phlummox

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by phlummox 1mo ago
https://archive.is/zKgVp Many paywalls are fairly "soft", and can be got around by visiting an archived version of the page you're interested in, at https://archive.is .
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by phlummox 4mo ago
> But this example hilariously contradicts the claim that "the system is stacked against the accused" How does it contradict that? It sounds like you're saying "The system is, in fact, stacked in favour of the accused
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by phlummox 4mo ago
Hahaha, that's awesome. A nice adjunct to "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" [1] (to take another example of a riff on a classic speculative fiction piece, that exposes the concepts to modern sensibiliti
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by phlummox 5mo ago
... is there any reason why I shouldn't be visiting Aphyr's site directly?
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Meta's victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in social media addiction trial(theguardian.com)
7 points by phlummox 6mo ago|1 comments
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by phlummox 6mo ago
archive.is: https://archive.is/e701M
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A school district tried to help train Waymos to stop for school buses(wired.com)
32 points by phlummox 6mo ago|65 comments
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by phlummox 9mo ago
> you must surely be guilty of something. Otherwise, all offers would be meaningless and worth nothing. You don't have to be "guilty" of anything to be liable in civil law (which contract law is a part of). "Guilt&quo
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How I taught an AI to use a computer(blog.jamesmurdza.com)
3 points by phlummox 9mo ago|0 comments
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by phlummox 9mo ago
> > Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent > This means exactly that no representation should exist in the activation states about what the model wants to tell, and there must be only a single token probabi
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by phlummox 9mo ago
> For years, despite functional evidence and scientific hints accumulating, certain AI researchers continued to claim LLMs were stochastic parrots: probabilistic machines that would: 1. NOT have any representation about the meaning of th
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by phlummox 10mo ago
gtk-vector-screenshot (< https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot >) will do this, but for GTK apps only. It relies on a custom protocol layered on top of X Window, and I think traverses the tree of GTK wid
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act(bbc.com)
1109 points by phlummox 1y ago|856 comments
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by phlummox 2y ago
The whole point of corporations is that they can sue and be sued like a natural person can - they have legal personhood, and can pursue and defend actions in their own name. I assume the portion of the first link you're referring to
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by phlummox 2y ago
Romans didn't use chariots, except for chariot racing. For military purposes, they used cavalry and footsoldiers. For domestic transport, they used wagons. And as far as I'm aware, they never constructed "tunnels" for tr
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Europe's new AI rules could go global – here's what that will mean(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by phlummox 3y ago|2 comments
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by phlummox 3y ago
What? No, it's a Latin word, and not a distortion of anything. It's a conjugation of the verb 'gero', which has several meanings - but when put next to 'bene', most likely means 'to behave, conduct oneself
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by phlummox 3y ago
Huh. You're right, and it's a WONTFIX: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485 . I hadn't even noticed, because I tend to automatically reach for rsync instead, even for single files.
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by phlummox 3y ago
The Sunk-cost fallacy is when you weight the value of something disproportionately because of effort or expense you've put into it. But if you've got an OS that's certified for the work you're doing, and it's not co
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by phlummox 3y ago
As someone who ran Linux on Windows 3.1 era hardware, perfectly well.
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“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees(motherjones.com)
202 points by phlummox 3y ago|123 comments
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by phlummox 3y ago
Besides the archive.is link already posted, you can find it on the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20230622023623/https://furiouslyr...
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“Asteroid City” is a series of soulless tableaux all coming apart at the seams(theverge.com)
3 points by phlummox 3y ago|1 comments
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Did Spain's B-Mincome Experiment Prove That UBI Doesn't Work?(scottsantens.com)
2 points by phlummox 3y ago|0 comments
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by phlummox 3y ago
The ultimate set of laws governing narrative, the universe, and, well, everything. Larger image here: https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FDtr9A-WXgAAE_aG.jpg
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Linux 6.4 to Remove Old Workaround for Running on Outdated Distributions(phoronix.com)
2 points by phlummox 4y ago|1 comments
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A Linux Shell in the Browser(github.com)
2 points by phlummox 4y ago|2 comments
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by phlummox 4y ago
Author's tweet here: https://www.twitter.com/humphd/status/1121075799539486720
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Lodash-Style Issue Management(twitter.com)
1 points by phlummox 4y ago|1 comments
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by phlummox 4y ago
Archived at https://archive.is/SLPXr/ .

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