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"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.
Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a max…

Notebook-Hülle mit MagSafe-Aufladen von Razer
Das neue Razer Laptop Sleeve 16 gibt es gegen Aufpreis auch mit einer Sonderfunktion für iPhone- und AirPods-Nutzer – und nicht nur die.
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We need a special war tax to pay for this chest-beating nonsense, ideally applied to loans taken against unrealized investment gains. Make the tax-evading Epstein class pay for it.

[hype alert] Brain chip implant: visually impaired Korean YouTuber applies for Musk's clinical trial https://www.mk.co.kr/en/culture/11976079 Kim Hansol (OneshotHansol) on YouTube

Brain Chip Implant: Visually Impaired Korean YouTuber Applies for Musk’s Clinical Trial - MK
Oneshot Hansol, a visually impaired YouTuber (32, real name Kim Hansol), has applied to take part in a clinical trial run by Neuralink, the company led by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk.On February 7..

"Völkerrecht brauche ich nicht.« Trumpin seinem jüngsten Interview mit der »New York Times. Trump nur einen Maßstab: »Ja, da gibt es eine Sache. Meine eigene Moral. Mein eigener Verstand. Das ist das Einzige, was mich aufhalten kann.«
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The Names They Call Themselves
#uspol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

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I told you - she's one of dem Good Billionaires!
#AllBillionairesAreEvil

Taylor Swift Breaks Political Silence To Throw Support Behind Restoring Shōgun To Throne Of Japan
NEW YORK—In a heartfelt social media statement to her fans, singer–songwriter Taylor Swift broke her long-standing political silence Monday to support restoring an all-powerful shōgun to its rightful place on the throne of Japan. “Hey guys, Taylor here—I’m writing this post because I’ve been inspired by recent events to speak up about why we need to install an all-powerful military dictatorship in Japan’s imperial palace,” said the famously apolitical pop star, admitting that i…

"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.