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swebs··on Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much
And the population of the entire country is 360,000 people.
swebs··on Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
The biggest advantages of videos to me are the controls. I absolutely hate the fact that I can't pause GIFs and have to deal with them flashing in the corner of the page as I'm trying to read.
swebs··on Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been infected already
The overall death rate for 2020 will probably be even below 1%. The old will still die, but the young are no longer driving, smoking, etc and social distancing is preventing other diseases like the flu.
swebs··on Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation
No, the other guy is right. Technically the definition of real-time can have a lot of leeway. Here's the paper linked in the article. Note how the authors never define what they really mean by real-time. They even make statements like "runs 1.9 times faster than real-time". They certainly imply your definition, but there's plenty of wiggle room to say "Well technically, I wasn't lying"

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/3/766/pdf

swebs··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
Yes, some branches definitely. Especially human-computer interaction. Other branches like discrete math or algorithm analysis are impossible to fudge. Machine learning is somewhere in the middle.
swebs··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
There are certainly plenty of fields that have a these problems and are vulnerable to be politically driven. I'd say the further toward the "soft" sciences you go, the more you're able to manipulate results to fit certain viewpoints. 538 has a nice little demo showing off the problem.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

swebs··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
In science, evidence determines your viewpoints. In politics, its the other way around.

If the results of an experiment support your views, then it was a great experiment and proof that you were right all along.

If the results of an experiment contradict your views, then you can fully scrutinize every aspect of the test to come up with reasons why it got such a wrong result.

swebs··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
>and make sure not to find work

That's just welfare, not UBI. The U stands for Universal, which means it goes to everyone. Not just the poor or unemployed.

swebs··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
>According to its 2006-adopted platform, the National Coalition Party's policy is based on "freedom, responsibility and democracy, equality of opportunity, education, supportiveness, tolerance and caring".[9] The party is described by literature as a liberal[2] and conservative[3] as well as a liberal-conservative[4] party in the centre-right[8] with catch-all party characteristics.[29] The non-profit Democratic Society described it as "the heir to both liberal and conservative strains of right-of-centre thought" that is becoming increasingly liberal compared to its official stance of conservatism.[6]

>Specifically, it contains elements of cultural and economic liberalism and social reformism.[30] For example, it supports multiculturalism, work-based immigration, gay rights and same sex marriage.[6][31][32][33] Although formerly considered to have been critical of the Nordic welfare model and campaigning for strict doctrines of economic liberalism, in the 1970s the party shifted to supporting more social liberalism, such as increased social security and a welfare state, justified by increased individual liberty.[34]

They've really pivoted on that issue in the past few decades.

swebs··on Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
>and at other times it would make up facts altogether

Isn't that the entire point of an AI?

swebs··on Säkkijärven polkka
>Aryan language is part of the Uralic group of languages Finno-Ugric spoken by Hungarians and Estonians too.

???

swebs··on Säkkijärven polkka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMszu_VgMfY
swebs··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
Found it on /vp/

https://boards.4channel.org/vp/thread/43481028

https://archive.org/details/segadoeswhatnintendontlololol

swebs··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
Ok, in which thread on which board? I can't find anything on /t/ or /v/.
swebs··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
Good thing the Dell XPS developer edition ships with Linux already set up.
swebs··on Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prevent disease spread
If that were the only reason, then cubicles would be equally popular. For some reason companies want floor plans that do not allow your back to the wall, no partitions higher than sitting shoulder level, minimal sound or sight blocks. I think there must be some psychological effect they're taking advantage of when workers feel like they're being constantly watched from all angles.
swebs··on Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research
>More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.
swebs··on Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research
>Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.
swebs··on Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)
>and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

That's a pretty far cry from telling people to inject bleach, which is the narrative some outlets are trying to spin right now.

swebs··on Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)
>ecause if it's the first (as a comment downthread implies) then I must've missed a big story

Yeah but it was more like a slow news day than a big story. Yesterday President Trump said this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkzqejFKbM

And the media reacted as expected.

swebs··on Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
You can install Linux on part of your hard drive, and your other operating system on another part. Just reboot your computer to swap between them. It's called dual booting. If you don't like your experience with Linux, just delete its partition.
swebs··on Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
I have a Dell XPS that came with Ubuntu and everything has drivers except the fingerprint reader. Dell actually opted to reimburse Ubuntu users something like $13 than have the fingerprint reader manufacturer create Linux drivers.
swebs··on Medical staff say virus stigma driving Tokyo hospitals to edge of collapse
Here's the data for all countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

swebs··on Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations
But then the following paragraphs contradict that. Especially this study:

https://largescaleassessmentsineducation.springeropen.com/ar...

I would look at all the studies listed, rather than a summary written by the wikipedia editor.

swebs··on Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis#Modern_...
swebs··on The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
Well the mobile game was crap. It was just the standard mobile game template with an Animal Crossing skin, rather than a real Animal Crossing game.
swebs··on The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
They're very different. Harvest moon is a farming simulator. Animal Crossing is a "hanging out in a small village" simulator. You don't have a job. You just log in each day and see what's happening. There's only so much to do per day and the time is based on the real world clock. So if you want to plant flowers, you have to wait three real days for them to grow. It's a game you play for a few minutes per day over the course of years, rather than one where you play for 40 hours in the first few weeks until you beat it.
swebs··on $50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM
The Pi 3 doesn't have HEVC hardware decoding, but the 4 does.
swebs··on Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
The Segway actually launched and sold and delivered on its technical promises. The problem was that most people didn't want to spend $3000 on one.
swebs··on Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
>Nintendo's never competed with other gaming platforms on a technology basis

Do you think the Wii was their first console or something?

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