In other news today...
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@Boner Was he... going to try plugging it in afterwards?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Boner Was he... going to try plugging it in afterwards?
Nah. He had the plug upside down.
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@Boner NOOOOOOOOPE
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People would like their telephone booth back, but only for its sentimental value:
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@JBert I think I read once years ago that some organisation (probably the railways) was installing phone booths without pay phones in them, to provide people with somewhat-private places to use their cell phones in.
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It is meant to reflect the sunlight to get less solar warming, but if you want to blind the neighbors then that works too.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
but if you want to blind the neighbors then that works too.
If you really want to do this, have your architect design a parabolic-ish wall lined with mirrored windows.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
if you want to blind the neighbors then that works too.
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I feel this technology is obsolete. Why would I leave the house to get food if I can order it in?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Why would I leave the house to get food if I can order it in?
I, for one, don't trust them to pick out produce or meat.
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readable:
https://archive.is/2vqJkI didn't see it psoted anywhere else, but it is a monday morning so it could very well be the post before this one and I didn't see it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I, for one, don't trust them to pick out produce or meat.
I had similar reservations for a long time. Eventually gave it a try. Haven't really had any reason to complain about the quality. They seem to be quite careful about picking decent-to-nice stuff. Only issue that I have is expiration dates. E.g., when shopping by myself, I'd substitute e.g.. a different type of meat depending on the posted packaging/expiration date (not much space for freezing things).
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@JBert I think I read once years ago that some organisation (probably the railways) was installing phone booths without pay phones in them, to provide people with somewhat-private places to use their cell phones in.
Hopefully they provide a good Faraday cage.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I, for one, don't trust them to pick out produce or meat.
We've been ordering all our groceries online for the past 18 months (for some reason!) and haven't had much to complain about except for mixed availability of vegetables and some short dates. On the other hand, it's very nice to not have to go round a store; that wasn't much of a pleasant experience beforehand anyway. The only times when it was really a problem were when either cream or sugar spilt during the delivery, as they're both horrible to clean up after. (Milk would be bad too, except we don't get milk that way.)
The quality of the meat we've had that way has been pretty much excellent every time. Yes, you can get better by going to a specialist butcher, but you also pay for the privilege…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Yes, you can get better by going to a specialist butcher, but you also pay for the privilege…
Is it more than paying for the grocery delivery? I haven't used any but as I understand it they charge for the service
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My big issue with grocery delivery is that I have no clue what I want or need until I wander around the store for a while.
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In other news tomorrow… 600 new brands have appeared on Amazon.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Why would I leave the house to get food if I can order it in?
I, for one, don't trust them to pick out produce or meat.
Produce can be a little iffy at times, especially bananas (tend to be a little too ripe and don't last), but I haven't had any problem with meat. The bigger problem has been the lack of availability of the things I want — mostly the frozen entrees that form the bulk of our lunches and dinners (right now, they have exactly one entree that happens to be gluten-free, and exactly zero of the specialty gluten-free entrees I regularly buy), but occasionally also meat and produce.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Yes, you can get better by going to a specialist butcher, but you also pay for the privilege…
Is it more than paying for the grocery delivery? I haven't used any but as I understand it they charge for the service
I'm sure it depends on the store, but yes. Walmart seems to be typically around $7–10 per order (depending on the time of day and probably size of the order), plus $10 for express delivery. Plus an optional but recommended tip for the driver. However, I chose to pay $99 for a Walmart+ membership, which gets me free delivery for a year; all I have to pay is the tip (and express fee, but I don't do express). Also, free shipping on most non-grocery items. For me, break-even was about two months.
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@homoBalkanus said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
An investigation is under way to understand what happened and may result in action against the officers involved, the borough council said.
Hell no. You don't fire someone who did a dumb believing they were testing the system. You fire the idiot who put them in prod and supervisor who did nothing to stop it.
And then fire the Council who apparently decided that actions taken by unauthorized personell are still legally binding.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Rather than guessing a valid authentication token to insert into a fraudulent OMI web request, you simply omit all mention of the authentication token altogether, and you’re in!
That's up there with being able to access a machine by just pressing Esc to cancel the login dialog and go back to the session of whoever was in there before.
Welcome to Windows 95!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Aldi, famed for its rapid scanning and fast cashiers, declined to say exactly where the trial store was based, only that it is in London.
I guess that sentence says more about the state of modern journalism than anything else. Aldi is dumb to try and hide something that by nature is going to be known to the public (it's not like customers in the shop won't notice that they're not checking out!!), but the Daily Mail (which has the integrity of... ) is even dumber to not do a tiny bit of investigation and find out. There aren't thousands of Aldi shops in London, and with social media there are probably already customers talking about it, so it shouldn't be hard to find out!
