“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPtoNot The Onion@sh.itjust.works•U.S. President Trump Orders Navy Ford-Class Carriers to Return to Steam Aircraft Launch CatapultsEnglish
21·11 hours agoshrugs it is pretty much that dumb
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CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•McGill study demonstrates that restricting short-term rentals improves housing affordability
11·8 hours agoI get what you are saying, but I think it is a tad superficial of a read on it.
I don’t think anyone involved in this study truly believed that they wouldn’t find this data when they crunched the numbers, or believed that “just” finding evidence for their hunch would be a scientific and political waste of time.
What this does is provide evidence in no uncertain terms for this phenomena, of course that doesn’t change how you or I see it, but it does meaningfullly change the power balance a tiny bit in rhetoric when studies like this come out.
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World News@quokk.au•Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’
8·10 hours agoSorry can’t hear you over your Genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu, the screaming blocks out everything and I am left to ponder for how many eons Jews will condemn your ideology as an utter betrayal of the foundational tenets of Judaism.
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Medicine@mander.xyz•Towards a unified foundation model for medical imaging | The Lancet
1·17 hours agoI think all this AI technology is pretty much crap, but what I will say is that these tools are only useful when used in ensembles where multiple different models of disparate origins are consulted with the same question and then compared by a human to determine the quality of the results.
Not only are single modality trained models always going to outperform generalist ones given the way these tools work, they are also never going to be useful unless there are multiple discrete models trained to accomplish the same task being consulted.
What makes this all so broken is that nobody makes money by setting something up like Chatbot Arena where you can quickly feed the same data into multiple entirely different models, so the entire structure of the industry is problematic before even the first brick was laid down.
https://arena.ai/text/side-by-side
It is only when you input the same data into a tool like the above one that you can sketch a picture you can begin to trust. You can get quite good information out of very simple chatbots too because given comparisons against more complex ones it is far easier to establish trust, determine where innaccuracies and systematic issues lie, and route around problematic AI models if they are responding weirdly to a particular input of data.
I still don’t think it is worth the effort unless large corporations buy up all the training data and destroy it/remove it from public access… at which point we will have a different more human problem.
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Medicine@mander.xyz•A former anesthesiologist wrapped his ‘tayibbat’ program in Quranic language and told diabetics to abandon insulin and eat sugar, leading to hospital admissions and deaths across the Arab world
8·17 hours agoThe worst part about RFK is that RFK is not the only RFK in the world. One RFK causes far too much violence, murder and death, we don’t need any RFKs.
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story
92·17 hours agoI don’t really think you have done what you say, and if you have in this thread it has been from a defensive and reactive standpoint that concedes context and nuance rather than willingly invoking them.
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story
143·18 hours agoI didn’t say any of those things, I am pointing out you are carrying water for european slavery empires by stripping the context.
If you cannot get over the individual to understand the context, your understanding of people and history will continue to be egregiously broken and myopic.
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story
163·19 hours agoDo you even know the history of Haiti and why it is globally relevant? You CANNOT divorce that from the context of this.
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World News@quokk.au•Rezaei: Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until wars in Gaza, Lebanon end
3·2 days agoThis was always the most predictable end result of the US and Israel launching the Iran War.
How so?
I am a human posting, there is nothing automated about what I do.
I always try to post high quality stuff and I encourage you to contribute!
I want more interesting science news here that isn’t superficial, I want science news that links right to papers encouraging people to open them up and poke around. This is why I post so much to mander.xyz, I am tired of waiting for that future.
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Enshittification@slrpnk.net•Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team
6·4 days agoSure makes you think doesn’t it?
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CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•Conservatives call for emergency meeting on Trump threats, demand Carney explain plan
2·4 days agoConservatives idolize Trump, this is just part of the kayfabe.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More EfficientEnglish
1·4 days agoThe ironic thing is longterm there is a steady market for VR if game developers are given time and agency to build it, it is way more revolutionary than AI in my opinion because it works.
If Meta had spent 1/10th of the money over 10 years on VR they would have walked out of this okay in the medium term but nope gotta chase the rainbow.
All they had to do was commit and they couldn’t, not with all the money in the world.
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United States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Pentagon wants ‘expanding options’ for nuclear weapons, officials say
2·4 days agoI hope you are right I am just concerned about escalation and I don’t like the incentive structure at the moment one bit.
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Top US defense device maker IEH Corporation admits hackers broke into its systemsEnglish
4·4 days agoYeah but this way Microslop can blame the user.



























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https://www.epa.gov/air-research/research-diy-air-cleaners-reduce-wildfire-smoke-indoors