Social media in its current form is being used to unravel whole societies.
"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyrany, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
I think Samsung saying, hey chill, they just deformed and didn't explode, sort of misses the point. I wouldn't want a little Roman Candle going off in my ear either, which is how batteries usually fail.
Ha! Yes, play count (and reasonable if not always to my taste) tagging is about all I miss from iTune, and iTunes and Time Machine is about all I miss from Mac OS. I used to have "Smart Playlist" or whatever it was called that would randomly select say 30 songs with a play count less than 3 to put on my Shuffle to keep me out of musical ruts. I miss that.
1) No-one has been is proven to "be" anyone in this case. Reputation is OSS is built upon behaviour only, not identity. "Jia Tan" managed to tip the scales by also being helpful. That identity is 99% likely to be a confection.
2) People can do terrible things when strongly encouraged or worse coerced. Including dissolving identity boundaries.
The first problem can be 'solved' by using real identities and web of trust but that will NEVER fly in OSS for a multitude of technical and social reasons. The second problem will simply never be solved in any context, OSS or otherwise. Bad actors be bad, yo.
Scott Manley reported three days ago about an apparently current, non-threatening leak https://youtu.be/MZgaLzYFCrU at about the 18 minute mark if you're interested.
I just want to go on record that given the simplistic (i.e fun) problem, a shell developer would have had the answer to a first, specific set of billion rows done while all the other language were still putting on their shoes.
> If the proposed methods are implemented in hardware
.. And the paper is _true_ of course, indeed, this sort of compounding quantum leap in efficiency due to representational change starts to get towards the Black Mirror / SciFi foundational mythology level of acceleration. Wild (if true!)
Ducks apparently do half-brain sleeping too. If I recall correctly it has something to do with sitting side by side, and that they can let the half on their brain not attached to the "look-out" eye rest.
Well, "eat" is used in a general way here to include "ruminating on cud". I would perhaps think that's more like "digest" than eat, so while interesting, to me it more says the rumination activity is more automatic than previously thought.
Exactlyyyy-ish. I'm firmly in the camp that believes that there is no magic central kernel to consciousness or intelligence, that it's an emergent property. We are seeing partial emergence now and it's only going to get more complex.
Edit: this is may turning to a search for truth and definitions of reality question. When the last person alive is no longer able to tell whether they're speaking to an AI, does it actually matter whether it's true generalized intelligence or just an emergent approximation?
Well the analogy was more at the introduction of the automobile the people who were familiar with horses were able to point out all the ways that horses were better than cars by some measure. Cars ended up being used in entirely different and arguably more powerful ways. You didn't even need to contradict the people who held the horses in higher reguard. Horses just became irrelevant. It's an incremental value proposition. AI will keep hitting various plateaus, but it's already pretty fucking amazing. It's not going to get worse. And pointing out specifically how it differs from the human mind to me honestly feels like clinging to the wreckage.
I was having a drunken discussion with the philosophy lecturer a few weeks back. He was making a very similar point. I kept saying it does it really matter? Lacking a theory of mind and deep insights describes 90% of all perfectly normal people. And perhaps training will be able to "fake it" (he went off on bold tangents about the definitions of this and that), or the language model will be an adjunct to some other model which does have these insights encoded or deducible, much like the human mind does. He wasn't convinced and I was too drunk. But it was basically feeling like: You can't feed carrots to a car like you can a horse, therefore cars are worthless.
I remember a 4k demo that used translucent triangles (I think? my brain is showing me circles, so perhaps a fixed set of sizes and fast blit with alpha.) This created moving volumetric light and shadows around some geometric shapes, some pillars I think. Very smeary/ghostly with overdrawn shapes, but the effect was startling given it was on a 486. It didn't render full frames, but moved the model and just kept splatting.
Disaster recovery. This is 100% my biggest worry with 2FA/MFA. I also think this is one of the reasons stuff like PGP never took off (don't @ me regarding perfect forward secrecy): the problem has always been managing some little, precious thing and the ramifications of what happens if it put beyond use or is used by some bad actor.
I'm describing something I thought was salient. This was a passage of time issue, but it was specifically the loss of the ability to temporaily sequence the provenance of recollection. Imagine having a discussion where you couldn't tell if you said something in the previous sentence, or last week. We (apparently) feel this information and use it to guide the process. There was clearly some sort of 'tagging' of memory regarding it's age and how it "should" be used in reasoning, and I lost that. TFA is talking about this sequence being unique to humans.
I felt like I was 102 years old. I wonder how other organisms function without relying upon this appently inate ability.
I had a bad experience very recently with hash (in the non-CS sense.) There was a harm done, for a couple of hours, to my understanding of time, of recalling "when" each memory I was using was formed. I could not tell AT ALL if it was from literally 10 seconds ago, or weeks/months ago. It was incapacitating, but upon reflection, really showed as is often the case with medical science and pathology, there was a faculty at play here that was only apparent when removed. I could not function without the ability to sequence events, including the provenence of each damn propositions I was trying to use to explain my current existence. Bad times. But with some distance quite interesting.
I thought this might be a Simon Roper video! I really enjoy his deep, humble and creative views on these topics, even though he still describes himself as only an enthusiast. Speaking of creative, check out his "A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Century"[1] for a frankly enchanting 18 minutes of viewing.
Actually, it does in fact "show" lat/long in the Search field. But there is no way to copy it to the clipboard! The field is replaced with the resolved address as soon you touch the field in any way. You have to, and I can't believe I'm saying this, either screenshot or use a pen to write it down.
It's a disappointing experience, isn't it? You can only get a raw lat/long if Maps can't generate an address. If it does, you're out of luck for lat/long -- it's gone from the UI as far as I can see.
I remember seeing a Japanese designer, possibly current or ex-Sony, talking about a Walkman. They were saying (via subtitles) something along the lines that that the device needed to feel like something you wanted to hold, regardless of what it was meant to do. There was something about understanding the physicality of the object itself which stuck with me. We only see glimpses of this now, since there is only a single object that people hold, and it's just a cuboid. I would argue that early to mid Ive-era Apple continued this in two-dimensions. But something has been lost in the last decade or so. Is it a move to video and events instead of things, words and thoughts? I don't know.
Presumably there's something special about ro.boot.vbmeta.digest that would prevent a malicious ROM from lying about it? As in the ADB protocol being served by literal ROM code?
A bit confused, sorry. Second sentence was a joke. But if the effect is real, it is a very strong claim and it does indeed deserve replication by people not financially vested in a positive result. And if it's cobblers, that also tells us something, but perhaps more about how science is funded, and how experiments are registered, and how result are communicated.
Literally sponsored by the makers of Febreze™. When the LK99 mania has subsided, I'm looking forward to this being replicated by disinterested parties.