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by deepnet 4d ago
An insightful post by one of the AI ‘godfathers’. Bengio outlines the dangers of the current situation and what has led to these dangers. He also proposes solutions in the last paragraph. Well worth a read, right to the end. Hopefully a sti
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by deepnet 2mo ago
Stallman was right : without the four freedoms your software owns you rather than vis-a-versa. Interoperability is the key to breaking out of walled gardens and owning your own data and digital self. This is a big win but google will fight
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by deepnet 5mo ago
Predators discourage most rats and kill some. Pray spends less time at a location if there are predators. The prey is skittish. Glue traps kill Rats, new rats fill the niche. Some rats learn to avoid them. Wolves harry deer and kill some bu
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by deepnet 11mo ago
Embrace Extend Oopsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by deepnet 1y ago
Root reason & comp sci application is mentioned near start : “ Many moons back I was self-learning Galois Fields for some erasure coding theory applications.” Erasure codes are based on finite fields, e.g. Galois fields. The author is f
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by deepnet 1y ago
Xylitol is a sugar from birch tree sap.
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by deepnet 1y ago
Thank you German is not my strong point
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by deepnet 1y ago
Ironically, a primary use case for AI will be to summarise AI summaries of articles and CVs. In a sea of slop…
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by deepnet 1y ago
I am not an LLM [edit] ( as far as I know ;-), but thanks for the profile crit I probably should tidy it up.
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by deepnet 1y ago
Because the article is currently down so the summary is all there is for now. Yes it provides no extra information but in the [hnews hug of death] of the article it is the only information at the moment
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by deepnet 1y ago
Trump has ~91k files in the data https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GomVrWxWMAA5S-_?format=jpg&name=... [edit] site down - reddit link to the 10tb https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments&#x2F
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Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses(trendsnewsline.com)
217 points by deepnet 1y ago|91 comments
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by deepnet 2y ago
Yes ! tl;dr air pump saves turning the heap, insulation keeps heat in, currently Raspi sensing methane, moisture and temp controlling water & air inputs has improved my home hot heap yields 80% and completely automated it - 100% labor f
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by deepnet 2y ago
A hot heap captures more carbon, releases less methane and makes much compost, much faster, from same amount of base material ( less evaporates ). Ideally takes 6 weeks to compost a whole heap - using hot methods. Also kills fungi & pat
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by deepnet 2y ago
Ultrasound selfies at home, clinical trial reports self administered ultrasound scans on par with professional ones. https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/ultrasound-se...
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by deepnet 2y ago
tl;dr I agree, cool project, and yes the Aaron Schwartz piece is powerful It is good to have heroes, exemplars and role-models to offer inspiration. Especially in difficult times it is good to be reminded of the huge differences individuals
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by deepnet 2y ago
If you treat people as overly simple machines you might as well mechanise that part of the process. Human workers have hand skill, learning, intelligence, wisdom, introspection, communication, colour and pattern recognition all of which ar
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by deepnet 2y ago
It is very well designed, the palette makes the information easy to grok as an overview - without being overwhelming. Impressively subtle design.
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by deepnet 2y ago
From the iPhone 16 settings page : “Apple intelligence is not available when language is set to English ( United Kingdom )”
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by deepnet 2y ago
The workers control the paddle and the scooping of the beads. A smart worker will eyeball their draw for red and redraw a few times until they get a good draw. There may be other ways to flick off red beads by tilting and tapping. None of t
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by deepnet 2y ago
Yes, we can but try, and ( only ) in trying find it so. For better or for worse. Fascinating man and pragmatic scholar, James. Empirical and stoic
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by deepnet 2y ago
Scary stuff
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by deepnet 2y ago
Indeed this is the risk if Trump breaches the USA’s 1994 treaty agreement by surrendering territory in a ‘peace-deal’ then not only will the USA be oath breakers but who will trust a nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the future. Perhaps T
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by deepnet 2y ago
My takeaway ( and an indication of who actually needs a performance review [ e.g. the manager ]) “ It’s my opinion that the biggest factor in an employee's performance – perhaps bigger than the employee’s abilities and level of effort
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by deepnet 2y ago
The USA & Russia made a pact to defend the Ukraine, based on the Ukraine giving up their nukes. “ As the United States mediated between Russia and Ukraine, the three countries signed the Trilateral Statement on January 14, 1994. Ukraine
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by deepnet 2y ago
In 1994 Russia and the USA agreed to Ukrainian sovereignty and its borders in return for the Ukraine voluntarily disarming its nukes: It was promised the USA AND Russia would provide the Ukraine adequate defense in lieu of giving up their
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by deepnet 2y ago
Fascinating, nice catch
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by deepnet 2y ago
200 countries pledged $300 billion per year in total - not very much since climate change disasters are already costing tens of billions a year and many human lives in the US alone. Also this target is 11 years away. Definitely disappointin
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by deepnet 2y ago
The article contains Young’s surviving eyewitness account of the much-memed ‘demon core’[0] incident involving Louis Slotin. Young expresses anger at the pressure put on Slotin to enact the experiment so dangerously in person. “ Hospitalize
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by deepnet 2y ago
Good point ! “professional environments” have flaws - and can be as you assert dehumanisating - more so when orgs are large, and rules enforced blindly or with ‘zero tolerance’. I meant it as a proxy for a forum where mutual respect and civ

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