There are ~ 21 ongoing #wars (conflicts consisting in the use of armed force, between two or more organized armed groups, and with ≥ 1,000 combat-related deaths in current or past year):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Related:
One hundred things that went well this year (some whimsical, some debatable):
@tripu I'm a bit concerned about the indiscriminately pulling up bits of data, although the arguments used are usually not good, and it's an immature area. The "solutions" are also usually pretty nuclear.
Flawed (or dishonest) logic behind #AI criticism:
* All human artists “train on [stolen] images”, too. There's simply no other way.
* Something (or someone) surpassing your ability to do something does not “deskill” you. Your own skills aren't affected.
* Human workers being “disempowered” and “replaced” by new technology is a centuries-old constant of History, and a very good one overall — we have been dealing with that forever, and when sufficient time passes, everyone's happy about the change. This critic should realise that she didn't rely on human scribes, human postmen, human typesetters, etc to make her point heard: she sent e-mail to a newspaper that is composed and produced using #technology and employing a fraction of the workers that were once necessary — and we're receiving her ideas on our computers in the form of a digital image; so many human workers out of the loop now! And that's great.
I'm not necessarily happy about the disorganised way AI is happening, either. But find better arguments, and make specific proposals, people.
@susan77 I fully recognize that people do not like AI generated content. But can someone explain to me how the way an AI image generator is trained is different from how a human artist gets inspiration and learns?
> _“While he was on bail for #hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, [the 18-year-old autistic Briton] continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack. Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach #Rockstar, the company behind #GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.”_
Foto de la celebración del #solsticio de invierno esta mañana en #Zaragoza. Nunca había venido a ver el sol alineándose al milímetro con la que ahora se llama Calle Mayor, pero es algo que viene de los romanos, como todo en nuestra ciudad.
Es un acto que conmemora el nacimiento de Caesaraugusta, para la que proyectaron la sombras, hicieron cálculos e hicieron coincidir el sol en este día con las dos grandes avenidas de la ciudad romana, el cardo máximo y el decumano máximo.
Starting to use @penpot a opensource #figma alternative. https://penpot.app/
¡Ya tenemos fecha y sede para #esLibre2024!
Gracias a @gnulinuxvalencia, la comunidad anfitriona de este año, nos vemos los días 24 y 25 de mayo en Las Naves y La Mutant.
Así que... ¡abrimos el envío de propuestas!
Toda la info en https://eslib.re/2024/propuestas
Y aunque tuvimos algunos problemas técnicos... ¡publicados los vídeos de #esLibre2023!
Buena oportunidad para conocer temas interesantes sobre #SoftwareLibre, #HardwareLibre y #CulturaLibre
Como siempre, en #WikimediaCommons con licencia libre #CreativeCommons (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:EsLibre_2023
The influence of _“four #parenting dimensions (academic involvement, structure, cultural stimulation, and goals)”_ on _“child personality #development”_ is **_“small”_**:
> _“We extended this #research by examining the long-term relations between four underexplored parenting dimensions and child #BigFive #personality traits using bivariate latent growth models in **a large longitudinal dataset (N = 3,880)**. Results from growth models revealed a preponderance of null relations between these parenting measures and child personality, especially between changes in parenting and changes in child personality. In general, the observed associations between parenting and child Big Five personality were comparable in magnitude to the association between factors such as SES and birth order, and child personality—that is, **small**.”_
Happy holidays!!
We wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2024! We’re looking forward to what we’ll accomplish together in 2024.
Warmly, from all of us at the World Wide Web Consortium. See a blog post by @koalie at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/happy-holidays-from-the-world-wide-web-consortium/
My year #2023 (so far) in #books:
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42