jacobush

”If what I say makes you angry I’m right and you are brainwashed.”

Two sides of the same coin. Insecurities and fear.

I worked for a digital signage place in 2012. I coded something which pretented to be a web browser with the NSPlugin interface. Then I loaded the Linux Flash plugin in that, and iterated frame by frame, and encoded the frames with ffmpeg to mp4.

This way we didn't have to support Flash on the Digital Signage player hardware, but could still accept Flash animations from the ad agencies.

Are you sure we have fully comprehended the current situation?

It seems that article only mentions the Beirut explosion in passing?

You can get vanilla Wine to run Notepad++ too:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/376427/40801

Sounds like SpaceX light. San Francisco to LA in 5 minutes. Neat.

Wine?

edit: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373851/how-to-get-...

All our laws are enforced by violence.

There has been an awful lot of "academic" skirmishes involving real live fire in that conflict over the years. Each one of these is playing a little with fire. Sometimes, things escalate for no rational reason.

You may also loose your only chance to do damage that way. An incoming ICBM might get a response before it’s exact target is known.

Yes, what’s your point exactly? It’s still a bargaining chip.

And for mothers?

It is sweet if your diet is not sugar heavy. Hi America.

The judiciary is not independent, so it's a moot point anyways. VPN use will just be used as another signal that you are possibly an enemy of the state.

High quality archival of web pages for the long term.

Who knows how difficult it will be to get them to render properly in X years to come, even the webpages themselves were stored. Imagine having for instance every archive.org link complemented with a video of each URL, scrolling down the web page to document what it actually looked like then, complete with ads and everything.

Maybe, if you had a string of pearls of LEO missiles orbiting above New York at all times.

But you might as well have land based anti-aircraft nukes, I guess. (Shooting nukes with nukes.)

Less stuff grows under the ship, too.

Meh, you only need a little imagination to scan in 3D.

Instead of a disc, use a glass cylinder, mounted excentrically on an axis. (The actual glass cylinder doesn't even have to be excentric for this to work, because the data can be excentrically stored, but it's harder to explain. So assume it's a glass cylinder mounted excentrically on its axis.)

Spin the cylinder on its axis. For each revolution, move the laser one step along the axis. When the laser has reached the end of the cylinder, move the laser one stop closer to the spinning cylinder, then repeat the process in reverse.

The point of the excentricity is to get the "autofocus mechanism for free".

Search speeds could be a dog, but data density and durability could be insane. Plus it would look like something straight out of Star Trek. "Put the data crystal in there."

True superresolution is impossible, but a heck of a lot of resolution is hidden in video, without resorting to guesses and hallucination.

Tiny camera shakes on a static scene gives away more information about that scene, it's effectively multisampling of the static scene. (If I have to hunch it, any regular video can "easily" be upscaled 50% without resorting to interpolation or hallucination.)

Our wetware image processing does the same - look at a movie shot at the regular 24fps where people walk around. Their faces look normal. But pause any given frame, and it's likely a blur. (But our wetware image processing likely does hallucination too, so it's maybe not a fair comparison.)

I never heard of this, where in Europe?

It’s one thing to build highly optimised things and another to build things that work just well enough.

I think my classmate might have read your dissertation in 1994 possibly. Were you cited or inspired magazine articles?

It is normal, but it's kind of disappointing that from my (uneducated) vantage point, we don't seem to be at all closer to AGI than we were in 1994.

It's like the difference between Kitty Hawk and a Boeing airliner. Yes, they are impressive feats of engineering, and the massive training hours tell the story.

But the Boeing Airliner is still less clever than a fruit fly, to merge the metaphors.

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to expand - it seems to get something as smart as a dog is almost the same as something as smart as a human.

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My classmate wrote back-propagating neural nets on his Amiga 1200 in 1994.

We had pretty high hopes back then. I and I think many others sort of assumed we would have had General AI by now. Or at least going in that direction. Another classmate said in 1992 that scientists had simulated the neural net equivalent to a worm or something. This topic came up re the neural net featured in the movie Terminator 2.

The current use of "neural nets" are both under- and overwhelming. But definitely over-whelmingly boring, to me. It's good, don't get me wrong. But from my viewpoint, it looks like we have found a trick, and now try to apply this same trick to as many new fields as possible.

Why bother with radiation protection, just run the cooling open cycle with the river water and pollute downstream. It wouldn’t need closing for operational reasons. Just stating a fact.

We are humans. You gotta work from that premise.

Tiktockers pranked tickets to a Trump rally. Got the Evil Eye after that.

People are vetting Signal, so unless you are the target of a directed attack against you, you are better off.

The Crypto AG phones were from a different era.

Yes, like Chechnya for instance.