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The part about low-pass filtering using FFT ends with the conclusion that it is fundamentally a different thing from a gaussian blur ("Low Pass Filter ≠ Low Pass Filter"). However: A convolution in image space is just a multiplication in fourier space. If you multiplied with a gaussian in fourier space you should get a gaussian blur. It's just not necessarily the fastest option.

I am not surprised that the sentence existed once. But "Wikipedia once said this during the time August 2024-Februrary 2025" is not the same as "Source: Wikipedia" because of the way Wikipedia evolves. It's especially bad if you disregard the entire much more nuanced discussion in the remaining article.

I think Finland just has a large enough extent from south to north that solar might be starting to become viable in the south but not in the north. While Iceland already produces more electricity per capita than any other country, using only hydro and geothermal, so solar is pretty much non-existent.

Comparison of solar share:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-share-energy?tab=li...

Solar potential:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iceland#/media/File:...

That's a fake Wikipedia screenshot! That line doesn't exist in the actual article and didn't at the time when that tweet was written, and does not even fit in the context. To me, this is at best an example for how much higher the quality is on Wikipedia than in average social media like X.

Certainly not the only country. Iceland is even more extreme in this regard and unlike Finland it is powered by 100% renewables, hydro and geothermal energy. In Finland the only good renewable alternative is wood/biomass.

During play, yes, obviously you need an implementation of the game to play it. But in its planning tree, no:

MuZero only masks legal actions at the root of the search tree where the environment can be queried, but does not perform any masking within the search tree. This is possible because the network rapidly learns not to predict actions that never occur in the trajectories it is trained on.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08265

Before 2022, I once noticed that the Deutsche Bahn app for German trains let me put Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, as destination. The app is good at finding international connections, but it only shows stations that are actually reachable from Germany. After some research, I found it was indeed possible to find a connection from Europe to Pyongyang via Vladivostok once per month. Not anymore though, they removed the Russian train network from their system.

The users may have 1080p monitors, but even Windows does not do subpixel antialiasing in its new apps (UWP/WinUI) anymore. On Linux, GTK4 does not do subpixel antialiasing anymore.

The reason is mostly that it is too hard to make it work under transformations and compositing, while higher resolution screens are a better solution for anyone who cares enough.

by that logic everyone is native african

No that does not follow, but the very first individuals who migrated to America (the humans this discussion is about) obviously were not born in America. By my logic there were no native Americans that came from Asia to America, but their descendants became native.

Yes I know, very pedantic. I don't think there is anything wrong with the title.

Even though I am not a fan of it, I can see how some people might want to use AI to improve their grammar, maybe because they are afraid to leave a bad impression.

But why would anyone put AI generated images into an Email?

All cars in Europe must be connected to the internet at all times by law, to determine their location

The source you link very explicitly contradicts that:

Your eCall system is only activated if your vehicle is involved in a serious accident. The rest of the time the system remains inactive. This means that when you are simply driving your vehicle, no tracking (registering your car's position or monitoring your driving) or transmission of data takes place.

Beneficial to humanity does not mean "increasing the GDP". Humans are not machines; there are things that are valuable that is not technology. Just from the title of the thesis I would not judge its value. Analyzing culture and writing about your own ideas can be a good thing.

More important to me is whether it was written because someone really cared about the topic, or wrote 100s of pages of nothing to have a title.

But I also want to comment on your idea that researching AI is superior to researching dancing because it is more beneficial for humanity. I am myself in AI adjacent research, but I still disagree. Dancing is a deeply human thing, and we should care about it. And I believe that many people (especially outside of this bubble) will think that many parts of currently hyped AI research has very questionable "benefit for humanity", such as AI image generators.

it doesn't matter because we don't get any additional information about whether our original choice was correct

That's the missing assumption. I would say assuming that people are perfectly random falls into the "standardized test" category.

you won't get information, and you should still always switch and win 2/3 of the time.

You always get some information, the set of possible results becomes narrower, so saying the probabilities don't change is not sufficient. Not a good idea to discuss the problem in informal language though.