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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK electronic music library is making the synthesiser accessible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this year’s Eurovision entry will spark even more interest in synths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA's TESS data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems the term AI is now synonymous with hallucinating Large Language Models in the general publics head. There is a whole field of machine learning where you can get statistically useful results with various techniques. Alpha Fold is a good example where real progress has been made on finding protein folding solutions that older brute force algorithms are just too inefficient to explore the state space.

  This paper is taking about a new ML model for classifying planetary systems that out performs previous data processing pipelines. It’s called statistical validation because it is inherently a numbers game. The paper goes into lots of details about how they calculate false positive rates and compare it to previous approaches. The point is not to definitely identify individual systems but to classify the distribution of system types in the large amounts of data the modern surveys are generating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it’s influence out?

  There’s a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who’s recollecting the countries he’s visited while at war. It’s a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you’d never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?

  We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect because it wasn’t a user - just a random passer by throwing stones on their own personal crusade. The project only has two major contributors who are now being harassed in the issues for the choices they make about how to run their project.

  Someone might fork it and continue with pure artisanal human crafted code but such forks tend to die off in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You need adversarialy trained mud splats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK watchdog hits Imgur owner with fine as promised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imgur has been offline in the UK since the original investigation. Do they even want to be in the UK market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess to would have to look at the suicide rates in other populations coming out of COVID.

  COVID and the associated turmoil certainly did have an effect on the mental health of the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a fair number of third party boards based on the RP2040/RP2050 silicon. Even esphome can target it even though it originally targeted the esp32.

  The silicon itself is pretty nice although the original had done problems with deep sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they as well supported? There are lots of SBCs out there but if they are only supported by vendor kernels and have no documentation then i’d rather pay the Pi premium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are pretty good at summarisation. If I want to catch up with a long review thread on a patch series I’ve just started looking at I occasionally ask Gemini to outline the development so far and the remaining issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the stated reason was to avoid the possibility of the court ruling against the UK owning the islands leading to the base needing to be shut down. The agreement with Mauritius includes a 99 year lease to secure the base at Diego Garcia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of the major parties advocate it. Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t a fan but I suspect he’s less relevant now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’ve read the article it’s unnamed industry analysts and it’s written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any documentaries on what government mental hospitals are like when a defendant is found Not Criminally Responsible/Insane/Not guilty on account of medical status?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been a number of documentaries about HMP Broodmoore which is where our criminally insane prisoners tend to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do British Christmas traditions really come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are essentially a mongrel nation that’s been built with waves of migration to our shores. Our language is a testament to our diversity with it’s many loan words and other idiosyncratic traits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do British Christmas traditions really come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing I got from that is drug pricing is complicated. At least the extra expenditure comes from widening the pool of available drugs rather than just the prices of existing treatments being put up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern machines have TPM so we can do attested boot and validate a system hasn’t been tampered with. They don’t need third party kernel modules to test that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The important reason why we stopped running our food bank⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting model they have moved to (heavily discounted food Vs donations). There is probably more work to do on wages and energy costs as time to cook is the greatest reason people don’t make healthy food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hong Kong legislature now an 'echo chamber', four years after shake-up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the transition from colonial rule happened there was a (naive?) belief that China needed Hong Kong’s dynamism in a rapidly globalising world. Time has proved that not to be the case and I guess Hong Kong just withers and is subsumed into the mainland while a brain drain of those that can leave continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you ever play with the audio visualiser? I believe it was built in with the CD-ROM drive? What about Tempest 2000?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got a Jaguar despite being a signed up Atari fan boy at the time. The hardware was ridiculously complex which made ports to it a hard sell and Atari just didn’t have the first party exclusive clout needed to sustain a console at launch.

  I do wish I’d had a chance to play with some of Jeff Minter’s creations on it though. Apparently there was a nice audio visualiser that built on the trip-a-tron from the ST days as well as some reboots of classic arcade games like Tempest 2000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume the defendant had mentioned as way of mitigation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We can remember it for you wholesale?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cost, the reason is cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s ex-PM Sunak to take up roles at Microsoft, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people said he would, I didn’t realise he had. When did he move? He’s still an MP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical artificial intelligence ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are certainly open source models trained on public data sets that you can run locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have paid for Newsblur ever since they cancelled Google Reader. I also use elfeed on various emacs instances for project and update feeds of various types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all relative I guess. I can see why the original GPT’s used the Reddit corpus for training. However I’ve always been a little sceptical about the quality of the training set in any social media given how much it exaggerates the extremes of people’s behaviour.