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Wonder if redditors are like “all I hear about the Russia Ukraine war is all of these grand Ukrainian victories, yet it never seems to end”

I think there were similar signals around 3 years ago and 2 years ago when “a recession will happen in the next 6 months” was the mantra. Honestly don’t think it’s some secret knowledge about a coming collapse, they probably have some evidence of a recession and are acting accordingly. But also it’s unclear how reliable recession signals are because one has been imminent for multiple years now.

Edit: my personal conspiracy is rich guys figured out that they can get articles published about a coming recession by doing this and consequently discipline labour because people are worried about layoffs.

A friend of mine had a reviewer suggest 5 references to include. All 5 had one author in common. 🤔

Can’t wait for Slavic ISIS

Think the person who posted that is Daniel Litt, math prof at UofT. Good follow on twitter, lots of little math related humour, and he posts some fun probability problems sometimes.

I don’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I think Haaretz were given very specific instructions last fall and told they’d be shut down if they don’t fall in line.

Well in a way it does…

It sounds like the “AI” is used to index a bunch of screenshots so you can ask it what you were doing this morning/yesterday or something? Potential major privacy issue aside, it’s another instance of the AI solution providing a really marginal benefit over what already existed. Windows 11 already had a list of every window/document you had open sorted by timestamps iirc. Which, also a potential privacy issue, but still more the point is this is a very marginal upgrade to what was already there. Although even on the privacy side, a memory of X document or folder being open at time Y is less of a potential breach than the contents of the document being visible and searchable.

Microsoft is once again delaying the roll out of its controversial Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs. The software giant had planned to start testing Recall, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, with Windows Insiders in October. Now, Microsoft says it needs more time to get the feature ready.

I assume that’s what it is as well. I’m guessing there’s also a lot of boilerplate stuff and they’re counting line counts inflated by pointless comments, and function comment templates that usually have to get fully rewritten.

Lol I really doubt that.

I’m pretty sure the Bernie campaign is solely responsible for the reevaluation of the second season of The Wire. Like just millenials being vaguely more aware of labor issues during their covid rewatches.

A significant allure for US companies investing in Europe is the potential for acquiring assets at bargain prices. Economic uncertainties, geopolitical fluctuations, and evolving market dynamics have led to decreased valuations of European companies in recent years. This creates a favorable environment for US investors, allowing them to purchase valuable assets at more attractive prices than those typically found in the US market.

Wait, so did US investors actually essentially go “um sweatie your regulations are bad so no one wants to invest”, valuations drop, same US investors immediately buy everything?

The parties will increase until morale improves.

There was a paper about improving llm arithmetic a while back (spoiler: its accuracy outside of the training set is… less than 100%) and I was giggling at the thought of AI getting worse for the unexpected reason that it uses an llm for matrix multiplication.

Like Ukraine’s government is just one of those CHUDs that thinks demons, voodoo, and hexes are real.

Lots of things wrong with this, but among them is the belief that trotskyite newsletters have any real world effects.