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NolF··on Notes on Vision Pro
Considering there is a "calibration" step. I'm going to guess that as long as the "bad" eye behaves relatively predictably, it should be able to ignore the bad input and put appropriate weight on the "good" eye.

It will also be interesting how the outward display will display the "bad" eye input including missing eyes, lazy eyes, nystagmus, etc...

NolF··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
Yes and no. Court decisions do generally follow a structure, but the decisions and the reasons for a final determination, may not always be clear. Judges also may throw in hypotheticals which whilst informative are not determinative. Once it gets to appellate courts and with different judges which may agree with the same outcome but on different grounds, it can get really hard to distinguish what is the test and the factors for a certain determination. It can also happen that dissenting opinions can be very persuasive, and subsequently adopted.

The task effectively also requires a case and paragraph impact meter which do exist in some law databases to one extend or another, effectively weighing how subsequent rulings consider, weight, and follow past cases, caveats, exceptions, and outright considering past rulings as bad law.

Then you have the issue of changing laws and the impact these may have on past cases as they may change the test and requirements needed to be considered and even much new case law needed to be developed to interpret the new legislation. So the model would need to have a historical knowledge of the law and how it was applied.

You would also need to feed it relevant surrounding information that may aid in interpreting said law. In the US, clearly the founding father's opinions and beliefs appear to play a significant part on the currently more originalist interpretative school of thought.

In the UK/Australia for example readings in parliament and even the underpinning reports that prompted the change in legislation may be considered where there is ambiguity in order to interpret legislation. Australian legislation nowadays also tends to incorporate an objective of the legislation and a section that says that where ambiguity exists to interpret it in a way that would further the objectives of the legislation.

So, it's really not a trivial problem.

NolF··on The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4
You jest but I got the following response with the GPT-4 model

> Two pounds of feathers are heavier than a pound of bricks. The weight of the feathers is twice as much as the bricks, even though they may take up more space and seem lighter due to their lower density.

NolF··on What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
The article says you should reserve 17% of your project budget in training. Couldn't good UX help with that?
NolF··on NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
I wouldn't say they ignore the law, but legislation like FOIA has a lot of discretion to balance competing interests and that's where a judge would make the most different despite all the great articulations of the most brilliant lawyers.
NolF··on Yandex Provides Update on Impact of Current Developments
Buy when it's low, sell high.
NolF··on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
> never taken an antibiotic

I understand recent antibiotic use such as past 12-24 months, but never?

NolF··on Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
Is not even a landmark law... Spain and Germany did it first... My understanding is it didn't work too well for publishers due to the decreased traffic...
NolF··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
You can't go from iOS to android with WhatsApp without paid applications... definitely not friendly
NolF··on Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
Gamer's Nexus did a video of DLSS on this game and gives some insights into how it works.
NolF··on Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges
In NSW that example would fall under voluntary manslaughter (murder (s18 Crimes Act) plus a defence of extreme provocation s23) which carries up to 25 years of jail (like all manslaughters s24). In the state of Victoria this defence was removed entirely whilst NSW amended the section for the extreme provocation offence where one of the elements is that the conduct must be a serious indictable offence (i.e. an offence that carries 5 or more years). This amendment was largely because there had been instances of non-violent homosexual advances that had resulted in murder and the defence being applicable.
NolF··on Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
The article shows even at lower bitrates higher quality/sharpness. This also helps people on metered connections or slower connections which would include mobile consumption.
NolF··on Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
When I was in Europe for a holiday I subscribed to Eurosport to watch the tennis. Unfortunately, when I returned to my country, due to geofencing, I could not access the relevant Eurosport site to cease the subscription... Fortunately it was via Paypal and I could achieve the same outcome by revoking the authority...
NolF··on Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones
Apparently they won't get CVEs ahead of time, so they'll have to patch them themselves once they are made public.
NolF··on Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Couldn't the messages be encrypted using the user password?
NolF··on Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
Maybe OP is mainly referring to the recent update issues where entire folders have been delated as part of the "forced" updates.
NolF··on Why the UK has so many words for bread
5. as a non native speaker, what on earth does ‘they’re just things what we’ve used’ even mean? I've read these sentence many times and I still can't figure it out...
NolF··on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
WoW! That youtube channel is amazing. Very informative videos.
NolF··on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
Wouldn't Total War be a better engine for this? From memory many of the big battles are already as options and a quick Google shows there is an scripting engine for this very purpose.
NolF··on Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems
Were your grades corrected with the added information?

