polotics

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by polotics 3y ago
Connecting with video calls and shared collaboration workspaces has actually been more collaboration than the usual meeting room. Global company work has been going on with offshore teams online for decades already. So I strongly disagree w
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by polotics 3y ago
War has been a net negative the world over for all time. Please find me an example of net zero!
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by polotics 3y ago
compare and contrast: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/02/20/ancient-greek-s... ... https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/greek-word-for-a7f9b77...
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by polotics 3y ago
Ancient Greece does resemble modern Greece in many ways actually. From the food to the language to the geography...
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by polotics 3y ago
Parthenon marbles were taken by lord Elgin with authorisation from the Muslim Ottoman invaders that were holding Greece at the time. The Ottoman's purpose was to destroy any marker of civilization in the land they had invaded. At the s
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by polotics 3y ago
Very interesting to see that every single one of my posts on this have been downvoted, clearly the stakes are high. This will see its day in court, and clearly indeed the meaning of the verb "train" will feature prominently in the
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by polotics 3y ago
Train is not accurate because this word applies to learning performed by humans or animals. An AI is neither. Taking data and putting it into any form of storage, ie weights in a model, is called copying. Producing an output out of the gath
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by polotics 3y ago
You don't train a model with data, as the verb "train" is used to describe something that humans and animals do (as per dictionary definition of the word). The other thing that you can do with data is copy or destroy it. Th
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by polotics 3y ago
How is the copyrighted document being "fed as vectors" if not through a process of copy of the data that it contains? Indeed the semantics are surely going to get their day in court. The fact that you felt the need to qualify repr
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by polotics 3y ago
Sorry, the dictionary definition for the verb "train" is that indeed it applies to humans, and animals. (and nothing else)
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by polotics 3y ago
This is original research. As the word "train" refers to applying the uniquely human capability of acquiring information, the word "upload" seems the most appropriate term fallback to use when referring to putting inform
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by polotics 3y ago
I am sorry but I have a very different reading of the mentioned EC Directive: """Article 5 Exceptions and limitations 1. Temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an inte
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by polotics 3y ago
Well good luck trying to teach your monkey to paint. Let me propose a simple vocabulary refresher: feeding into an human eye is "showing", feeding into a machine is "copying". calling this copying "training" i
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by polotics 3y ago
An ephemeral copy is a copy! no matter how ephemeral, if you lift the pixels from system A to system B, you are copying.
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by polotics 3y ago
People are allowed to learn from it, but as far as law exists now, AI's are not explicitly allowed to learn from it are they? As I understand it, a copyright has to be explicitly granted.
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by polotics 3y ago
If the pictures have been integrated into the training data, then they have most definitely not been deleted: they are an integral part of the model IMHO. The only way to really delete them is to retrain the model, without the pictures.
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by polotics 3y ago
There is also something about galactic habitable zones that is interesting: maybe the Fermi paradox is explained by alien civilization only appearing in galactic fringes, and therefore spread well apart.
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by polotics 4y ago
Linux with xfce is, I think, the answer you're looking for. I guess Fedora on Qubes.
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by polotics 4y ago
Jordan Peterson says things about educating children that are extremely questionable, I recommend you have a go at reading Gabor Maté...
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by polotics 4y ago
The details: one tube on a safety backup system, so with a 0.1% chance of needing to be used, was shown to have the potential to corrode under strain ("corrosion sous contrainte") this led to all plants using that kind of tube bei
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by polotics 4y ago
Did you read the article? Tests have been made that show all readers look at individual letters, subconsciously.
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by polotics 4y ago
I think we should all stop using the term "phonics". If you read the whole article I think you will agree that what you call "phonics" is actually just "reading"... All of the rest, the context, cues, word-reco
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by polotics 4y ago
RAM is permanent as long as you don't pull the plug. If you've been told to preserve evidence, and still pull the plug, then you did not do what you were told to do.
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by polotics 4y ago
Totally not true: coal burning plants were re-opened in Germany, mining for lignite expanded. Here's some non-lying data from before things got even worse: https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/societal-c
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by polotics 4y ago
I am getting the feeling you are being disingenuous: a record is a record, a records that gets deleted after 24 hours was still a record. This is a truth based only on the meaning of the word "record". The chat application was not
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by polotics 4y ago
We have not chosen renewables: if you compute how much oil for transport, coal for Chinese electricity, etc. you need to produce solar panels, as well as massive mining impacts, you realise that the new renewables (solar and wind, not hydro
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by polotics 4y ago
What you do is finally close the cycle with a fast breeder... This was so clear, then Astrid got shot for no good reason. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRID_(reactor)
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by polotics 4y ago
The evacuation was precautionary, killed one person in an accident, only direct loss of life from the Fukushima accident. Not building adequate flood protection and building so close to sea was inane and not something you will find in other
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by polotics 4y ago
I never saw that sentence anywhere, and seeing you quote it definitely raises my eyebrow. Are you aware that not everyone posting on the web is who they say they represent? The quotes looks more like inflammatory tactics than anything a fem
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by polotics 4y ago
What changes happened? Can you be more specific? All I can see is: Russia invaded Ukraine, the great German idea of relying on Russian gas to manage the intermitent nature of Energiewende dreams went down the drain. Even more coal and ligni

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