@Bias_Zebra @DxsvJunglefowl @TowardsSun22 The statistical method is called PCA (Principal Component Analysis.)
It's a fairly crude, but still useful, machine learning method.
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Håkon Fløystad
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@peterboghossian Entropy in the Universe is going up. That's going to lead to universal heat death.
Please fix.....
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False. Problems are solvable. This problem is solvable.
James Woods@RealJamesWoods
This is not fixable, and we all know why.
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@DxsvJunglefowl @TowardsSun22 PCA is a machine learning technique that kind of requires some math knowledge, like linear algebra, to comprehend easily. Just google PCA, or have an AI explain it to you.
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@hakflo @TowardsSun22 Thanks! What terms should I use to find studies / charts like these?
PS: wow, without any knowledge of the field it feels very weird that populations would fall into straight lines like these. Do you know the reason?
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@DxsvJunglefowl @TowardsSun22 There are plenty out there. This one covers most of the globe (native Americans are similar to East Asians).
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@TowardsSun22 Cool! Do you have one of these with other peoples outside Europe?
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@phobos1488 @Dirrn @godsfavouriteYN @TowardsSun22 The result is that there are more people with red hair in Western Norway than Eastern England.....
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@Dirrn @godsfavouriteYN @TowardsSun22 Crazy how you can literally verify historical events such as the Viking age conquests from these gene charts. The Norwegian Vikings literally took an amount of bell beaker admixture home from England.
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@TowardsSun22 I don't think you understand genetics at all. I'll give you another try to get the right answer. Point out where the genes that make you Norwegian are.
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@IterIntellectus Asia also came to mean the provice of Asia, and everything to the east of it. Technically including China, Korea and Japan, even if people had no direct contact with those lands (they may have had second hand information through India).
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@IterIntellectus "Asian" used to mean the eastern side of the Aegian Sea, long before Europe came into contact with East Asia.
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i hate they call these "people" asian as if they were korean or japanese
they're pakistani muslims
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Asian grooming gang who raped and sexually abused girls as young as 12 are jailed for more than 270 years
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@pirategamesdev @Fleece1969 @EricLDaugh Probably quite a few, in cases of gang-on-gang violence, with gunfire from both sides.
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@Fleece1969 @EricLDaugh In how many of those gun deaths did the police turn up and handcuff the shooting victim while he bled to death?
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🚨 JUST IN: After outcry from Elon Musk and UK patriots, Henry Nowak's brutal death and negligence by police is being called a "SCANDAL" in Parliament and members are demanding accountability over 2-tier policing
GEORGE FLOYD had NATIONWIDE outcry.
Justice for Henry Nowak!
"A student on a night out is stabbed multiple times with a 21 centimeter long knife. He's lying in a pool of his own blood, literally drowning in his blood. The police come to the scene."
"Instead of doing everything that they can to save his life, they handcuff and arrest the lad, because there's an accusation of racial abuse."
"This is a scandal. Will the Home Secretary come to the House and say what she's doing to investigate the way the police conducted this matter, and can we have a debate on two-tier policing, which is doing so much to undermine respect for the police and for the rule of law in this country?" — Robert Jenrick
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@allTheYud @10myrs Tsk, tsk, people don't understand exponential growth of worry.
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When the police don't enforce the law and only prevent other people from trying to impose civic order, and then some people are seen to get away with vigilantism, I worry that's not a totally stable civilizational state.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81
I occasionally see engagement-baiting posts about this couple, who left unlocked bikes on their lawn, waited for thieves to show up to try to steal the bikes, beat the thieves with baseball bats, and then posted videos of the beatings on YouTube. The viral posts always note that they were arrested for doing this, but never tell you the disposition of the case or what happened to them. I was curious whether they went to prison, so I did a little research. It turns out, the charges were dropped and the couple was not punished at all! Prosecutors wanted to charge assault with a deadly weapon for two incidents in which this couple beat bike thieves with metal baseball bats, videotaped themselves doing it and posted the videos online. But a trial on these charges required testimony from the victims. Both victims were convicted felons, and neither would cooperate with police or prosecutors unless they got immunity for crimes they had committed, which the prosecutors were unwilling to give them. Prosecutors were also worried that if they took this to trial, a jury would refuse to convict regardless of the evidence.
