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Yet another claim without anything to back it up. I at least try to provide a relevant link when I state something. Which booby traps are you talking about? If they do exist, do you have any proof that they have killed civilians in Gaza?

What is this question about the number of terrorists and the targeting of buildings? It's well documented that the IDF lies about their targets, like the time they killed medics, burried them and their vehicle and claimed theywere approaching dangerously, but then when video proof showed they were lying they said it was a mistake.

Relevant links:

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/5/unprecedented-video-... - https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

There are so many things that are wrong with this sentence.

It's such a low effort reply that doesn't offer any proof or arguments to back it up.

It isn't true and it's actually documented that it's the IDF that used palestinians as human shields to protect themselves. (https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-arm...)

Even if were true, this doesn't justify the killing of civilians. You wouldn't blow up an entire building if there was a single terrorist in there. But, if I'm not mistaken, the IDF has quite a high number of acceptable collateral casualties, in the 100s, for a single valid target. So they're purposefully attacking civilians or attacking without any care for them.

Yes, but most of them are from the global south. The USA, Canada, countries in western Europe (except for Spain and Irelandand those are the same countries always talking about a 2 state solution. That's very hypocritical.

They have the right to reject any unfair division of the land or agreement. Why would they be the only ones to compromise whereas Israel gets to keep almost all of the land.

What did Israel compromise on? They have settler colonies in the west bank, they control everything that goes in and out of Gaza, they built a wall around Gaza, etc.

It all starts from the initial division of the land that led to the creation of Israel. To me that division makes no sense because the area is not proportial to the population and because of the very nature of the split it created. Instead of offering Palestinians a contiguous division of land, it offered them two disconnected pieces of land with Israel right in the middle. That makes no sense.

As for your video, I don't know what you're trying to stay or do by sharing it. No matter whether you like Pelstinians or not, they have rights especially so under apartheid, settler colonialism and genocide.

Here's for you an example video showing israelis:

https://youtu.be/8RVoPZPKxLY?si=Z-T_iKehTsfJ7xMq

It doesn't look good.

Having talked to a few Palestinias that live outside of Palestine, I know that they all have temporary statuses in the neighoboring countries (for example, those in Lebanon) and that doesn't give them much rights and it has lasted for decades already. Forcing the remaining people in Gaza to leave "temporarily" is first of all ethnic cleansing (forced displacement) and second of all it will be anything but temporary.

The same for Syrians in Turkey, they don't have a proper refugee status and have instead a secondary status that gives them fewer rights.

Here's some food for thought from me as well: why does anything that goes in and out of Gaza go through israel? Why don't other countries recognize the state of Palestine? Wouldn't that be a good step towards a two-state solution? (Even though I don't believe that would work, at least not without justice for the Palestinians).

What a coincidence! I have done the exact same thing but on Instagram instead of Facebook and have had similar results to yours. Since both belong to Meta, we can safely assume that they use the same or very similar backends to serve ads.

I think it would be interesting to do a large scale experiment to see what can happen.

I don't we should be admiring such an attack especially after it killed civilians and innocent people (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/funeral-held-for-...).

On top that, this attack just sets a terrible precedent and opens the door to more similar attacks happening elsewhere.

If I'm not mistaken, it's a Gamil specific feature. Any combination of words or numbers between + and @ is seen as not part of your email address but can be used by filter received emails.

See this link for more information: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

I had a similar idea some time ago but didn't implement due to its complexity and the need to juggle different parameters. On top of that, I don't think there are any guarantees when it comes to privacy. Your users will have to trust that no mistake will be made in handling the raw data or the preprocessed data and that no malicious actor will be able to access the original weights.

You should instead try looking into Homomorphic Encryption:

https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm

It is resource intensive and slower but it serves your purpose better, in my opinion.

I agree with the other commenter. If you don't think the submission is appropriate then you should flag it. But since you commented and then called the protestors "Hamas supporters" then I assume you're okay with other arguing with you about that. Simply calling them "Hamas supporters" and "getting away" from them won't change much and only resonates with people that are already pro-Israel and/or pro-genocide. If you disagree with the protests and their claims you should at least provide some substance for others to have a proper discussion with you. Historically speaking, opposing student movements has a terrible track record of putting you on the wrong side of history (e.g. Vietnam War) so I wouldn't just dismiss them.

I kind of understand how the 2nd point, "shut down a major thoroughfare.”, would lead to your conclusion, "seems fine", but I fail to understand what the 1st point has anything to do with it. Could you please help me understand? In the article, the protestors are labeled as "anti-war" protestors, and even though the specific war they are protesting involves Israel, I would not necessarily label them as "anti-Israel".

If you're looking for some best practices related but limited to machine learning application code, you could have a look at Beyond Jupyter (https://github.com/aai-institute/beyond-jupyter)

Here's an excerpt from the readme: "Beyond Jupyter is a collection of self-study materials on software design, with a specific focus on machine learning applications, which demonstrates how sound software design can accelerate both development and experimentation."

I agree with you. Let's not rehash this finger pointing argument. It doesn't get us anywhere.

I however disagree with the framing in the example. Starting from the event that Able attacked Baker without mentioning the reasons or the context clearly portrays Baker as not having done anything to provoke such an attack. Nothing ever happens in a vaccuum.

