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I know everyone has probably seen this but this creature, Beary Poppins, is my spirit animal.

The small nudge is my whole world.

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Lisa Simson is hiding with a gun from web service suggestions

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Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324

Komm, süsser Tod Howard • @lonestartallboi.bsky.social writers: 20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital. This is quoted in response to the guardian post: 'Impossible' to create Al tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAl says

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#AmazingUkraine
#Kyiv

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#Post und #DHL wechseln von Google Maps zu #Openstreetmap

https://www.golem.de/news/paketverfolgung-und-mehr-post-und-dhl-wechseln-von-google-maps-zu-openstreetmap-2404-184140.html

#Datenschutz #Paketverfolgung #Google #GoogleMaps #Open #OpenData

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If you know what this is, you've got some years on you. 🤓🤓😂

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@geeksam @GeePawHill Oh this is interesting, it turns out Washington Post asked people about this a few weeks ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/what-is-ai/

Really interesting to me how experts and readers differ most widely on Translate (experts say it's definitely AI, readers say it could be), game opponents (readers say yes, experts say no), and Clippy (readers say Clippy "could be" AI, experts say not)

What readers and experts consider to be AI - an infographic

Shows readers and experts on a scale of Not AI to Could be to Definitely

Chatbots: both readers and experts are high towards definitely
Translate: Experts say definitely, readers say could be
Facial recognition: Experts slightly more confident than readers
Siri/Alexa: Exeprts and readers agree, it's almost definitely AI
Ads: Just above "could be" for both
Auto-correct: Both say could be
Game opponents: Experts lean towards no, readers firmly past "could be"
Directions: Both just in the "could be" zone right by Not AI
Clippy: Experts say not AI, readers say could be
Tap-to-pay: Experts say absolutely not, readers still think it's Not AI but not as confidently

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We need to continually question the ever-present horizon, the fact that "AGI" is always "just five years away." This isn't uniquely an AI horizon, but it's one that has marked AI from the beginning. The content of that hype is what inflates bubbles.

https://www.ft.com/content/648228e7-11eb-4e1a-b0d5-e65a638e6135

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Nothing on this earth could make me go back to Twitter except for a large financial incentive. It’s called the moral high ground, look it up.

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So, kids, what's the moral of the XZ story?

If you're going to backdoor something, make sure that your changes don't impact its performance. Nobody cares about security - but if your backdoor makes the thing half a second slower, some nerd is going to dig it up.

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Original maintainer of XZ repos has posted a short update:

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

HT @SamantazFox

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Ever wondered about the science behind the seasoning of cast-iron pans and how it makes them non-stick? The latest edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN takes a look: https://cen.acs.org/food/food-science/Periodic-Graphics-chemistry-cast-iron/102/i9

Infographic on the chemistry of cast-iron cookware.
Food sticks to pans because chemical bonds form between the food and the pan. Foods high in protein are particularly susceptible to sticking because the proteins form complexes with metal atoms.
Cast-iron pans are made from an alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon. These pans owe their nonstick properties to the seasoning process, which involves applying a thin layer of oil to the pan and baking it in an oven at high temperature several times.
The oil polymerizes in the high temperature and stops food from sticking by making the surface of the pan smoother and repelling water.
Oil triglycerides in oil contain fatty acids, which have long hydrocarbon chains. At the high temperature used for pan seasoning, hydrocarbon chains break down. Carbon-carbon double bonds in the chains polymerize to form large and complex polymer molecules that stick to the pan.
Oils high in unsaturated fats contain more carbon-carbon double bonds.

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26 March 1905 | An Austrian Jew, Viktor Frankl, was born in Vienna. A neurologist & psychiatrist. One of the founders of psychological humanism.

He passed through Theresienstadt and the camps of Auschwitz, Kaufering & Türkheim. He survived. Author of 'Man in Search of Meaning'.

A mature man in a white shirt, dark tie and an outfit that resembles a doctor's kit. He is wearing thick-rimmed glasses. His eyebrows are wide and his hair is pulled back. His arms are folded.

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A single elimination tournament of 2^n teams consists of 2^n - 1 games.

Computer science proof: by induction on n, if there are 2^0 teams 0 games are played. If there are 2^(n+1) teams you first play 2^n first round games and then hold a 2^n player tournament for the next round 2^n + 2^n - 1 = 2^(n+1) - 1

Math proof: every game has a unique loser and every team except the champion loses once so 2^n - 1

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Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment

In #Polish the word for Germany is Niemcy which is etymologically opposite to #Slavic. ‘[Slavic] … originally denoted "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word denoting "foreign people", namely němci, meaning "mumbling, murmuring people" (from Slavic *němъ "mumbling, mute").’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym) #german #etymology #linguistics #language

Patterns of manipulation can be seen in official #Russian voting results just by looking at the turnout/Putin vote scatter plot. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/03/21/putin-2024 #electionfraud #data #russia

Lectures by #TimothySnyder on #Ukraine's history, how different national narratives misuse history, along with an interesting summary of #German colonial ambitions in #EasternEurope. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_

"Why don't you try reading the documentation?” https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4DaS2fg70z/ #softwareengineering

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