Ravus

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by Ravus 26d ago
Nope, still different. If you save the image as png, the tip of the leftmost arrow is at 68 pixels and the one of the rightmost one is at 393, while the crooks are 73 and 388.
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by Ravus 27d ago
> "Müller-Lyer illusion, the two lines that look like they’re different lengths but aren't" I hate that the author gave a picture in which the two lines actually are of different lengths, as you can see from trying to pick
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by Ravus 1mo ago
Concrete high-profile example: in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Feynman told of a ball which, in a Brazilian college-level physics book, was described as having a 40% higher acceleration that it would actually have in
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by Ravus 1mo ago
> Recognise it is simply a zero-intelligence search engine I think that this highlights the problem: it's not even a proper search engine. If it were, it would find existing material and link to it. The chatbot instead re-elaborates
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by Ravus 3mo ago
If we're on the topic of hardware, let's remember that a few years before ARPANET, Olivetti was a powerhouse rivaling IBM. The ELEA mainframe came out with a competitive design in 1957. One of the reasons why things did not pan ou
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by Ravus 3mo ago
Completely agreed, it is rational to de-escalate by several steps (e.g. to have cloud providers "spontaneously" decide to split into different, actually autonomous but still privately owned, corps, which in turn is a threat to ret
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by Ravus 3mo ago
> In the cases provided for by the law and with provisions for compensation, private property may be expropriated for reasons of general interest. Excerpt from article 42 of the Italian constitution. This would cover, for instance, the e
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by Ravus 3mo ago
> It's why the US entered WW1 and WW2 even if it didn't have to. Because if it didn't and just decided to sit it out chilling away from the conflit, it would have missed out on all the major industrial and technical progre
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by Ravus 3mo ago
> a lot of the time when servers start getting turned off the team that could do this work has been dissolved or are working on other things. That is precisely why the SKG initiative mandates it - so that it's available from the sta
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by Ravus 3mo ago
I can vouch for what you're saying - Italy is a jurisdiction in which truth is not a defense, for instance. Truthful statement seem to be a defense for Germany, though. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb&#
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by Ravus 3mo ago
GDPR also applies to companies that provide services to EU citizens, no matter where the company is based. This makes a lot of sense, because otherwise you'd get situations where Multi Corp X could claim, "Oh, but our Berlin offi
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by Ravus 3mo ago
Disclaimers and user acceptance does not remove liability for slander, particularly against third parties. In fact, in most EU countries "the user acknowledged" works only for a very small subset of stuff, precisely because our la
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by Ravus 4mo ago
Thank you. I was missing that info because I do not get that banner, currently surfing that site from the EU without any login. Visiting the same URL on the .co.uk version gives me a multi-article scroller with different layout and links (i
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by Ravus 4mo ago
I notice a different, amazing angle that doesn't really stand out in current comments. This is a BBC article. UK public broadcasting, paid with taxpayer money and aggressively collected - one of the first things I got when moving to a
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by Ravus 4mo ago
"personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person" - GDPR article 4 Data often pertains to multiple people (trivial case: direct messages between two users); the rights of GDPR apply to
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by Ravus 6mo ago
> assuming the bottleneck in this process has so far been coding is pure BS. This is the core insight for most businesses. When evaluating the impact of AI on velocity, the first thing to consider is how long it takes for a one-line code
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by Ravus 8mo ago
One should not overlook the human/emotional aspect. Decision-makers are not immune from it. Hegemony comes with a certain degree of humiliation. Socially, it means accepting that a foreign language being taught in elementary schools be
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by Ravus 8mo ago
Threats only works if the threatened entity thinks they can avoid them via compliance. Tariffs come anyway, both Canada and Denmark are under threat of annexation, and ICC suspensions of Microsoft emails show that governments cannot rely on
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by Ravus 8mo ago
I do not think that this is likely to be a successful model. When (not if) software breaks in production, you need to be able to debug it effectively. Knowing that external libraries do their base job is really helpful in reducing the searc
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by Ravus 1y ago
Exponential curves happen when a quantity's growth rate is a linear function of its own value. In practice they're all going to be logistic, but you can ignore that as long as you're far away from the cap of whatever factor l
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by Ravus 1y ago
> it's just mimicking the human ideas of good/bad that are tied to most "things" in the training data. Most definitely. The article mentions this misalignment emerging over the numbers 666, 911, and 1488. Those intege
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by Ravus 1y ago
It's sadly an example of terrible leading question bias, to the point where I'm surprised that it even got a 22% oppose rate. The percentages would change dramatically were one to write it as, "From everything you have seen a
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by Ravus 1y ago
Regarding [1], the study itself mentions that stopping watching porn reverses the effect. In layman's terms: watch enough of it and the novelty wears off, but the sexual drive returns. Hardly a harm, it's what happens with every h
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by Ravus 2y ago
I moved to Sweden three months ago. The article is good in pointing out that a cashless society has runaway effects to other social systems. Despite being in one of the best situations possible (EU citizen, works in tech, has assistance fro