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by kurthr 2y ago
I mean none of the major LLM/DL developers would scrape the entire web (even against robots.txt and paywalls) just to increase the amount of data they could unprofitably train with, because that would expose them to copyright litigatio
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, listening/matching for specific songs or words is trivial locally. It has been done commercially since the early 2000s (for ASCAP) on mobile phones, when they were dumb bricks. The idea that every single company is following some
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by kurthr 2y ago
I don't remember the effective social movements and resulting changes in society you describe coming from threats of violence (in the US). Whether it was suffrage or labor rights, the greatest power for violence was always with the sta
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by kurthr 2y ago
Absolutely, if there's a moderately anonymous way to get significant sums of money out of something, sophisticated attackers will spend significant effort and even % of funds to extract it. That includes bribery, phishing, spamming, as
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by kurthr 2y ago
That would be wonderful.
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by kurthr 2y ago
This is about the beta iPad calculator in iPadOS 18 from a month ago: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-18-calculator-app/
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow, but yes, if he has collected personal/(un)encrypted data, then he and the infrastructure he controls would be one of the weakest links wherever he is. I do think the Russian response is quite a bit of projec
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by kurthr 2y ago
Don't collect any large scale data on your public (customer?) you don't want adversaries to have. You quickly become the weakest link.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Maybe it will be fixed in Apple Calculator for iPad (soon to be released 2024) in iOS 18?!?
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by kurthr 2y ago
Still true after 40 years.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, there's not a lot of S or F there so it would be expensive. Also, I think the solar wind would tend to lead to significant charge build up (and plasma discharge?) as it was slowly blown away. Might be pretty?
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by kurthr 2y ago
Apparently, the expected population peak with Africa and India is about 10 billion people. My suspicion is that machines replace more and more economic activity within wealthy contracting nations. Humans already cost several $100k in the US
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by kurthr 2y ago
Ummm... that's PoC to you, and conveniently it now covers all of "the others". Frankly, I think these are developed by HR so that they can more easily write inoffensive copy without considering their bias or the audience. Mos
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by kurthr 2y ago
Because, this is how the scammers described themselves, in Mandarin using colorful language.
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by kurthr 2y ago
There is something called a FAR/FRR (False Accept Ratio)/(False Reject Ratio) where parameters on a UI system are tuned to optimize accurate interpretation of user intent (or user identification) for a given environment and action
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by kurthr 2y ago
"It practically guarantees people will think it's not working and tap again" Please provide a link to your data and analysis. Seriously, I hope you don't work for a major touchscreen supplier. A good UI can deal with rel
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by kurthr 2y ago
As someone with long industry experience, I share your disbelief. I'd need to see the Fitts tests results for 250ms max delay (<150ms median?) on button state, as long press is also a thing. On touch/trackpads typical double t
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, technically those might be negative spending to the extent that they are arms sales not offset by any subsidy or aid. Certainly, the cost of disposal for many of the older shells would have been higher than sending them off to Ukraine
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by kurthr 2y ago
Please provide a theory about (explaining) a phenomena, which does not presuppose the existence of the things (not the theory and not the phenomena) used to explain it. I think it's going to be a boring tautology of an unfalsifiable th
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by kurthr 2y ago
Which means that almost all tips would be taxed. Most tipped workers make over 30% of their income in tips, and certainly the highest tipped workers that pay the most taxes do. That makes not taxing the first 25% of tipped income which woul
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by kurthr 2y ago
"Elementary particles do have a purpose, they are for explaining a measurable physical phenomena." Don't confuse what you think was said with what was said. I didn't say neutrinos were the explanation or that they we
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by kurthr 2y ago
Luckily, there aren't multiple hostile nation states capable of this. /s All that I can see preventing it is deniability and eco-political risk.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Completely agree. The fine article discusses the attack issues with most PoW. The problem is that even the threat of such attack makes success more likely. I don't know that there aren't other issues, but it seems PoS at least has
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by kurthr 2y ago
It depends on whether your goal is a deflationary currency that gives outsized rewards to early adopters.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Elementary particles do have a purpose, they are for explaining a measurable physical phenomena. https://cds.cern.ch/record/677618/files/p115.pdf See the above paper, but my memory is that they are involved i
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by kurthr 2y ago
Drivers are spending >10% of their time on phones? Before the start of the trial, the participants all averaged more than 6.4 minutes per hour of handheld use while driving... Paying drivers on top of competitive gamification
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Gamification gets drivers to put down their phones(arstechnica.com)
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by kurthr 2y ago
LOL! I mean, I actually agree with your first comment a bit since the Fed has been reduced to a "jaw boning" organization, and they're not fixing anything. Hopefully, they don't cause a crisis. However, you both miss the
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by kurthr 2y ago
Why would evolution "tweak the obvious knobs" for something well beyond our breeding age 100-500-5000 years ago? The best argument is that those same tweaks affect child bearing/survival performance in the same direction. Sin
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by kurthr 2y ago
People are trying to bring back Clippy, because nostalgia for when bad wasn't quite as terrible.

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