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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It’s probably a problem with the UEFI, the windows info got overwritten, and you can probably fix this with efibootmgr

    It happened to me too, but unfortunately it was some years ago and I’m not at home to find the related notes that I took. I remember there was a windows utility to rewrite the boot loader. But probably in your case the boot partition is still okay, just the UEFI entry got overwritten and you just have to add it back manually.

    Check the troubleshooting section of the wiki page to have a tip on the windows booting location


  • The whole information is in this paragraph:

    The central bank’s governing council gave unanimous support to October’s decision to cut rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.25 per cent, arguing that “the disinflationary trend was getting stronger” and that it was important to avoid “harming the real economy by more than was necessary”.

    The rest is basically padding and speculation, which can be summarized with:

    “On december there could be a cut up to 50 points, or none, no one knows because we have no idea what is going to happen and we are going in blind. The growth was higher than expected (.4 instead of .2) but the inflation was too (2, instead of 1.7).”

    What a time to be alive. I’m not worried at all about the future.


  • Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=RU-IN&start=2019

    I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.

    In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?

    Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.

    What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.


  • I was reading @superkret@feddit.org and @MaggiWuerze@feddit.org exchange and I found it an interesting - albeit moot - topic. So I went and spent the last hour to download some data and filter it: I will post some numbers with no commentary. I will add my opinions after them in a spoiler.

    imf.org GDP, current prices, Billion of U.S. dollars

    2023 GDP Nominal
    NATO 52392,344
    BRICS 27330,345

    2024 GDP Nominal (estimates)
    NATO 55148,819
    BRICS 28442,630


    imf.org GDP, current prices, Purchasing power parity; billions of international dollars

    2023 GDP PPP
    NATO 63996,245
    BRICS 66010,889

    2024 GDP PPP (estimates)
    NATO 66812,821
    BRICS 70911,69


    imf.org GDP based on PPP, share of world

    2023 GDP PPPSH
    NATO 34,731
    BRICS 35,824

    2024 GDP PPPSH (estimates)
    NATO 34,339
    BRICS 36,446


    BRICS

    Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates


    NATO

    Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Republic of Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States

    MHO

    This comparison makes no sense for a multitude of reasons, starting from the difference in effective cohesion, motivation and raison d’être of the two organizations.

    Even if there were multiple tries, especially by Russia, to push for more integration in the economic and military structure, you can see how it is still incredibly fractured: if you are interested you can check on the current state of the SWIFT alternatives to see how much each of the big players still pull to be the leader.

    A more apt loose organization to compare BRICS to would probably be the G7, but even there it really is not the same, considering the member list and how integrated they are in other ways. Still, a better one.

    Aside from that the PPP is often touted as a great way to compare completely different economies, and it has its uses to understand how people live in different countries. Its use in a comparison like this one has, IMHO, no space.

    If someone comes to me with a one Billion random-currency investment, even if for them it only buys a loaf of bread but for me it means a new factory and 100 full-time employees, if they withdraw it it is a disaster.
    Then again GDP is not even the parameter we should be looking into, considering the article: We should check the international trade between China and the European Union, and make consideration about that.

    Last, but not least, I used the IMF numbers because they are easy to get in a nice format. They are not the best, but they are not the worst too. More info here, have fun.






  • I honestly don’t really remember the main quest progression (I last did it a really long time ago), but I think there were a couple of steps that were time or exploration/research gated…

    I can say that the story of Artemis has an ending, you should probably just try go on and research some Archive related things on the Base computer or jump around to new systems

    As a general rule, IMHO, to really enjoy it you should treat NMS as a sandbox game that happens to have a story that sometimes pops up




  • If you are talking about Lasagne - the pasta type and not the finished product, you would be right in saying you can find it both with eggs and without, by the article it says it is a north/south thing in Italy. But honestly you can find thousands of variations of them even moving just a few dozens kilometer.

    On the contrary to be spaghetti and not something else they need to be - to directly quote - “a special pasta format made exclusively from durum wheat semolina and water, with a long, thin shape and round cross section.”

    I’m not sure if it is the same outside of Italy. But at the end just do what makes you happy.


  • Onestamente si tratta di un articolo fuffa, senza alcun tipo d’informazione utile ad eccezione di questa:

    Un recente studio di ricercatori dell’Università di Drexel, in Pennsylvania

    Senza riportare ulteriori dati.

    Il resto sembran parole scritte per lo più a caso da qualcuno che, evidentemente, non ha infarinatura nell’argomento.

    Capisco che scrivere sull’IA porti click, ma così mi pare esagerato. La cosa triste - se non addirittura deprimente - è che un Large Language Model a cui fosse stato dato in pasto l’abstract dello studio avrebbe probabilmente potuto fare un lavoro migliore. O magari si tratta di un testo generato da un modello di piccole dimensioni, viste anche le continue ripetizioni (questi applicativi, mettere in evidenza, attento studio), il che renderebbe il tutto almeno divertente.

    Un articolo migliore - ma con spin ovviamente positivo ed in inglese - si può trovare qui: drexel.edu

    Notare la data.

    E qui il paper:

    Mi dispiace esser così negativo sul lavoro altrui, ma sembra quasi abbia messo più ricerca e sforzo io in questo post che l’articolista nel suo.

    Comunque, per chi fosse interessato, questa è la parte sostanziale, che si può trovare nel sito, senza aprire il paper su arxiv:

    This corresponds to a detector’s ability to detect videos from a new generator without any re-training. These results show that while the detector achieves strong performance on videos from generators seen during training, performance drops significantly when evaluating on new generators.

    Additionally, we performed few-shot learning experiments to evaluate the detector’s ability to detect videos from new generators with only a few examples. These results show that the detector can very accurately transfer to detect new generators through few-shot learning.

    AKA il sistema funziona bene solo su modelli il cui output è disponibile in quantità (40.000 frame per modello, Tabella 4, pagina 5 per il training) e si può usare per fare l’addestramento.

    Quindi utile solo contro video di livello amatoriale, fatti con modelli disponibili al pubblico generale.

    Vorrei soffermarmi di più sulla questione dei falsi positivi, ma trovo il paper veramente poco chiaro al riguardo, e credo di aver già dedicato troppo tempo ad un post che probabilmente non leggerà nessuno su un paper che non ho trovato particolarmente illuminante o interessante.

    Accetto volentieri correzioni.

    Tap for Changelog

    falsi negativi -> falsi positivi


  • This is getting weird.

    If I would generate an image with an AI and then take a photo of it, I could copyright the photo, even if the underlying art is not copyrightable, just like the leaves?

    So, in an hypothetical way, I could hold a copyright on the photo of the image, but not on the image itself.

    So if someone would find the model, seed, inference engine and prompt they could theoretically redo the image and use it, but until then they would be unable to use my photo for it?

    So I would have a copyright to it through obscurity, trying to make it unfeasible to replicate?

    This does sound bananas, which - to be fair - is pretty in line with my general impression of copyright laws.