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7·7 days agoHitting ‘unsubscribe’:
- Takes you to website where you have to go through multiple steps of inquisition: your email, are you sure, want to just get less, are you really sure, give us a reason, ok it’s queued up and we’ll get to it whenever.
Or,
- Hey, this is a live email. Ok, whatever, thanks. We’ll make more money selling this email to data brokers. Mission accomplished.
If on gmail, hit unsubscribe.
- A as in Aight
- B as in Bye
- C as in Cite
- D as in Deign
- E as in Eight
- F as in Foto
- G as Ghee
- H as in Hale
- I as in Ire
- J as Jose
- K as in Kneel
- L as in Llama
- M as in Mow
- N as in Nigh
- O as in Ohm
- P as Phone
- Q as Quoin
- R as in Row
- S as in Site
- T as in Thine
- U as in Ute
- V as View
- W as in Woo
- X as in Xerxes
- Y as in Yow
- Z as in Zillow
If there’s a sign, it likely happened more than once.
“You’re not going to believe this…”
Dolly Parton, Fred Rogers, and LeVar Burton are top of my list of lifetime role models.
This isn’t literally about Manga.
France has a long history with Bande dessinée, aka graphic novels. Like Asterix, TinTin, Gaston, Lucky Luke, etc. Their version of Comicon is a massive annual conference in Angoulême: https://angouleme.org/en/comics-festival/.
There’s already a whole ecosystem around Asterix: movies, theme parks, conventions, etc. Not as much around the other characters. What Macron is likely talking about is taking outside investment to jumpstart other ecosystems, including popular Japanese manga series. This is all about increasing foreign tourism.
3·20 days agoHumans encounter a wide range of tasks as they grow up from infant to toddler and beyond. We don’t have separate ‘training’ vs. ‘inference’ stages (or at least, it’s a very short window). We also generalize from tasks (as the glass jar demo shows). We also appear to have different types of storage for short vs medium vs long-range memory.
We can combine a bunch of individual tasks into complex, coordinated, goal-seeking tasks and keep them around for later use. Like riding a bike, or learning how to drive, or juggle. We can recall those years later, even if we haven’t done them for a long time.
Plus, we somehow have a meta-layer of ‘common-sense’ or ‘ethics’ that tells us when NOT to do something, or when we SHOULDN’T. Like ride a bike onto pedestrians, or juggle kitchen knives. Hopefully, the research will go into those areas as well.
Friend of mine could afford to retire early at 55. Did much of nothing for a few years. Then one day, he decided to go back to school. He’s now well on his way to a PhD in a completely unrelated field. He says it made him excited about life again.
This guy fingerprints.
(hopefully in a good way)
The WebAudio test is not the only measurement in these scripts. Inspection of the bundles found code that queries or measures:
- canvas rendering and toDataURL()
- WebGL renderer information, extensions, and shader precision
- audio oscillator and analyser output
- screen and viewport dimensions
- device pixel ratio
- hardware concurrency and device memory
- installed browser plugins
- supported audio and video formats
- WebRTC behaviour
- browser performance timing
- mouse, touch, focus, and scroll events
- device motion and orientation
- properties commonly associated with browser automation
There is also code for serialising and encrypting results, making requests to Alibaba telemetry services, and sending data with fetch() or sendBeacon().
Not sure you need all this to play audio.
No big. Guess I’ll have to wait another year before upgrading my laptop. Sorry for the loss of business.
7·24 days agoThat’s the first draft script of 2001, as written by an old-fashioned AI ‘expert system.’
Kubrik decided it was more cost-effective to just have HAL sing ‘Daisy, Daisy.’
Sigh. I really need to put /s around things.
It’s a Monty Python quote.
In that case, society’s to blame.
You rolled a bowling ball down a hill. It struck a few cars on the way and went through a house and killed their pet. Guess who would be held responsible? You or the bowling ball manufacturer?
What if the bowling ball was really shiny and worth $100B? Should it make a difference?
If he had only spent an extra $0.50 and added a Microchip 608c (https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/atecc608c) to the design, then you wouldn’t have to deal with cleartext passwords in files. Instead, you could have elliptic-curve, asymmetric public-key encryption.
It’s way worse than that. The OpenAI talk at DefCon is a real eye-opener.
The agents swarmed, discovered chinks, left each other notes in hard-to-find places, and just relentlessly pressed on. Nobody knew what was going on for months, until it hacked its way into Huggingface. And HF’s own AI security agents didn’t pick anything up for weeks. It took a small glitch for someone to even notice.
AI software can’t technically kill you unless:
Oh, wait.
See, nothing to worry about.