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On 2/24/2023 at 3:44 AM, marf said:
I was thinking. Maybe they could come up with special tires and roads that create extra friction as to create kinetic energy to charge an EV. I think. they use braking systems to add kinetic energy to the battery.
Wouldn't this be circular? Using extra friction to charge a battery that stores the energy that will be used to overcome the extra friction. I guess it could work if it's a hybrid car, and extra friction is used when the the car is running on gas. Or if extra friction is only used while braking
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3 hours ago, Wunderbar said:
why does it struggle with faces so much compared to other parts of a human?
It's mostly because mistakes in a face are more noticeable than mistakes elsewhere. The creator of Craiyon (formerly known as Dall-E mini) explains it here: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/dall-e-mini-creator-explains-blurred-faces-going-viral-and-the-future-of-the-project/
Quote“The image is encoded into a very shot sequence of numbers so that the model can learn faster. Because of this, the model makes a lot of mistakes. However, when you draw the Moon, a landscape or a tree, you don’t really notice the issues there.
“When it is on a face, we pay a lot more attention. If the eyes are out of order or the nose is misshaped, it is weird. It is the same on animals and cartoon characters, it’s just something we pay more attention to than misshaped objects. Really, the model is equally good or bad at everything.”The same goes for AI upscaling algorithms too. There are general purpose AI upscaling algorithms that can upscale any kind of content: landscapes, buildings, etc. To human perception, the faces upscaled with these algorithms look horrible most of the time. The only AI upscalers that do well with faces have specialised algorithms and training data that exclusively deals with faces.
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On 7/5/2022 at 11:39 PM, zero said:
but this is the part that someone needs to tell all the lemmings who bought into this scam when they heard it was a hot product
I think crypto as an investment isn't that bad. The prices have been going through evenly spaced cycles of booms and crashes since the beginning, it's like seasons changing. It's winter time again now but I don't think the winter will be permanent. Also, if you had bought bitcoin at any point in the 2010s and held it until now, you would be in profit despite the current crash
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I think getting an AI to act intelligently in the same way as humans display intelligence (having a model of the world and solving problems to achieve goals) is indeed just a matter of providing good data and algorithms. AI has already been able to beat humans in chess for a long time, and I'm sure it can eventually beat humans in any field when enough time and resources are put into developing it. The problems in the way of this are just technical problems that can be solved with scientific means. However, determining whether an artificial general intelligence is conscious or not will be an impossible task because this runs into the hard problem of consciousness. This is going to be weird in the future: humans coexisting with super-intelligent machines, with no way to tell if these machines have any qualia or not.
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1 hour ago, Taupe Beats said:
tl:dr version, she's trying to sneakily "both sides" this while not condemning Putin and claiming she was too dumb to understand politics (LOL).
I haven't been following Nina Kraviz's statements closely so I could be missing something, but anyway: many Russians who are actually against Putin avoid publicly condemning Putin and pretend to be apolitical because standing up against Putin could get them jailed, poisoned or murdered. This is completely different from living in a Western democracy where publicly criticising your country's leader doesn't involve any serious risk and doesn't require any courage. Of course the Dutch guys at Clone wouldn't hesitate to publicly protest if the Dutch government did something they strongly object to but that's because they can be sure that the Dutch government wouldn't murder them for protesting.
Maybe there is some miscommunication going on due to these reasons?-
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On 5/14/2022 at 6:50 AM, marf said:
Im constantly Gas lighting myself with this dementia shit. Looking at comments online I don't remember making. Or videos I don't remember liking. Life is getting scary. Im always afraid.
I would guess that these memory problems aren't dementia yet. It's more likely that they are a short-term side effect of benzos that only happens when you have benzos in your system
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For the past half a year, Youtube's algorithm's music recommendations for me are always just the same 3 tracks by Detroit in Effect. These tracks are not bad but they're also not great enough to fit in my top 100 of all time favourite tracks. I don't know why Youtube's algorithm thinks I'm so crazy about Detroit in Effect that I don't want to hear anything else
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1 hour ago, chenGOD said:
Thanks for that - I just find it fascinating that Putin's actions have essentially done the opposite of what Russia would have considered successful foreign policy. Increased appetite for joining NATO from countries that were pretty leery before, increased defense spending from Germany, increased economic pressure through sanctions etc.
Yes. Also, Putin's grand plan was to unite Russians and Ukrainians as one nation. Now Putin's actions have made Ukrainians even more opposed to this than before
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3 minutes ago, maxwellsq said:
I just don't get what he is trying to say . he posts some out of context news , writes some random thoughts about world order . me personally , I think he is either a complete fool or brainwashed, living in an illusion .He already told some absolute bullshit about my country , pretending that he better knows what is happening.
Yes, you are completely right in your assessment, the stuff he posts is out of context and/or bullshit.
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4 minutes ago, maxwellsq said:
ok , so I read last couple of pages of this thread. I think there is a misunderstanding about "nazis" here . If some military people are aggressively against Russia ,is that what makes them "nazi" ? and they have some reasoning .
It's just one guy with some kind of a mental health problem who is siding with Putin and calling Ukrainians nazis in this thread. Don't pay attention to him
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Just do it, there's tons of tutorials for that on Youtube and the basics of it aren't all that complicated
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Did you learn to use a DAW yet?