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Aldi is dumb to try and hide something that by nature is going to be known to the public
Or it is potentially being smart and trying to grab some sweet Streisand effect.
Probably the former.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Would it have killed them to say when the assassination happened???
The only place the full date is written is in the legend of a picture that's about halfway through, and reading the article only it's a treasure hunt to find out (the part where they say they rushed through their plans to get it done before Biden is the biggest hint, but it's only a hint and quite far in the article).
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Since there's a kink for everything, I'm sure he could've made some money in the adult film business.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
My big issue with grocery delivery is that I have no clue what I want or need until I wander around the store for a while.
Don't they offer a virtual reality tour of their shops yet?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Summed up in the last sentence:
Though the patient was fine, it's highly recommended that you should seek medical attention should you begin passing wind from your penis, peeing poop or pooping pee, or ejaculating out of your anus.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Every time he used the toilet, he couldn't tell if he was coming or going.
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@Dragoon how the fuck does any of this work, and what exactly is it supposed to do?
Do they expect me to read the original research paper to figure that out?
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It sounds like, previously you had to provide Data A -> B -> C, but B really didn't do anything except make C work. They have modified some internals so that B is no longer needed and C can work without the setup work from B. This drastically reduced the setup time.
It also reads like they made some adjustments to how it trains, so that it can refine its state faster.
But the article is very vague, I gather on purpose.
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After reading the first page of the paper, I was sorta correct:
These results are in the form of an existence proof: There exists an NVAR that can perform equally well as an optimized RC and, in turn, the RC is implicit in an NVAR. Here, we demonstrate that it is easy to design a well-performing NVAR for three challenging RC benchmark problems: (1) forecasting the short-term dynamics; (2) reproducing the long-term climate of a chaotic system (that is, reconstructing the attractors shown in Fig. 1); and (3) inferring the behavior of unseen data of a dynamical system.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon how the fuck does any of this work, and what exactly is it supposed to do?
Do they expect me to read the original research paper to figure that out?I followed the link to wikipedia:
Sounds like they found a way to speed up neural networks.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon how the fuck does any of this work, and what exactly is it supposed to do?
Do they expect me to read the original research paper to figure that out?I followed the link to wikipedia:
Sounds like they found a way to speed up neural networks.
What about Pissoir Computing?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon how the fuck does any of this work, and what exactly is it supposed to do?
Do they expect me to read the original research paper to figure that out?I followed the link to wikipedia:
Sounds like they found a way to speed up neural networks.
What about Pissoir Computing?
That’s just a subset.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
What about Pissoir Computing?
Weird fetishes thread is .
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon how the fuck does any of this work, and what exactly is it supposed to do?
Do they expect me to read the original research paper to figure that out?I followed the link to wikipedia:
Sounds like they found a way to speed up neural networks.
What about Pissoir Computing?
I might just be taking the piss, but it's not just shit.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sounds like they found a way to speed up neural networks.
It only speeds up some types of neural network. The problem is that the “reservoir” is a complicated mathematical object itself and there's no real notion of what happens with edge cases. If standard artificial neural networks are magical (particularly during the training phase) then reservoir computing is double magical.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
If standard artificial neural networks are magical
Which I think is a big and unproven
if
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
If standard artificial neural networks are magical
Which I think is a big and unproven
if
.Well, you can calculate all the equations yourself if you want; to a good first approximation, a layer of a neural network is just a really large matrix computation with some non-linearity thrown in for extra fun. The problem is much more to do with assigning meaning to any of it.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
If standard artificial neural networks are magical
Which I think is a big and unproven
if
.Well, you can calculate all the equations yourself if you want; to a good first approximation, a layer of a neural network is just a really large matrix computation with some non-linearity thrown in for extra fun. The problem is much more to do with assigning meaning to any of it.
Well, that's what I mean. For a while (and it seems still in some circles) NNs were going to be the Great Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough. But they haven't lived up to the hype. Not that they aren't potentially useful sometimes, just not the magical black boxes they're sometimes portrayed as.
Or maybe we just can't make them big enough. Or some other key breakthrough. Whatever.
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There goes another chunk of my childhood.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
There goes another chunk of my childhood.
On a somewhat related note Netflix completely murdered Lucifer in recent last season. What was a light, goofy and witty escapist fun was turned into boring unimaginative sjw saturated shit. Game of thrones quality dive, but done in an instant.
Netflix is literally incapable of not turning everything it touches to shit.
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