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by spwa4 5mo ago
When I wrote a captcha cracking convnet in 2000 and tested it ... And in 1 out of 5 runs it beat me.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
TLDR: Russia is jamming GPS and GNSS over Europe, purposefully, using a constellation of military satellites, part of the Russian nuclear program. Theory is that Russia has been constantly practicing to totally disrupt GPS and GNSS (and t
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by spwa4 5mo ago
TLDW: Russia is jamming GPS and GNSS over Europe, purposefully, using a constellation of military satellites. Theory is that Russia is constantly practicing to totally disrupt GPS and GNSS (and the Chinese system) across all of Europe.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
I don't think reasonable people are going to defend the Iranian government on moral grounds. The president is fine, btw. It was the "supreme leader" that got killed, and he is known to have ordered the extermination of 600,00
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Rewriting at least std::vector was a standard way to prep for a Google interview. And std::map if you wanted bonus points or a level up. Also, really interesting to do.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
> So it makes sense that there's nothing to do about a lead-poisoned population other than stop adding more. Well the criticism is, of course, that lead poisoning, in most cases was the government doing it (e.g. Flint, and lead pipe
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by spwa4 5mo ago
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260602-eu-agrees-deal-f... (they wouldn't do this unless they were desperate to stop extreme right. Obviously, for migrants, this means war with immigration services)
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by spwa4 5mo ago
The argument that the US is the 'cause' of the hurt ignores the fact that Iran is essentially taking the global economy hostage to achieve a political goal. By blocking the strait, Iran isn't targeting the US ... as you noted
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Of course, the percentage is all that matters. If you damage yourself 10% per month, you're dead in a year. And if you do in absolute value 10x the damage to another party but that's only 1% for them ... they're not dead, you
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by spwa4 5mo ago
If you think fetal alcohol syndrome is bad, check what the consequences of lead poisoning are, knowing that just about every state has mass-contaminated their population with lead and then refused to help with the consequences. You can avoi
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Ever since 2022, interest rates (and thus the reasons for investment) have been what passes for high these days. Hence companies running out of runway because they can't keep loaning more. AI is an excuse.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
You mean Iran had been pushing itself west/modern and was quite western by 1979. So she was raised as a young girl into a western context, despite that people now want to deny this existed. Even back then the mullahs and islam were loo
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by spwa4 5mo ago
They're paying pretty well and recruiting everywhere, especially for ML. Same reason people ignore the "60 hours per week is the sweet spot" comments.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
I used "AI" in the 2000's to increase my homework assignments, and to correct them. As in I wrote code to generate random exercises, with solutions, using many tricks, to get myself hundreds of problems instead of 1 or 2. Oft
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by spwa4 5mo ago
After first firing half their AI staff, to follow up with reorganizing BOTH AI departments so most survivors don't trust their managers? Oh and the OG AI department at Google had essentially everyone fired (you know, the one that had l
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by spwa4 5mo ago
The EU is the member states. And I don't claim it is a sinister conspiracy, I simply claim the result is that the EU let Chinese companies get away with violating laws that EU companies would be sued and destroyed for. Most packages
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Yes, absolutely. In fact that's a big feature now in Autodesk. 99% of the design of a house is "detailing". Where does power line #8128 go? Does floor section 38 have the right slope? How big should water line #92 be and does
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by spwa4 5mo ago
But if you look at actual proteins where the function is pretty direct, you see ... a total mess. For example, the actual light catcher for photosynthesis, chlorophyll, you see rather suboptimal architecture. There is a central magnesium io
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Actual "warning": https://leidendeclaration.ai/ Far more interesting as it's outlaying a set of principles for using AI to augment human involvement and science, rather than replacement.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
> This is about all the time, effort, paperwork and risk it takes to add yet another vendor. This is stupid. This protects you from having a risk to have to do small things (very small things), and updates, by increasing the risk you h
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by spwa4 5mo ago
TLDR: First, deportation. Second: Americans realizing they lose nothing by moving abroad, enjoy cheap housing, cheap healthcare, cheap ... while still holding US jobs at US wages.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Since you've successfully moved into the blatantly absurd, how about I just let Captain Darling and General Melchett explain how the period before the Pax Americana worked. First, WHAT the rich were fighting over: https://ww
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Amino acid (sequence) defines the folds. And really? Just any random sequence gets you a new fold. I mean, it won't be very useful if you pick a random one, but it'll work and be a new one. I think this is just an artifact of natu
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by spwa4 5mo ago
We could be glib: when actually reading through that page, it's pretty obvious that the Iranian revolution was a leftist revolution (and Moscow was supporting a side, the side that "won"). But was anyone really expecting left
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by spwa4 5mo ago
This is just repeating the fact that the proteins life actually uses are a very small part of the total possible ones. First, there's no real length limit, but all life's proteins are limited to a few thousand amino acids. Most
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by spwa4 5mo ago
> Status quo is a shipping lane that's been open since the 1980s. Yes, people are incredibly bad at recognizing that something that must change, will change, and instead simply refuse to accept reality. Also see Climate Change. Al
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by spwa4 5mo ago
They explicitly said that they were trying to free people held there. Oh, AND they succeeded at that.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
This sounds so incredible ... do you seriously believe that? "it's purely a reaction to the authoritarian regime of the Shah previously used to further American interests" Seriously? THAT is what you think Khomeini wanted a
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by spwa4 5mo ago
I think AI will make software developers and system administrators a necessity for many more companies, because they'll have AI carry out other jobs. Given the quantity of such companies that exist, I'd expect a lot more jobs
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by spwa4 5mo ago
The norm of human history is constant wars, extreme repression, and genocide, yes. Oh, and levels of taxation even Karl Marx would immediately agree are theft. In fact, ending the pre-pax-Americana period is what the manifesto is about. (th

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