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Comment Re:I don't buy the assumptions (Score 1, Interesting) 50

"the probabilities of all possible outcomes of an event add up to 100%

Many Worlds Interpretation.

the laws of physics are consistent for observers moving at different speeds

Why wouldn't they be consistent? Do the orbits of the planet change whether you are on the Vogager probes or standing on Earth? Does a drop of water form a sphere differently on the ISS than in the Vomit Comet? If the laws of physics changed dependent on one's speed, the universe would be truly fucked.

Comment Here's how stupid this all is (Score 1) 55

Dell's stock rockets 32% because they're selling more AI-related servers than ever before. However, the only reason they are selling more AI-related servers than ever before is because of Nvidia, yet Nvidia's stock has barely inched upward in months. These two situations cannot both be correct

If Dell is selling servers out the wazoo because of Nvidia and its stock soars, then Nvidia must also be sellling GPUs out the wazoo and its stock shoulld likewise soar. Saying we're at peak AI which is why Nvidia can't go higher makes no sense. It has consistently blown past every financial analysts expectations for the past two or three years. Dell's recent server spike is proof of this. If you think we're at peak AI then Dell shouldn't be anywhere near the price it's at now.

Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)

Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.

The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.

See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.

Submission + - Teachers' Union Urges Schools to Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time

theodp writes: The New York Times reports the $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school.

The union’s effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children’s groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their AI products in schools.

This week, AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. “We’re being transparent,” Weingarten said, adding that "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy."

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