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Comment · 8 months ago
I gave a go with a less popular language. This is a clone of Duolingo from the first glance, and does not place you into a correct level after examination.

Funny vibe code glitche in how an excersirce gives away the answer in a transaction of each question.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maintainer or curl gave recently a talk on AI slop in security reports, showing this and other examples:

https://youtu.be/6n2eDcRjSsk?si=p5ay52dOhJcgQtxo -- AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg. Keynote at the FrOSCon 2025 conference, August 16, in Bonn Germany by Daniel Stenberg.

Plus, linked above, his blogpost on the same subject https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/18/ai-slop-attacks-on-th...

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Done, now I'm waiting for my pre-order to arrive.
Comment · 6 years ago
These type of experimental interfaces what would make me to consider ordering one! Would love to try now
Comment · 7 years ago
Wow, another "God-of-the-gaps" fallacy paper. Mixing all the things: math theory, algorithmics, evolution, genetic optimization algorithm in its simplest math model. All to make the conclusion that the authors could not understand those things all together.

On Goldbach’s conjecture: "Hypothesizing that the new axiom is true requires faith; faith in its consistency within the formal system"

And concluding: "However, not all possible phenomes can be produced by genetic algorithm. So it is a matter of faith to believe that every existing phenome [..] could be the result of material things interacting with one another."

Comment · 8 years ago
FB published a bit on selection of the fact checkers - those are independent journalist organisations.

I'd say contrary - that would be so wrong for FB to verify facts in-house. This way they are more transparent

Comment · 9 years ago
The sea shepherds are the key in seeding the legal debate - they are documenting and exposing whale hunting as it is.

Without this documentation and tracking, the whalers will continue to hide from anyone's view.

Comment · 9 years ago
I would argue that the cause of the "Fake news" epidemic is partially due to the social media. Specifically, Information Overload is to blame.

A few decades back we had and now loosing: - Traceable reputation -- which is now lost, and much harder to learn in our uncontrolled, random and sparse feed interactions. - Focus on topic -- social crises were build up, considered, reflected on. Nowadays, we moved into the realm of emotional reactions. Noone is expected to have mental capacity to consume as many pieces of disjoint information as we do today on social media. In an average feed, a president eats a kid, and a cat does a funny trick one after another.

The prime incentives in the current social system is the instant gratification. This new system is easy to abuse, as we are moving further away from analytical to emotional consumption.

Comment · 9 years ago
Sadly, all ocean studies are underfunded due to a general lack of public interest. "You don't see - you don't care", and pictures like these are the first steps to draw people's attention. Thank you!
Comment · 9 years ago
Also sad from the AI perspective, this was a great, public human-labeled dataset.
Comment · 10 years ago
On engine difference, which is critical but has not been pointed out: - Buran had no launching engines, whole Energia rocket has been lost (apart of boosters?) - Shuttle did, thus the most expensive part has been returned back This resulted in a fact that STS launches were expected to be much cheaper [citation needed]
Comment · 11 years ago
Sound can be recovered partially from visual observations of any vibrations (to some degree, this is your how CD works). So technically, you can 'listen' to bacteria with a compound phase contrast microscopes, which are used to observe living organisms.

With DNA its trickier. First of all, it's too small to be seen using compound (optic) microscopes. While an electron microscope scans a specimen, so either you have to do its with a frequency way higher than any vibrations, or 'focus' on a single place to 'listen' to it (pico stethoscope). There are few further complications, such as you may burn a hole though the specimen, not forgetting that it also requires special treatment to be observed in an electron microscope.

Comment · 12 years ago
Worth mentioning: Petrel, one of the first frameworks to appear ( https://github.com/AirSage/Petrel ). Worked well for us, few tricks inside, but importantly our code was concise and clear
Comment · 12 years ago
Ukrainian here.

Ukraine gave up on its nukes in nineties in exchange for military guarantees from US, NATO and Russia. No warheads, no enriched uranium (has been given away by the current president in exchange of nice handshakes with US at the beginning of his term).

Russian leaders are trying to restore its Soviet era, where Ukraine used to be the second most populated country after Russia itself. Clearly, this is a big deal for them. Location wise is not that important, all Baltic countries are way closer to Moscow.

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