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The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the largest bill ever passed by the House, at 5593 pages of text [1]. It contains sections about artificial intelligence, carbon monoxide alarms, salmon fisheries, firearm sales, the James Webb
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Today, the 1950's era "Duck and Cover" drills [1] are sometimes laughed at. However, in the event of an actual nuclear blast, some simple preparation would save lives. When a bright flash lights up the sky, people indoors wil
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AI Koans (1983)(people.cs.uchicago.edu)
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The actual site for PyTorch3D is https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d and the paper introducing it is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08501 The link submitted here appears to be an advertis
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This is a great point. Maybe it would be more in line with the facts to say that elite overproduction was "a contributing factor to the famines of 1300-1350 and the wars of 1350-1400". That doesn't seem to line up well with T
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For further context: this Economist article [1] references a letter to the editor by Peter Turchin [2], which is itself a response to the Nature 2010 opinion article "2020 visions" [3]. [1] https://www.economist.com&#x2
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In Peter Turchin's book War and Peace and War [1], the term "elite overproduction" does not refer to an overproduction of smart people, education, or college degrees. Instead, it refers to an overproduction of nobility , ind
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A problem with opt-in data collection is that whenever the law allows a user to opt in, businesses will require the user to opt in. A ban on facial recognition doesn't mean much if every hotel, gym, and pizza parlor has a shrink-wr
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Once upon a time, there was a certain large and innovative American technology company. It invented incredible hardware devices, which it sold to end users. Each device was programmed to connect to this company's network, and to access
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The PSU Grievance Studies Affair [1] had the same objective as the 1996 Sokal Affair: to test peer review by submitting obviously bad papers that should be rejected, and seeing how many of them are accepted. The motivation behind this is en
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This article talks about technologies used to produce human-like text, and "deep-fake" video and audio. The article argues that such generative AI can be used by criminals to commit fraud- but at the same time, AI can also be used
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When I was hiking in Western Australia I saw a beautiful Eucalyptus tree. But I didn't know whether it was Eucalyptus aquilina or Eucalyptus torquata . So I went to torquatawhether.com to find out. Sadly, no one had registered that
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You don't need to bid up the price of existing .com domain names. Even in 2020 there are plenty of perfectly good ones that nobody has claimed yet! All you need are two or three words that satisfy the following criteria: 1. The words,
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These tiny coin-cell-powered Bluetooth tags are great for tracking your lost dog or stolen backpack, but they can do lots of other things, too! They can measure temperature, acceleration, and magnetic fields, so you can use them to detect w
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Qualcomm and Huawei are both "fabless" semiconductor companies, like NVidia or AMD. These companies design chips, but do not own foundries to manufacture them. TSMC is a "pure-play foundry", a company that does not desig
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How much software depends on Apple, AMD, Nvidia, or Qualcomm chips? TSMC is an indispensable part of our industry's supply chain. Most of its chips are produced in Taiwan and over 75% are sold to customers in either the USA or (mainlan
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The auto-generated fonts and logos are great! The site is a little bit slow from all the traffic right now, though. For a fast and very simple name generator, I recommend https://startupname.website
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The paper[1] claims that MIP* = RE. At first I wasn't sure whether that was true, because the paper is too long and complicated for me to verify. But then I found a series of questions and answers written by this quantum guy Scott Aaro
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The substantive part of this conversation comes about 35 minutes in, when Allen describes the DoD's five AI ethics principles: that any deployed AI systems must be "Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable, and Governable.&quot
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The article describes how to receive weather imagery directly from satellites using an SDR. It's a fun project, and surely useful if you don't have Internet access. However, if you do have Internet access, GOES-16 [1] provides a b
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This is a great use of a Makefile- notice how the audio file will only be downloaded if it does not already exist. That said, if you're just looking for a simple one-liner you can paste into the terminal, my go-to is this one: ca
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The article mentions the use of "Juggalo" style face paint to avoid face detection. This type of countermeasure is effective against conventional HOG-SVM type face detectors such as [1], but would be inadvisable for daily use. To
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The book "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber defines five types of jobs, two of which are "goons" and "box tickers". Goons include hired people who lobby aggressively on behalf of their employer: lobbyists, corpor