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Looking at your username it is ironic that the key concept in Faggin's reasoning is fractals.¹
Of course it sounds "woo" to you; do you think it is easy to summarise the content of a book on such a complex argument with a few sentences?
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1: Check prof. Giuseppe Vitiello work too, here there is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqVULUI76L4
Here there is a talk by Faggin on his book (in Italian) organized by Vitiello and others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koniUhyrMXM
It's impossible to win because what ML models do is extracting data in a way not much different from statistics and they generate their output from scratch and it's something that never existed before, so it's impossible to claim that they "copy", "steal" and so on.
What they do is literally "learning", they are called like this for a reason afterall.
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An extraordinary amount of money is being spent on COVID-19 testing. Programs meant to ensure people have easy access to tests are being exploited by profiteers and fraudsters. Even legitimate businesses have earned millions while running troubled testing programs. Here's my latest: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-fraud-increases-medicare-spending-covid-19-testing
Indeed nobody is forced to listen to *anything*, including uneducated opinions on terms, cheers!
Yeah that is a popular concept by Karl Popper but do you know more about him? Do you now that NeoLiberism (or NeoLiberalism if you prefer) has the same ideological roots of Nazism and both were financially supported by the same powerful people? Those roots is social darwinism and scientism is their way to justify their atrocities, so be careful when citing Karl Popper.
We already have the cultural tools to stop that in Western history and in this case it's Rousseau's division of power: it's not up to me nor to you nor to anyone else to condemn someone by inflicting whatever punishment that affects their lives.
It's up to who has the juridical power to do so with limits, accountability and the guarantees prescribed by law.
Any exercise of power without previously settled responsibilities is authoritarianism and you can't hide it behind a poor rhetorical trick.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
EuroMOMO data for excess mortality in Europe for 15-44 years old: in 2021 it starts to increase since May and overtakes all previous years including 2020; then in 2022 it keeps increasing easily overtaking 2021.
What happened to young adults in mid 2021? We all know it and it's time to admit it.
The advantage of having more things in the same app is that they are integrated while with multiple apps it is hard to exchange data
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We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source. -- Larry Ellison, Oracle. Interview source https://www.ft.com/content/5f7bdc18-ce85-11da-a032-0000779e2340 🤨
It's you who was fooled by Western propaganda, the videos of Poroshenko and Zelensky are there.
The ~14 000 dead in Donbass since 2014 are recognized by UN.
In 2010 Yushchenko appointed the Nazi Stepan Bandera as hero of Ukraine.
It's official dude, it's just that Western mainstream media won't tell you and make people live in a bubble.
No, this is Western propaganda, there are videos of Poroshenko from 2014 saying at a rally that Russian-speaking people will "live in cellars, their children won't go to school" and so on.
There is also a video of Zelensky when he was a comedian in 2015 making fun of people from Crimea not having water.
I'm making fun of people who calls Russian millionaires "oligarchs" and Western billionaires "philanthropists".
And Petro Porošenko, the former president of Ukraine (2014-2019) is a billionaire because of Roshen, his giant company in the field of sweets. And he is the Neo-Nazi who persecuted Russian-speaking people in East Ukraine bombing the Donbass, leaving the Crimea without water and other atrocities.
Envy? People like him, Gates and Soros are criminals.
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I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.
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How good of a BERT can one get in ONE DAY on ONE GPU?
With all the recent studies about scaling compute up, this paper takes a refreshing turn and does a deep dive into scaling down compute.
It's well written, stock full of insights. Here is my summary and my opinions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14034
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#CopernicusSanta 🇪🇺🛰️ gifts are coming❗️
Milan in #Italy 🇮🇹 as seen by #Sentinel2
Special #HolidaySeason present 🎁 for @vonausterliz
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1608433021840932866
Is there a version with Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett, Bernard Arnault, Michael Bloomberg, Carlos Slim Helu, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison and so on?
Bonus if there is also the former president of Ukraine Petro "Chocolate King" Poroshenko.
Cancel Culture is a new form of authoritarianism.
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@eloquence I do not agree. Choice of words is always a good topic.
You just don't have to be an ass about it.
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I love this @chriscoyier - “publish your own feed”
“Own your RSS.”
This is what we need to do.
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