1000mH

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[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Misplaced modifiers x.x

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Real. I feel for you, comrade.

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Traore brings hope.

Traore nos trae esparanza.

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I really wish I had timenergy to make new friends.

Or something other than depressing life updates to talk about with lost friends.

This is getting difficult.

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

This helped my anxiety, thank you

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Ugh I've been writing my resume for like a week. Well really it's been almost a decade since I graduated so maybe that counts too.

Ugh I've been writing my resume for like 8 years.

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

New site tagline

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 kittens play-fighting

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US and UK hit Houthis in fresh air strikes against Iran-backed militias | Financial Times

US forces have carried out a second phase of air strikes in response to the deaths of three American troops in Jordan last weekend, this time hitting targets in Yemen where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have wreaked havoc on commercial shipping.

The US, joined by the UK, hit 36 Houthi targets in Yemen across 13 locations on Saturday, a day after it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps targets in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.

Our aim remains to de-escalate tensions and restore stability in the Red Sea but let us reiterate our warning to Houthi leadership: we will not hesitate to continue to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world’s most critical waterways in the face of continued threats,” the US, UK and six other nations said in a joint statement.

Saturday’s strikes targeted Houthi weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defences and radars, according to the statement. The US, sometimes acting with the UK, began striking Houthi targets on January 11 but the rebel group has continued its attacks on international vessels.

“This collective action sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels,” US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

Iran and Iraq warned earlier on Saturday that the US strikes could trigger greater instability across the region.

US President Joe Biden is trying to deter the continued targeting of American service members while avoiding being pulled into a full-on regional war. Since mid-October, Iranian-backed groups have launched more than 160 attacks on American troops in Iraq, Syria and Jordan.

Last weekend’s drone attack on a US military base in Jordan was the first to kill American forces since the war between Israel and Hamas began, raising the risk of escalation.

The US said it struck 85 targets at 7 sites on Friday. The Iraqi government said on Saturday that 16 people, including civilians, were killed in the attacks. The Syrian military said “many civilian and military martyrs” were killed, but did not provide any other details.

The US has also become more involved in the Red Sea, where Iranian-backed Houthis have launched more than 39 attacks on commercial and military vessels transiting the crucial waterway.

The US has already conducted more than 12 strikes in Yemen to deter the Houthis from launching more attacks, which the rebel group says will continue so long as Israel is attacking Gaza.

The most recent strike against Houthi targets, which officials described as opportunistic, took place earlier on Saturday when the US military hit six anti-ship cruise missiles it said were preparing to launch against ships in the Red Sea.

Washington blamed last weekend’s drone attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a shadowy umbrella group believed to include Kataib Hizbollah, an Iraqi Shia militia, as well as other militants that have claimed responsibility for the attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria.

The IRI is part of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance, a network of militant groups which includes the Houthis in northern Yemen and Hizbollah in Lebanon.

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[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone know if any scientists have commented on this?

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Trump reveals his son Barron is now 6’8.

did you guys see the new Trump drop kitsupogi

[–] 1000mH@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does that mean free pizza? peppino-run

 

I'm not gonna watch it but someone might

 

Source with more fantastic photos.

Here are a couple.

 

Source with many more posters.

Here are a few that stand out.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 1000mH@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
 

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What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots. LLMs are a pretty good advance over Markov chains, and stable diffusion can generate images which are only somewhat uncanny with sufficient manipulation of the prompt. Mediocre programmers will use GitHub Copilot to write trivial code and boilerplate for them (trivial code is tautologically uninteresting), and ML will probably remain useful for writing cover letters for you. Self-driving cars might show up Any Day Now™, which is going to be great for sci-fi enthusiasts and technocrats, but much worse in every respect than, say, building more trains.

The biggest lasting changes from machine learning will be more like the following:

  • A reduction in the labor force for skilled creative work
  • The complete elimination of humans in customer-support roles
  • More convincing spam and phishing content, more scalable scams
  • SEO hacking content farms dominating search results
  • Book farms (both eBooks and paper) flooding the market
  • AI-generated content overwhelming social media
  • Widespread propaganda and astroturfing, both in politics and advertising
 

Excerpt from the most interesting bit:

Architecturally this is interesting. Because if we are going to have AIs living inside our apps in the future, apps will need to offer a realtime NPC API for AIs to join and collaborate – and that will look very unlike today’s app APIs. And how will we get the visual training data for AI models to connect together what the user is seeing and the machine API? Questions for the future.

Anyway: I want to show you where I ended up.

Here’s my dolphin NPC PartyKit sketchbook. I posted this just today.

You’ll see three GIFs:

  • You create a “pool” or a cursor park ("a space on a Google Docs page designated for placing your mouse cursor when you’re not actively editing the document") or (as I call it) an embassy on the whiteboard. The NPCs need somewhere to hang out when they’re idle. Then you summon your NPCs from the comms walkie-talkie on the page.

  • NPCs can accept commands! From your walkie-talkie, you can tell the poet NPC to venture out of its embassy to write a poem. So it does that, as you can see, leaving a haiku on the whiteboard, then returns home.

  • NPCs can be proactive! The painter dolphin likes to colour in stars. When you draw a star, the painter cursor ventures out of the embassy and comes and hovers nearby… “oh I can help” it says. It’s ignorable (unlike a notification), so you can ignore it or you can accept its assistance. At which point it colours the star pink for you, then goes back to base till next time.

Check out the movies on that page. It’s all working code! I can interact with these dolphin-cursor-NPCs. Let me tell you, it is uncanny to see a machine-driven cursor. It doesn’t move right.

Look yes it’s ridiculous, and these are woefully simple, toy interactions.

But, but, and, I learnt a ton.

 

Original caption from Getty Archives: 10/27/1954-Kimberly, South Africa

All African mine workers are x-rayed before leaving the diamond mines. A trained radiologist like the one in the picture can easily identify even the smallest diamond, which a would be thief might attempt to smuggle out of the mine in his stomach.

Source

 

Having never seen this photo before, I decided to post it.

Source is here but the description is wanting.

 

More beautiful photos by the same photographer here.

 
 
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