Bill Perkins (Guy)

Please stop referring to your own models in the third person when talking about model bad behavior. Humans write the software; humans built the prompts; and they work for your company. “Our” model is doing illegal things. “Our” model is risky. “We” now have liability.

Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map

An inheritence should never be a bequest (intentionally). 28 to 33 is latest age range to leave an inheritence. #DieWithZero open.spotify.com/episode/7wTDvy…

Applied algebra is fun and keeps old brains sharp.....

Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab. "Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE." "I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving." “Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates." “In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’ “It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.” Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated. That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.

@jk_rowling @AmnestyUK Happy birthday!!!

Your apology for labelling women-only rape support centre Beira's Place 'anti-rights' is a nice birthday present, @AmnestyUK. Cheers. And congratulations to all the other women's and LGB organisations Amnesty acknowledges having wrongly smeared as 'anti-rights'.

@abarber1 @E0474354132016 @AustinJustice Spicy!! I guess you're saying the absolute number of murders doesn't matter? Either way do a study into the policies that may have resulted in the additional murders. I'll pay a fair number that's the point of the whole thing.

@E0474354132016 @AustinJustice @bp22 I can count and that seems to put me ahead of many of the people I’m interacting with. The data matters more than the narrative, does it not?

Homicide rate change in Texas cities, 2019-2026.

You could be forgiven for thinking the most obvious way for a vessel to avoid scrutiny would be to switch off its Automatic Identification System (AIS). However, the absence of an AIS signal can itself attract attention, particularly when authorities and regulators are monitoring maritime activity. In many cases, a more effective approach is to broadcast AIS information that presents a misleading picture of a vessel's identity, location, or activity, creating a convincing digital alibi. Put simply, AIS spoofing is the deliberate transmission of AIS information that misrepresents a vessel's identity, location, or activity. In the second edition of our spoofing series (find the first in the comments), we examine several deceptive techniques that fall under the broader term of AIS spoofing: - Identity theft. A vessel broadcasts the identity of another real ship, copying its name, IMO number, and MMSI. For a period, two vessels appear to be the same ship operating in different locations. - Identity laundering, or zombie ships. A vessel adopts the identity of a scrapped or otherwise inactive ship. Because the identity is no longer actively used, the deception can be more difficult to detect than conventional identity theft. - Location tampering. A vessel broadcasts AIS positions that are inconsistent with its actual location. It may appear to be operating routinely in open water while physically conducting activity elsewhere. - Identity swapping. Two cooperating vessels temporarily exchange AIS identities before later reverting to their original identities. - Phantom or ghost vessels. An entirely fictitious vessel is created to deceive, distract, or test how observers respond. These techniques are not hypothetical. The accompanying graphic follows the CERES I (IMO 9229439), which cycled through seven separate identities between December 2024 and June 2025, interspersed with periods of detected AIS darkness. During this period, the vessel also conducted a ship-to-ship transfer near Singapore with EVELINA (IMO 9235713), which was operating under a Timor-Leste-associated identity later reported by Lloyd's List as part of the fraudulent Timor-Leste registry. This represents a sophisticated example of several deceptive techniques being used concurrently. To anyone relying solely on AIS, reconstructing the vessels' true movements would have been extremely difficult. A well-crafted spoofed signal can appear entirely legitimate unless independently verified. Spoofing is therefore not a single technique but a toolkit, with its most advanced methods designed to appear routine. AIS was developed to improve maritime safety, not to independently verify vessel activity. By detecting vessels directly from satellite imagery, regardless of whether AIS is transmitting, spoofed, or absent, Theia provides an independent source of observation that enables customers to verify reported vessel activity and draw their own informed conclusions.

@abarber1 @AustinJustice I guess you'd like the more vigorous case by case data to see policy effect. Can be done. Why don't you go do it. We can work out a rate. I think this will be similar to the health study.....

@AustinJustice @bp22 I’m sure if you generate enough graphs that you can find a few that provide support for your thesis, but you don’t just get to make up a new way of presenting crime data because you’re unhappy!

@abarber1 @AustinJustice I think you miss the most salient point. Policies are leading to more murder not less. I can assure the victims and victims family are not worried about any infographic display issues. And as a father I don't care either. It's very caveman for me and caveman "want rate go down"

@AustinJustice @abarber1 @abarber1 I do understand that. Bought a place in 2020. It's not noise.....

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@unusual_whales Minority report.....

FBI's Threat Screening Center is seeking predictive artificial intelligence capabilities to upgrade its watch-listing systems to determine people who will do crimes before they happen, per Reason

@abarber1 @AustinJustice Yes 11 more dead people is bad, very bad. This is a "small large town"

@bp22 @AustinJustice

@AustinJustice @abarber1 Yes that's bad. I guess you don't live here so your perception is not that bad....

@abarber1 @bp22

Fauci and the NIH literally used US taxpayers' money to fund 'gain of function' research in Wuhan - that would potentially make coronaviruses more infectious and transmissible to humans. But the media has convinced you 'the unvaccinated' are the villains. yahoo.com/now/nih-admits…

@abarber1 @AustinJustice What?!?! rate over 10 past 5 years. That's an issue.

@bp22 @AustinJustice This doesn’t seem like evidence of bad policies to me. If anything, this seems like evidence of you trying to find support for not liking certain policies!

Never thought I'd see the EU go pro data center, while states and counties go full anti-data center mind virus. Foreign mind ops really work well.

Catching skin cancer early is a home robotics problem. Melanoma is highly treatable when detected early, yet today’s screening process depends heavily on patients noticing tiny changes across their entire skin surface. This requires patients to solve a near-impossible visual-memory and registration problem. I built OpenDerm, an open-source 4-DOF robot that captures high-resolution images of the skin and uses them to reconstruct and track the skin surface in 3D over time. The best way to make skin screening truly routine is to bring it into the home. OpenDerm shows that inexpensive robotic skin imaging is possible, but the path to scale is not a dedicated screening robot in every household—it is to make skin screening one of the many useful things a general-purpose home robot can do. Read more about why I built OpenDerm and how it works here: Blog: marionlepert.github.io/blog/openderm-… Project: openderm.github.io

Google DeepMind just introduced Gemini Robotics 2. It's a single VLA that unlocks physical dexterity across different end effectors, hands or grippers, from one model checkpoint. Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid, with the 22-DoF SharpaWave hand, ties knots and seals a ziplock bag

If you're not checking Cato's waiver tracker on at least a daily (hourly?) basis, what are you even doing with your life? cato.org/jones-act-waiv…