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I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning

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  • What qualification does someone need for that statement?

    Thanks for the thought, anyway. I hadn't come across the idea that tent cities might be a good thing, actually.

    • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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    • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • “Knallfunkensender”

    Literally "Bang-Sparks-Sender".

    Are you sure it's because of the radio spectrum bang? I always thought it was because of the audible bang.

    If someone operated such a thing today, any guesses what the death zone for electronic devices would be?

    • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • It really is from "Funkentechnik": "Spark technology". I wonder how many people appreciate the post for the cute etymology and how many because it sounds funny.

    Good information for ham radio people, too. Hobby sounds too geeky? Just say you're into Über-Funk-Parties.

    • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • Fun fact: The german word for using a radio is "funken"; literally "to spark". A radioman is, or was, a "Funker". When you are talking over the radio, you are doing it "Über Funk".

    • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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  • Honorable mention for 8mm. It isn't a good movie, unless you go for the very 1999 aesthetics. But I'll give a shout-out to that quote delivered by Joaquin Phoenix: "If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you."

    • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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    • Are the USA heading towards civil war?

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  • This does not have the seeds of a civil war.

    Look back to 1861. The US was split between slave and free states. Both regions had different economic models that were in conflict. The slavers of the south controlled most of the nation's capital. The slaves were worth more than all the railroads and foundries of the north. They had oligarchic control of the southern states.

    When Lincoln was elected, it was the first time that an outspoken abolitionist became president. It was clear, that the demographics of the US were changing in a way that would lose their power and status. So they started a war.

    Those weren't the uneducated racists that you find waving confederate flags today.

    The US has seen presidential lawlessness before (notably Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson). It also has seen lawlessness by state politicians (eg Harry F. "Massive Resistance" Byrd or Governor Orval "Blood will run in the Streets" Faubus).

    The only way I could see a civil war is, if Trump directly threatened the Middle Class and/or the Wealthy Elites.

    • Are the USA heading towards civil war?

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    • no thanks

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  • Oh no. It moves.

    “It’s a coordinated superorganism, acting and moving as a whole.”

    Oh no no.

    A 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) nematode tower twists and folds as the mass of worms reaches for the lid of its petri dish.

    Oh nonononono

    • Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

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  • For a moment there, I thought the UK was splitting up.

    • Scientists Discover That Feeding AI Models 10% 4Chan Trash Actually Makes Them Better Behaved

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    • Napster/BitTorrent for machine learning?

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  • What would a use case look like?

    I assume that the latency will make it impractical to train something that's LLM-sized. But even for something small, wouldn't a data center be more efficient?

    • Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

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  • I'm too lazy to check it now, but here's GPT-4o mini (via DDG). Maybe I'll give Gemini a chance later, too.

    • Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

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  • Hmm. Interesting question. I haven't done real math in quite a long time and am absolutely stumped.

    • Well whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it

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  • So that wasn’t sarcasm?

    Not quite sarcasm, not quite reductio ad absurdum. It's just a reminder of certain psychological realities.

    Possible instance of backwards causation

    Don't see how you get that.

    • Well whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it

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  • If that’s a steelman then it’s definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.

    I don't understand. I simply agreed with the previous poster. Do you disagree with anything I wrote?

    • Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.

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  • Prove you're not a camel. Props to Timothy Snyder for calling that one.

    • Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

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  • Not really. They are powered by language models, after all.

    Still, much of math is about manipulating symbols. So it is not mind-blowing that a certain understanding of math is there and can be improved on. But math also involves an understanding of space, or geometry. There I wouldn't expect much.

    Anyway. My 2 top takeaways from the article:

    1. Mathematicians are hired to improve the major AI services.
    2. They are required to use E2EE (Signal) for communication so that their work doesn't get picked up and used for LLM-training before the time is ready.

    • Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'

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  • World's second-smallest violin?