Both trump and doge is just the open-the-gates meme

– Tarrifs for everyone/no government empoyees – but sir, people enjoy computers/functional government – stop most tarrifs/bring back the personel!

You are not uploading, others are downloading. The direction of traffic is the same, but the incentive is different.

Before torrents, there were services where you just announced “there are all my files just download what you want” and some places had quotas on how much you should make available for download. People were sharing all kinds of random trash and also downloading that trash.

A joke was – was it on like bash.org? – that you have some file you want to backup, you have to make people want to download it, so you just call it leaked_celebz_nudez.zip or something and it would be downloaded forever, even if it did not work because so much trash was shared and if could help your quota.

So you’d have to use the strategy in that joke. Make a torrent of your stuff, just encrypted so it is trash for anyone who wants to download it, but you’d have to make the torrent content so imcredibly desireble that even if the comments and ratinfs of the torrents goes to shit, people will still be downloading it in the hope it works. What would be that desireable though, I do not know.

“Hi there, sir, I’m on the tour… Where are the toilets… uuuh reads name tag uuuh Mr Trump…?”

Hopefully France cannot. The legal system should be independent to not be even able to cave to political pressure like this.

The method is… too simple? So anyone can blur anyones anything?

Note also, that is 6% of “sure, want to join the US, but I do not want to fucking meet them”

Dayawannabvayacaravan?

I do worry though for a sort of dig in in their policies. Similar to Putin before the invasion. A lot of the far right said that “yes, a strong autocrat, masculin, anti-woke, homophobic person like Putin would be the saviour of Europe”. Now some of them, like almost split in the middle, stopped saying “those things are good, look at Putin”, but lost no support after the invasion. With Trump its going to be a similar thing, is my worry. “Yeah, but Trump is a bafoon, but massdeportation, autocracy, and capital’s control over the government are still important, we will just to ot the proper way” is what it will move to. And of course a lot of europeans, even on the far right, will breath a deep sigh of relief that they can call Trump a bafoon. I think, or worry more like it, it will marginally affect the support for the fra-right, if at all, the liberals that has not already joined the far-right or the socdems will try to shoehorn in a comparison to Trump at every argument, and they will get nowhere.

Exactly, and the guidance should reflect that fact is what I meant. Just saying “just have your papers in order” in clearly insufficient.

You should comply with all entry, visa and other conditions of entry. The authorities in the U.S. set and enforce entry rules strictly. You may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules

This seems… very insufficent as a warning. Or have they formalized conditions at “not be critical of cry-baby in cheif” and similar things which has landed people in detention?

Is there a way to get a list of all parties and their representatives who participated in this event?

Ok, so politicians that sow polarization by complaining about DEI is bad?

The only people you mention “abusing” what you call the “well-meaning intentions” of “DEI” are:

a growing population of poor whites

As they are, as implied by your formulation, misinterpreting the policies as favoritism. It this what you meant with abuse?

Our puppy only gets to greet visitors with something in her mouth. It was actually something she started doing and we just continued with it. People not too comfortable with dogs feel a bit safer that way. So cute when she realises “oh, new person! Get a toy! Quick!”

That is a bit of cheating, speaking as a phycisist. We say “if we add enough energy to system X thing Y will happen” about almost everything. :-)

I don’t know… This is the path Sweden has been seeing for some time, so not too surprised. To draw as close parallels to Musk’s Nazi salute as possible: Last general election in Sweden, the far right still gained ground. On the election night, one of their front line public personas raised her arm and started to say the swedish version of ‘sieg heil’ but changed one of the words last moment and closed her fist. Everyone on the right, liberals, conservatives, still wants to collaborate with them. The next election, for EU, the same party is playing the ‘auslander raus’ song and a partymember happens to sing the words onto a journalist microphone. Still full collaboration by the right for this party.

For any time t with worseness w(t) there exists some time t_0 < t where worseness was less, w(t_0) < w(t). Proof: duh.

This happened in Sweden as well, and has worked quite well for SD, sadly. The dropped youth group had some more openly radicals in it, hence dropped by SD. They started a new party (AfS, Alternativ för Sverige) with a little more radical policies. SD then could use AfS to gauge the acceptance of more radical policies without having to lose face. “Can we start saying replacement theory stuff yet? How did that work for AfS?”, “Can we go for mass deportations now? AfS has laid the ground work there already”.

I’ve been thinking of a dreaming-like algorithm for neural networks (NN) which I have wanted to try.

When training an NN, you have a large set of inputs and corresponding desired outputs. You make random subsets of this and for each subset you adjust the NN to correspond more to the outputs. You do this over and over and eventually your NN is close to the outputs (hopefully). This training takes a long time and will only be done this initial time. (This is very a simplified picture of the training)

Now for the dreaming. When the NN is “awake” it accumulates new input/output entries. We want to adjust the NN to also incorporate these entries. But if we use only these for training we will lose some of the information the NN has learned in the initial training. We might want to train on the original data + the new data, but that is a lot, so no. Lets assume we do no longer even have the original data. We want to train on what we know and what we have accumulated during the waking time. Here comes the dreaming:

1. Get an “orthogonal” set of input/outputs of what the NN already knows (e.g. if the network outputs vectors, take some random input, save vector. Use a global optimization algorithm to find the next vector such that is orthogonal to the first. Do this until you have a spanning set).
2. Repeat point 1 until you have maybe one set per newly accumulated input/output entry, or however much appears to not move you too far from the optimization extrema your NN is in – this set should still be a lot smaller than the original training set.
3. Fine-tune train your NN on the accumulated data and this data we have generated. The generated data should act as an anchor, not allowing the NN deviate too much from the optimization extrema and the new data will also be invorporated.

I see this as a form of dreaming as we have a wake and sleep portion. During waking we accumulate new experiences. During sleeping we incorporate these experiences into what we already know by “dreaming”, that is make small training sessions on our NN.

If you do, their e-mails asking you to donate again are a bit weird and manipulative. Their subject lines are like “FIRSTNAME - I’ve had enough”, “Our final email” (got several of those), “It’s non-negotiable”.