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@hikari @mcc I can recommend this documentary if you want to know more about freeports.

Tax avoidance of the superrich - How freeports are used as a loophole (Documentary, 2022)
youtube.com/watch?v=CKlor8vuiE

sometimes math things turn out to be far simpler than you expect. for example, apparently one of the most popular activation functions in neural networks is just max(0,x)? that's what relu is. so i guess f(a,b,c) = max(0, a * 0.5 + b * 0.25 + c * 0.125) is a simple “neuron”? neat

‪a physical painting is such an incredibly beautiful object up close‬

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britain is captured by the fear of trans people in bathrooms because after fifteen years of austerity the idea of a society that builds facilities to accommodate all persons is no longer possible to imagine, and so everything is some horrible fight over scraps

If you're ever looking for a peer-reviewed, article-length piece to cite re: my arguments on why we need to center marginalized lived experiential knowledge in all technologies, but especially "AI," then my article “Disabling ‘AI:’ Biases and Values Embedded in ‘Artificial Intelligence’” is for you.

UPDATE: It's "La France" not "Le France". I wish to apologize for misgendering France

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A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

Advice for life:
- be nice
- tip well
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- gossip with owls under a blanket of stars
- become moss and become immortal

After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

new anime idea: protagonist IS the isekai truck conductor. every episode he gets a call for help from another universe and chooses a young teen to become their hero and runs em over, while evading the police afterwards

@hikari Had a DB experience when going back to Malmö from Hamburg. Sure the train was not operated by DB but still, it's in operating in DB territory so.

So, me and my partner are waiting on the train in Hamburg. Train is predicted to be delayed 30 minutes, and no platform is assigned to it. So, we wait. And then suddenly it's assigned a platform and it arrives a minute later, only a minute or two after it's planned arrival time. It was however 30 minutes late to leave Hamburg.

@Nifflas@mastodon.gamedev.place In my defence I was asleep 8½ hours ago when you sent out the ping

tired: “i make musical instruments”
inspired: “i work in the timbre industry”

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