"Generative AI is getting more advanced by the day. During the course of my reporting, I was shown deepfake videos, purportedly portraying global leaders like U.S. President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, that were indistinguishable from the real thing. They included politicians allegedly speaking in multiple languages and saying things that, if true, would have ended their careers."
I publish to the platform, so it’s not an issue. If advertisers want to pay (for them) random channels, more power to them. I take perverse pleasure for the right wing ones. If I have time to kill and an article to read, the volume goes down while I read in another tab. They pay more the longer an ad plays.
when a Bank of England director tells you its 'possible' interest rates will be reduced over the summer....
Of course its possible they'll be reduced, but my guess is they'll just want to keep them high a little longer... just to make sure those pesky workers & their demands for a return to pst standards of living have been firmly dampened down.
Perhaps, by some strange co-incidence they'll fall the month before an Autumn election?
On that note, how absurd is ingest into a db? I pulled down the first of the two CSV files and plan to do the 2nd tomorrow. It only took a minute or two to download.
I've pushed the initialized project to github. It's going to take a while to get (re) sorted with git again.
I have a couple pdf on statistics (unfortunately never was trotted through this in college), that I read through I year or two ago and roughly know what Bayesian stuff is about (3blue1brown channel does wonderful math related stuff and he covered that topic a while back). He's one of the best explainers out there.
LOL, not a newbie. Maybe schema, bit a couple gig data sets? nah.
I can add content to readme for wget. I’ll include references to mac ports install to get wget and install maria db.
The bits of git I never really dealt with are push. Pull and the basic coding cycle I am fine on.
As for stats, it’s just good to know the basic math governing it. If I don’t get too lazy, I’ll keep at some other math I took and want to restore to memory.
Yeh, I’ll convince myself eventually. I have a few IDE’s laying about. My experiment with Unity had me using VS, which I was happier leaving behind. Given the AI nonsense maybe codium will be good to jump to. I absolutely hate Xcode just because they broke a ton of UX rules being unique n shit. I use it to install CLI tools, but even here I have a full install of GNU tools because even then Apple’s C++ tool chain is ass.
Jesus. So is there a proper text book in the world? Not that I’m going to buy one, I have 3 other topics I want refresh and relearn (frustratingly I don’t have my group theory book from college and I can’t imagine having sold it).
I need to do a matrix upload of the language. Most languages have common enough syntax..
What’s the criteria? Like units for like.. detached homes, condos or apartment buildings (owned v rented). number of rooms. or sq footage (if that’s even possible to collect).
sampling families raises question of comparison for number kids, their spacing, extended family etc (this immediately gets crazy).
Another question: I’d think it’d be good to run numbers on a sample of households over time, if they can be tracked. The progression over time might say something too.
@dlakelan The issue of videos is streaming is expensive. So inspect that first. Vimeo is another option you may want to look into. Haven’t paid attention to it in years, so am not current on it.
Another option is internet archive, so long as public domain suits you, and I’d suggest looking into that frist. I worked there for a while on the nasaimages project until NASA got their stuff sorted and now do its equivalent themselves. That involved video and image ingest from various centers.
While the Bank of England's sado-monetarists keep on talking about wage inflation, its clear that there has only been wage inflation in nominal terms... real average wages (which is to say inflation adjusted) are little higher (and have been a lot lower at times) than they were when the Tories came into power in 2010.
So lets be clear: for workers this has been for the most part a lost decade & a half in wage terms.... its more than trust Rishi Sunak should have been trying to earn.