NateNate60

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are some languages that use strictly phonetic writing systems. Cherokee (indigenous American language) and Esperanto (constructed international auxiliary language) come to mind, but I'm sure there are others. None of the major world languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Standard Chinese) are perfectly phonetic.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

French people will see a 10-letter word and pronounce it as a single syllable. No language is particularly good in this respect, English is just the most common target of criticism for this

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's not an LLM, but Stockfish does use AI under the hood and has been since 2020. Stockfish uses a classical alpha-beta search strategy (if I recall correctly) combined with a neural network for smarter pruning.

There are some engines of comparable strength that are primarily neural-network based. lc0 comes to mind. lc0 placed 2nd in the Top Chess Engine Championships in 9 out of the past 10 seasons. By comparison, Stockfish is currently on a 10-season win streak in the TCEC.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

One of my mates generated an entire website using Gemini. It was a React web app that tracks inventory for trading card dealers. It actually did come out functional and well-polished. That being said, the AI really struggled with several aspects of the project that humans would not:

  • It left database secrets in the code
  • The design of the website meant that it was impossible to operate securely
  • The quality of the code itself was hot garbage—unreadable and undocumented nonsense that somehow still worked
  • It did not break the code into multiple files. It piled everything into a single file
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This seems strange to me. If everyone has accounts with the Bank of Palestine, then why did it turn into everyone demanding cash versus just paying each other with bank transfers through the Bank of Palestine?

But seeing that the Israelis are now trying to just starve the Palestinians out of Gaza, this just sounds like inflation with extra steps.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think one other factor that people have not considered is the monitor. To run all games at 4K maximum settings, yes, this type of PC might be required. But at lower resolutions, such as 1080p or 1440p, this is overkill and one would be able to run any game as maximum settings even with a computer costing a third as much.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What is "the app" that they are talking about?

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Not surprised. It's the Labour party but they ditched the labour dude a few years ago and replaced him with a liberal so it's not shocking that they're now losing their grip on voters who want a labour party and not a liberal party. And there's already a liberal party for those who wanted a liberal.

So what have we got now? If you wanted a conservative in office, why vote for the fake conservatives when you can vote for the real deal? If you wanted a liberal, why not vote for the actual liberal party (LibDem)? If you want far-right reactionary policies, why vote for minor placation when you vote for the man who will promise you everything? And if you want (god forbid) a socialist or labour leader, well, the leader of the so-called Labour Party has just told you to piss off.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

And for those who don't: Plato, a Greek philosopher, was putatively asked by a student while teaching at the Academy what the definition of a man (human) was. Plato responded that a man is a "featherless biped".

Diogenes, another Greek philosopher and infamous quick-wit, caught wind of this and thought that was the dumbest thing ever, so he gate-crashed one of Plato's lectures and pulled out a chicken which had all of its feathers plucked out and said "Behold, a man!".

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Euclid's first postulate: Give two points, there exists exactly one straight line that includes both of them.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 116 points 3 days ago (24 children)

Important distinction: A triangle is a three-sided polygon. For example, a quarter-circle is not a triangle, despite being a three-sided shape.

 

New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

Excerpt:

...layers of new red tape are plaguing federal staffers throughout the government under the second Trump administration, stymieing work and delaying simple transactions, according to interviews with more than three dozen federal workers across 19 agencies and records obtained by The Washington Post. Many of the new hurdles, federal workers said, stem from changes imposed by the U.S. DOGE Service, Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, which burst into government promising to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse and trim staff and spending.

The team’s overarching goal was in its name: DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency, although it is not part of the Cabinet. But as Musk departed government on Friday, many federal workers said DOGE has in many ways had the opposite effect.

Full article without paywall (Gift article)

 

Gift article without paywall. Note: For the unfamiliar, "MAHA" stands for "Make America Healthy Again".

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.

Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the report sent to The Washington Post, at least 37 appear multiple times, according to a review of the report by The Washington Post. Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning.

 

Gift article without paywall Note: For the unfamiliar, "MAHA" stands for "Make America Healthy Again".

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.

Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the report sent to The Washington Post, at least 37 appear multiple times, according to a review of the report by The Washington Post. Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning.

 

(Washington Post gift article) As the president nears 100 days in office, the survey suggests his administration’s aggressive enforcement tactics are losing public support.

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings on immigration, relatively strong in the early weeks of his second term, have dipped into negative territory, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, a sign that his administration’s hard-line and, in some cases, legally dubious enforcement tactics are losing public support.

A majority of Americans, 53 percent, disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration, with 46 percent approving, a reversal from February when half of the public voiced approval of his approach. Negative views have ticked up across partisan groups over the past two months, with 90 percent of Democrats, 56 percent of independents and 11 percent of Republicans now disapproving of the way the president has managed one of his core policy issues.

 

Washington Post opinion article: Musk’s defeat in Wisconsin is a flashing warning for Republicans in 2026

Gift link (no paywall)

 

Apparently the language was popular among early 20th century socialist movements because it was of an international character and therefore not associated with any nationality and its use by international socialist organisations wouldn't show favour to any particular country. It was banned in Nazi Germany and other fascist states because of its association with the left wing, with anti-nationalism, and because its creator was Jewish. It has mostly languished since then but still has around 2 million speakers with about 1,000 native speakers.

 

In the United States, I'd probably name Oregon City, the famous end of the Oregon Trail and the first city founded west of the Rocky Mountains during the pioneer era. Its population is only 37,000.

 

I'm talking about @rbreich@masto.ai.

The account says things that seem like they would be said by Reich but I'm not sure it's actually him behind the screen.

 

^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM

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Measure 117 would change the voting system from first-past-the-post to ranked-choice instant-runoff voting for presidential, state executive offices, and Congress.

I believe it doesn't go far enough. They should have it for Legislative Assembly elections as well. That being said, I'm still going to vote for it and tell all my friends and family to do the same.

 
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