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(2017) If Milk Commercials Were Honest - Honest Ads #AnimalRights #milk

I'll be honest, this spring has been shitty.
Thanks fedi for being one of the positive thing in my life.

Steven Pinker has recently appeared on a podcast, which serves as a platform for scientific racism. Not the first time he's shown associations to scientific racism.
To be honest, after I learnt to take the "it's actually all getting better" narratives with a grain of salt, I decided not to buy into the Pinker hype. So, I'm not disappointed.

"We cannot preclude developers from “vibe coding” their way into a working application; but we can teach them how to properly integrate the very likely spaghetti mess produced by those bullshit machines, how to understand it, and how to make it work with today’s compilers, which, let us be honest: are the best we have ever had, and it would be a shame to ignore them completely."

The Allure Of Vibe Coding
"Compiler Explorer" is the name of a fascinating project by Matt Godbolt, a British C++ software developer living in Chicago. It is the simplest and most wonderful thing; just paste a snippet of code on the left pane (in C, C++, D, C#, Java, Python, and a myriad more languages), and you will see on the right its equivalent in assembly code, as produced by one of a long list of compilers, including some commercial ones, for a wide variety of CPU architectures and software versions.

#PennedPossibilities 692 — Share a song that either describes your current feelings about your story or your MC in general.
The first time I heard this song, I immediately thought of my poor MC. The lyrics felt honest, and fit the dark hour of his soul.
“Cause out here in the darkness,
and out of the light,
if you get to me too late,
just know that I tried”

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @… and @…

Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - Ethics and Information Technology
This paper critically evaluates the attempts to align Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), with human values and intentions through Reinforcement Learning from Feedback methods, involving either human feedback (RLHF) or AI feedback (RLAIF). Specifically, we show the shortcomings of the broadly pursued alignment goals of honesty, harmlessness, and helpfulness. Through a multidisciplinary sociotechnical critique, we examine both the theoretical underpinni…

I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

Annnnd you knew Andor was coming...
Screen Junkies in da howwwse!
▶️ Honest Trailers | Andor (Season 2)
#StarWars

“We got to be honest in what happened, because losing elections has consequences,”
said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate,
during a rousing speech Saturday afternoon.
“We’re in this mess because some of it’s our own doing. … None of us can afford to shy away from having hard conversations about what it’s going to take to win elections.”
Walz, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, said Democrats don’t need to retreat from their ideals,
such as pro…

Democrats vow to stick to values while regaining working-class voters
California Democrats say their party must stay committed to their values protecting the most vulnerable, while also honing their economic messaging to win back voters they lost last year.

Over the last few months, I have filtered out most USA news, so I have basically a minimal knowledge of what is happening in that part of the world. To be honest, it's great! The same goes for tech, I work long 12-hour days and weekends as a sysadmin, and the last thing I want to see after those days is tech stuff. So, I read tech news through newsletters sent to an email address I only use for that purpose.
It’s making my life more relaxed not to care about what is happening on ot…

Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
Kareem Shehata, Han Fangqi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24289 https://

Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
Traditionally, threshold secret sharing (TSS) schemes assume all parties have equal weight, yet emerging systems like blockchains reveal disparities in party trustworthiness, such as stake or reputation. Weighted Secret Sharing (WSS) addresses this by assigning varying weights to parties, ensuring security even if adversaries control parties with total weight at most a threshold $t$. Current WSS schemes assume honest dealers, resulting in security from only honest-but-curious behaviour but not …

I'll be honest, I didn't expect Forza Horizion Mariokart.

Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
Yichi Zhang, Shengwei Xu, David Pennock, Grant Schoenebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02259 https://

Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
Eliciting reliable human feedback is essential for many machine learning tasks, such as learning from noisy labels and aligning AI systems with human preferences. Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize truthful reporting without ground truth verification by scoring agents based on correlations with peers. Traditional mechanisms, which ensure that truth-telling maximizes the expected scores in equilibrium, can elicit honest information while assuming agents' utilities are linear functions of the…

Can WR Parris Campbell add value to the Cowboys in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/can-wr-parris-campbell-add-value-to-the-cowboys-in-2025

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
pencil:
🎵 Honest Song
#pencil
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jOHyaoZuxjJuHvkaf3AAK
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05260 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Examining marginal properness in the external validation of survival models with squared and logarithmic losses
Scoring rules promote rational and honest decision-making, which is important for model evaluation and becoming increasingly important for automated procedures such as `AutoML'. In this paper we survey common squared and logarithmic scoring rules for survival analysis, with a focus on their theoretical and empirical properness. We introduce a marginal definition of properness and show that both the Integrated Survival Brier Score (ISBS) and the Right-Censored Log-Likelihood (RCLL) are theoretic…

I am learning so much about myself. I am also hating the process a lot of the time https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-184-what-if-we-actually-felt-the-…

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

Try to be gentlly honest, always

" 'We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,' Vance told reporters" - While lying freely about whether the *current* president is capable of doing the job, of course!
J.D. Vance asking for honesty is like a man with no arms asking for a backrub. It will surely benefit him, but it's guaranteed he'll never respond in kind, whether he wants to or not...

JD Vance Questions Joe Biden's Health as President
Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Initially published in April 2010, Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" is a good reminder that when an ecosystem claims to be "open", you have to be cautious.
Apple's ecosystem is mostly closed, but they are honest about that fact.
While many systems fighting to gain market share claim to be "open", while being little more than APIs subject to use restrictions, which can be closed further at any time.

Balancing incentives in committee-based blockchains
Arian Baloochestani, Leander Jehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24482 https://arxiv.…

Balancing incentives in committee-based blockchains
Blockchain protocols incentivize participation through monetary rewards, assuming rational actors behave honestly to maximize their gains. However, attackers may attempt to harm others even at personal cost. These denial of profit attacks aim to reduce the rewards of honest participants, potentially forcing them out of the system. While existing work has largely focused on the profitability of attacks, they often neglect the potential harm inflicted on the victim, which can be significant even …

.: Resident Evil: Outbreak :.
Completed!!🏆
This game is very weird and unique at the same time. Its gameplay is different to others games from the saga and obviously its goal is playing it on-line cause the NPC controlled by AI system is so awful and frustrating.
But well is a good game despite all.
PD: In my honest opinion the best level is the last one. Is very long than the others, intense and filled of sort of monsters.

I understand the Dems' desire to sling mud at this guy.
He's probably a dirtbag. Most politicians are.
but EVEN SO we need to be honest with ourselves.
Teenagers are not children. The woman here is 16-years-old. Young women are not harmed by having sex. but worse than that, nobody even had sex. It is completely absurd to believe that saying "Hey, wanna have sex?" is a heinous crime.
We have to stop this hyperbolic fear-mongering bullshit.

The notification wasn't really necessary to be honest.