Apex predator or prehistoric delicacy? The truth about dinosaur meat
It turns out that certain dinosaur meat likely either tasted like modern-day poultry or edible reptiles like crocodiles or iguanas. Here's why.Christopher McFadden (Interesting Engineering)
CrowdStrike has a new guidance hub for dealing with the Windows outage
CrowdStrike offers a single page with information on dealing with Friday’s global Windows outage. Separately, the company warns of an outage-related malware threat.Wes Davis (The Verge)
events.gnome.org/event/209/tim…
#GUADEC2024
youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc?f…
#GUADEC2024
GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1
GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a w...YouTube
Chris 🌱 :verified_purple: reshared this.
Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.
I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.
An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.
reshared this
@mcmullin I would interpret it somewhat more positively. Most people are good at a fairly small set of things. I've had four books published in English, but French is my second-best language and there's no way I'd be able to write a book in it. There are vast numbers of languages where I'm even worse, yet with a language model I may be able to at least be comprehensible, if not erudite.
Looking at things like painting or music composition, I'm well below the average of people who produce anything that would go into a training dataset.
Most people are bad at most things. Talented people are typically talented only in a small set of things. It takes time and practive to become really good at something. If, without AI, I can be good at a handful of things and completely useless at a lot of things, but with AI I can be good at the same set of things and mediocre in a lot of things, that's a win.
Unfortunately, so far, the set of things where it can get me up to even mediocrity is fairly small.
Kladno vibes
I Don't Know Where I'm Bound (San Quentin Full Concert)
Johnny Cash at San Quentin FULL CONCERT Part 6/18YouTube
Closing Medley at San Quentin (The Whole Band Sings)
Johnny Cash at San Quentin FULL CONCERT Part 18/18YouTube
Retrospective as GNOME director
blog.sonny.re/retrospective-as…
Retrospective as GNOME director
I am no longer a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation since May 2024. The process and decision shocked me. I know peo...Sonny's
Andy Holmes reshared this.
#screenreader #softwaredevelopment #visualdisability
Arbeitslosenversicherungsschutz für Unternehmer
Allgemeines - unbefristete Rahmenfristerstreckung - freiwillige Versicherungsmöglichkeitwko.at
Conozco 3 casos muy cercanos de gente con incontinencia verbal. De esos que hablan sin parar, hasta el agotamiento (el tuyo, porque ellos/ellas no paran), no te dejan ni meter media palabra en la conversación, que termina siendo un monólogo insufrible y estás deseando de que llegue el momento de despedirte.
Son así: la mujer de un buen amigo que convirtió el día perfecto de ayer en una tortura. El marido de mi mejor compañera de la carrera, que cada vez que me llama para que quedemos todos me obliga a tomarme un ansiolítico. Una amiga de mi marido, que es el peor caso de todos con un ratio de unas 300 palabras por minuto durante todo el tiempo que estemos juntos.
Con lo que me gusta el silencio a mí.
What do you lot get your streaming services into your TV with?
I'm still using my PS4, and that's great for almost every streaming service, but its Disney+ app simply isn't viable any more. It used to be, but somewhere in the last few months it's become unwatchably juddery, like every fourth frame is tripping over something. A smooth panning shot feels like watching a heartbeat monitor, or like your own heartbeat is raging out of control to the extent that it's affecting your vision. It's awful to look at.
So. What do you use? Do you have a "stick"? Is that what we have now? If so, exactly which one do you use?
Ich weiß, das meine Überzeugung da der deinen (möglicherweise) widerspricht und ich will nicht einmal sagen, das meine da irgend richtigere wäre. Ich kann da einfach nur grad nicht aus meiner Haut. Aber ich sehe, denke ich, deinen Punkt wohl.
Darum schrieb ich den letzten Satz hier drüber und auch von einem Paradoxon. Egal ob man es wie du siehst, oder wie ich … es ist m. E. einfach widersinnig das eine zu feiern (Stauffenberg) und das andere (Hotzo) zu verurteilen.🤯
Das zeigt und hat schon immer gezeigt, wo z.b die deutsche Sozialdemokratie steht.
Elser war, als es bereits brannte, bekannt dafür, dass er die Kneipe verließ, wenn Nazilieder gesungen wurden. Und dass er das Maul aufmachte. Dafür starb er in Dachau.
#TeamElser
Wasn't French the lingua franca around that time? Though encountering a 'Delenda est' would be quite fun.
We would have people fighting about Classical Latin vs Ecclesiastical Latin, and when the debate might seem to calm down, Interlingua and Neolatin enter the melee...
1/
heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-L…
Missing Link: Wie Millionen Bundesbürger kommerziell auspioniert werden
Wie ist es trotz rigider Datenschutzgesetze möglich, mit brisanten Standortdaten von Millionen von Menschen viel Geld zu verdienen? Eine Spurensuche.heise online
)
The upcoming election looks really awful on many levels, but it is ALSO a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Americans to stand up & say "Fuck, no" to fascism.
The apparent weakness of Biden as a candidate just makes the message stronger: “we don't care how bad the other guy looks, he's still a better choice than your warmed-over retrograde klepto-autocracy. Take that crap & shove it.”
Also once-in-a-lifetime in that if we miss this chance we won't get another. But I try not to dwell on that.
For those not at GUADEC (or not in Berlin), I've posted a recording of my talk about gobject-introspection on my YT channel:
Moving Past Quiet Introspection | GUADEC 2024
My presentation for the 2024 edition of the GNOME conference, about GObject Introspection.YouTube
reshared this
Joder, esto de trasnochar ya no es para mi. Ayer llegue a las 4 de la mañana a casa y es como que e perdido el domingo.
Este fin de semana ni me e enterado de que a existido.
Viernes cena en el indio, ayer feria de comida mediterránea aderezado por la tarde en casa de unos amigos en la piscina con un excelente asado argentino y para rematar en un ratito a un japo.
Creo que Romina quiere acabar con migo.
uithoornlijn.nl/project/
Uithoornlijn
Het aantal gebruikers van het openbaar vervoer in de regio Amsterdam, waar Amstelveen en Uithoorn toe behoren, is de afgelopen jaren toegenomen.uithoornlijn.nl
Ch M[ae][iy]e?r 🖤🤍
in reply to GNOME • • •Maybe I'm a bit picky, but with Snowden and the latest databroker files (in Germany) in mind, I do not want to use YouTube / Google any more.
I know there are anonymizing Youtube proxys around, but google doesn't like them and sabotages them. ...
Is is possible that Gnome foundation / GUADEC uses an alternative streaming platform.
IIRC for example PeerTube also can handle live streams (with recording), too.