No, it’s Becky.

Sounds good philosophically, but I can’t help but feel like it could turn into a dystopia.

Who will be in charge of defining what is to be considered true, and what should be known by the accused? Who will be able to challenge this truth giver?
How do you make the difference between false information out of ignorance and willfully misleading information?

Out of fear, will every politician, even honest ones, be forced to introduce their speech with some precautionary standard phrase like “This is fully based on assumptions and the truth of those statements cannot be guaranteed” like people say “I am not a lawyer”, eventually putting every political intention on an equal level of uncertainty? (That’s standard troll farm goal)

I believe this job currently belongs to journalism, although we know how imperfect that is, will a law and a Justice system do better?

Good point

It seems Netflix is able to detect that spoofing, and sends this error when trying to play videos, “Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again later.”. I had to disable my add-ons one by one to identify that it was User Agent Switcher causing it.

“prédis le mot suivant” avec tirage au sort des mots suivant potentiels pondérés par leurs statistiques. Ce résultat probabiliste est essentiel pour donner l’impression de créativité des LLMs modernes.

Humans too

Harmonicat

For mage in pain:

Pas sûr que le comportement d’un second tour de législatives, où les listes préférées de certains électeurs ont été illuminées, soit comparable au tour unique des élections européennes avec tous les partis représentés.

En général, les plus motivés ce sont ceux qui veulent sanctionner, c’est comme les commentaires négatifs sur les sites d’achat. Donc a priori, les abstentionnistes auraient plutôt voté pour les partis modérés traditionnels et au pouvoir.

It’s the ML based feature to erase elements on my phone that is for some reason easier to use than basic blur.

It took about 30 min to queue, didn’t have much troubles.

For sure this explains a lot of religious rules but I think agent illusion is also a big contributor.

I’ve read a nice book from a French skepticism popularizer trying to explain the evolutionary origin of cognitive bias, basically the bias that fucks with our logic today probably helped us survive in the past. For example, the agent detection bias makes us interpret the sound of a twig snapping in the woods as if some dangerous animal or person was tracking us. It’s doesn’t cost much to be wrong about it and it sucks to be eaten if it was true but you ignored it. So it’s efficient to put an intention or an agent behind a random natural occurence. This could also be what religions grew from.

Less than that, 1.3 was a very specific place on the road to the plant where you probably cannot live. In the rest of the reopened zone it was more like 0.05–0.2. I am pretty convinced it’s safe, radiation-wise, to live in the reopened parts of the evacuation zone.

Before or after the tsunami ?

It was this week.

Did you used a dosimeter ? Not a geiger an actual dosimeter ?

Yes, we were given dosimeters, I had one for the whole day in the former evacuation zone (20 km radius around the plant) and another for when we stayed in the plant. I actually took notes of the different radiation levels I could see on mine:

• outside the zone: 0.15 μSv/h
• on the road to the plant where the radioactive plume passed: 1.3 μSv/h
• at the security check of the plant: 0.05 μSv/h
• in front of the sea-side where they mix the treated contaminated water: 1.3 μSv/h
• on the observatory spot about 60 m away from unit 1: 66 μSv/h

In total, I took 16.3 μSv during the tour (plant + evacuation zone), which is in the range of a dental X-ray.

They are also pretty transparent about it, there are dosimeters everywhere in the zone at train stations and other public places. See the red counter at a station in my pic below:

How much did the nature came back in the aera ?

The region is generally very pretty and natural (rice fields and woods), there’s no specific Chernobyl-style nature come back in the evacuation zone. I think it’s because the radioactive contamination was way lower, so they could clean up. They have been pressure washing everything and removing 5-10 cm of topsoil for years. Now most of the zone is reopened for people who want to come back. Some of it is still forbidden, you can see the yellow barriers with a crossed silhouette and bags of soil being removed in my pictures below.

Il y a des visites organisées par des guides locaux avec TEPCO, l’opérateur de la centrale, une fois par mois, depuis au moins 2020.

There are visits organized by local guides and TEPCO, the plant operator, once a month, since at least 2020.

Fair point, I should specify “modern science”. There’s quite a gap of scientific quality between traditional medicine and modern science based medicine for example.

Lecun has massively contributed to the past decades of progress in machine learning with his fundamental research. He may have sold his soul to Meta, but his work is definitely very respected, he’s not just another rich guy.

Does it require independent peer review though? How do you achieve that with without publication? The predatory publication system is a different point.

Edit: fix without