In other news today...
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@Kamil-Podlesak It's supposed to be soil, and the bitcoins are supposed to be growing like plants, but your interpretation is better.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
It's supposed to be soil, and the bitcoins are supposed to be growing like plants
As in, the power needed to get more will unfreeze the soil?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Now hereâs the crux of the paper. Neural networks are usually trained to approximate functions between inputs and outputs defined in Euclidean space, your classic graph with x, y, and z axes. But this time, the researchers decided to define the inputs and outputs in Fourier space, which is a special type of graph for plotting wave frequencies.
Interesting, and it does confirm something I've seen time and again in my own field when people try to use AI. The key to getting a working NN isn't so much in the NN itself, but in feeding it pre-processed data that correctly contains/highlights the information you want to extract. Which isn't much of a surprise when you think about it, but goes against the idea that NN are a catch-all solution that can be applied blindly to any problem (not that anyone who actually uses them thinks that...), as they require domain-specialists to analyse and reformulate the problem to solve and the data to feed it and find out which processing works best.
It's almost as if NN were just a (not even so new) way to build some sort of (complicated, non-linear, difficult to predict) regression between input and output, and thus depend on having the right input to get the right output
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Google translate:
At metro station De Akkers in Spijkenisse, a metro ran through the buffer. The trainset dangles about 8 meters above the ground and rests on a work of art. It is being investigated how the metro can be salvaged. The metro driver has been taken to hospital for a check-up.
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@Zecc Leave it up there. Modern art rarely gets better than this.
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I'd be to curious to know if the sculpture was built this way explicitly to catch a train (or act as a block like there normally is at the end of every train track, at least), or if it's just sheer luck that it did.
I mean, I would have expected such a sculpture to be basically a empty hull, just strong enough to withstand wind and other natural elements, but definitely not to hold a train (or at least the front car). It looks like it's bent (assuming it's supposed to be the same shape as the other one?), but it's holding, which indicates quite some strength. So, built on purpose or luckily over-engineered?
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Finding exploits in other people's software by introducing them with your own software. Well done Google
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I'd be to curious to know if the sculpture was built this way explicitly to catch a train (or act as a block like there normally is at the end of every train track, at least), or if it's just sheer luck that it did.
I mean, I would have expected such a sculpture to be basically a empty hull, just strong enough to withstand wind and other natural elements, but definitely not to hold a train (or at least the front car). It looks like it's bent (assuming it's supposed to be the same shape as the other one?), but it's holding, which indicates quite some strength. So, built on purpose or luckily over-engineered?
In another article, it is mentioned the sculptor was surprised it held.
The block was there, but those things are not able to actually stop a train going at any kind of speed. The metro went right through.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Finding exploits in other people's software by introducing them with your own software. Well done Google
Malware already on a system, or a rogue insider, can potentially exploit this buggy driver
Something something air-tight hatch
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Something something air-tight hatch
Something something privilege escalation. (user mode to kernel mode)
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:shudder:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
:shudder:
If you thought dates were hard (Inb4 ), now they get to change all the time. I love how the author just waves away the difficulty with "automated tools can do it just fine!"
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I love how the author just waves away the difficulty with "automated tools can do it just fine!"
Anything that's based on the venerable tzdata can probably do it just fineâthe data is just precomputed set of time periods and corresponding offsets from UTC and the runtime is totally dumb, so it would be <finger flaunting>just</finger flaunting> a matter of distributing new versions of the precomputed lists. But things that have the rules programmed in them, like Windows, would be a completely different matter.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Zecc Leave it up there. Modern art rarely gets better than this.
And the metro part is likely the cheapest part of that art work...
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@remi said in In other news today...:
It looks like it's bent (assuming it's supposed to be the same shape as the other one?
I am pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be the same shape, and it does not look like it's bent to me. There would be some wrinkles or cracks if it was significantly bent, but none can be seen in any of the photos.
@remi said in In other news today...:
I mean, I would have expected such a sculpture to be basically a empty hull, just strong enough to withstand wind and other natural elements
So would I, but looking at it again I think it might actually be concrete. In which case it might be full simply because it is easier to make that way.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://bjgsolv.medium.com/universal-solar-time-ust-c953f0c0e10f
TFA says:
However, as the old proverb goes, when is the best time to plant a tree? 40 years ago. When is the second best time? Right now.
This reminds me of (pardon the ):
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
:shudder:
Time is hard enough already. I know lets make it harder in the most retarded way possible. BST is hard enough for most people let alone ten minute offsets. Can I charge him for the time it took me to read it or at least the bleach.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Time is hard enough already. I know lets make it harder in the most retarded way possible.
I strongly disagree. An even more retarded way would be to shift by 20s/day (rough value, computing the exact one is left as an exercise to the reader...) to provide a "perfectly smooth and non-disruptive user experience."
But even that is not the most retarded way.
