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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • Did you actually read the article? The designers of this vision model used a software trick (inspired by the concept of quantum tunneling that has nothing to do with quantum computing) to allow inputs to bypass hidden layers at random, resulting in results that were able to see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.

    This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

    Word soup by someone who knows way less than these researchers.




  • Did anyone else read the whole article and see that this kid, while undoubtedly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, was a full-blown neo-Nazi?

    The avatar of the “Valera Mirny” profile features a photo of the chevron of the Ukrainian Azov Brigade. Among the images in the gallery are a picture of hands with the middle finger raised against the background of police cars, as well as a photograph of Valery himself. Another page, with the nickname “Valera Pringles,” is concealed; an individual with that name is a member of a community titled “National Squad. Amur Battalion SSNIDO” with an image of a kolovrat(A traditional Slavic symbol, resembling a swastika with curved or straight arms. Widely used by nationalist groups in Russia) on the avatar. Based on the information in the community, it was created on February 25, 2022, one day after the invasion started, and in January 2023, the group with three subscribers changed its name. “SSNIDO stands for ‘Union of Free Nations and Friendly Relations’,” the public page description states.

    Azov is the notorious neo-Nazi faction of the Ukrainian army.

    They called themselves “National Squad” and put “SS” in their name. They used a swastika logo.

    I mean, fuck Putin and all, but this is just fascists eating fascists.







  • I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

    But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

    If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

    Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.


  • Signal is bad then?

    Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

    So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

    Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

    Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.