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cedilla
·3 ngày trước·discuss
I don't know who "we" is, but assassinating or kidnapping foreigners is illegal.

Also, it didn't work. Not in Iran and not even in Venezuela.
cedilla
·3 ngày trước·discuss
98% isn't much, but it's also not little. It's just a number, and numbers don't have a meaning without an interpretation. That's a fundamental logical feature, but hardly a special insight.
cedilla
·26 ngày trước·discuss
Discussion quality is, in my experience, mostly a function of group size. Online discussions scale better than in person, but there's a limit.
cedilla
·2 tháng trước·discuss
How do these e-tickets work?
cedilla
·2 tháng trước·discuss
What's the philosophy?
cedilla
·2 tháng trước·discuss
denic is the single source of truth for zones under .de.

The only problem with DNSSEC here is that it's complex.
cedilla
·2 tháng trước·discuss
But it really isn't a head scratcher, and it's not a wild guess, and also, dark matter is not the same as dark energy.

Think about some random person born in the 1950s. It will be impossible for you to directly prove that that person has two parents, but with all your knowledge about biology, and your knowledge that humans could not be cloned in the 1950s, it's not a head scratcher, unless our understanding of biology is completely off, it's not just speculation there were two parents. That's the comparable situation with dark matter. It's not a head scratcher. Every indication shows there is a lot of mass around that doesn't interact with light.
cedilla
·2 tháng trước·discuss
The idea of talking to a machine that has all of humanities knowledge and gives answers is older than electronic computing. It certainly wasn't a novel idea when Jobs gave that speech. At that time, the field of artificial intelligence was old enough to become US president.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
I don't know if you wanted to imply that, but just to make sure no one misunderstands: GitHub didn't invent git.

I don't know if they were the first git forge, but they were certainly among the first.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
That may be how JavaScript started, but unless your claim is that JavaScript hasn't changed at all in the thirty years or so since then, your argument is a complete non-sequitur.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
I don't know why it would matter, but Einstein didn't hate quantum mechanics. He literally got his Nobel prize for his role in discovering quantum mechanics. He is one of the earliest people to propose that light exists in quantised packets.

He had some strong opinions around interpretations of quantum physics, but that isn't even a question of science, it's a metaphysical discussion.

While we're at it, Einstein also wasn't a bad student, and he didn't hate mathematics.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Allowed to do? Not prevented from by technical measures, but certainly not allowed to do.

Considering the goal is to identify people, this is undeniably PII. As the article demonstrates, it also pertains sensitive information.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
If other people collect data like that it's probably also illegal.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Voyager 1 and 2 are 25 and 21 billion kilometres away, respectively.

Even if we built a rocket just designed to get stuff as far away as quickly away as possible, it would take decades to catch up to where they are now.
cedilla
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Strange. If you compress complex topics into one four-word sentence, they are not as coherent any more.
cedilla
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Microsoft never called their productivity suite "simply" office, nor have they registered a product under that name.
cedilla
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Microsoft does not have a trademark for "Office", which is clearly a type of product and can't be used as a program name (just like you can't name your oatmeal "Oatmeal" and expect trademark protection).

Microsoft does have a figurative trademark for "Office" with the rectangular icon: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01141355... - office.eu's logo does not bear any resemblance.

The only way this would be infringing is if office.eu usage could be confused with Microsoft other's trademarks - like Microsoft Office - but I don't see that.

So no, office.eu will have a calm Monday on that front, just like hundreds of other companies offering products with "Office" in their name.

(I'm not a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer before deciding to take on a trillion dollar company).
cedilla
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Brains are not doing linear algebra, and they don't follow a concise algorithm.

What LLM do is even farther away from what neural nets do, and even there - artificial neurons are inspired by but not reimplementing biological neurons.

You can understand human thought in terms of LLMs, but that is just a simile, like understanding physical reality in terms of computers or clockworks.
cedilla
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Fair use is much more narrow than most people think, it's just that most rights-holders are not very belligerent. For example, streaming video games does not fall under fair right, most video essays critiquing films or series use way too much material commentated for fair right, remixing as a whole is not fair use, and most fan works are definitely not fair use. Legal protections don't help here, but the shit-storms companies like Nintendo of America had to endure when they tried to tighten the screws.

And that's in the US, other countries have similar exceptions but they are also usually quite limited.
cedilla
·5 tháng trước·discuss
I know for sure that each and every AI I use wants to write whole novellas in response to every prompt unless I carefully remind it to keep responses short over and over and over again.

This didn't used to be the case, so I assume that it must be intentional.