mdp2021

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by mdp2021 3mo ago
As the edit in the post tells you, I initially interpreted «auto loans» as "car rentals" - "lending an auto".
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How the "censorship-industrial complex" is changing the Internet and US policy(technologyreview.com)
2 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|0 comments
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Phone tracking adding to license plate readers, associating devices with cars(techxplore.com)
4 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|2 comments
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Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, not filling empty Democratic seat(arstechnica.com)
13 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> If you want to get all dogmatic against stuff like laws against money laundering, come up with an effective alternative No, it's not just a matter of alternatives: it is also a matter of principles. For example: in europe, I am
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> feel like the most humane ways to slow it down (Let us not feel:) How many innocent economic actors does the regulation hit.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
People with tourist visas I expect fully entitled and able to get car loans... (Edit: maybe I am misunderstanding the whole thing: is it "loaning cars" or is it "loaning the money to buy cars"?)
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Is it creating the manual of the dystopia planner to list the excuses for totalitarism? "National security", "Personal security", "The safety of your kids", "the children"... Or is it prodromic to a &
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
And to think I have censored my "Welcome to the Internet, where you will find post-flatearthers that believe in the shape of a 2.5d Moebius bottle". Given the type of things vocal people believe, no, posters must know we cannot as
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> What if these people ... What if What if we got proper stats instead of adding slices to the pie chart not knowing how big they are. "What if they were all perverts". Well, that would have been remarkable in the distribut
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> a violation of the fourth amendment that protects the rights of people against unreasonable searches and seizures So there exist juridical interpretations that call monitoring low value money transfer «unreasonable searches and seizu
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> A fast, low power ROM is the key ingredient Surely it is clear to you that Read-Only /Memory/ does not /compute/, and our need is to compute through the data in the memory... That is CiM - a technology not that si
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Update: of course the immediate problem is that in LLMs the formulation is parallel to the process, but I was wondering whether a way may exist to go "in the direction of image refining", the other. "Token production" an
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Suppose you had an LLM (NN) producing its default output from an input (a generally optimal for-most-cases role-sys, and any role-user), and then you wanted to have that output reformatted in some style (e.g. "In iambic pentameter&quot
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> What trigger would you setup to protect against thieves? "Wipe the data after a number of failed logon attempts". I understand that this does not fit completely with the "in front of law enforcement" idea, but it
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Because the submitter has own issues that make his operation imperfect, and when he saw single quoted ''huge'' he said, I shall correct them into a double quoted '"huge"' or omit them quotes - a synta
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> "setup a trigger that wipes a device" is already on shaky grounds It isn't on shaky grounds: you protect your private device from everyone, not just from some "law enforcement". If you want to protect your pr
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> a high trust society That is in fact a highly naïve, direly naïve society: (*) the data is not contained into national boundaries by law already, and (*) you cannot know what will happen to the country and society in n years time.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Thank you, I will devour it, but it seems to misrepresent a naïve point: simple Bayes. Id est, > Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phon
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Linus Torvalds says AI has made Linux kernel updates the new normal(theregister.com)
12 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|3 comments
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Sure, but actually, our current need is not really for "ROM": it is for "CiM", compute-in-memory - we want to minimize the data movement bottlenecks. That some implementations could be read-only is actually a disadvantag
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
If you have a 2 years old item working and the new 2 months old item offers little advantage over the old one, and its cost is nonzero, an important part of the aggregate demand will stick with the old one... So, when the models will be &qu
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MIT researchers tackle the economic realities of fusion power(news.mit.edu)
3 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
I met the parent comment downvoted: I don't know why, given e.g. the rule from the current administration in the USA that, for visitors, the absence of social network profiles is to be taken as cause for suspicion.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> Using GrapheneOS makes you a According to?
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
To the best of my understanding it would make no sense - they are already using (I have to investigate how they achieved it technically) a single transistor to store the "weight", and they manage to encode an FP4 in it (through a
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> gpt-3.5 was touted as almost AGI If you have the names, so we can record them in the History of Laughing Stocks... Also remember maybe all those who shouted "that is really, precisely unintelligent". Incidentally: also Sam
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
I have seen smiling people talking to their connected car, replying with a dumb condescending bad-actor voice. I had also seen Frankie Boyle in his parody of Knight Rider: "Michael, I am Kitt, your car, stop taking the medications, the
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
What would you have tried to mean? "The system in place allowed what happened to happen"? What you wrote can mean everything and nothing.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> before rag was widely introduced And when did RAG start to work properly as a mature, reliable technology?

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