Shear Modulus posted:

where is facebook getting the info that a shooter is active. are they monitoring for a burst of facebook posts "omg i heard gunshots"

SlothfulCobra posted:

A lot of money doesn't physically exist and is a whole hypothetical access to a bank which only has a certain federally-regulated fraction of the currency that it it owes you, but in theory if there was a run on the bank where more people wanted their money out than the bank could sustain, the federal government will cover it. I don't think it's ever been tested though. I'm pretty certain there's more "virtual" currency than physical though.

etalian posted:

Yeah it's basically a subsidized for profit company.

PG&E also did aggressive lobbying to prevent local towns from being able to start their own muni utilities through a referendum.


Yeah the real cause is PG&E deliberately didn't spend money to inspect and maintain their equipment while giving bonuses to upper management & paying a few hundred million dollars for a dividend program.

sincx posted:

Our reality is a really, really lovely low-budget rip off of Snow Crash

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

real talk, the American people's response to school shootings basically cemented my greater psychological scope theory that MAD is bullshit, and at some point in the next decade a nuclear state is going to drop the bomb on a rival country's city, it won't cause the end of the world, and everyone is just going to grow to accept a new reality where every six to eight months a city just gets deleted somewhere on the planet because nobody is willing to actually stop it

Peanut Butler posted:

couldn't finish Diamond Age

Tubgoat posted:

Pretext for brutalising or otherwise mistreating undesireables.

Feral Integral posted:

I think you are conflating some things here. Not all machine learning works like ganns or stuff goes in the black box stuff comes out.

The point is people can extrapolate a lot of things you might not realize from data points that dont necessarily seem related. Even if they are using a black box gan or something to generate marketing campaigns/target audiences its easy to verify the results through a little cheap a/b testing and then just select the ones that work.

Nothus posted:

Yeah we're already there, it's just that we did it the neoliberal way so it's patchwork, decentralized, largely run by private companies, and tied into the financial system.

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Alan Westin, a Columbia University professor of public law, took to the pages of the New York Times to let consumers know that their Retail Credit files may include “facts, statistics, inaccuracies and rumors” about basically every aspect of a person’s life, as detailed in a 1995 Wired magazine article. That included everything from people’s jobs and schooling to details about their marital troubles and sex lives. Companies, Wired notes, used that information to deny credit to those they found “morally lacking.”

eSports Chaebol posted:

there’s less activity than with buttcoins but a jpeg would be too big and too much math so it’s just a URL. yes you can own an NFT that is eventually a 404

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/normcharlatan/status/1507045383159128065

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More than 350 blind people around the world have implants in their eyes made by the company Second Sight Medical Products, which could help partially restore aspects of sight. But the company abandoned the technology a few years ago when it was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, according to a new investigation from IEEE Spectrum. Now, if something goes wrong with the implants, users are left stranded.

TACD posted:

it would be nice to punch the monkey once more, for old times’ sake

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He repeatedly tried to explain why he did not conduct further research into the cases that ChatGPT had provided to him.

“God, I wish I did that, and I didn’t do it,” Mr. Schwartz said, adding that he felt embarrassed, humiliated and deeply remorseful.

“I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases,” he told Judge Castel.

In contrast to Mr. Schwartz’s contrite postures, Judge Castel gesticulated often in exasperation, his voice rising as he asked pointed questions. Repeatedly, the judge lifted both arms in the air, palms up, while asking Mr. Schwartz why he did not better check his work.

As Mr. Schwartz answered the judge’s questions, the reaction in the courtroom, crammed with close to 70 people who included lawyers, law students, law clerks and professors, rippled across the benches. There were gasps, giggles and sighs. Spectators grimaced, darted their eyes around, chewed on pens.

“I continued to be duped by ChatGPT. It’s embarrassing,” Mr. Schwartz said.

An onlooker let out a soft, descending whistle.

...

“Paradoxically, this event has an unintended silver lining in the form of deterrence,” he said.

There was no silver lining in courtroom 11-D on Thursday. At one point, Judge Castel questioned Mr. Schwartz about one of the fake opinions, reading a few lines aloud.

“Can we agree that’s legal gibberish?” Judge Castel said.

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Judge Castel questioned Mr. LoDuca on Thursday about a document filed under his name asking that the lawsuit not be dismissed.

“Did you read any of the cases cited?” Judge Castel asked.

“No,” Mr. LoDuca replied.

“Did you do anything to ensure that those cases existed?”

No again.

quote:

“This case has reverberated throughout the entire legal profession,” said David Lat, a legal commentator. “It is a little bit like looking at a car wreck.”

PostNouveau posted:

And those background characters don't get paid for their likeness appearing all over the place, but they make money doing NPC catchphrases on TikTok

71523 posted:

so every single one of the porn sharing sites on the internet removed all studio porn over the course of the last 3 years?

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The Oldest Man posted:

loving this since gunshot detectors are about as real as bite-mark analysis

Trabisnikof posted:

just wait til someone forks it

quote:

A buzzy startup offering financial infrastructure to crypto companies has found itself bankrupt primarily because it can’t gain access to a physical crypto wallet with $38.9 million in it. The company also did not write down recovery phrases, locking itself out of the wallet forever in something it has called “The Wallet Event” to a bankruptcy judge.

Prime Trust pitches itself as a crypto fintech company designed to help other startups offer crypto retirement plans, know-your-customer interfaces, ensure liquidity, and a host of other services. It says it can help companies build crypto exchanges, payment platforms, and create stablecoins for its clients. The company has not had a good few months. In June, the state of Nevada filed to seize control of the company because it was near insolvency. It was then ordered to cease all operations by a federal judge because it allegedly used customers’ money to cover withdrawal requests from other companies.
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Rather than write down the seed phrases, Prime Trust opted to laser etch them into a piece of steel called “Cryptosteel Hardware,” which are called “Wallet Access Devices” in the court filings, and which look like this:

Kitfox88 posted:

If you read any of the books or reports about American nuclear arsenals and their history and upkeep you'll either laugh or cry at how we haven't blown up yet so yeah almost deffo

Milo and POTUS posted:

?

I prefer scrubbing bubbles

Amphigory posted:

Some prime av material in those Facebook ai stickers

ikanreed posted:

Having worked very specifically on the problem of storing genomic data, I can tell you they don't usually use a database.

That said, there are known attacks on some of the aligner programs used if you could generate specific sequences about 1000 base pairs long.

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The Lone Badger posted:

You shouldn’t be putting sopping wet clothes in the drier.

Kit Walker posted:

That's a good point. Hey OP you're cleaning the lint trap, right?