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interesting take: I didn't realise this history of the supreme court at all. Not sure if it's a great idea though, the basic idea of judicial overview of the legislature is good, as long as the terms are narrow enough and clearly defined.

7% were violent I read? which still seems fairly large (and is enough to produce a fair amount of damage and bad press), but not as bad as it was in the 60s/70s (where it was around 12% IIRC). the more positive thing is that, while the protests do seem to have diminished support for BLM in general (after an initial surge in support early on), they haven't reduced support for many specific reforms, and they don't seem to have given Trump much of a boost in the polls either.

someone managed to play the first track, onesix stuff apparently, still not playing for me tho

previews incoming? https://warp.net/releases/202980-autechre-sign not playing for me, but working for others maybe...

"we voted in ww1, we voted in ww2" ?!?

It doesn't matter what % of protestors are violent vs non-violent, all that matters is how much damage is being done, how many businesses destroyed, lives ruined, whole communities fucked up... and ultimately, what the perception of all this is with voters in the midwest/rust belt.

nothing good will come from any of this, Trump isn't going do anything they want, and it's likely if they keep it up they'll just ensure another Trump victory - which they probably want, because they're mostly white privileged larping assholes and they won't be the ones effected by another 4 years of Trump, they hate the democrats as much as the republicans anyway. luckily Biden isn't on the side of the defund the police/acab wing of the democrats (which is barely a wing, more of a rump - it's mostly the far left outside of the party driving this), and he's been relatively vocal about taking a sensible approach to police/criminal justice reform rather than the dumb shit most activists are pushing, so with any luck he can get this message across and reassure the majority of middle america which is getting increasingly freaked out about all this. Biden's core message on this needs to be a return to normality, Trump will just see this chaos continue.

this is nonsense. yes there are large numbers of people peacefully protesting, mostly during the daytime, but it's clear there's also a committed core of shit heads on both sides stirring things up and wrecking shit, mostly at night. this isn't being done solely by infiltrators, looting is mostly just done by locals who want to get some free shit; property damage, smashing windows, starting fires, etc. has been a regular tactic of black bloc antifa ppl for decades, mostly non-locals - who travel around from city to city, followed by/following the opposite shower of cunts on the right, they're just stepping up the intensity in recent months. you're incredibly naive if you think the far right are the only ones causing all this damage, or even that they're the primary cause. it's obvious this is happening to anyone paying proper attention, many people aren't even denying it, and morons like this are even justifying it: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting

That's not what the video I've been able to find has shown so far, maybe there will be more uncovered and available at the trial, but so far it looks like the first shot he fired was after he was being chased by the first guy who was shot, who lunged at him - maybe trying to take his gun, but you can't see clearly (someone else shot into the air with a handgun before that, not sure if this was one of the people involved in the 2nd shooting incident a few mins later). The second incident happened after he was running away, he stumbled and then got attacked by several people (he was kicked in the head, hit in the head with a skateboard, and then another guy came at him with a gun drawn) - he then shot the guy with the skateboard in the stomach, and the guy with the gun in arm. The fact that he was running away prior to getting attacked, in addition to having a reasonable fear for his life due being attacked and a guy drawing a gun on him, is what makes a self defence case seem at least somewhat reasonable. The first killing is far less obvious, as there doesn't appear to be much evidence that he could reasonably claim to be in fear for his life, getting chased by a guy and having a bag of rubbish thrown at him, doesn't seem likely to cut it - but we don't really know what happened to trigger the initial confrontation (the only video I've seen shows the first guy who was shot being very aggressive and shouting 'shoot me nigga' at him, but I didn't see why it escalated and caused him to leave and the other guy to chase after him). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html I'm not saying he deserves to get off, just that there's a reasonable chance he'd be able to convince a jury on at least some of the charges. It seems to me like everyone involved was a dumb asshole who would have been better off staying at home that night.

it seems like there's a good chance he'll be able to get off the 2nd killing, or at least plea it down to a much lesser charge (seems like he has reasonable case for self defence). 1st one might be a lot tougher to get out of though. will come down to the jury unless he pleas out the whole thing. the only thing they have him dead to rights on is a misdemeanour by the looks of things, he wasn't old enough to have the gun in the first place.

PSG threw it away, they had a host of clear cut chances, in the first half especially, a couple late on they should've done better with too. Mbappe should've scored 2 at least. Bayern didn't look great until they scored, after which they were in control bar a frantic last few mins. Not a classic, but more entertaining than most finals.

apparently this is Colin Farrell, as the Penguin

yeah, s2 wasn't as good. especially disliked the stuff with his son being a weirdo, felt very shoehorned in.

We've got little over a month to avoid a no deal brexit, it's not looking good, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised by an 11th hour capitulation from the Brits. Trying to recover from the covid recession on top of a no deal scenario would be a total fucking nightmare.

wut? even if you got your timeline right (have you already blocked this season and the last out of your memory?), this still would have been an incredible lame comeback.

lol. hilarious. liverpool have been living rent free in the average united fan's head for every one of those 30 years. and it doesn't matter who you support, Harry Maguire is a humorously terrible footballer.

Liverpool broke Barcelona. RIP.

More like Jim Lahey than Jerry Seinfeld, but still pretty funny.

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no, I was talking about building up more complicated computer models by wiring up multiple different types of model together.

the amount of energy used in training the model is nothing compared to the amount of energy used in evolving the human brain over a billion years. the amount of energy used in operating the model is probably greater than what the the human brain uses though, but it's on a similar scale, the brain is highly energy efficient for it's complexity. That's because things like this aren't emulating a whole human brain, just a small subset of it's functionality. Not really, we're just at the early stages, the brain is made up of many many functional modules, to get something similar to human level intelligence we'll require a similar level of structural complexity. We've already exceeded the complexity of the type of modules we're creating though (a human brain has around 85 billion neurons in total, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, and is providing only a fraction of the functionality of the brain), which helps explain why something like GPT-3 or the best chess playing models far exceed what a single human could ever hope to accomplish in their narrow domains. Human visual perception is made up of a number of different functional modules, e.g. form detection, face detection, object detection, depth, motion, edges, textures, colours, etc; image recognition models do not have anything near this level of structural complexity, they can surpass the ability of any single one of these modules (in terms of capacity and performance), but are highly constrained in their overall capability, and not only do they not compare to the complexity of the visual system by itself, the brain's visual system is also integrated into many of the brain's other systems as well, so it's even more complicated.

How our own subconscious works is also pretty alien to us, the current level of AI is somewhat similar to our subconscious processing in that regard, albeit just a limited type of it, once we have a bunch of different types of things, and start to wire them up to one another in interesting ways, then things will start to get really interesting.