FlashMobOfOne

God, I love math nerds on Lemmy.

Thank you for this and Happy Friday.

If we lived in a more just world, Zuck, Musk, Altman and all the rest would be sitting before Congress getting a short break from their interminable stays in prison cells, explaining to the American people the ins and outs of the deliberately harmful products they created.

It’s nice to see that some of the states and a handful of countries, at least, are doing what the US Government never will and trying to hold these people accountable to some degree.

If you told me 30 years ago that I’d live to see the day when a CP generator or that a major company would hang its hat on distributing CP for a child rape ring are not only a reality, but one that anyone can access just for paying a subscription, I’m not sure I’d have believed it. But here we are.

Just another thought for my “This is why a good god doesn’t exist” file.

It reminds me of a really great line from the movie Coming To America: “Imagine a country so free one can throw glass in its streets.”

Donald has personal financial interests in prediction markets and his properties probably have private firefighting. What the fuck does he care?

And for the next two years he’s going to have nothing to lose. We’ll see if there’s any America left once he’s done.

Jeff Sovern and this guy are the best.

There’s a reason why Donald and his friends in Washington have all of their discussions on Signal.

Also, if you’re not already, just assume every app and device are spying on you.

Minnesota, Arizona, and now New York.

It pleases me to no end watching state governments push back against these predatory gambling websites.

Thank you!

It’s a good start.

Pisses me off that laws are required for this, but that’s what we get for being ruled by the Epstein Class.

That’ll happen when your product sucks. We didn’t want slop, bots, and heavy-handed moderation.

A really cool story both in terms of tech and humanity, especially if you’re a history nerd like me.

The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home

Researchers in France, led by Stéphane Le Mouélic from Nantes University, who originally did a PhD in astrophysics, have also used computer software to combine more than 440 overlapping 2D photos taken from multiple angles to create a detailed 3D model of the Bayeux Tapestry (J. Cult. Heritage 71 211).

It digitally “irons out” all the sags and wrinkles in the line fabric, recreating the original, “flat” tapestry and allowing the original physical shape of the artwork to be revealed for the first time. The 3D model can be viewed for free at the Bayeux Museum website, allowing historians, researchers and members of the public to study it without having to handle the delicate material.

Physics-based techniques have also allowed us to deal with the fact that parts of the fabric have been repaired over the last 900 plus years. Some of those repairs used non-authentic dyes and colours, while others covered up the original stitching. But using computer vision and image processing, threads that were added later can be subtracted digitally, providing a clearer, corrected view of what the original tapestry looked like.

Certainly seems that way.

There’s a new bug or eminently shitty feature almost every day, or at least it seems that way.

Understanding it’ll take some time for any competition to have an impact, it’s still nice to see that someone, somewhere in the world is looking at this manufactured scarcity and deciding not to exploit it.

These bastards need to pay some fucking taxes.

I truly hate this motherfucker.

Same, but it motivated me to do the work, and it’s a skill that crosses over into work life significantly.

Agreed 100%.

Every exam should have some oral component. Doesn’t need to be the whole of one’s grade, but 10% sounds about right: significant enough to be impactful, but not so significant that people with severe anxiety can’t otherwise pass.

Just another reminder in a planetary history of reminders of why our species fucking sucks.

That’s fair. Good point.

That would be the point of an oral examination.

It requires actual preparation, which is now apparently essential to demonstrate. GenAI may be able to write the answers for you, but this requires that you actually prepared to a meaningful extent.