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  • "The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over

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  • I'm not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if I'm missing something... I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are 'third parties', but in general the broad church argument applies... Anyway aren't USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldn't you use the generals to vote 'against' Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here that's not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.

  • Sad but true

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  • You've worded it best.

    My version of the take is; The world will be on average easier if more people are pleasant to each other. You can't make everyone join in, but you can make the world better on average, which surely is good enough?

  • Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status

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  • Isn't that a 'necessary but not sufficient' condition though? I'm thinking principally of the struggles in Zimbabwe here.

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  • It's been 15 years and I'm still not sure if MMT is an accurate description of Economics, a persuasive analogy, or convincing bunkum.

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • I love how memes (in the Dawkinsian sense) work. Lots of people have enjoyed this, but I can imagine this being quoted as the original is lost to the sands of time.

    Young people everywhere thinking that Aquaman was someone who just bought failing assets from everyone.

  • If "death of the author" applied to every facet of life and not just writing and art, what's the weirdest implication you can think of that would come from it?

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  • if Beethoven had been a Nazi, it wouldn’t take away from his work.

    It would have made him more impressive in my eyes, as he would have had to have been able to see the future, or time travel!

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • There was a period in my life when I had to remind people frequently that NoSQL stood for 'not only SQL'.

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • This is a fairly good summary of my argument against why we are in a simulation.

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • I'm certain (indeed more certain than I likely should be, which may be meta-meta memory?!) that what you say that the end is the case. There's almost certainly a bias towards error correction over direct recall. Certainly my experience is of testing wrong answers in my head before alighting on the right one.

    That implies a set up more like an adversarial neural network (I'm not saying this is actually how it is, just trying to draw an analogy from something I understand), as opposed to a function in code. But that seems like a bit of a waste, but also means that two (or more) distinct processes could be working on the same task?

  • How do we rule out wrong answers?

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  • That's very helpful thank you. I read the abstract of the paper, I think it might take me a couple of goes to really grok it. I think it's testing why are more likely to correct a wrong answer given on a test (in a subsequent test), if they are enthusiastically told it's right the first time. This is compared to if they are told that they might be wrong!

    Given it's the first time I've heard of this, I'm finding even the premise a challenge! 'Hypercorrection' apparently, for anyone not going to the paper.

    What I've read of the article, meta memory seems to be more about our ability to judge how well we know something, rather than evaluate if our recall is correct.

    I say 'rather'.... The concepts are obviously (or maybe not obviously!) related, but that sounds like assigning a score to the information we possess. While my original question was around evaluating knowledge as incorrect after recall.

    That's why the engine analogy doesn't quite work for me. It's not one answer, it's two! So if it is an engine, it's one that drives the car both forwards and backwards initially, and then switches off the one it doesn't need.

    I'm definitely going to read more into these concepts though. Thanks again for the links!

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    How do we rule out wrong answers?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect”

    arstechnica.com /science/2025/01/robotic-hand-helps-pianists-overcome-ceiling-effect/

  • Despite our differences in social upbringing, nationality, language, religion, etc... We all agree in 1 thing, that Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, right?

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  • Jumping on here, because this is often overlooked. If you didn't know the title of the film, and someone played the first 20 mins to you you'd expect a hallmark film. Going to see the estranged wife, trying to repair a relationship, the awkwardness at the Christmas party.

    The whole thing subverts Christmas movie tropes. It's not just an action movie set at Christmas. It's a Christmas movie which gets hijacked.

    Even the final scene plays on the parody with the 'snow' falling, the comedy comeuppance for the nuisance bad guy, and then they kiss and drive off as 'let it snow' plays.

  • Enterprise-D(ebunking)

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    I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

    www.techradar.com /computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold