"We never thought it would happen, but in 2024, the year of our lord, it did. It seems that governments are requiring full access to iPhones and using features in ways we didn't think possible. People are now using infrared broadcasting, attached to weapons, government vehicles and buildings, to prevent taking photos near protests and riots. This is the first time it's happened that we know of, and we are scared of the precedent. Over 4,150 people died in a protest in the [redacted African country] at the hands of newly 'elected' military regime, and we have no digital evidence of it, except for the older analog cameras that some people still possessed."
"The software, which was created by Clearview Al, was criticized for its heavy reliance on billions of social media photos to identify criminal suspects."
So how exactly did they get access to all photos? It must have been trained on public networks like instagram, not facebook, right?!? If it was FB that would be interesting.
What do you call it when you mistake "I know OF x" for "I understand X". I used to do it all the time; I think that because I have heard of something, I somehow know how it works or how to use it. For me, it's kind of like going "Oh, I've seen that meme before!" and somehow going meme++ in your head, so of course I am 'more familiar with it', but I am doing that for advanced topics I have no demonstrated practice in. I am much better now at realizing my incompetence, but I wish it could be studied in more detail, instead of people just looking at someone who is demonstrating confident incompetence and going "Dunning-Kruger?" "Dunning-Kruger!".
The only way to justify the valuation of Tesla is to assume that they do something that doesn't depend on individual customer sales, because those aren't ramping up at the right rate. I think they are about to launch an autonomous taxi service.
Here is a good example of Elon Musk talking about how robotaxis are going to push up the price[0]. So far nobody has talked about Tesla operating their own robotaxi service.
Can we talk about the AI? Why is the AI so bad? From driving, to police not being able to chase you in cars, to spawning randomly.
Does the game use Lua or a scripting language for the AI? If not, I think that would easily explain the problems, as it seems like so much behavior of the NPCs was never iterated on.
It was interesting to read. There aren't many google results for 'multiple demand network' that I could easily parse, but I did happen to find this paper on it in primates[0] (also happens to be from MIT) when I was trying to find an image that showed what parts of it are activated. I found this slide from a lecture very interesting[1].
I think it is crazy that a brazillian bank owns Cognitect, the creator of Clojure, and Plataformatec, the creator of Elixir. I had never heard of them or new about them being acquired by the same company until a few weeks ago. It must be a really interesting bank to work at :)!
I remember reading about Raven when it came out for Cisco Scheme. I totally forgot about chicken scheme. I just remember being interested in Guile and sad that only guildhall was available.
