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The falling empire continue to commit extrajudicial execution of fishermen in the Pacific. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117149946759086441
#usterrorism #uspol #fucktheusa
@sharpblue It depends what you believe the machine-builders' ideology to be. Different countries expect different things of aliens. (Eg. in the USSR, orthodoxy dictated that any SETI signal would have been sent by good communist aliens, because obviously they'd have evolved past capitalism.)
@cstross @sharpblue Both Lem and Hoyle/Elliot wrote contrasting SF on the subject
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master's_Voice_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_for_Andromeda
Then its the turn of defence force heads. Teanua asks again about veteran support. Then about compensation to Samoa for the sinking of the NZ Navy ship Manawanui in their waters.
He asks how they plan to make sure they have people who know how to operate the new tech they're proposing to buy. About the scope and source of the "cyber-attacks" they talk about. About whether spook agencies or multinational corporations, eg StarLink, have a role in NZ space policy.
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Teanau asks about the timeframe for completing new defence housing. He grills defence heads about how they decide when to buy new tech, and how they evaluate the security of supply chains, and the dependencies they create on other international actors (state and non-state). As well as the costs of missiles that appears to be disposable products (news to me).
Again, I'll leave it to the reader to decide if any of this argues for greater military spending.
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Harvard is now selling a 700 USD course taught by LLMs trained on their facultiy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/business/dealbook/harvard-ai-faculty.html
(I don't know what's worse: Harvard's open disdain for education and standards or the suckers who pay 700 bucks for it.)
@tante It's the typical investor mindset. "exploit till it implodes then collect and find the next hot property"
Harvard is exploiting his own brand and driving it to the ground for some 💵
GET YOUR NEXT KALTGETRÄNKE AT @deadline_demoparty!
"ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident.
Agents violently detain mom—still wearing hospital gown.
Separate her from daughter—family never told where mom was taken to.
Both were victims of being hit by car—with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit.
Grace Calero, 39, and her daughter Giulianna Carriel, 19, are both originally from Ecuador.
Both women received severe injuries after a near fatal rollover crash when another car swerved into their lane head on.
Made worse when the daughter suffered a seizure—after the trauma of seeing her mother violently handcuffed.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office contacted ICE after deciding the women's paperwork looked suspicious.
They have an ongoing formal cooperation agreement with ICE.
Incident occurred at HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital in Kissimmee, Florida.
Jessenia Hatti Barrett doesn't have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness."
- @LongTimeHistory (on X)
#ICE #USA #HumanRights #migrants #fascism #video #FuckTrump #ACAB
Live Nation's Ticketmaster is universally despised. So, of course, Trump takes its side.
The Trump intervention that suddenly got the DOJ to back off its yearslong pursuit of Live Nation. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-live-nation-antitrust-doj-f82b2c55?st=MCwV3G
@Roland
Ah là là, toujours à reporter ton travail sur les autres...
@lienrag J'en appelle au ciel à ce stade 🥲
Interesting article about #science funders experimenting with lotteries in #grantreview.
The main point seems intuitive - expert rankings are noisy and seldom agree, but the system often behaves as if they have perfect discriminative power. Why not simplify the reviewing process and replace hair-splitting with a (weighed) lottery?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02082-7
@andycarolan haha thanks. It was no problem needed scrambled tofu rofl
@Helen @andycarolan I love that one of yours profile pic BG is horizontal and the other is vertical
Supurrvisor
@catsalad just waiting to get a cuddle
C'est l'histoire d'un mec qui lisait le diplo, puis devint sarkosiste aux côtés de #Glucksmann, puis ensuite rouvrit les yeux et revint à gauche (#LFI).
#FélixMarquardt
However, a metric can be obtained for these values by removing the exponent of 1 / p
oh, so it's wildly non-smooth around x = 1
The Minkowski distance is useful in the field of machine learning.[3]
ah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_means
They can now be regarded as special cases of a family of functions appropriately called the generalized means.
generalized? i wonder who generalized pythagoras to higher powers? it couldn't have been--
generalized means (or power mean or Hölder mean from Otto Hölder)[1] are a family of functions for aggregating sets of numbers.
oh so the concept of a weighted mean came from yet another nazi failson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_H%C3%B6lder
Hölder's inequality, named for Hölder, was actually proven earlier by Leonard James Rogers.
curious
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@_Wiesenthal_S_ Help The Minnesota Spiderman Recover https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-minnesota-spiderman-recover
Trump crony Rubio announces tightening of screws on Cuba
to punish it for "its goal of “exporting Marxism, racial resentment, and Communist violence across the world”."
Of course these days, Cuba's main exports are doctors and educators. Not long ago, Cuban educators were in wealthy Australia, in western NSW state, teaching literacy to Indigenous kids. What a threat to world security this tiny poor nation is.
#Cuba
Why should software paid for by taxpayers stay locked behind proprietary licences?
If it's public money, it should be public code. 🖥️💶
Free Software gives everyone the right to use, study, share and improve it. Plus it is supporting transparency, innovation, and competition..
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Sign the open letter → https://publiccode.eu/
@fsfe hey, why does it not allow me to sign with my @yahoo.com email address?
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