Are fingerprints unique? Not really, AI-based study large-scale statistical analysis says

Getting real sick of everything being “AI”.

This man…

Pronouns, what?

My homie in Cthulhu, I guarantee you that trans folks are among the most ready to stand up for a group of people who’ve had their basic humanity denied by a vicious regime eager for a scapegoat.

About fuckin time.

I like Apple. Their UIs are comfortable, their OSes are reliable, their hardware is top-notch, and they design better SDKs than 99% of the world.

But their greed has completely eradicated the “damn the man” ethos that they espoused in the early iWork days. “Microsoft wants to lock you in. You gonna let them?” Well now who’s the jailer?

sales

Yeah, that’s not market share. iPhone users are more likely to keep their phone for longer. Search “iphone market share us” and see that every result confirms the >50% figure.

Same level of unemployment, but a ton of new employees. So… the same number of people are simply working more jobs? And this represents a “strong economy”…

If Books Could Kill had a brutal episode on this chucklehead: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/if-books-could-kill/rich-dad-poor-dad/

All he knows how to do is pedal-to-the-metal on scams. It’ll catch up with him eventually, but too late for all the people he’s hurt along the way.

In a perfect world, yes, I think AIs can and should be trained on real world content, but if those AIs still don’t understand the nuances of attribution, paraphrasing, and plagiarism, then that’s still a problem that needs to be addressed.

What a joke. Oh okay, if the LLMs output can annotate where the snippets came from, then it’s totally cool.

The fuck are we doing? We’re really sleepwalking into a future where a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

Every time I see an “AI” (these are not fucking AI, and yet we’re fucking doomed already) apologist, I always think of Peter Gibbons explaining the “fractions of a penny” scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo

“It becomes ours”

Are we really this dumb? Maybe we deserve the dystopia we’re building.

His last wish:

“I want one of my inventions to finally do something good for the world!”

choking noises

Not only invented them, but poisoned the hell outta himself trying to prove they were safe.

And then when he was too bedridden to do anything, he invented an automated bed to help him move around and strangled himself to death in the ropes.

Truly an inspiration.

The phrasing was tongue-in-cheek, but the message was sincere.

I’m sick of these America-hating assholes bad-mouthing MY COUNTRY.

If you hate freedom so much, you’re FREE to LEAVE!!!

🇱🇷🦅🇱🇷🦅🇱🇷🦅🇱🇷

See also: How Chiropractic Started as a Ghost Religion

loose an afternoon

That’s alright. A chiropractor can tighten up that afternoon for ya.

as megaprojects expert Bent Flyvbjerg explains in the following article, these grandiose projects operate by an iron law: over budget, over time, over and over again

Performance data for megaprojects speak their own language. Nine out of ten such projects have cost overruns. Overruns of up to 50 percent in real terms are common, over 50 percent not uncommon. Cost overrun for the Channel Tunnel, the longest underwater rail tunnel in Europe, connecting the UK and France, was 80 percent in real terms. For Boston’s Big Dig, 220 percent. The Sydney Opera House, 1,400 percent. Similarly, benefit shortfalls of up to 50 percent are also common, and above 50 percent not uncommon.

https://www.cato.org/policy-report/january/february-2017/megaprojects-over-budget-over-time-over-over

How does your ISP have anything to do with port forwarding, or wired vs. wifi?

F# has a feature kinda like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-reference/units-of-measure

We have an entire movement in the US that says:

• Democracy doesn’t work, because people will never be heard through the bureaucratic institutions like the DOJ…
• …and rule of law ought to be administered with a gun instead of a gavel.

I don’t think you defeat that movement by assassinating its political leader. Especially out of a belief that his crimes will never be prosecuted lawfully.

I don’t think Biden has an ideological bone in his body. Supporting Israel is just good business. Simple as.

12 sources, but rated “mixed factuality” at best. I’d stay skeptical. https://ground.news/article/us-news-network-msnbc-takes-2-muslim-journalists-off-anchoring-duties-amid-war-in-israel_7aba2d