For that, I propose to change the definition of the second so that it naturally keeps things in sync all the time. Of course, this will mean changing the definition of the second twice per year (once to make it a tiny bit shorter than the current second, once to make it longer), but this way we would definitely be rid of any offsets in time! Problem solved!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
:shudder:
That's insane. I'd say everyone should just use UTC, no modifiers at all.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
This reminds me of (pardon the ):
I write code knocking I won't have to deal with it in the future. Make that of what which you will.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That's insane. I'd say everyone should just use UTC, no modifiers at all.
Makes communicating with the space station easier...
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Time is hard enough already. I know lets make it harder in the most retarded way possible.
I strongly disagree. An even more retarded way would be to shift by 20s/day (rough value, computing the exact one is left as an exercise to the reader...) to provide a "perfectly smooth and non-disruptive user experience."
But even that is not the most retarded way.
For that, I propose to change the definition of the second so that it naturally keeps things in sync all the time. Of course, this will mean changing the definition of the second twice per year (once to make it a tiny bit shorter than the current second, once to make it longer), but this way we would definitely be rid of any offsets in time! Problem solved!
Drop it in his comment section and see what happens.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Time is hard enough already. I know lets make it harder in the most retarded way possible.
I strongly disagree. An even more retarded way would be to shift by 20s/day (rough value, computing the exact one is left as an exercise to the reader...) to provide a "perfectly smooth and non-disruptive user experience."
But even that is not the most retarded way.
For that, I propose to change the definition of the second so that it naturally keeps things in sync all the time. Of course, this will mean changing the definition of the second twice per year (once to make it a tiny bit shorter than the current second, once to make it longer), but this way we would definitely be rid of any offsets in time! Problem solved!
That still doesn't take actual daylight into account. You need to adjust it so that daybreak happens at, say 6am and sunset at 6pm.
Of course, that would result in some loooong days and nights the closer you get to the poles...
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Of course, that would result in some loooong days and nights the closer you get to the poles...
Oh shit!
#DIV/0
(cause we know they'll use Excel for the computation)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Of course, that would result in some loooong days and nights the closer you get to the poles...
The north of sweden would have 2 months long days.
Not to mention it being completely fucking impossible to know what time it was in the other end of the country most of the time without a clock software with a map in it.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Of course, that would result in some loooong days and nights the closer you get to the poles...
The north of sweden would have 2 months long days.
Not to mention it being completely fucking impossible to know what time it was in the other end of the country most of the time without a clock software with a map in it.Well, at least Santa in Rovaniemi would be able to celebrate Christmas for half a year...
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Not to mention it being completely fucking impossible to know what time it was in the other end of the country most of the time without a clock software with a map in it.
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I think both claims are ridiculous.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
TFA says:
However, as the old proverb goes, when is the best time to plant a tree? 40 years ago. When is the second best time? Right now.
This reminds me of (pardon the ):
Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years.
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@djls45 I actually knew that, as I also visited the same Wikipedia article for the same reason you did.
But I wouldn't deprive a fellow TDWTFian of an opportunity to .
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@djls45 I actually knew that, as I also visited the same Wikipedia article for the same reason you did.
But I wouldn't deprive a fellow TDWTFian of an opportunity to .
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Godspeed!
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It's not a hat, it's a heat shield!
Edit: this is worth mentioning:
Newell decided to stay in New Zealand at the start of the pandemic and is donating a dollar to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship Childrenâs Hospital for every viewer who watches the satellite launch livestream or the online recording within 24 hours of launch.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Date palm maturity
Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years.
Mine is 23 years, and it hasn't even flowered yet.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Date palm maturity
Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years.
Mine is 23 years, and it hasn't even flowered yet.
Maybe it's gay.
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Their stock dropped about 20% in the last week and he as much admitted that Twitter is becoming increasingly irrelevant in front of Congress but what the hell.
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I am not a clown.
I find that one easy to believe. A clown wouldn't have the gumption to write an article like this and call it news.
I am a scientist and a scholar
I am surprised to learn that my opinion of some people can actually fall further.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I am not a clown.
I find that one easy to believe. A clown wouldn't have the gumption to write an article like this and call it news.
I am a scientist and a scholar
I am surprised to learn that my opinion of some people can actually fall further.
Usually, after I've eaten crisps I feel like I don't want any for an extended period.
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Actually long available, but some how we managed to miss it:
Generic News!
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Date palm maturity
Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years.
Mine is 23 years, and it hasn't even flowered yet.
Maybe it's gay.
Or trans!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
They aren't ready, but taking over they will be nevertheless.
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Halloween was last week!
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Regardless of the scanty information â easily explained by Google, quite responsibly, not wanting to hand every script kiddie on the internet information on how to pwn slow-to-update folk
How about applying the same restraint when you find problems in other people's products?
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Based on the success of this i wonder if Uber and Lyft are looking into using their app as an advertising platform? The amount of personal locational details must be staggering.
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@loopback0 did they do to the poor gal? In that picture she looks like she's 50.