BreadstickNinja @ BreadstickNinja @lemmy.world

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Germany killed 60% of European Jews between 1933 and 1945, which is 5% per year or 1.25% every three months.

Israel has killed 1% of Gaza's population in three months, and if they maintain current pace will be at 4% per year.

So they're 80% as efficient if they sustain the current rate. Not a huge discrepancy.

Wow, it's almost as though his problem with Claudine Gay had nothing to do with plagiarism.

Because killing 1 in every 100 people who lived there in 2022, many of them women and children or civilian men, apparently wasn't enough.

And yet my goverment keeps telling me that 15,000 civilian deaths is somehow a proportional response to 766 civilian deaths. Does "proportional" mean "at a 20:1 ratio"? I guess that's technically a proportion.

Thanks to both of you. Damn.

Workers in the US have an estimated $50bn-plus stolen from them every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, surpassing all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined. The majority of these stolen wages are never recovered by workers.

Not surprised, honestly, but I'd never heard that comparison before.

A common trope in anime that take place in high school is that the student council is the most powerful organization, not answerable to the headmaster or anyone else. Student council members (and high-ranking ones in particular) are basically viewed as royalty. So this meme is joking that anime student councils are not just the most powerful organizations in their schools but on the entire planet.

Here's a TV Tropes article on it.

What's the source on this? Want to explore it and share with a couple people.

"A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing."

Wikipedia

Several Youtubers have built a working prototype and used it to beat chess masters. And for who knows what else off screen, I guess.

Were you holding out for a foot chase?

What? Mushrooms aren't plants. They're fungi. Different kingdom.

It's a sexual assault investigation. If you rape someone and the police seize your phone then that's hardly a breach of privacy.

That's not what tax deductible means

The clergy have no appreciation for North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes

I still have my 2015 Nissan Leaf, despite cycling through three other EVs since then. And while the Leaf isn't going to work for a lot of people, it does have manual door locks and in general the electronics are far simpler than other EV models. It's by far the most reliable EV I've driven - never failed to start or experienced a mechanical problem. So I get what you're saying. Wish there were more simple options out there.

The issue is that the values of the parameters don't correspond to traditional variables. Concepts in AI are not represented with discrete variables and quantities. A concept may be represented in a distributed way across thousands or millions of neurons. You can look at each individual neuron and say, oh, this neuron's weight is 0.7142, and this neuron's weight is 0.2193, etc., across all the billions of neurons in your model, but you're not going to be able to connect a concept from the output back to the behavior of those individual parameters because they only work in aggregate.

You can only know that an AI system knows a concept based on its behavior and output, not from individual neurons. And AI systems are quite like humans in that regard. If your professor wants to know if you understand calculus, or if the DMV wants to know if you can safely drive a car, they give you a test: can you perform the desired output behavior (a correct answer, a safe drive) when prompted? Understanding how an idea is represented across billions of parameters in an AI system is no more feasible than your professor trying to confirm you understand calculus by scanning your brain to find the exact neuronal connections that represent that knowledge.

Yes, an absolute scam. Perfect for a demonstration project for a big polluter to point at to discourage legislation that would threaten their business model. Not useful for reducing carbon emissions at scale.

Ninniku no tare, for sure.

19,000 is the total I've seen, but I don't think there are good figures on civilian vs. combatant deaths. I was assuming a very conservative 2:1, which I saw reported somewhere, but I assume the civilian share is much higher, given that at least 7,000 or more of the dead from Israeli attacks were children.

In any case the point is that if killing Israeli civilians is wrong then killing dozens of times more Palestinian civilians should also be wrong. It's a shame that most of the American political leadership doesn't see it that way and instead wants to send Israel even more weapons with which to murder a vastly disproportionate number of civilians to the losses suffered in Israel.

And if the death of, by the latest count, 764 Israeli civilians is a Holocaust, what does that make the death of 12,000 Palestinian civilians?