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foolrushon Reindeer can see UV light

Sleigh guidance.

foolrushon Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-wh...

foolrushon Access to knowledge is a human right

> But those are also the most expensive line items in Federal and State budgets,

https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/discretionary_s...

foolrushon 𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023

I hope you are kidding. Tell you what, why don’t you show yourself and search for common racist language or homophobia?

https://counterhate.com/blog/fact-check-musks-claim-about-a-...

foolrushon Display brighter-than-white color on Apple devices

“Brighter-than-white”…

Gilchrist enters the chat.

http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/gilchrist%20(1999)%20an%...

foolrushon Apple TV+ 'Monsterverse' Show Filming in 3D for Vision Pro Viewing

False.

foolrushon “Just a statistical text predictor”

I did not lay claim to epistemic truth. I referenced epistemology. That is, there are a plurality of epistemologies, all of which have their own epistemic truth mechanics.

So I would agree with you, entirely!

I was merely pointing out that statistical correlation alone affords no epistemological basis.

foolrushon “Just a statistical text predictor”

The issue is that the definition of “statistics” is anchored in a magnitude of frequency of glyphs. The “information” is fabricated in this regard, pulled up out of the ether, and by decree christened as “meaning”.

Numbers carry no meaning, nor do the magnitudes arbitrarily assigned to meaning. The map is not the territory.

foolrushon “Just a statistical text predictor”

Epistemology 101. Statistical pattern matching has no epistemological truth beyond a correspondence of linguistic statistics.

It is merely statistical probability, which hardly can be classified as an epistemological basis. If we pretend for a moment it is, the ontologies formed are most certainly peculiar, and we can expect ideologies that emerge out of the ontologies are problematic.

foolrushon Latest Kitty terminal release features SRGB correct linear gamma blending

This is not technically correct as best as I can ascertain.

When we think about AA, it is a representation of sub pixel occlusion. As such, using uniform tristimulus to sample the “in between” value is incorrect.

There is simply no “correct” approach because there are no known models that properly model visual cognition.

What we can say though, is that the intermediate subpixel should not sample RGB tristimulus, but a loose nonuniform representation that approximates the lower order visual signal representation.

When discarding signal, RGB tristimulus is more “correct”. When interpolating the signal, approximate lightness is more “correct”. Some solid analysis is available here: https://hhoppe.com/filtering.pdf

foolrushon Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]

> in the sense that atoms are a direct cause of our perceptions.

I do not believe this is correct in any manner, and reduces the role of cognition.

Jastrow’s work focuses on this departure between one context and higher order cognition.

foolrushon Ask HN: Is there a license to protect my code and art from AI?

Resisting the structure requires an epistemic shift; resist applying a license.

foolrushon It's Time to Leave Twitter

So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?

foolrushon Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?

Take humanities courses there; you come from the land of some of the heaviest continental philosophy thinkers.

Roll with the chances of life.

foolrushon What every coder should know about gamma (2016)

It’s linear output; the PQ is just the “down the wire” encoding, and the display undoes it back to linear photon light.

foolrushon Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

Paradox of Tolerance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

foolrushon IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)

Science is political. Get over yourself.

foolrushon IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)

And if you actually read Binet, you’d know that he explicitly warned against its usage beyond what he designed it for.

foolrushon IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)

Sure you did buddy. Sure you did. The whole idea of the SAT was an expansive control of capital when the USA grew too large for word-of-mouth recommendation systems.

But you knew that too right? You also knew that it was basically designed to keep undesirables out of the capital class too, right? Guess who those people were.

foolrushon IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)

Read it. Learn history. Learn how sociology works.

Nah don’t bother. It’s HN.

foolrushon IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)

https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

foolrushon A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government

Does the same apply to actual engineers who stamp structural engineering projects, as opposed to self labelled “engineers”? Asking for a friend.

foolrushon FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

Little mention of alpha encoding, something PNG absolutely botched. Unsurprising.

foolrushon DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU

>"DuckDuckGo will soon be offered as an option for default search engine on Android devices across the EU."

"[...] option for default [...]"

foolrushon Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll

You are not a billionaire and will never be one. Calm down.

foolrushon Google whistleblower: the medical data of millions of Americans is at risk

Because the right to your private medical issues is at stake. And that ignores the predatory insurance industry and other discriminatory practices as an aside.

foolrushon Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads

I wasn’t suggesting that all activism promotes progressive societal values. That is an ethical and epistemological question.

I was suggesting that a good number of things that happen are a byproduct of activism.

All that said, it cracks me up that HN does a vote down on such basic sociological things. What a culture.

foolrushon Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads

You realize that women’s right to vote, African American right to vote, LGBTQ marriage laws, minimum wage, and the rest of your progressive legislation was based on activism based policy?

foolrushon Facebook includes Breitbart in curated trusted news

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-...

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/breitbart-headlines_n_5829...

Gee whiz I wonder what the point could be Dr. Bothsidesism?

foolrushon Facebook includes Breitbart in curated trusted news

“I read the Italian Fascists daily... you have to look at them all and triangulate to find the middle ground.”

I have some bad news for you, the middle isn’t a great place.