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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on AI cracks Roman-era board game 23 hours ago:
A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.
Now with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists believe they have cracked the mystery: the stone is an ancient board game and they have even guessed the rules.
The circular piece of limestone has diagonal and straight lines cut into it.
Using 3D imaging, scientists discovered some lines were deeper than others, suggesting pieces were moved along them, some more than others.
“We can see wear along the lines on the stone, exactly where you would slide a piece,” said Walter Crist, an archaeologist at Leiden University who specializes in ancient games.
Other researchers at Maastricht University then used an artificial intelligence program that can deduce the rules to ancient games.
They trained this AI, baptized Ludii, with the rules of about 100 ancient games from the same area as the Roman stone.
The computer “produced dozens of possible rule sets. It then played the game against itself and identified a few variants that are enjoyable for humans to play,” said Dennis Soemers, from Maastricht University.
They then cross-checked the possible rules with the wear on the stone to uncover the most likely set of movements in the game.
However, Soemers also sounded a note of caution.
“If you present Ludii with a line pattern like the one on the stone, it will always find game rules. Therefore, we cannot be sure that the Romans played it in precisely that way,” he said.
The aim of the “deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game” was to hunt and trap the opponent’s pieces in as few moves as possible.
The research and the possible rules were published in the journal Antiquity.
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 1 day ago:
My wife is a social worker. She deals with a lot of parents who absolutely should never have been, but now have a kid and need constant help to avoid abusing them – intentionally or otherwise – physically, emotionally, sexually.
I honestly believe The Thunderhead will be better than at least half of parents. Humanity will improve as a result. Almost no kid will be ever be told again pontblank they are a piece of shit that their parents never wanted.
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 4 days ago:
that cup of garlic grease and pepperoncini
Came here looking to the first references to these two items
For love and for hate, for addiction and for shame
- Comment on meow meow meow 5 days ago:
Ty, brainfart
- Comment on meow meow meow 5 days ago:
“Force is equal to coefficient of friction times speed of light multiplied by Planck’s constant”
F = μ c k
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- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 2 weeks ago:
Spiral, meet drain
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 3 weeks ago:
I doubt any of these people are accessing X over Tor. Their accounts and IPs are known.
In a sane world, they’d be prosecuted. In MAGAMERICA, they are protected by the Spirit of Epstein
- Comment on How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home? 3 weeks ago:
I too run a PiHole in an RPi, physically plugged in to my OpenWRT router
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 3 weeks ago:
Zalgo
- Comment on Praise Be 3 weeks ago:
But it’s okay because it was actually incest
- Comment on Praise Be 3 weeks ago:
Numbers is good but for the very best ultra-violence I suggest Deuteronomy
Deut. 21:18-21
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death.
- Comment on Praise Be 3 weeks ago:
Oblig. 45-second masterpiece
- Comment on The issue with mainstream media and fragmented news communities isnt just limited to the disparity of facts. We also suffer from not "riding the same roller coaster." 3 weeks ago:
I blame religion. Specifically, faith
The definition of faith is “belief without evidence”
People who elevate this as a virtue, will be unable to have a shared reality. It will always be centered on whatever narrative is popular with your in-group.
Faith is not a virtue. It is the destroyer of civilization.
- Comment on The issue with mainstream media and fragmented news communities isnt just limited to the disparity of facts. We also suffer from not "riding the same roller coaster." 3 weeks ago:
Just the opposite in practice, ofc, thanks to AIs and algos that slice and dice demographics and do A/B testing on meme penetration
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 3 weeks ago:
All their wants do eventually stop, of course …
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 3 weeks ago:
Buddhist minds are so quiet The chat cannot enter them
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 3 weeks ago:
I stopped using Windows because I needed an OS that I could just use and not have to futz with.
Fedora has done that perfectly for over a decade now.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: this guy uses fish shell.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 4 weeks ago:
all it takes is one subpoena
If the server is hosted on an .onion it can be hard to know where that subpoena should go
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 weeks ago:
Tor
No, it is very different from suggesting TBB or even just TB.
A few websites may have some rough edges. Some of that will come from uBlock Origin. Some will come from LW defaults like letterboxing/anti-fingerprinting.
And some websites will have issues with vanilla FF, because it’s not Chrome.
Yes, for some sites you may need to turn off a privacy setting. I have run across 2-3 such, usually an over-engineered Django or custom-coded WordPress site. 98%+ of the time, I don’t notice.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just leave this here
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
Cretins
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
… and on many of them I complain again that they made a whole new project instead of just using and contributing to Jitsi , which the FSF created expressly to counter Zoom/Teams :/
- Comment on Real and True 5 weeks ago:
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 month ago:
My name registration with porkbun is cheap enough that I don’t remember exactly. Had no issues with them.
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 1 month ago:
thermodynamics as an elective
This is the engineering equivalent of people who recreationally run marathons
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 1 month ago:
When I was taking the class in college a friend called it “Thermogoddamnics” and that has always stuck with me
- Comment on One day, Red Bull will be sued by someone who got high and thought Red Bull would literally give them wings 1 month ago:
Internet Falsehood; I’m unsurprised at the lack of source.
I’ll counter your baseless claim with a contradicting one that’s at least easier to verify.
- The Lawsuit (True): In 2014, Red Bull settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. for ~$13 million. The lawsuit claimed the company’s marketing was deceptive because the drink doesn’t actually provide the physical or mental “boost” promised by the “Gives You Wings” slogan beyond what a cup of coffee would provide.
- The Slogan Change (False): Red Bull did not change the spelling because of the lawsuit. In fact, Red Bull had been using the stylized “wiiings” in various marketing campaigns and its logo long before the 2014 settlement.
