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AbsentBird

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  • Pro-Ukraine protests erupt across US after Trump and Vance ‘ambush’ Zelenskyy

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  • I don't think anyone claimed what Israel is doing was fine. Even Biden was critical.

    When Ukraine surrendered their nuclear weapons the US promised to help protect them from Russia. It was our duty to help. To get the Ukraine funding passed it had to be bundled with assistance for Israel, or Republicans would not have voted for it.

  • Pro-Ukraine protests erupt across US after Trump and Vance ‘ambush’ Zelenskyy

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  • Biden gave Ukraine $120 billion for defense against the invasion.

    He gave $18 billion to Israel and $2 billion to Gaza.

  • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

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  • LLMs are a type of machine learning. Input is broken into tokens, which are then fed through a type of neural network called a transformer model.

    The models are trained with a process known as deep learning, which involves the probabilistic analysis of unstructured data, which eventually enables the model to recognize distinctions between pieces of content.

    That's like textbook machine learning. What you said about interpreting sentiment isn't wrong, but it does so with machine learning algorithms.

  • Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami

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  • It's actually quite rare for crocodiles to eat capybaras, they have a mutually beneficial relationship. The primary predator of the capybara is the jaguar.

  • Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea

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  • This article is about Gemini, not GPT. The generic term is LLM: Large Language Model.

  • What could possibly go wrong?

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  • Plans are in motion. See you at 50501 on Wednesday.

  • What could possibly go wrong?

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  • By my estimation, of those 126: 80 are a win for X (or whoever goes first), 30 are a win for O (or whoever goes second), and 16 are a stalemate.

    So the number of losing positions depends on whether you go first or second.

  • What could possibly go wrong?

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  • Good point. There's only 126 filled arrangements that are valid game states.

  • What could possibly go wrong?

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  • There are only like 500 losing tictac toe scenarios max.

    Three positions for each square (X, O, or blank), 9 squares: 3^9 = 19,683 possible game states.

    Of those there are only 512 combinations where the board is compete: 2^9 = 512

    Of those 512, only 16 combinations results in a win for either player. Meaning there are only 8 losing scenarios and 496 stalemate scenarios.

  • Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

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  • Make the chips in Guadalajara, ship them out of Puerto Vallarta to Vancouver to power server farms in Surrey; cut the US out entirely.

  • Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

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  • Hell, use the waste heat to power hot water heaters or something. It blows my mind that we don't do more cloud computing in cold environments. The servers produce heat, the people need heat, solve one problem with another. Instead we seem to be putting them in the driest and hottest climates available.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • Idk, I like CSS, but I come from a web development background. Modern JS (ES4+) is fully capable of replacing CSS using the style property.

    JSX is sort of like a singular language to do all three.

    HTML isn't perfect, but I can't think of a better language for writing documents. TEX is unintuitive, PDF is opaque, markdown is just HTML shorthand.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • Just use React or something, you can use a single syntax for all three. It makes total sense why the syntax is different if you think about when and why they were made. We had HTML for years before CSS, and it was longer still until we got JavaScript. Each language has a different purpose, so naturally a different syntax makes sense. Your hill is poorly defended.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • GU24 is wack, especially for home lighting. I think they aren't made much anymore.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • I agree with you, but I don't think that makes it a poor example; those different cables aren't competing standards, they're different types of USB-C cables. They should absolutely label the cables though, big oversight on the standard there.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • Those aren't different standards, they're just different USB-C cables. It's like saying light bulb sockets aren't a unifying standard because there's different bulbs with different wattages. The fact that all those cables work over the same standard is an example of how ubiquitous the standard is. That said they should be labeled better, like how USB3 was color coded blue; each cable could have a color strip to distinguish it.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • What do you mean? Do you have any examples?

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • Light bulb sockets are the same all over. RJ-45 Ethernet, USB-C, Bluetooth, WiFi, TCP, HTTP, HTML, CSS.

  • Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.

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  • In/out groups are natural, but the establishment of those groups on 'racial' lines is totally constructed. The concept of race itself doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it's a fixation on specific phenotypic traits.

    Notice how racial bias is fixated on skin color while other phenotypic differences are largely ignored; people with different colored eyes or hair, different nose shapes, different hair textures, etc. 400 years ago skin tone was similarly trivial, but that changed with the rise of chattel slavery.