> as with the new law that allows to arrest anyone who tests positive for substances in the table of illegal substances while driving in any case, without the person being actually altered or alterable
> Now, the circular in question has, in fact, disavowed the previous version and clarified that that principle is worthless. In fact, in order for a person to be punishable for driving under the influence of drugs, there must be “a temporal correlation between the intake and driving, which takes the form of an enduring influence of the narcotic or psychotropic substance capable of exerting negative effects on driving ability.”
cnr.it is a domain which belongs to the Italian Research Council, and that subdomain seems to be a blog by the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems.
These are not scammers, it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one. Probably it wasn't even meant to be public. But because of the prestige of the domain, it becomes first in relevant searches.
If you track down the author and send him a quick mail, I'm 100% sure they'll help.
If you can, try removing the source of stress. Depending on your situation, this may involve changing work environment.
I've been there, I was at a point in which I would either burn out (if I wasn't already) or change environment completely. I changed environment, and it's been the most difficult yet the best decision in my life
Exactly the same here! What a memory. In my case, my fellow students started sending broadcast messages which included a lot more profanity. They reached the computer of the school principal, which immediately came to our lab asking for explanations. Lucky for me, the teacher was a great guy who just knew I was the one that started all that mess, but he didn't say a word.
I also remember writing .bat fork bombs during the pauses. My classmate would pick a victim and while they were away I would completely freeze their PC. Yes, silly. And don't get me started on the remote shutdown messages, again enabled by default.
> Instead of doing anything fancy, my program generates the coefficients at random to explore the space. If I wanted to generate a good driver for a course, I’d run a few thousand of these and pick the coefficients that complete the course in the shortest time.
It is worth pointing out that this strategy can likely overfit on the data that you have used for training: when you change the track, your car may not behave as good as before. In other words: the coefficients are only good for that specific track(s).
The author is still using Machine Learning, even if not with neural networks: the need for rigorous strategies for model selection doesn't disappear.
Mostly opinions without data, as usual. Why can't we as a community switch to a more serious scientific/engineeristic approach, at least in those areas where it is easy to do so?
Why should I trust this blog post on the "Caching" point, for example? It's got no data and no references.
"What are the chances that your user has visited a site which uses the exact same CDN as your site?" ... hey, you can measure that.
> “Such tools are not capable of true independent creativity. In order for AI tools to create new work, prior creative work must be used as training data”
I can visualize to a limited extent, i.e. I can see anything I want but images are always very "unstable".
I'm much better with music: I can listen to music in my head very clearly, even though there is a strong focus on the lead melody (e.g. voice, guitar). But I can also create music from scratch and let it unfold seamlessly, with any kind of instruments or vocals I want.
Introducing linear regression with gradient descent can also be really confusing for a newcomer. Gradient descent solves a problem (nonlinear optimization) which does not exist here.
THIS. And it always surprises me when this association comes not only from outsiders, but from CS graduates too. This really shows a worrying lack of communication about the objectives of such degrees (perhaphs intentional?)
Regardless of my opinion on the topic, which I don't have:
why must software engineering be mainly opinion-based?
Why can't we have objective facts, or at least only talk about objective facts without going out asserting one's opinions as truth?
AFAIK other engineering disciplines do not suffer from this problem as much as software engineering. This really bugs me.
I guess the stuff you're talking about totally falls under my "only block ads on those websites which clearly have no consideration for usability [...] or for privacy"
I didn't say that ads are great. I said that NOT ALL ads are bad, and without them some great content couldn't exist, because most people need funds for their work and selling stuff or services sometimes isn't an option.
So if you're talking about tracking ads, I'm totally with you. But if you're talking about ALL ads, then your idea may be an utopia.
I think you should also link to something like this to draw a full picture: https://tg24.sky.it/politica/2025/05/07/codice-strada-sostan...
Which says:
> Now, the circular in question has, in fact, disavowed the previous version and clarified that that principle is worthless. In fact, in order for a person to be punishable for driving under the influence of drugs, there must be “a temporal correlation between the intake and driving, which takes the form of an enduring influence of the narcotic or psychotropic substance capable of exerting negative effects on driving ability.”