oddbagel: anosci: modern creepypasta irl basically: Let’s give a Recurrent Neural Network 10 minutes of anime dialog and tell it to learn how it works.  after forcing this neural network to listen to and learn this anime for 1000 iterations, the output is…pretty much just empty noise. that’s not too surprising really. 2000 iterations in …

Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in

raisedbycats: n-talia-a: johnnyramonesanticommunistshirt: mostlysignssomeportents: John Deere is notorious for arguing that farmers who buy its tractors actually “license” them because Deere still owns the copyright to the tractors’ software; in 2015, the US Copyright Office affirmed that farmers were allowed to jailbreak their tractors to effect repairs and modifications. But the Copyright Office doesn’t have …

an-gremlin: thevoxbox: theconcealedweapon: Abled people complain about disabled people needing accommodations, because “in the real world there are no accommodations”. But abled people receive accommodations all the time. Cars are an accommodation for those who can’t run a steady speed of 60 mph. Stairs are an accommodation for those who can’t jump from one story …

critical-perspective: americansylveon: shitpost-senpai: snowystater: bitty Actually, This is how the webcam was invented.  At Cambridge University, they were sick of checking the coffee pot level, so Quentin Stafford-Frasier wrote client software for a greyscale 128×128 camera hooked up to an acorn archemedes computer.  Paul Jardetzky wrote the server program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot Technology always comes full circle. …

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