I would start by thinking about how AI is mostly just function approximation (neural nets, fuzzy logic) and optimization (genetic algorithms, simulated annealing).
Mastodon absolutely needs more journalists. We should not have millions of people boosting one another’s ideas without a solid contingent of people in here professionally trained to vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news. It is, imo, an urgent issue & critical for the ongoing success of the fediverse #Press
I still think if you implemented something like #Smalltalk with the code browser, debugger and all of that using modern UI, which could allow you to package a project into a native looking app, you would really be onto something.
I also think you would probably be better off having it use #Ruby or #Python. I’m honestly not sure how to even start doing some thing like that in a way which wouldn’t take years, but if I did I might try.
One Year on From Dobbs: The Dangers of Radicalizing Minority Rule
Reactionaries are pursuing a deeply unpopular political project. But that doesn’t mean they can’t succeed. It means they are likely to commit to ever more authoritarian forms of minoritarianism in order to win:
It is not just demographics, which means replacing those on the right who die of old age with liberal Gen Z and Millennials.
The other trend is that our population is not really growing outside of immigration, but many people are moving to the cities. When they do so, it slowly turns the state purple. So it is only a matter of time until Texas and Florida are blue.
Look, if you want me to think of the billionaires as people, then they have to live among us and that means giving up the billions, which means not being billionaires anymore.
I can't solve this dilemma for you, it's a real Catch-22.
I mean, if you want to live above the concerns of normal people and ascend beyond human concerns we can't exactly treat you as if our lives have any commonality anymore, as if you're actually human.
I worry about whether or not my insurance will cover me if I suddenly develop cancer or impoverish my loved ones--you're worried about whether or not the tax rate is going to go up on your private jet and if you should move the headquarters to Reno instead.
as i write this, bitcoin is priced at $25,000, below its $26,000 price point on march 17 and a mere $975,000 away from reaching the $1M price point as balaji predicted
The rules of English state that once you stick a couple words together with a hyphen for a long enough time, those hyphenated words later become a compound word without a hyphen, and thus "correct English"; and the amount of time before you're allowed to remove the hyphen is completely arbitrary, but until it becomes official, everyone will tell you you're doing it wrong.
Then you'll show them that it made it to the dictionary, and they'll get mad about it not being "proper English."
I have an MA in English and I can tell you that English orthography is not regular.
For example, why do you double consonants after short vowels but not after long vowels? Like cutter and cuter, or tapping and taping. But there are lots of exceptions: no edditor, no glammour.
English is very irregular, and as Flannery O'Connor said, you can do pretty much whatever you can get away with.
The red states with big cities are turning purple as people move from socially oppressive rural areas, where everybody knows everybody else's business, to the cities where they have more social freedom and privacy. As cities get bigger, the state flips. This is why Republicans are obsessed with the suburbs.
Georgia is already purple and Texas is heading that way. Beto lost to Cruz by only 4%.
But your point is still valid. The far right wing agenda in Texas is not attractive.
I hear you and I wish they could combine the best of both worlds.
The first wart I noticed on Calckey is no edit feature. And it has some rough edges. It won't stay in dark mode when I re-open it. And I have had it "forget" some other settings.
But they (Mastodon and Calckey) are both amazing products.
Stop saying Democrats have no plan on guns. Here’s the plan.
“Once again I ask Congress to send me a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Enacting universal background checks. Requiring safe storage. Ending immunity for gun manufacturers. I will sign it immediately.”
It's like, I don't know where you've been. Unless we've interacted a bit, and then I probably know you're cool.
If anyone wants to get out of mastodon.social before the chud rush and wants an invite and if you're kinda cool and if I feel like it you can join my server.
My general policy is that I don't accept sign ups from randoms, but I do accept migrations from other places, if I know who you are (one or both of us follow each other, for starters).
I also offer 'Safe Harbor' to anyone who might feel unsafe or otherwise without an advocate on their current server.
It breaks my brain how anyone with that much money couldn't have foreseen the disaster that anyone clearly foresaw with Elon's changes to blue checks. Like, on day one.
I think it is his business model. First he needs $8/mo as a subscription service. If Republicans are 1/2 of the accounts, then he gets a large total payment from people who like what he is doing..
Next he will add a new symbol, maybe a tiny icon of Trump's golden toilet, to be the "really" verified badge. That one will cost more th;an $8/mo.