Do it anyway!

Beautiful! Bookmarked.

Ukraine does a lot of cheap drones that are highly efficient for their price. Russians do some too but their flagship is based on the Iranian Shaheed which the Ukrainians figured out how to shut them down efficiently. The most devastating and feared russian weapons are the glinding bombs (which are packed with a lot of explosive) but luckily for Ukrainians these gliding bombs lack precision.

You're mixing together different drone types (payload, range, operational role, etc.).

>luckily for Ukrainians these gliding bombs lack precision.

Not really. They don't have 3m CEP, that is true. Yet, a 2000lb bomb doesn't need it. They do hit the targeted buildings, which is enough. The main limitation here is that those bombs require military jet planes to launch. Russia is severely limited here.

The lack of precision does matter when we are talking about trenches/bunkers and bombs often missing by many dozens and even hundreds of meters.

Unfortunately they don't miss by hundreds of meters. And Russia frequently uses 3000lb and 6000lb bombs. So missing a bunker a bit doesn't matter - it will still collapse. Here for example it is clearly visible that the bomb misses the building by about 20m https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/25282

https://t.me/milinfolive/100367 https://t.me/arrowsmap/9958

Plus all those bombs that fell in Russia, dozens of kilometers away from the target.

The precision does get better, but still look at the second pic:

https://t.me/milinfolive/150513?single

Of course, there are a number of cases where those bombs go awry. At least a couple fell even right into the Brjansk city. Those cases though doesn't affect much overall operations. Your first link is more typical - about 15-20m off the target.

This is why Russia uses at least 500kg or larger bombs, even 3000kg ones. With that precision they can't use 100kg and 250kg bombs. Which naturally affects how many bombs say a Su-34 can launch - it would have been 8 x 250 and instead it is 4 x 500 or even 1 x 3000. Compare that to say US using 45 kg warhead in a very precise Hellfire missile - the precision hit with that 45 kg warhead in many cases would achieve the same objective as 500kg at 20m.

Don't worry, AI maximalists have a solution: create tests for the tests.

That's what mutation testing is.

Yeah, what you're saying is true but only to the extent of simulacra AI can produce. But it's not really art if you know what I mean, it's an artefact of training on other people's art.

So what I do with AI art is start with a photo I took. I then extract its Lin Canny lines or other descriptive features algorithmically. From there, I apply various models to re-express the image in an interesting way. IMO it looks more like Digital Art out of photoshop and I would refute any claim that this isn't remotely artistic given I was the one that took the photo that is the base image. And it doesn't end up looking like obvious AI art, but rather more Andy Warholish than anything else IMO.

And sure, the model was trained on other people's art but so are we.

It may not be your cup of tea, but it's a lot more effort than typing in a prompt and calling it a day. But, ya know, Rembrandt and Hans Zimmer were the OG prompt engineers in their respective media IMO.

> It may not be your cup of tea, but it's a lot more effort than typing in a prompt and calling it a day.

Yeah, you have to type in 3 prompts instead of just 1.

I'm going to love watching this melodrama play out over the next few years.

What else can we expect from a browser made by an advertising company?

Google likely saw this path way back in 2008 when it started Chromium. Unfortunately, as an ad company, they also have more resources to create a good browser, and to also entrench themselves.

Much, much, earlier if you squint a little. 1998.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"

-> "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives"

-> "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

Not browser specific, but they understood the problem well.

Thank you for sharing this. I imagine at first it wasn't clear that the browser will become our primary interface with the web. Microsoft hoped it would be the OS itself with Windows 98, if I'm not mistaken.

Weird how no anti-monopoly regulator in the world went after Google for monopolizing the browse market and forcing their own standards in order to fine them and force them to backtrack on these moves.

They threw the book at Microsoft for the Windows and Office monopoly of the 90s and 2000s, but in comparison did absolutely nothing to Google over their search and browser monopoly of the 2010s -today, especially given how influential and important the web is today compared to desktop operating systems which just became launchers for the web browser.

Wait, they’re filtering out autistic traits or looking for them in candidates?

Filtering out is my guess.

About 20 years ago, I remember getting my hands on an answer key for the personality screener used to work at Target. This was just for a $7/hr cashier position, but it had a very low pass rate. To them, the ideal candidate for them was: always positive and optimistic, preferred being around people than being alone, never complained, frequently sought approval from peers and authorities, always followed every rule no matter what.

So it wasn't explicitly designed against people with disabilities, the rule-following aspect may be more present in autistic people - but for a lot of these, I can't see many people passing if they answered honestly.

> I can't see many people passing if they answered honestly.

You're not supposed to answer honestly, you're supposed to answer in such a way as to convince them to hire you.

"I know the rules of the game and what it will take to continue to be employed in this position."

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One employer I had gave a test that included such questions as "It is ok to get into fights behind the store if you are not on the clock" and "It is ok to take inventory as long as it costs less than $5."

There are people who failed that test.

Exactly, you are supposed to have the know-how of how to answer this and, that too, screens away pesky neurodivergents.

You don't see how a customer facing position in a retail chain would reasonably want all these personality traits in their hires as a matter of operating a good business?

Wanting those traits and asking about those traits in a self-reporting questionnaire are two different things.

If it’s a questionnaire you are functionally just screening for liars or people who don’t know how to use the full spectrum of a distribution and put in 5/5 or 0/5 for everything.

So sad that he was taken down by an agressive brain tumor himself.

What do you mean by color coordinated the closet?

Not op, but meth is like, amphetamines the thing that drives people to do boring pointless work, like organizing clothes by color.

Thanks for the info, I had no idea about this meth behavior.

It’s a cluster of behaviors, like excessively brushing their teeth. "just meth things" is a meme referring to these behaviors.

>excessively brushing their teeth Is that in spite of why their teeth decay so badly?

The brushing doesn’t help. The teeth decay is from lack of saliva.

I think it’s more because it’s a simple task that feels productive. It satiates the desire to be doing something without introducing the added frustration of failing at a more complex task.

In the way that meth is kind of like Adderall for addicts.

I lived in an apartment for a while and the upstairs neighbor decided to get addicted to meth and vacuum their floor every 30 minutes for a few days, both day and night.