Do you write things that you intend other people read? The value in that writing, one would assume, would include your education, culture, and intelligence.
That's at odds with everything I know about manufacturing robotics, having worked with people doing that work. The complexity of the environment is irrelevant because the robot is programmed to make a specific motion…
Sadly, American politics are so absurd now that some people won't recognize you're joking
I am only really confused about this comment. I don't see any shock here, just people discussing the same disappointing state of events you are.
The biggest source of lead exposure in indoor ranges isn't from the chunks of lead shot into targets. It's from the primers. Lead styphnate is still a common ingredient, and the primer is one of those parts of the…
I don't understand this comment. The fine article is about a proposed law that would allegedly require the implementation of half-baked censorship systems along the same lines as the DMCA. Are you saying that's not a…
It's also alive and well off the blockchain!
You give a damn about speech. You're publicly criticizing the foundational document of a government, and calling that government a failure. That open criticism is necessary for change to happen and, in the United…
Eh? More for the rest of us, then!
The U.S. constitution is about the structure of the government and the things it can and cannot do. It's a remarkably short and readable document for what it is and when it was first written. And while it has been…
Yes, you are morally responsible for your own actions. But those actions don't happen in a vacuum. They happen in a world that you are able to observe and make predictions about, however imperfect those predictions are.…
Tlön is one of my favorite short stories. Weirdly (and perhaps appropriately) that's despite being unable to remember basically anything about it once I've finished reading.
Who should the unimaginative non-liberals read, and why?
This isn't a forensics class. People are allowed to point out what they think is obvious without having to explain it in detail. And it's rude to insist that they do more than you've done yourself. The article…
I will leave aside my own judgment of the things you've listed. I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with some. My exact opinion doesn't matter here. What matters is this: you can agree that Trump has done…
> We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or want tomorrow. What, exactly, do you…
> Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. That is an obviously wrong statement even if we only look…
The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech that it isn't even a question. There have…
Donald Trump is currently doing immense damage to the personal liberty of some and to the free expression of all. Every one of the numerous things listed in the article is something that actually happened. I don't know…
It wouldn't be an ordinary law, it would be a constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's probably not going to happen, though. Amending the U.S. constitution is incredibly difficult.
Sharpening and bandwidth-limiting have the exact same effect, because the maximum sharpness of an image (like any other signal) depends on its bandwidth. There is no difference in the type of artifact produced. That's…
I am unsurprised that the author would hold a video distribution company which supposedly pays good money for experts to a higher standard than the average hobbyist blogger. I don't think it's hating for the sake of…
It's the exact same phenomenon in both. Not sure where you're making the distinction.
This is what's so terrifying about uses of "AI". People's idea of accuracy being "tell me what I think is there", not "tell me what's there". The can in this image probably says "coconut milk", but the image certainly…
I'm saying it's moot because, if you're just flagging things for review, there's already a more direct and reliable way to do that. The OCR classifier itself outputs a confidence score. The naieve way of just checking…
Do you write things that you intend other people read? The value in that writing, one would assume, would include your education, culture, and intelligence.
That's at odds with everything I know about manufacturing robotics, having worked with people doing that work. The complexity of the environment is irrelevant because the robot is programmed to make a specific motion…
Sadly, American politics are so absurd now that some people won't recognize you're joking
I am only really confused about this comment. I don't see any shock here, just people discussing the same disappointing state of events you are.
The biggest source of lead exposure in indoor ranges isn't from the chunks of lead shot into targets. It's from the primers. Lead styphnate is still a common ingredient, and the primer is one of those parts of the…
I don't understand this comment. The fine article is about a proposed law that would allegedly require the implementation of half-baked censorship systems along the same lines as the DMCA. Are you saying that's not a…
It's also alive and well off the blockchain!
You give a damn about speech. You're publicly criticizing the foundational document of a government, and calling that government a failure. That open criticism is necessary for change to happen and, in the United…
Eh? More for the rest of us, then!
The U.S. constitution is about the structure of the government and the things it can and cannot do. It's a remarkably short and readable document for what it is and when it was first written. And while it has been…
Yes, you are morally responsible for your own actions. But those actions don't happen in a vacuum. They happen in a world that you are able to observe and make predictions about, however imperfect those predictions are.…
Tlön is one of my favorite short stories. Weirdly (and perhaps appropriately) that's despite being unable to remember basically anything about it once I've finished reading.
Who should the unimaginative non-liberals read, and why?
This isn't a forensics class. People are allowed to point out what they think is obvious without having to explain it in detail. And it's rude to insist that they do more than you've done yourself. The article…
I will leave aside my own judgment of the things you've listed. I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with some. My exact opinion doesn't matter here. What matters is this: you can agree that Trump has done…
> We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or want tomorrow. What, exactly, do you…
> Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. That is an obviously wrong statement even if we only look…
The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech that it isn't even a question. There have…
Donald Trump is currently doing immense damage to the personal liberty of some and to the free expression of all. Every one of the numerous things listed in the article is something that actually happened. I don't know…
It wouldn't be an ordinary law, it would be a constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's probably not going to happen, though. Amending the U.S. constitution is incredibly difficult.
Sharpening and bandwidth-limiting have the exact same effect, because the maximum sharpness of an image (like any other signal) depends on its bandwidth. There is no difference in the type of artifact produced. That's…
I am unsurprised that the author would hold a video distribution company which supposedly pays good money for experts to a higher standard than the average hobbyist blogger. I don't think it's hating for the sake of…
It's the exact same phenomenon in both. Not sure where you're making the distinction.
This is what's so terrifying about uses of "AI". People's idea of accuracy being "tell me what I think is there", not "tell me what's there". The can in this image probably says "coconut milk", but the image certainly…
I'm saying it's moot because, if you're just flagging things for review, there's already a more direct and reliable way to do that. The OCR classifier itself outputs a confidence score. The naieve way of just checking…