anyone reading it? It's one click away from every one of your comments; no digging r
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by kazinator 2mo ago
It is important that they not be clearly signaled.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The problem is that angles in the complex plane are related to multiplication, which is related to exponentiation. When you multiply two complex numbers z1 and z2, their angles add: Arg(z1 z2) = Arg(z1) + Arg(z2). That carries into exponent
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by kazinator 2mo ago
What? "sqrt(2)" is literally 7 bytes. :)
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Speaking of inconvenience, since the GrapheneOS user is obviously posting from its own Mastodon instance, maybe they should configure the darn thing to allow them to write larger posts. You can do that!
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> Caring about slopes implies that I’m doing calculus You could be using the results of calculus, which became frazzled with gratuitous constants because of poor angle units before anyone wrote any code. You want to keep all the ma
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The derivative of log x being 1/x is "clean", free of arbitrary constants. If we change away from e being the base, we lose that. The derivative of log_b x is 1/(x ln b), where ln b is 1 if b is e. The computational as
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by kazinator 2mo ago
The math is definitely not fine with turns, because your Euler formula e^ix = cos x + i sin x no longer holds. We can use a base other than e , namely B = e^2pi which around 535.4916. This doesn't have the nice e properties like d&#x
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by kazinator 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/wip/BhUIH (queued)
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by kazinator 2mo ago
If you want a Casio watch and are traveling to Japan, just get one at a second hand shop there (WonderEx, Second Street, ...). They are tend to be well stocked on the Casio cruft. I have a Casio PHYS STR-800, nonworking. I got it two decade
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Indoor pollution --> open a window or two
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by kazinator 2mo ago
https://archive.is/YpyHu
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by kazinator 2mo ago
I would argue that someone driving around with 60 psi in tires that are supposed to be 33 is a smidgeon more than minutiae, since there is a real risk.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Because that could not also be a citable offense?
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by kazinator 2mo ago
I played with AI a bit on and off 2022 to 2025 or so. It's just passive (or mildly active) entertainment, nothing more. Stuff is being "created", but it's not coming from me, and so I don't feel I'm making anyt
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by kazinator 2mo ago
If you can tell that it was a "what", it's not good enough.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> We are at a point where we cannot dismiss an argument because it was written using LLM No we aren't.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
There is simply too much ad copy in the volume of AI training data.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
They don't desperately need to be regulated, as such. They need to be regulated in such a way that there is a very expensive and biased certification process, which is conducted by companies that are certified to do the certifying and
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by kazinator 2mo ago
I would say that Cloudfare having customers who don't know exactly what they are getting (into) is actually a Cloudfare problem they should take responsibility for.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
OK, how can Cloudfare edit your HTML without it passing through your server? If the browser connects directly to your web server, how can there be Cloudfare's analytics stuff? Check what IP address you are connecting to when you load t
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by kazinator 2mo ago
If this is HTTPS, how would Cloudfare have the certificate for your domain so that browsers don't warn about a mismatch? Or is it that when you sign over DNS to a provider, they can take over your cert? They can "ass-cert" th
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by kazinator 2mo ago
If you're only using Cloudfare for DNS, but HTTPS connections go directly to your server, how does it inject HTML? You must be allowing Cloudfare to terminate your HTTPS connections; i.e. using them for actual proxying.
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by kazinator 2mo ago
That reminds me of an anecdote that my high school English teacher used to tell, as a way of cautioning against use of thesauruses: some student substituted "flatus" for "wind" in their composition, writing something lik
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by kazinator 2mo ago
Sharing context among users is a good way to spread hepatAItis. :)
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by kazinator 2mo ago
> He derives the case for the chip and then spends the rest of the article annoyed that the chip exists. This is almost satirical. His criticisms are entirely valid, because why can't the the thing that has a free spec and will li
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by kazinator 2mo ago
One trick is to ask the AI to reword something for an N-th grade reading comprehension level for some N <= 8. Not that I do this (I don't write with AI), but I have experimented with it. Here is what Gemini 3.6 Flash produced from t
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by kazinator 2mo ago
It would be executed by anyone who experiences a problem using a site with Firefox and asks for help about it in a forum, or chat AI, or finds a YT video about it, etc. Non-technical people do follow recommendations like installing an exten

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