Yoruio

you posted this on a open source platform that someone bothered to create.

Carissa

Checking in with > 200 tabs in sideberry

I don’t think a OS should ever be LESS open about what a user can do. It should be on the user to do their due diligence and have high availability systems setup.

Only reason Linux wasn’t affected as much was luck. this could just as easily have happened to Linux systems if the broken update targetted Linux.

We (this community especially) criticize windows for not being more open like Linux, and all of a sudden we’re saying it should’ve been more like Apple?

Can’t wait for self-replicating scam bots

wow you must have some expensive big macs

only 22€? I’m checking in at $134.99 CAD. for reference, Baldur’s Gate 3 costs $89.99.

The inflation is inflating

Using mugshots to train AI without consent feels illegal. Plus, it wouldn’t even make a very good training set, as the AI would only be able to identify perfectly straight images shot in ideal lighting conditions.

I live in Canada.

Was this AI trained on an unbalanced dataset (only black folks?)

It’s probably the opposite. the AI was likely trained on a dataset of mostly white people, and thus more easily able to distinguish between white people.

It’s a problem in ML that has been seen before, especially for companies based in the US where it is just easier to find a large amount of white people as opposed to people of other skin colors.

It’s really not dissimilar to how people work either, humans are generally more able to distinguish between two people who are races that they grew up with. You’ll make more mistakes when trying to identify people of races you aren’t as familiar with too.

The problem is when the police use these tools as an authoritative matching algorithm.

like ICBMs and freeze dried ice cream sandwiches!

Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?

Actually, on that scale, it probably is more cost effective. They don’t need separate factory lines, or to pump out cars with all sorts of different combinations of options. It takes better advantage of the economy of scale.

bigger number go on bigger side of triangle. smaller number go on smaller side of triangle!

Except the president and police are literally above the law with the presidential pardon and qualified immunity.

Hunting and killing methods have been improved to ensure as little harm to the whales as possible.

Apart from the … hunting and the killing.

All the suggestions here are good for a complete beginner with no knowledge of coding, but I wanted to just add that once you get some experience and are more confident with your google-fu, I would suggest looking at the problem from the other side, and look for things you want to improve in your life first, and find ways to do that with code, rather than the other way around. It will help you stay more engaged with your project, and you’ll retain more knowledge.

i.e. I hate guessing which parking lots around my school / office / apartment are full every day -> make a web scraper that scrapes parking lot occupancy and compiles it all in one place

or

I keep forgetting to water my plants -> hook up a raspberry pi to a solenoid, and code up something to water the plants for you

I’ve found that to be a much better approach than going the opposite direction

i.e.

I need to learn how to write embedded code -> write an Arduino control loop that keeps dog bowl topped up.