Looking at this from a machine learning perspective, the risk of biases is even higher in these cases because of issues with data drift (Members could change sites, they could start dressing differently, etc.) and imbalances in the dataset (A lot fewer Hamams members than civilians in Gaza).

Additionally, juging from the amount of data such models would have to go through in order to make predictions (social media, camera footage, etc.) I would assume that they are using neural networks. This type of model performs best without raw unprocessed data e.g. raw camera footage instead of preprocessed features like "wears a scarf" or "carrying a weapon". They are also well known to be black boxes whoe mredictions cannot really be explained [0].

We can still comment on this topics based an assumptions and previous experince. I don't have experience working in the military field but I have experience working in the AI field and these are strong assumptions I am making.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10154

Perhaps you could help me with that? I was trying to reply to the parent's question about what Israel is supposed to do and offered some alternatives to indiscriminate killings. The part about the right of return dates back to around 1948, right around the time the state of Israel was established. How far back in time should we go for it to stop being a symptom and become a cause?

Let me quote from the article:

Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.

It literally says that they use data from known Hamas members (we don't know what this data contains) as training data which is a recipe for making biased predictions. Hamas members represent a minority in Gaza (the total population is over 2 million people) and thus the real data is heavily imbalanced[0] and unless addressed leads to bad models.

On top of that, if you know anything about Machine Learning then you should be aware of models finding spurious correlations[1] in the data that make its predictions accurate on the available training and validation data and not so much once deployed and used with real data.

[0] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/data-prep/con...

[1] https://thegradient.pub/shortcuts-neural-networks-love-to-ch...

As someone working in the AI field, I find this use of AI truly terrifying. Today it may be used to target Hamas and accept a relatively large number of civilian deaths as permissible collateral damage, but nothing guarantees that it won't be exported and used somewhere else. On top of that, I don't think anything is done to alleviate biases in the data (if you're used to target people from a certain group then your AI system will still target people from that group) or validate the predictions after a "target" is bombed. I wish there was more regulations for these use cases. Too bad the EU AI Act doesn't address military uses at all.

I will try to answer that question. I think it's better to find the actual reason for what's happening rather than focus on the symptoms. Perhaps Israel could stop being an apartheid[0,1] and treat Palestinians equally. It could also stop imposing a blockade on Gaza[2] and allow it to blossom again and remove the need for supporting Hamas. It could as well allow Palestinians to exercise their right to return to where they or their parents lived [3].

It's easy to point the fingers at Hamas for the region's suffering but that is dishonest and completely omits the big role that Israel played in creating this and previous events.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/05/does-israels-treatment-p...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/apartheid

[2] https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitaria...

[3] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/27/gaza-two-rights-return

I wasn't necessarily trying to point fingers at a specific party. I wanted to better understand the parent's comment and while doing I wrote what I assumed was meant by them. I agree that to solve this issue that has been going on for many, many years we will have to go to the root cause and address that.

Could you please clarify what you mean by "Hamas wanted in ghe first place"? If I'm not mistaken, you're referring to the attack on the 7th of October, right? May I perhaps add that just on the days preceding that attack, Israelis killed a Palestinian in the West Bank[0]. So it was not really peaceful before that specific date.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-killed...

I think that no matter your view on the mafia or Hamas, it still doesn't justify the amount of death and destruction that is being done in Gaza. No matter how you spin it or sugar coat itw killing, displacing and starving civilians, killing aid workers and journalists and destroying civilian infrastructure are war crimes. As for the Al-Shifa Hospital, Israel's SWAT is either incompetent or not a SWAT team at all judging by the length of the operation, 2 weeks, and the photos of the Hospital after they left.

Both of these options are war crimes. I think only talking about these two options presents a false dichotomy. There are many more options that could have been considered. For example, Israel could have accepted the hostage swap and then picked Hamas operatives slowly but surely given their superior military and intelligence. Israel however prefered killing lots of civilians as "collateral damage" in order to kill a few Hamas operatives and they didn't even manage to rescue hostages. The crime lies in the blatant disregard for civilian life in Gaza.

This is like a thief saying that they steal something because otherwise another thief would steal it. What the parent is suggesting is that engineers around the world should agree to not make such systems similar to how doctors have the hippocratic oath. It may seem naive and can probably never prevent such systems from being built but I think it's worth a try. We have to collectively agree on systems we should not build.

I agree with the other commenter that this goes way beyond "friendly fire". According to a Haaretz article, those aid workers were targeted 3 times in a row and I assume someone had to confirm the bombing for all 3 of them. This isn't friendly fire. I would love to see their validation data to check on their claim of 90% accuracy.

Well, you said and I quote "maybe it's based in some kind of Fact" so I assumed that you were implying that there is in fact a connection between Palestinian children and weapons and since the majority of Palestinians are arabs/muslims I deduced that that's where the fact you mentioned is coming from. You didn't state clearly what you meant by "fact" so I filled the gap. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Or perhaps it's based on the false premise that all arabs/muslims are terrorists. AI systems have a bias towards the modes with the most data and unfortunately for arabs and muslims they're badly represented in the media.