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While I may not have worded it appropriately, my point is that predictions can and usually are self-fulfilling. There were already several articles at the time "predicting" how technology could be used for data collection and media influence. This is nothing new and has always been the case through out history. The current technology is just another tool in the pursuit of power and control.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan Hutchings wrote: This is nothing new and has always been the case through out history.
True. Elizabeth I had a remarkably effective intelligence-gathering organization, headed by Sir Francis Walsingham. I doubt that things have become more open since then.
The difference today is that even private organizations such as Google, Facebook, etc. have the wherewithal to collect and analyse such data. Moreover, most of us hand their data over willingly!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: True. Elizabeth I had a remarkably effective intelligence-gathering organization, headed by Sir Francis Walsingham.
I saw a documentary on that. Really interesting.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Moreover, most of us hand their data over willingly!
Yes, they get us through pride and all of it's forms (vanity, greed, etc.).
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Pseudo-savant: an individual who poses as having knowledge, substituting buzzwords, and absurd generalities, for informed thought.
I thought that the common name for such a person was "intellectual".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Right now, there is a good chance your phone is tracking your location—even with GPS services turned off. And I predict it will be implemented by the carriers approximately never
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The technology looks good, but I agree. It will never be implemented. Data has become the new gold standard in revenue.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Is it cancelled yet?
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Windows 11 is a major cosmetic update, but often improved looks mean poorer performance on Windows. Other stuff does
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Of course it won't affect the performance of my machine. The TPM requirement means those rounded corners and transparencies will never touch it.
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Facebook is releasing open-source software and a time card that enables you to turn any commodity server into a reliable NTP time appliance. "Twenty five or 6 to 4"
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ZDNet wrote: Facebook is releasing open-source software and a time card that enables you to turn any commodity server into a reliable NTP time appliance and a trojan horse to spy in your network satellite station for their telemetric statistics
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Here at the global Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice (CRSP), we work with customers who have experienced disruptive security incidents to restore trust in identity systems and remove adversary control. "No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."
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Attributed to Charles C. Pinckney when Ambassador to the French Republic (1796): Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today Windows 10 is just Windows 1.0+++++++++++
Posted entirely for the benefit of the folk that feel I'm too harsh on The Fish Shoppe
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Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of System.String. String creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. I'm glad someone's working to get the plumbing working faster and cleaner, because otherwise that...stuff...can pile up pretty fast
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Depending on your goals, the software engineer vs. developer distinction can make a difference. The other one
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I prefer "software god"
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The material is flexible like a piece of cloth yet can provide protection to the wearer when needed. "Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; Then reason will our hearts should be as good"
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Does "on demand" include being struck by a great axe?
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I know I'd demand that
TTFN - Kent
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Condom manufacturers take note !
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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According to the CMA, the merger could negatively impact competition between social media platforms and also deprive the internet of another advertising player as Giphy was engaged in the ads space until Facebook stopped these operations. He who controls the GIFs, controls the universe
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The Divergent Association Task is a quick measure of verbal creativity and divergent thinking, the ability to generate diverse solutions to open-ended problems. Ten of these things are not like the other...
Not my usual type of thing, but I thought it might lead to an amusing "my % is higher than thine" discussion, or a distraction from the CCC (which I've yet to understand the mechanism of)
[edit]"Your score is 82.47, higher than 74.84% of the people who have completed this task." I probably could have done better if I didn't have the 3 words that I realized were easily associated. [/edit]
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It was amusing trying to get a high score. There were sometimes associations I didn't think of until the results were shown.
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Interesting,
I did some digging around and that project is not using Word2vec[^] but rather the Stanford GloVe[^] representation along with the glove.840B.300d (400,000 word vectors) dataset.
Some of my thoughts:
1.) There are much better pretrained word embeddings available, the one he is using is a small wikipedia crawl.
2.) All the test is doing is taking 2 word vectors and using cosine similarity[^] to measure their distance. Looks like he is simply using scipy.spatial.distance.cosine[^] for the geometric interpretation.
3.) As I suspected... the author frames this as identifying creative divergent thinking[^] people. The author fails to mention what the inverse space represents. Reading the paper[^] reveals that "scores may thus partly reflect other constructs more related to divergence than creativity, such as overinclusive thinking[^] or schizotypy[^]"
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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