InevitableSwing [none/use name]

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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPtochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Kamala Harris and the influence of an estranged father just two miles away. He rarely speaks to his famous daughter. But he helped shape who she became. Ganja feud in comments. English
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    Ganja feud

    After she declared her candidacy for president in 2019, Dr. Harris proceeded to offer economic policy advice to the campaign. But he became angry a month later when the candidate told a radio show host that she supported legalizing marijuana and then added, “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”

    Dr. Harris issued a statement, denouncing as a “travesty” his daughter’s promotion of “the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker.” The father “took umbrage,” said Mr. Hutchinson, Dr. Harris’s friend, “because his family was blasting him for his offspring having embarrassed them in this way.”

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    He enjoys tooling around in his silver Corvette.

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    Both in essays and in the classroom, Dr. Harris argued that market economies should be inclusive rather than monopolistic. Some of his scholarly papers analyzed Marxist economic thinking, but by the early 1990s, “he had become more realistic, because he’d learned along the way,” said Anne Krueger, a conservative economist and fellow Stanford professor at the time. “He certainly had more faith in government than some of us did. But among the people I knew as Marxian economists, he was not there.”

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    In the mid-90s, Dr. Harris took an early retirement from Stanford to return to Jamaica and coordinate what would become known as the country’s national industrial policy. That effort, which sought to transform a national economy fueled by debt into one sustained by an export-based model through public and private partnerships, took more than a decade for the financially hobbled government to put in place.

    Once the policy did take hold, roughly a decade ago, the economy’s ratio of debt to gross domestic product was halved. The unemployment rate fell from 15 percent in 2013 to 5.4 percent today. “The national industrial policy was anathema to Marxists,” said P.J. Patterson, Jamaica’s prime minister at the time. “What Don was propounding was the notion of a market-based economy where the private sector, not the government, was the engine of growth. There was nothing in there about state control of industry.”

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 30th to October 6th, 2024 - Qassam, Qassem, QuagmireEnglish
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    Israel is already using the Gaza playbook in Lebanon. They’re destroying the healthcare system and killing paramedics.

    Israeli strikes force closure of Lebanon’s Marjayoun hospital after attack kills four paramedics - report

    The entire staff of Marjayoun public hospital in south Lebanon were evacuated on Friday morning after an Israeli drone strike killed four paramedics, putting the hospital out of service, Lebanon’s national news agency reported. The hospital was one of the major medical providers in south Lebanon, particularly as Israel’s intensified aerial campaign which started on 23 September displaced many medical staff from the region.

    “They hit right next to us, so we had to flee. The area is very dangerous and there is no one on the roads and I am driving alone,” Shoshana Mazraani, the head of the emergency services at Marjayoun public hospital, said while fleeing. Israel also carried out a strike on the Islamic health organisation’s center in Khirbet Selem, causing injuries on Friday afternoon, according to Lebanon’s national news agency.

    An additional member of the ambulance service was killed and one injured while carrying out rescue services in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which was intensely bombed the night prior, according to Hezbollah-affiliated media. Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati had a series of diplomatic meetings on Friday in order to pressure Israel to safely allow rescue and relief teams to transfer victims of airstrikes.

    At least 102 Lebanese paramedics have been killed since the beginning of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah a year prior.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.net•Mozilla will become an ad companyEnglish
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    I tried to read the blog post but doublespeak and marketing crap gives me an insta-migraine so I checked Reddit.

    Mozilla now doubling down on ads in Firefox

    Did whoever wrote that pile of marketing gibberish actually say a goddamned thing?

    Oh, they said something. They said they believe it’s right and proper for advertisers to intrude into our lives and steal our time and attention, and they’re going to help them do that while claiming to be the “good guys” by inventing some nonsense that “protects privacy” a little more. Never mind that everyone’s main objection to ads isn’t that they compromise our privacy; we object to ads because they intrude on our experience, waste our time and disrupt our ability to focus on the content we seek.

    The obvious corollary to this is that ad blockers will eventually be crippled, just like on Chrome, no doubt with the same “security” excuse.

    From another thread

    “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers” - founders of Google in 1998.

    But the siren song of money always wins.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.net•‘In awe’: scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1English
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    There is definitely a lot of hype.

    I’m not being sarcastic when I say I have yet to see a single real world example where the AI does extraordinarily well and lives up to the hype. It’s always the same.

    It’s brilliant!*

    *When it’s spoonfed in a non real world situation. Your results may vary. Void were prohibited.

    OpenAI also tested o1 on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad. Its previous best model, GPT-4o, correctly solved only 13% of the problems, whereas o1 scored 83%.

    Ah, I read an article on the Mathematics Olympiad. The NYT agrees!..

    Move Over, Mathematicians, Here Comes AlphaProof

    A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.

    The problem - as always - is the US media is shit. Comments on that article by randos are better and far more informative than that PR-hype article pretending to be journalism.

    Major problem with this article: competition math problems use a standardized collection of solution techniques, it is known in advance that a solution exists, and that the solution can be obtained by a prepared competitor within a few hours.

    “Applying known solutions to problems of bounded complexity” is exactly what machines always do and doesn’t compete with the frontier in any discipline.

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    Note in the caption of the figure that the problem had to be translated into a formalized statement in AlphaGeometry’s own language (presumably by people). This is often the hardest part of solving one of these problems.

    AI tech bros keep promising the moon and the stars. But then their AI doesn’t deliver so tech bros lie even more about everything to get more funding. But things don’t pan out again. And the churn continues. Tech bros promise the moon and the stars…