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Just a reminder that "Rome: Total War" had 24-bit audio in 2004, while Unreal supports only 16-bit audio today.

@deezthugs@liberdon.com It seems like it was removed from the malware list...

@deezthugs@liberdon.com Thanks! Still I would like to know what categorized it as such.

Apparently kutt.it is considered malicious by Google since today and Firefox won't let me use it. Does that mean there was something dangerous about kutt itself or that users linked malicious sites through it? Neither Google nor Firefox give an explanation.

Anyway, even if you use it, anyone who clicks your links with Firefox or Chrome will think they are malicious as well.

Can you suggest alternatives? Is Polr worth it?

In May and June 2020 we found and removed a group of Tor exit relays that were messing with exit traffic. They left almost all exit traffic alone, and we don't know whether any users were successfully attacked.
blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-r

Thousands of arrests and a good dose of police brutality in Belarus during the protests.

As a EU citizen, I would like the EU to support the people of Belarus against Lukashenko's dictatorship. ✌️

If anyone knows more about the nature and dynamics of the protests right now, you are more than welcome to share some insight.

theguardian.com/world/2020/aug

[Photo: Women show support for detained and injured protesters in Minsk, by Natalia Fedosenko/Tass | the Guardian]

@Sphinx I didn't know. A quick search shows that they have problems with constant rain.

Photograph by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images taken from a Guardian arcticle. Location: Politika, Evia island.

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At least 8 dead by the floods on Evia, Greece. I think this kind of weather was rare here. The thunderstorm was extraordinary.

@art_zdesiseitsas Looks like a low-poly fantasy game + effects.
What's the concept of the story, if I may ask?

Under the 1837 Slave Compensation Act, the UK government borrowed £20m (over £2 billion in today's terms, £300b by some accounts) to pay off the families of slave-owners for releasing their slaves. This borrowing was only paid off in 2015 by British taxpayers.

The newly liberated people had received nothing.

University College London estimated that somewhere between 10-20% of Britain's wealthy can be identified as having had significant links to slavery.

Training End-to-End Analog Neural Networks with Equilibrium Propagation

We introduce a principled method to train end-to-end analog neural networks by stochastic gradient descent. In these analog neural networks, the weights to be adjusted are implemented by the conductances of programmable resistive devices such as memristors [Chua, 1971], and the nonlinear transfer functions (or `activation functions') are implemented by nonlinear components such as diodes. We show mathematically that a class of analog neural networks (called nonlinear resistive networks) are energy-based models: they possess an energy function as a consequence of Kirchhoff's laws governing electrical circuits. This property enables us to train them using the Equilibrium Propagation framework [Scellier and Bengio, 2017]. Our update rule for each conductance, which is local and relies solely on the voltage drop across the corresponding resistor, is shown to compute the gradient of the loss function. Our numerical simulations, which use the SPICE-based Spectre simulation framework to simulate the dynamics of electrical circuits, demonstrate training on the MNIST classification task, performing comparably or better than equivalent-size software-based neural networks. Our work can guide the development of a new generation of ultra-fast, compact and low-power neural networks supporting on-chip learning.

arxiv.org

@stux
Having the option to use :verified: is nice, but I think it's misleading for new users. :(

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