Crickey, getting answers to #statistics questions on the internet is getting really, really difficult... This evening I gave up on my web search queries that returned vast quantities of #GenAI slop and not much else... I ended up a) reading from a print textbook that I happen to have to hand and whose author I trust (Natalia Levshina!) and b) reading a long and highly informative blog post by someone whose work I also trust (is Andrew Heiss here?) to find the answer to my question. This experience leaves me wondering: How are my students supposed to find this kind of information nowadays? If I were entirely new to this, I would have no idea who to trust.
@Federation_Bot
@phoenix Really? Sounds more like a (mis?)feature of your NAS.
Just went grocery shopping and looking forward to staying inside the rest of the day #dlws
Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs I mean realistically, we have about:config at home, and y'all are already not respecting that
why the future "KILL SWITCH" carrot? it just comes across like a Musk promise
This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.
In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.
Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.
Full text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1706.pdf#page=1
L'an dernier avec 230g de farine je faisais à peu prêt 8/9 crêpes mais cette année j'ai réussi à en faire 12. Ca va me faire faire des économies mais j'ai le bide qui va exploser. Le comble c'est que d'après cette recette c'est pas possible. Un truc m'échappe https://www.recettes-bretonnes.fr/galette-bretonne/recette-galette-sarrasin.html
@RandamuMaki ironically I'm trying to make it better. Reporting bugs is the first stepping stone to getting involved. If people can't even get that far. They aren't going to be feeling inclined to step further into involvement.
Cool, the browser I only ever use to download a different browser is getting even less useful
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-reportedly-turning-edge-browser-copilot-app/
I am thinking of going to #FOSDEM. But the travel time is quite long 14-16h+. So I would like to combine it with some additional trip "nearby". Any recommendations what to do in winterly times?
Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it.
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mbr4vagqz22l
@vtrlx this is the strongest link between fascism and fanciful thought experiments like pascal's casino. and in particular, it relies upon muddying the historical record: when i invoked NPOV to question who first deployed the loaded adjective "paradox" on the EPR page, it was immediately reverted and quickly itself smeared as "indecipherable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Lcdrovers-20251028191200-who_first_described_it_as_a_%22paradox%22_question_mark
...but the smear was eventually attributed to schrödinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Johnjbarton-20251028195500-Johnjbarton-20251028193700
@vtrlx i have never cared much about physics precisely because it relies so much on horrible faux mathematics. and it retains this bias against "fine tuning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(physics)
In theoretical physics, fine-tuning is the process in which parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to fit with certain observations.
Theories requiring fine-tuning are regarded as problematic in the absence of a known mechanism to explain why the parameters happen to have precisely the observed values that they return. The heuristic rule that parameters in a fundamental physical theory should not be too fine-tuned is called naturalness.[1][2]
naturalness?
Umfrage: 98 Prozent aller Hacker tragen keine Skimaske am Rechner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUkILwG9xso
Kākāpō: The kākāpō is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's heaviest parrot, and also is nocturnal, herbivorous, endemic to New Zealand.
@vtrlx what is EPR about? it is fundamentally the proposition that observable effects have causes, and the theory (of the nazis schrödinger and heisenberg) of true randomness was in fact incomplete (and remains so). the continuing failure of quantum gravity is the failure to take up einstein on his own last theorem, much like fermat's https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115522413266429247
Einstein struggled unsuccessfully for the rest of his life to find a theory that could better comply with his idea of locality.
@vtrlx this is the strongest link between fascism and fanciful thought experiments like pascal's casino. and in particular, it relies upon muddying the historical record: when i invoked NPOV to question who first deployed the loaded adjective "paradox" on the EPR page, it was immediately reverted and quickly itself smeared as "indecipherable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Lcdrovers-20251028191200-who_first_described_it_as_a_%22paradox%22_question_mark
...but the smear was eventually attributed to schrödinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Johnjbarton-20251028195500-Johnjbarton-20251028193700
Rebinging the entirety of @cstross 's Laundry Files, so I can read the final book when it comes out later this month.
Also so I don't have to make the horrid What To Read Next decision for 14 titles. 
The universe is still full of surprises! This is Cloud-9, a starless blob held together by dark matter--a "failed galaxy."
Astronomers have long speculated that such hidden objects formed the building blocks of bright galaxies like our own. Now we've found one.
https://esahubble.org/news/heic2601/ #space #astronomy #nature
Bibliothèque : 😴🥱🙄😒
Bibliothèque, France : 🤩😻🥵😚
(📍Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Site Richelieu, salle ovale - Paris 2e)
Last month started doing daily Wordle & Sudoku with my kids via Discord. I will just say that today's Wordle was evil.
I did eventually get it, but I didn't like it. Wordle 1662 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
AMD CEO Lisa Su: AI Is Not Hype, Demand Will Explode to 5B Users
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-06/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai-demand-will-explode-to-5b-users-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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VW, Audi’s American Sales Plummet as Trump Policies Take Toll
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/vw-audi-s-american-sales-plummet-as-trump-policies-take-toll?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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