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7 hours ago, Soloman Tump said:
What's Russia gonna do if they do actually "take over" Mariupol? Rebuild it? With what money and resources? Who's ever gonna want to live there again apart from the people who have been forcibly evicted?
That's what Russia is all about: grabbing land and then not putting it to any good use
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5 hours ago, randomsummer said:
Some people have questioned whether or not the systems that control Russia's nuclear weapons would even fully function if they were to want to launch them (due to neglect, lack of funding, etc.).
I picture Russia's nuclear launch control computer as a PC that hasn't been touched since it was inherited from Yeltsin's government. It's a white box with a CRT monitor, with a floppy disk drive and a CD drive, running pirated Windows 98, and has somehow got infected with BonziBuddy malware
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I've seen news stories like this on this topic:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-examines-recognition-of-baltic-independence/27102853.html
Anyway, the Baltic states never voluntarily joined the USSR in first place. They were forced to join at gunpoint during World War II. Because of this, I think the question of whether the independence of the Baltic states in 1991 was in accordance with the constitution of the USSR is irrelevant -
15 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
- Biden to meet with Putin personally and provide guarantees that NATO expansion will not continue to try to place nukes within uncounterable first striking distance
- conversion of Ukraine into neutral independent buffer state between Russia and NATO with no more NATO funding of Nazi militias and egging Ukraine into wanting NATO membership
- Ukrainian guarantees of following Minsk Protocol or letting Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics be independent or joined with Russia
- De-Nazification of Ukrainian government and military and immediately incarceration of all active Nazis, execution of all Nazis who committed murderous war crimes against civilians during the war
- Immediate ceasefire and providing material aid to all civilians hurt by this war
This is a copy of Putin's demands. You forgot to include one point that you mentioned earlier: "lift all sanctions from Russia". If you include that, I think you have the full set of Putin's requests
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42 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
fuck putin. dont make up stuff you really think i think putin is communist?
Your previous posts in this thread came across like that. If you don't support Putin and don't think he's a communist, that's great!
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12 hours ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
why are you so desperate to defend nazis
Why are you so desperate to defend Putin? I understand that you have a far-left or communist worldview but Putin is not even a communist
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1 hour ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
specialization has nothing to do with capitalist innovative spirit. and competition leads to the same thing being done multiple times and anti-competitive actions taking place to prevent others from succeeding. competition in fact leads to monopoly, which leads to imperialism, which leads to NATO, which leads to NATO encirclement of Russia with nukes, which leads to Ukraine being invaded by Putin to likely try to solidify Ukraine as a neutral buffer state between NATO and Russia out of Russia's national security interests
A key thing that you seem to have got wrong is that when the post-Soviet Eastern European countries joined NATO, the initiative for joining NATO came from these Eastern European countries themselves. They had seen the atrocities Russia is capable of and wanted to be guarded from Russia. They were right in their assessment that Russia still poses a threat to them. Look at what's happened to the former Eastern Bloc countries that are not in NATO: Belarus has been turned into a slave of Moscow and Ukraine is getting massacred for refusing to be a slave of Moscow. Also, the Eastern European countries that joined NATO did this solely for defensive purposes, none of them have any interest in attacking Russia to conquer its territory.
Putin is trying to spin history as if NATO were an imperialist nazi organisation that's forced itself upon Eastern European countries against their will and is aiming to start a war to conquer Russia next. Putin's version of recent history is entirely bullshit, it's quite fucked up if you as a Western world guy believe his propaganda-
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11 minutes ago, dr lopez said:
why do we need to "dox" russian soldiers? I'm not concerned if it's yuri galganov from nizhny novogord or dimitri pilipenko from vladivostok.
it kind of plays into the irritating online culture of reddit posters larping as governmental intelligence assets. basically like a guy who says things like "calm thy tits" suddenly claiming they know how to incapacitate a russian SAM
Russia has a long history of lying about the presence of their soldiers in Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2022 there were Russian soldiers in Donbass but Russia completely denied it. Now, Russia admits that their soldiers are in Ukraine but lies about the scale of the war and the details of it.
Russia says 500 soldiers have been killed in Ukraine so far, while Ukraine says that around 6000 Russian soldiers have been killed. Also, there are reports of families of the Russian soldiers having no idea that these soldiers have been sent to the war in Ukraine. Detailed lists of Russian soldiers in Ukraine would help to expose the lies of the Russian government.
Besides this, the Russian attack on Ukraine is so horrendous that I think that anything that can help Ukraine even a tiny bit is a good thing.-
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1 hour ago, dr lopez said:
who cares
What do you mean?
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The travel vloggers Bald and Bankrupt and Johnny FD were posting videos from the center of Kyiv yesterday
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2 hours ago, Diurn said:
https://earthsky.org/human-world/trillions-of-viruses-human-virome/
Some harm us and others help us, just respect everyone's decision and opinion fighting/ignoring this. My main concern is the state of constant terror that we're in, has nothing to do with a virus but 'fear inoculum' to get control.
Your line of reasoning is faulty. Yes, there are lots of viruses that infect bacterial cells without infecting human cells, and are therefore generally harmless for humans. It doesn't follow from there that SARS-CoV-2 (which infects human cells and doesn't infect bacterial cells) would be harmless.
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I forgot what the name of this guy is but I trust his expert opinion that the virus will go away in April with the heat. I cant wait! April's quite soon!
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Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shit real wtf
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That's what I meant