ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

because apparently the constitution is detailed enough to specify things like that.

It's impossible for laws to include every single possible detail. Lawyers and judges exist to apply generic laws to specific cases. In this case, a lawyer argued that removing bike lanes creates a saftey issue and since the constitution says the government must protect "life and security of the person", removing bike lanes goes against the constitution. The judge agreed with the argument.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

the rules are clearly presented

I use Voyager. Community rules are hidden unless you specifically go to that community page, open the menu, and select "sidebar". It's incredibly easy to miss.

If a community only wants some people posting then a quick fix is ro not allow just anyone to post to it.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you could face roughly $100 in fines

hands court clerk $10 bill with an extra 0 drawn on it

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It was sarcasm. I really dislike that the only thing young men will protest about is saving video games.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What do those have to do with my video games?? I just wanna ~~grill~~ game!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

It's a Markdown thing. End the line with two spaces.

First line (two spaces) ->
Second line

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The allegation is that the Minister of Police has ties to organized crime groups since the BBC is now writing clickbait headlines.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Don't misunderestimate Dubya. Irregardless of his policies, he coined words and phrases like Shakespeare. How many of use of dreamed of human beings and fish coexisting peacefully? How many of us strive to put food on our families and buy most of our imports from overseas? Don't we all want to know "is our children learning?" And who can forget that famous Texas proverb "fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

My understanding of quantum computers is that they're great a brute forcing stuff, but machine learning is just a lot of calculations, not brute forcing.

If you want to know the square root of 25, you don't need to brute force it. There's a direct way to calculate the answer and traditional computers can do it just fine. It's still going to take a long time if you need to calculate the square root of a billion numbers.

That's basically machine learning. The individual calculations aren't difficult, there's just a lot to calculate. However, if you have 2 computers doing the calculations, it'll take half the time. It'll take even less time if you fill a data center with a cluster of 100,000 GPUs.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Canada: from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning "village". The word was told to French explorer Jacques Cartier, who believed it referred to a much larger area than it actually did.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's mostly the training/machine learning that is power hungry.

AI is essentially a giant equation that is generated via machine learning. You give it a prompt with an expected answer, it gets run through the equation, and you get an output. That output gets an error score based on how far it is from the expected answer. The variables of the equation are then modified so that the prompt will lead to a better output (one with a lower error).

The issue is that current AI models have billions of variables and will be trained on billions of prompts. Each variable will be tuned based on each prompt. That's billions to the power of billions of calculations. It takes a while. AI researchers are of course looking for ways to speed up this process, but so far it's mostly come down to dividing up these billions of calculations over millions of computers. Powering millions of computers is where the energy costs come from.

Unless AI models can be trained in a way that doesn't require running a billion squared calculations, they're only going to get more power hungry.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I know for sure Korean does this, though technically their writing system is a syllabary. Symbols representing vowel and consonants are arranged into blocks that represent a syllable.

For example ㅈㅅ is short for 죄송합니다 meaning "I'm sorry". Talk about efficient shorthand! The first consonants of each syllable block are used to makeup the shorthand, the ending 합니다 is a polite conjugation which is ignored in shorthand. You can look up "korean texting slang" for more. It's apparently used a lot. The shorthand some might already be familiar with is ㅋㅋ which is "lol".

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