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Imagine if somoene could figure out some action that would absolve everyone of Original Sin, without needing Christ or Christian churches.
What would the churches do? Support that action and accept obselescence? Or claim that no, there was no other way around Original Sin, no path to heaven except through Christ and their Church?
Most organizations built around a single purpose will resist any solution to solve that problem that doesn't depend on them.
Which would explain why leaders of Green parties, environmental movements, etc, can not accept any technical solution to climate change that does not require their ongoing efforts.
Much better for their job security to limit efforts to those that create a strong feeling in their supporters that they are "doing something", but that doesn't make enough of a difference that the problem gets solved.
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The left never hated nuclear energy because of the environment. They hate it because cheap, abundant energy strengthens industrial capitalism, national independence, and the middle class.
If climate change were truly their priority, they would promote nuclear, not shut it down.
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
This one is always funny. Do you enjoy your Green Economic Wonder and your air quality?
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150,000-246,000 in 1945.
For suvivors exposed to radiation, the average lifespan was only reduced by an average of a few months relative to those not exposed to radiation.
While these numbers are catastrophic by today's standards, they're a very small fraction of WW2 casualties.
The Japanese attack on China lead to 15 million Chinese dead, for instance.
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@hakflo @IterIntellectus And it all it costs was a few million lives and the leveling of two cities! What a trade off!
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two atomic bombs did less damage then immigrants
RT@RT_com
1,200-yo temple burns down in Japan A fire destroyed Reikado Hall near Hiroshima, home to a Buddhist ‘eternal flame’ said to have burned continuously for over 1,200 years, NYT reports The flame has been saved and moved to another place
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@RobotsWon @allTheYud @tenobrus That's also the ultimate way to avoid most taxes. Build a space base or moon base, declare that base an independent kingdom with Elon as king, head of state and sole citizen.
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@RobotsWon @allTheYud @tenobrus At some point, SpaceX may have most of their assets in space-based datacenters. At that time, they may simply declare indepence, with a HQ off the planet, and without any important assets left on Earth to be nationalized.
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absolutely baffling results. no way in hell either of spacex or nvidia are in the running
britton winterrose@Winterrose
who is worth more in 10 years?
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@nulllzero @MKBHD I suspect by that time, some models will be able to take several such videos in as context at once, and then produce a new video output based on that, without retraining needed.
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This defeats the whole purpose of watching an unboxing video
TechDroider@techdroider
Gemini Omni made this 👇🏻
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@nulllzero @MKBHD So the Gemini review will come out hours or minutes after the first human reviews....
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Also, one positive aspect of the US occupation that is often overlooked.
At the start of the occupation, most Americans (and soldiers in particular) regarded the Japanese with a mix of hate and contempt.
During the occupation, that changed completely for a lot of the soldiers, and turned into great respect.
When these soldiers returned to the US, they brought with them a lot of stories and myths about the Japanese, their culture and their history.
This appears to have contributed to a growing respect in the US towards Japan (and to a lesser degree East Asia in general). Americans started practicing karate, some would take off their shoes when entering a house, others brough home a narrative of Japanese politeness and honor, of bushido, samurais, daimyos and shoguns, and so on.
This cultura exchange may have been essential for the positive relations between the US and Japan that we see today.
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Those points are just a small number of factors to take into account.
In particular, the motive and justification for using the bombs were not necessarily the same.
But if the justification is good enough, more selfish motives are generally acceptable.
The main motive for using the bombs were a combination of a need to show force vs the USSR as well as valuing Japense lives very little at that point.
Also, it was starting to get difficult to get people to buy war bonds.
The justification is that the Japanese regime at that point had committed so many atrocities, and still were on a regular basis (in China, etc), that the nuclear bombs were the lesser evil.
Even the Japanese themselves benefitted (even if that would not be necessary to justify it). Had an invasion been necessary, Japan would easily end up being divided in two, like Korea and Germany.
I think most Japanese prefer the historical outcome over a long invasion followed by Korea-style partitioning.
Accepting a conditional peace was simply not a realistic option at that stage, and an unconditional peace was quite unlikely. Indeed, Emperor Hiriohito himself had to override the regime to achieve that, even after Nagasaki.
And if he had not, Tokyo was the next on the list....
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