longtom

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by longtom 5y ago
> hacker news Where opinion is being manipulated by the U.S. security/military complex.
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by longtom 5y ago
The study is not by him. I wasn't even aware who hosted it; I only found this link somewhere on the web and thought it might be relevant.
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by longtom 5y ago
> You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff? I think once we admit nature to be more important than humans, we will quickly slip on the slope and reduce consumption t
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by longtom 5y ago
So? Reducing emissions in Germany is still a drop in the bucket.
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by longtom 5y ago
> 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term
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by longtom 5y ago
> Unfortunately you are wrapping it in delusional hysteria such as "you will die of a horrible death from an infection without painkillers". So you're getting down voted because you are completely ignoring how things such
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by longtom 5y ago
EU's and Germany's emissions are negligible anyhow (9% and 2%, respectively). It's all about the U.S. and China (and maybe India) at this point, especially the latter two that have the strongest increase in emissions. There i
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by longtom 5y ago
The propaganda and media cooptation is just staggering. It's extremely suspicious that very little attention is paid to the fact that reducing consumption will likely increase poverty. If you trace, for example, the supply chain of som
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by longtom 5y ago
I dearly hope the Greens will not win. Reducing consumption is an extremely tricky problem, and likely unfeasible without creating large amounts of poverty. I'd rather live in a rich, powerful nation with strong workforce and military
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by longtom 5y ago
Edward Snowden's revelations provide very solid evidence that what can be done is being done.
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by longtom 5y ago
We might as well have to accept that there is no solution to this problem.
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by longtom 5y ago
Because Western imperialism is very likely only a secondary cause, if any. You see strong condemnation of sodomy all across Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, with an extremely wide variety of religious and practical (STD preve
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by longtom 5y ago
When you look at rare events, then it is easy to get a quadrupling (or more) due to tail effects.
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by longtom 5y ago
It looks like AppLocker is available in Windows Pro, however not configurable via GPOs: https://msendpointmgr.com/2020/09/20/does-applocker-work-in-... Is anyone aware of a tool that simplifies setting up App
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by longtom 5y ago
Does this require Windows Enterprise/Education?
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by longtom 5y ago
This one? https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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by longtom 5y ago
Yeah, it's kinda embarrassing and funny at the same time how this study is likely saying more about Mensa members than about high IQ people in general.
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by longtom 6y ago
Lol, why is my comment down here with 7 upvotes.
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by longtom 6y ago
tl;dr: Don't use batch norm for preventing exploding gradients but adaptive gradient thresholds. For this they compute the Frobenius norm (square root of the sum of squares) of the weight layer and its gradient and take the ratio of th
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by longtom 6y ago
Don't expect support if you do not pay.
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by longtom 6y ago
Though CSV is an extremely common format. Even if does not outperform in every regard, it is still astonishing how close it gets.
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by longtom 6y ago
It amazes me how an open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app. I think this points to major corruption and incompetence as a result of market monopolization.
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by longtom 6y ago
Because it isn't open source.
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by longtom 6y ago
And even if it was causal, you'd still need to investigate what it is on social media that causes misery, e.g. ideologies/misinformation, social comparison/envy, cyber-bullying, addiction, bad news/sensationalism or ec
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by longtom 6y ago
Politics is a means to an end. Investigating power abuse through one's own technology would be self-harm from the POV of a mega cooperation.
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by longtom 6y ago
Good image dithering algorithms do maintain sharp features like edges.
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by longtom 6y ago
tl;dl: * Sex differences in general intelligence are small, so the F>M achievement gap in higher education likely is not explained by women being smarter. * The gap emerges already in elementary school and the gap in elementary school is
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by longtom 6y ago
Most areas of the brain are rather homogenous. They've done experiments rewiring inputs going to the visual cortex to the auditive cortex in rodents and they could see. Further, artificial neural nets demonstrate that extremely simple
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by longtom 6y ago
Is there a full list of the vulnerable images? Presumably images from reputable vendors like alpine:latest and openjdk:jre-alpine are OK?
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by longtom 6y ago
Usually, scientists are extremely careful with extrapolation, the big exception being the big bang, because it sells, I guess, and because it is hard, if not impossible, to verify.

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