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Zuck waved the white flag, settled the frivolous Trump libel lawsuit, and made several trips to kiss Trump's ring - now he is getting skewered anyhow. Deliciously ironic.
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.
Who knew that OpenAI really meant "Open for business AI"?
This whole entire industry is a racketeering scheme.
The medical industry justifies their excess profits as necessary for supporting the "free market" in "generating innovation".
In reality:
1. Their "free market" is anything BUT a free market.
2. "Generating innovation" is not a substitute for generating positive health outcomes.
3. Their excess profits are primarily used for propaganda and bribery to justify their own existence and protect their racket.
Just look up the laws restricting Medicare from bargaining on medical care and prescription drugs to understand just how much of a racket this whole industry is. It is criminal in every way - aside from the written law, since the people who make the laws are co-conspirators in the scheme.
It's so much worse than the "most expensive" healthcare in the world. This nauseatingly overinflated healthcare is further subsidized by US taxpayer funds from the shit medical care and extortionate drug prices that Medicare is legally obligated to pay. It actually adds trillions to our Federal Deficit each year... so we get the worst health outcomes WHILE driving the US government into bankruptcy.
This whole system maximizes profits for a limited number of players at the expense of our doctors, our patients, the fiscal health of Medicare, and the future of our republic.
Physics & Mathematics - Anyone who seriously pursues these fields learns to embrace the challenges as beautiful and the struggle to unravel their nature as fulfilling. To do this, we embrace the beauty in nature and see the connection with everything around us. Four books come to mind.
Physics:
1. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
2. The Universe in a Nutshell by Steven Hawking
Mathematics:
1. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by J.A. Paulos
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by D. Hofstadter
These books brilliantly illuminate the beauty in these fields. They show you that underneath all of that complex notation and "math speak" are beautiful ideas about life, the universe, and the nature of reality. These fueled me, even in to my PhD research. I still love them today.
This whole argument is wildly misunderstanding the problem. Andy Ngo frames this as a black & white issue - when by all reasonable measures, it is not.
It’s not all free speech or none. I don’t see Andy protesting that it is a crime to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there isn’t one. I also don’t see Andy protesting when that teenage girl was sent to prison for verbally abusing her boyfriend and verbally encouraging him to commit suicide - which he eventually did. Where are his protests? Where are the guardians of free speech here?
The thing is, there is speech for the purpose of communicating, speech for the purpose of convincing, and speech for the purpose of manipulating. The first two categories are always protected and should be under most conditions. The last has heavy restrictions. You are not allowed to use the platform someone else built to manipulate the audience they built if they do not want you to. Period.
Trumps endless lies aren’t speech. They are a blatant attempt at manipulation with a reckless disregard for the truth. That needs to be restricted urgently. We’ve seen too many minds manipulated by this category of non-speech.
That’s also the entire problem with the “conservatives” - especially under Trump. They abused platforms to manipulate people into following them because they didn’t actually have persuasive points. They abandoned their commitments to fidelity, fiscal responsibility, and morality. All they had were lies that they repeated until they became undistinguishable from the truth.
This isn’t about speech. It never was. It is about manipulation and one particular political segment trying to use our core values against us.
Stop trying to muddy the waters. This whole argument is a straw man.
Stop trying to pretend this was ever about speech.
Wow! Brilliant idea! So simple, yet such an interesting exploration. I was just playing with the Gartner Hype Cycle AI chart when this came up. :)
Is there a site for this? Or app?
This article missed the entire point.
Here’s the problem: Free speech rights are intended to protect speech. They are not intended to protect propaganda. Nor would we want them to. Propaganda is relatively easy to identify and is not speech.
Take Trump, for example. He does not lie in an attempt to convince you of the truth of his perspective. He lies to show you who has power in the situation. He knows that you know that his excuses are shallow and dumb - that’s the whole point.
He is asserting that he can create his own reality and say whatever he wants and you cannot stop him. The majority of his supporters do the same thing. When they repeat his lies, they are not attempting to convince you of their truth. They are showing you their allegiance.
