Comment Binary is hard (Score 1) 215
At least they know their gender... or not
At least they know their gender... or not
It's a perfectly symmetric relationship.
Our chirality would be just as dangerous to it, as it is to us.
These organisms sound less dangerous to us (because it's harder for them to digest us) than ones more similar to ourselves (that can eat us)
Bacteria don't kill us by eating us... usually.
It would help if digital over the air TV could pick up reception. In NYC the turn over from Analog signal to digital destroyed rabbit ears...
Like there is any debate is horrific.
Criminalizing abortion does not reduce the number of abortions it just kills women.
Immigration is good for the GDP but not for individual workers in a hypercompetitive economy.
And yes Israel and more importantly Benjamin netanyahu and the right wing hardliners of Israel are committing a genocide.
We don't need AI to smooth things over we need to stop getting gas lit by our ruling class.
It is hard to get SO many things wrong in one post but the fake insight on Israel is the worst.
Israel is not committing genocide. It is preventing it. Specifically it is prevent the Genocide of Jews which has been repeatedly the case since Mohamed first killed all the Jews in Medina.
It is about Jews. Do you know the difference between Zionist and Jews? NOTHING. They are ALL Jews and our right to our homeland, and daily prayer to return to our home transcends every Jew in every culture. You mistake Jewish democracy and tolerance of dissent for national identity. We are united, if for no other reason than because of Fascists like you who want to kill us.
Right now, depending on how you count Jews, there is about 15.2 million of us in the world and HALF are living in Israel. So you fascists just want to kill half of us or enslave us. F' OFF. That is what the German Fascists did. Fascists are Fascists. YOU ARE A BAD PERSON. And no about of misinformation is going to change that. Only you can change that, but Nazi's like you never change.
These Islamofascist who wants to kill all the Jews and destroy their nation. They supports the rape and enslavement of Women. In fact Mosab Hassan Yousef mother was raped and enslaved by Jihadists and he was raised in a Muslim Brotherhood fascist school. You should actually pay attention some day of what he says. He is talking about 1500+ year old theology of genocide and hatred. We are not just talking about the crazy people like Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abu Hurairah, Haji Shariatullah, all the way back to Mohammed. Islamofascists looking to kill in the name of theological purity... one and all.
That would be an astonishing little amount of money and show the mockery of the law, and embarrass the plaintiffs... so don't bet on that happening.
top posting is fun...
Why would they destroy their datasets? The settlement should have covered the purchase price for those materials.
seems obvious the Judge is getting paid off. He probably gets 10% of the bounty.
>>One of these included a medium-severity flaw in an Android app with over 10 million installs.
You are kidding me. Just one?
Bad news for Termites, but great news for the Chinese Maoist Communist Party in Australia.
Since nearly nobody can understand this article, I am sure it will have profound affect to suppress dissidents across the Pacific.
Exactly on point but worse because it's not just lead or even other pollutants, Big Oil has corrupted our public institutions and our society itself. They crippled us in so many ways and are part of the classist situation that's turned most of us into economic slaves and the rest into an irresponsible, unethical and entitled elite.
The ship is sinking and the owners have all the lifeboats.
That is a pathetic lie. It is not Big oil but left wing communists and socialists that corrupt out public institutions and society itself. Look at the mental health institutions. The left wing nutcases have let people like you out of institutional care and now you post every day to slashdot the Daily Caller.
Decent people don't need to resort to violence in order to solve problems.
Sometimes it does and I find it deceitful and cruel to propose otherwise.
You always have to tread lightly when you see headlines like this because of the improper use of adjectives to make what is supposedly scientific discovery.
I can't think, at the moment, of any form of dementia that is not "devastating". It reminds me of Faucci's excuse to shutdown all of society for almost 3 years because 2 million deaths are "atrocious". Phooey. Stick to the facts and let the reader make their own judgments.
This also reminds me of 1800 century London which by all our accounts must have been a hell by modern standards. And yet millions of people were being economically driven into industrial cities rather than the clean living and healthy fresh air of starving on the open countryside...
https://tnq.ca/story/welcome-t...
Welcome to this Issue
By Pamela Mulloy
In the midst of copy editing the material for this issue I read “These 183,000 Books are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech” by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic. The article outlines how big tech companies are using the published work of writers to train generative AI systems, and the fact that this work is being scooped up without permission has the writing community up in arms. The list of writers whose work has been pirated is impressive—thirty-three books by Margaret Atwood, for example, along with Rebecca Solnit, Stephen King, George Saunders and on it goes. Others may not be so well known, or so well remunerated but the common denominator is that they were the creators of the work being “harvested”—the thinking, the researching, the writing, the rewriting that goes into a novel, essay, or poem, was all by their hand. They were the generators. Reisner is thorough in his investigation—even providing an online portal for writers to check if their work is being pirated—and stern in his reporting: “The future promised by AI is written with stolen words.”
I don’t have the technical prowess or vision to see how this is going to play out— lawsuits have already been initiated—but this development has spurred me to think about creativity, its value, and how it trickles or blooms in the mind of the creator. It can be said that artists are all magpies, collecting and storing imagery or phrases, or even ideas from others. This is not stealing, however, this is everyday inspiration. We are all influenced by the books we read, the movies we watch, and the paintings we observe. We are also influenced by that walk in a birch grove, the conversation with that stranger on the bus, the sight of striated sun rays through the clouds. We are influenced by mood, by our state of health, by the support of friends, by the balm of solitude. That is how creativity works. It’s complicated, and magical, and the outcome can be life-changing. But there is also the hard graft of creativity. The hours no one wants to think about that go into actually producing something. The hourly wage, if calculated, would in most cases be so low as to be shocking to those who hesitate when buying a book. The question of what these tech businesses will produce with this material is a curious one, as is the question of how we will respond to it. How will the philosophical, psychological or contemplative imprint behind so much creative work stand up against the algorithms?
Who will want to continue to write only to fill the limitless digital cauldron of words that the tech companies are amassing?
And if writers stop writing, who will be left to create the beautiful sentences?
Write crap books. "publish" them and then collect big time on the copyright infringement.
Regardless of the ethics of AI, this is very difficult news for the rest of us when the collection for copyright violation far outstrips the commercial value of the materials.
Raised LDL is not the only factor in heart disease, there is an inflammatory component to it as well..
The problem has been that traditional cholesterol breakdowns are nearly meaningless. You have inflamatory responses and the lipoprotein size and composition
When you spin the blood, you deform the proteins. It makes it very hard to make predictions.
https://academic.oup.com/qjmed...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://link.springer.com/arti...
Thus, HDL-C has an intrinsic bias toward larger, more cholesterol- and lipid-dense particles and tends to underestimate the smaller, less lipid-filled types. Recent research revealed that the mere serum values of HDL-C may not reliably reflect the atheroprotective effect of HDL. In fact, there is no evidence indicating that the cholesterol within HDL independently exerts antiatherosclerosis effects [19].
that is the Bingo moment when you realize that conventional lipid testing is not nearly as useful as we would like.
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11