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by mateo1 5y ago
1. Pump 2. Dump <--- You are here
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Maybe that's a lot to ask, but can someone explain to me or guide me to material to gain a better understanding of principles behind diffusion probabilistic models? My knowledge of statistics is just too basic to even read these papers
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by mateo1 5y ago
yeah, if ARM takes over the laptop market it will be the beginning of the end for open software. They'll be shipping like phones do today. There's no realistic alternative to the OEMs stock OS unless you trust shady and often botc
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by mateo1 5y ago
How much do you trust add-on developers? For the past 5 years I'm only using add-ons during recreational browsing. The market for personal information is just too aggressive to assume you're safe. I imagine this is part of the rea
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There's no point in using such methods as the physics surrounding optics aren't a black box, they're well-known and understood. However lens design is very complicated, there are dozens of design parameters and trade-offs to
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by mateo1 5y ago
The thing I'm most intrigued by is Musk's personality transformation from a somehow modest visionary to a social media clown manipulating markets and destroying naive people with no regrets. Of course I haven't been following
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by mateo1 5y ago
There are things the author overlooks. Primarily, the incredibly massive amount of information and services that has gone online in the past 10 years. From taxing your car to entire digitized libraries of scientific magazines that are there
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by mateo1 5y ago
There is one problem really. These companies are not charging money for their services. It's the same problem with other mega-corps. They can afford short and medium-term losses to kill other players entering the field. This is the roo
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The fewer categories they use, the less manpower and computer power they spend on classifying and censoring content. They serve millions upon millions of queries a day with millisecond response times, and they don't get paid for provid
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by mateo1 5y ago
"Modelling scattering media with a thickness of 1-9μm" would be a better title. It's something, but the layer is so thin that the title looks like a joke.
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by mateo1 7y ago
If I was Canadian I'd be really angry knowing my tax money funded this man's career. After reading Murray's previous publications I feel like the world is really unfair and I certainly think less of Social Psychologists and T
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The WSJ has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader (2018)(niemanlab.org)
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by mateo1 7y ago
That's just hilarious. We live in an era where the statistical differences between the appearance of men and women are better understood than ever before, thanks to artificial neural networks, and we can in fact pinpoint the exact comb
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by mateo1 7y ago
Trains can't replace flights. You can't get from Munich to London in 2 hours with a train. Trains are often much more expensive than flights too.
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by mateo1 7y ago
Honestly, it's 2020, even if your technical understanding is so low that you have no idea what a "browser" is, you know that Google will do anything in it's impressive power to track down everything you do with legal o
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by mateo1 7y ago
You imply that they care about this. They don't.
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by mateo1 7y ago
When I was a teenager I wrote a couple flash games with actionscript. I think the biggest thing about flash, asides from running consistently on all platforms, was how simple it was to build functional stuff on it. Adobe's Flash Profes
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by mateo1 7y ago
This is not just about lockpicking, Youtube has a trully incomprehensibly vast amount of content locked into their platform. They can hold viewers hostage with it. My opinion on the morality of the matter is that old abandoned and unclaimed
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by mateo1 7y ago
I wasn't aware they allowed this. It's a horrible idea, but it leads further towards Google's dream of an fully and instantly mutable, impossible to reference, fully personalised internet where no one and everyone could be ac
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by mateo1 7y ago
Every time I see yet another article claiming lard and saturated fats aren't bad for your cardiovascular system, I feel like I have the ethical obligation to remind everyone how this is false. Please don't fall for fads, ask your
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by mateo1 8y ago
Looks like it could be retrofitted for political content very easily.
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by mateo1 8y ago
In order for those "soft kill" technologies to work, you need to get all the "big" particles out of the fluid. Similarly to how potable water needs to be filtered and flocculated before chlorination becomes effective. So
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by mateo1 8y ago
Not nearly as practical as taking a look at your garage door while leaving though. If you're paranoid you can install a timer with an override switch. Surely telemetry and high-level automation has advantages, but is it worth the hassl
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by mateo1 8y ago
Echolocation in a "true" 3d environment is a very hard computational problem, which is why many aqueous mammals developed larger brains.
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by mateo1 8y ago
Most "smart" home automation utilities are pretty useless anyway. Their end goal can usually be achieved with "dumb" electromechanical devices. Anything "smarter" than a motion sensor and a relay is probably to
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by mateo1 8y ago
Is there a good (and short) technical summary of the 5G specifications? I've seen some (very disturbing) values of 20W/square meter reported. Is this true?
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If you want transcriptions, proximity indication, scanning wireless networks, expanding your geodesic grid to accurately locate dumbphones etc, you need custom software. This is what this is (mostly) about. Sure we can pretend it's abo
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by mateo1 8y ago
A closed-source Google-developed OS for feature phones. Obviously it's the best spend DoD money so far. Just 20 millions. You need to track poor people too.
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by mateo1 8y ago
Very disconcerting. I guess organizations can now kill people based on a hidden 'citizen score' or a similar political metric.
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Those 2 libraries are the closest thing to the modern internet equivalent of the "Library of Alexandria". I hope they don't manage to burn in down. Yes, for now governments only caught up to DNS level blocking, but more eff

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