This is similar with QAnon and a myriad of other right wing groups. After repeating their lies over and over, their supporters begin to get confused about what is actually real. They originally bought in to the scheme to be part of the group, but the scheme took and and they lost their grasp on any truth. There is no truth once this takes over.
This is not speech. This is a caustic type of control that uses honest people to spread by confusing their sensibilities. They protect the exercise of these lies, in their quest for morality and justice, and allow its venom to spread. Soon, it kills both host and victim. Leaving all powerless to the purveyor of the propaganda.
This is easily identifiable. We must not protect this. It is not speech.
Getting pulled into a quasi-logical debate where this is confused with speech is exactly what the purveyors want. They want us to confuse this with speech so it can be protected while it erodes the minds of its consumers.
Uhhh... last time I checked, Assange colluded with Russia to give us Trump. Whoever nominated him, probably himself, is a deranged motherfucker. They actually think his actions resulted in peace?!?
We are wildly less safe worldwide in every possible way. Climate change was neglected. All environmental standards became toilet paper. Iran now has nukes. North Korea has nukes. Russia is seizing neighboring countries with the blessing of Trump. China has gone rogue. And the US is locking up children in cages. Which part of that sounds like resounding peace?
If Assange were American, I’d nominate him for treason.
You’re telling me that baby chicks are arriving dead to farmers across the Midwest. Food and medicines are spoiling from being stored in facilities that are not designed for storage. Old people and vets on VA plans are being forced to wait for their prescriptions sometimes for over 1 week after they are due.
All because this critical infrastructure lost $6B last year?!?!
The DoD’s base annual budget for 2020 was $633B - and they will spend every single penny of it.
The USPS spends less than 1% of our base DoD budget to deliver timely mail to every single registered household in the US.
Oh, by the way, this corrupt administration PLANNED TO LOSE $1.06T BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
And, taxes collected from individual citizens make up approximately 60% of our Federal budget. Taxes on corporations make up just 7%. The rest is a smattering of funds that come from trade, interest from the Fed, and other sources.
If you ever wondered who this American government works for... it is not “We the People”.
The citizens are not treated like they directly pay for more than half of government expenses. They don’t even matter enough to support consistent communication infrastructure.
Your elderly grandparents can’t have your medicine on time because it costs the postal service an average of $0.033 above their collected revenue to mail each item...
...while each Javelin missile we fire at some poor goat herder in Afghanistan costs the same as a small house in the suburbs of a major US city.
The level of corruption in this administration and this entire government is more than nauseating - and the fact that they are doing with my tax dollars adds insult to injury. The shock is wearing off - and below it is nothing but rage.
There are a lot of missing components here. The article makes it sound like the simple solution to increasing motivation is the glutamine to glutamate ratio. Isn’t that the result of internal neurological and biochemical processes not the causative element?
I think they are confusing correlation with causation.
These were developed and run by a company called PrizeLogic out of AZ. They had to keep costs down, so they mostly used new programmers. It is not surprising to me that this is the result.
There is one particular restaurant that has these installed. It is a very weird experience that takes some time to get used to.
Hmmm... I think there are only a handful of nefarious uses for this technology but a plethora of real-world applications. Almost all of the nefarious uses revolve around GPS and individuals. If you take that out, the set of applications is enormous-1.
It’s strange to me that people read something like this and infer the absolute inverse of the actual situation. That is definitely a “thinking fast” reaction.
If you don’t control your encryption keys, you don’t control your encryption.
I’ve used AESCrypt for a while. Open source and no major bugs found under a third-party audit.
There is a lesson here, brought to you by Ethos Capital....
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
Quick! Put it back before POTUS convinces his cult to stoke the fires and purge all of the “fake liberal history” books!
It is so easy to get bogged down in the mathematics of RNNs that new learners lose perspective of the dynamics. I love that you have flipped that around.
I favor the approach of understanding the dynamics of machine learning. The mathematics are then easily distilled from the nature of the process.
This is a very clear description of that process. Thank you for it!
