Whether you like the direction that things are going with AI or not you need to stop deluding yourself into thinking that you'll always be able to tell it's fake, you are going to eventually get scammed.
There are still some tells if you really know what you're looking for, but we're not at Will Smith spaghetti, 6 fingers or 2 left feet. Pretending like this is not a real problem you have to deal with isn't going to make the problem go away anymore.
This girl is not real
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I kept trying to explain to cis het white people what I was scared of. I kept having a problem where whenever I made a specific prediction (even a prediction like "Trump will keep this widely publicized campaign promise"), they would come up with a reason why my specific prediction would not happen exactly as I laid it out, and therefore I have nothing to worry about.
The stuff you're saying is the stuff I'd been saying. It's refreshing to see someone else say it instead of dismiss it.
1/ On this last day of 2024, I thought this might interest those of you following our progress in detail. Here is a summary of all the One-Way Light Travel Times of the Voyager spacecraft over 2024.
The first thing to note is that the plot lines have different vertical axes! While the times are _offset_, the scale is the same. If you plot both these times on a single vertical scale, you can barely see the sinusoidal shape. Remember: green with green, blue with blue.
OK, why is there this shape? Because the distance measurements are being made from a moving platform: Earth. The sinusoidal variance is because of Earth's orbit around the Sun. At certain times of year, the Earth is actually moving towards the Voyagers faster than they are leaving, so the distance _decreases_.
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Looks like Google did a not so nice thing. The Google Authenticator app no longer will generate the codes for some items, including Google's own account. This happened after they offered to backup all items to their cloud in case you lose your phone; if you don't do that, their app will break itself like this.
Two-factor authentication is about 'one thing you know and one thing you have'. The first thing is your password, the second thing your phone. The generated codes on your phone prove that you have your phone. Backing up the app in your Google account renders the latter useless and puts you back at one-factor authentication.
Of course you can and maybe should backup the secrets stored in the app. But that must be on 'something you have' and not somebody's cloud.
#GoogleAuthenticator
I went to the Christmas market in Maastricht today. It was nice and cold and crowded. It gets dark quickly this close to midwinter.
Photos taken with Canon EOS R10 and Canon RF 28 F2.8. Cc-by.
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Over six decades, Jill and I had the honor of calling Jimmy Carter a dear friend.
But, what’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well.
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My dishwasher was like 'hold my beer' and didn't hold its water anymore. Meanwhile my tablet seems to be fixed for now by uninstalling the TikTok app (it literally caused the display to flash, have interference, etc).
Insider trading tip for people trading in Samsung shares: both my tablet and phone are showing near-end-of-life signs and I may soon need to be buying new ones. With the insane device prices nowadays, this sure is going to raise their shares.(Just to be clear, the above is obviously sarcasm. I have no inside knowledge. Just a consumer.)
Insider trading tip for people trading in Samsung shares: both my tablet and phone are showing near-end-of-life signs and I may soon need to be buying new ones. With the insane device prices nowadays, this sure is going to raise their shares.
(Just to be clear, the above is obviously sarcasm. I have no inside knowledge. Just a consumer.)
your experience is how I expected mine to be if I had actually given the technology a chance.
Machine learning has been useful for decades, mostly quietly. The red flag against LLMs for me (aside from the authorship laundering and mass poaching of content) was there scramble by all companies to shoehorn it into their products, like a solution looking for a problem; I’ve yet to see it actually solve.
@carbontwelve I used machine learning in my PhD. The use case there was data prefetching. This was an ideal task for ML, because the benefits of a correct answer were high and the cost of an incorrect answer were low. In the worst case, your prefetching evicts something from cache that you need later, but a 60% accuracy in predictions is a big overall improvement.
Programming is the opposite. The benefits of being able to generate correct code faster 80% of the time are small but the costs of generating incorrect code even 1% of the time are high. The entire shift-left movement is about finding and preventing bugs earlier.
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Event Descriptions:
- High Impedance Air Gap
⩵ It wasn't plugged in🔌 - Kinetic Disassembly
⩵ It blew up💥 - Organic Grounding
⩵ It electrocuted someone⚡ - Percussive Maintenance
⩵ It was hit with a hammer🔨 - Thermal Reconfiguring
⩵ It melted🔥
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Spring can't come fast enough!
The trailer for the new film with Jenna Ortega is out! Death of a Unicorn, coming soon.
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From A24, the studio that brought you X, a film with Jenna Ortega, Death of a Unicorn.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega and The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke arrived on blu-ray!
The German release of the latter has an alternative title Baby To Go, which isn't even in German. In my own country hardly any discs are released anymore, so we have to make do with these German releases.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #BabyToGo
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So here's yet another example of #Google Search AI Overviews completely missing the point of a question and giving misleading/wrong answers. I asked Google how much larger a 75 inch TV is than a 55 inch TV. Google replied with an AI Overview (as below) declaring the 75 was 36% larger than the 55, "meaning the viewing area is significantly bigger on the 75 inch screen", it confidently declared.
Only 36%? That doesn't seem right. We're talking about viewing area, as the AI reply itself stated.
So what went wrong? If you look at the calculation that the AI answer used, it simply calculated how much longer the diagonal of the 75 is vs. the 55. Yeah, it's about 36% longer. But that's NOT the viewing area.
If you calculate out the actual viewing area, a term mentioned by the AI answer itself, the actual result is that the 75 viewing area is about 86% (!) larger than the 55. Not a mere 36%.
So the AI Overview answer was utterly misleading at best, and just plain stupid wrong at worst. Not even close.
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Glow is also in Best this year, as last year, side-Glow as it were.
Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm. cc-by.
#Photography #Glow2024
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Glow Eindhoven 2024.
I tried to take some photos with my Canon EOS R10, with the RF 50mm 1.8 lens, some with the RF 28mm 2.8.
#Photography #Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024
Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.
Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
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Fixed my @F-Droid app on my tablet as I found it had a radically different idea of which versions of several apps were available than my phone had. Both were also behind reality, but that is normal. I noticed this because the @Tuta app failed to download, maybe because such an old version (August) no longer existed. Somehow going into the 'nearby people' function triggered a new wifi permission popup, or maybe it was me toggling wifi off-and-on that fixed it. But after that thumbnails and screenshots loaded again and new(-ish) app versions were shown.
In researching this I found the remark that F-droid has supported unattended upgrades for a while. That is a feature I was really waiting for, as clicking Install on each separate update then wait a minute then click the next etc was getting really annoying. But it is not happening for me. Turns out that this is only available for newer Android versions, which neither of these devices has... See f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.ht… .
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That’s understandable, yeah we’re in a tricky position for grants as we’re so international. A grant to support both your work and our main dev would be amazing.
I’m not a tech person myself (just experience with Arts funding). So, a bit out of the loop regarding funding help available… any leads you could point us to? I’d be happy to help with the application
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