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u/tquid@sh.itjust.works
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"We on the right cast things in hateful terms intended to somehow be racist about bike lanes, but really it's just different words for the same stuff."

Fuck you, idiot. I'm sorry you lost your dad, and your advocacy would be welcome, if you could pull your fucking head out for five fucking seconds. But really, get fucked.

on Eventful · c/Memes · 3 pts · 16h

I don't think there are many actually criminal lockpickers, even so. It's a fun hobby, and a fairly lucrative trade if you decide to get into it. Most regular thieves are not that motivated, and simply use the advanced technique of "LOL, it wasn't locked." Others just use the venerable "footpick".

That's leaving aside car thieves, who again generally just rely on forgetful car owners; but they do seem more likely to use a bent-up coat hanger and a modicum of skill. I guess it's lower stakes to break into a car, where you definitely know no one is in there, than to risk an encounter with a possibly armed person at home.

I wouldn't call it a "leap" but a few years ago some researchers did find a weird byway in the then-current go-playing "AI"s (neural-network setups, as someone else pointed out). They had to cheat a bit by examining the NN's "thinking" more directly, and found a cyclic strategy that allowed a human to beat the machine.

https://www.far.ai/blog/even-superhuman-go-ais-have-surprising-failure-modes

It's interesting for more "AI"-type stuff generally. The point is not so much "us with our special brains will always find ways to defeat AI" but more "there are odd blind spots that you would not predict by just looking at the output/games, and these can be exploited with appropriate technology."

Edit: remove redundantly redundant redundancy

on Just a Magpie · c/birding · 5 pts · 6d

Magpies are awesome. Crows are awesome. Pigeons are awesome. I do have mixed feelings about invasive house sparrows.

on Daily Critter 21 · c/photography · 2 pts · 8d

I think you are right; I was being pedantic about "jumping spider" as the salticids, which have those very charismatic, big, front-facing eyes. Plenty of active hunters that jump that aren't "jumping spiders" technically.

By way of a peace offering, here's one from the USA Southwest where I am

Some kind of wolf spider, one of the lycosidae. More deliberate in how they move than a salticid (those guys tend to go in fits and starts).