Fascinating read! I’ve been engineering software for a decade and I have come to some of these concepts intuitively, but did not know such a field existed. Thanks!
They have linked it to the 5G Covid-19 conspiracy.
Might also want to run it in Firefox Developer Edition and profile the page load, and JavaScript. You should be able to tell pretty quickly what component is causing the UI bugginess.
After reading the article, I’m not sure he isn’t just moving the company to Texas so he can avoid paying taxes on the business income. That move would effectively transfer the tax burden to his employees through property tax. They won’t notice until they buy a house... but, his business will. He certainly launched in some of the highest taxed places on the West Coast. Seems like he’s regretting that.
Very cool! This is an awesome application. Notice that there is still a lot of human curation, but that is an awesome idea. Automate the interview and let the computer generate a design.
There is absolutely nothing surprising here. I truly hope that the government is investigating unidentified flying stuff. That’s quite important.
This worked out so well in 2007 - 2008 that we just had to try it again, huh?
Why is this administration an such incredible engine for useless ideas?
Wow. Here we are debating encryption with flawed logic in the US Congress, while space is becoming a platform for unbreakable encrypted communication. Can’t eavesdrop on a quantum uplink. Interesting dichotomy.
Cubesats are within reach of almost any country. We a decade away from every country in the world being able to have access to unbreakable comms.
Russia did not lift this ban because they changed their stance on encryption...
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Oooooooh. This comment is so deliciously stupid that I am going to quote it verbatim in case you delete it. I would hate deprive future readers of the ability to marvel in the grandeur of its laughable dimwitted glory.
You missed all the points by turning this into some strawman crying fit of moral outrage about "appealing to authority".
These doctors did not have proper training the statistics they horrifically misrepresented. They also made it sound like they had substantial knowledge in the field of Epidemiology. They don't.
Both of these doctors are now going before the California Medical Board because they got the facts wrong and they were wrong to give this advice. They misrepresented their data and exaggerated - because their urgent care is having a low patient turnout and they want to end the lockdown.
This idea that only narrow set of domain experts can speak up about something is blatantly insane.
Your couple of hours on Google is not equivalent to a medical degree. When we are talking about medicine, you do not get a seat at the table because you think you are smart.
A standard Medical School only includes 1 semester in Virology and 1 more semester in Microbiology. An Epidemiologist goes through 4 YEARS of detailed training in Statistics, Microbiology, and Biochem. This is before years of experience in the field.
Those are NOT equivalent bases of knowledge.
You are not an epidemiologist either...
What the fuck do you know? My degrees are in Mathematics with a specialization in Statistics. So, yeah, I know A LOT more than they do in this area.
If credibility is a function of imbued institutional authority...
Doctors have to demonstrate their skills by getting licensed for the areas of their practice. We have a licensure process for a reason - to demonstrate competence in a field. These guys are going to lose theirs.
End of story.
epidemiologists are not statisticians
You don't know a single fact that you are talking about. You are the fucking problem - along with everyone else who thinks their Google search is as good as a medical degree.
I had to solve this problem a few years ago. My solution was as follows:
1. Convert PDF -> multiple individual SVG files. (I probably used Cairo)
2. Use Inkscape to set your fields and name them like Django template variables.
3. Store these prepared SVGs in the file system of your app.
4. Call them when needed and fill them in with the Django Template rendering engine.
4a. Works with including images too if you convert them to base64 encoded PNG, then insert them into the SVG.
5. Convert individual SVGs -> individual PDFs. (Cairo)
6. Merge individual PDFs into a single combined PDF. (Cairo)
7. Deliver finished merged PDF.
After the initial step of preparing your SVG, which can take a bit of time to get right, it only takes about 2-3s to produce a fully compiled PDF and gives you all of the necessary functionality out of them - sans all of these chaotic intervening libraries.
I can't tell you how many months it took me to figure that out. It was a while though. When the system was operational, we were sending 10,000 multipage PDFs per day on a single Django instance on a T2 medium AWS instance.