I think grading matrixes would be well served it they assess the writing ability of the person. That is, how well can they justify their opinion with quotes and sources, rather than what the interpretation outcome itself.

NolF··on Snapchat Has Been Faking Growth Numbers, Ex-Employee Alleges
It indeed does. Firing someone with that kind of track record for incompetence within 3 weeks and then bad mouthing to all four winds about it? Something more credible would be that visions did not align, clash of personalities, or that he did not fit the culture, but incompetence? Also, isn't standard practice for companies to only confirm employment rather than give a review exactly for this kind of lawsuits?
NolF··on To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
Thorium still has some major technical issues such as corrosion from molten salts though.
NolF··on Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
I work for a very large organisation. I book rooms 15-30 minutes before my meetings start time and depending on what it is rock up then or 15 minutes early. I use the time to set up, manage any glitches, and then make any last minute preparations such as preparing handout material, water, etc... Sometimes I get 5 minutes of rest and that's nice too a busy schedule. Then people start rocking up and you build rapport with them until it's start time.

Coming prepared has saved me far more time that rocking up just on time and then trying to set it up only for windows to update. People also learn that my meetings matter because they have a purpose and we get right on it, saving up on people showing late etc...

Investing those 15 minutes of my time really goes a long way for everyone else which benefits me too.

NolF··on Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
Do people not set up the room 15 minutes before the session starts just to sort out those kinds of issues? That way it's only 15 man-minutes rather than 15*n man-minutes. Seems unprofessional.
NolF··on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
But they should be compared. As you indicated and the statistics show the death primarily happen when people are impaired (drugs and alcohol, fatigue, distractions etc), the machines substitute these human errors by fewer and further apart potential engineering faults. With proper Root Cause Analysis of the investigations (helped with all the data collected of all the accidents), overtime fewer and fewer would be expected.

If you can go from 30000 to 1000 just by changing to good enough autonomous cars that's a change worth doing. Then you can look at improving it to 0 and encourage that process if not through insurance liability processes through regulations that require ongoing improvement in autonomous safety.

NolF··on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
I find that notion very frustrating. 30,000 people die on the road in the US every year and no one seems to bat an eye, a self driving vehicle has one and it's the end of the world. The expectations seems rather unrealistic and the media seems to love creating a controversy.
NolF··on Things You Notice When You Quit the News
Although the internet allows for hyper-polarization, it also makes it easier to manage group polarisation by allowing alternative views to be only 1 click away. It's just intellectually easier to select information from places that confirm your biases and polarize them rather than be challenged and consider alternatives.
NolF··on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
He was voted for president democratically, that's the populous signing their part of the contract.
NolF··on Open Letter to Tim Cook
Other than when I restart the mac it sometimes connects, my android devices connects no issues, and bootcamp/VM do so too without problem, yes it could be windows.

I also used to have very slow transmission speeds between the two devices until I changed the mac to 2.4G (from 5G) (PC is wired)

NolF··on Open Letter to Tim Cook
MacOS has plenty quirks for me though... I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server (my android or boot camp give me no trouble). I should probably blame Google, but the ATF app sucks and gives a lot of problems transferring large or numerous files (ended up using WiFi... I get periodic blue screens (kernel panics) from using Chrome. When finder crashes I can't seem to be able to initiate it without a hard restart... I have had it for 3 years and it's only been one thing after another.

I love some features, but the trouble on a day to day basis is not worth it.

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