Saik0Shinigami

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

but I don’t know off the top of my head if there is anyone actually claiming that figure.

65m? Nobody is that I'm aware of except Laura Loomer apparently. Here's a study from 2016 though.

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates

The numbers that Yale researchers came up with was 22.1million, then tweaked parameters to be more conservative and came up with 16.7million.

Keep in mind this was 2016... border crossings definitely spiked during Biden's time. But not enough to even get 22.1 million to 65 million. That's too crazy.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 34 points 1 day ago (11 children)

While I'm sure they meant a hotdog sized amount per day... yeah, thats terrible wording. When I eat hot dogs I might eat 2 or 3 at a cook out or something... then not eat hotdogs for like 3 months. They could have evoked the "amount" better. And even then... who eats that much ultra processed meat?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Simply using AI isn't an issue... Allowing it to take over in a way that accelerates the removal of the knowledge from our pools of knowledge is a problem. Allowing companies to use AI as a direct replacement of actual medical professionals will remove knowledge from society. We already know that we can't use AI to fuel more AI learning... the models implode. In order to continue learning more from medicine, we need to keep pushing for human learning and understanding.

Funny that you agree with me and apparently see useful discussion to have here... but downvote me even though the comment certainly added to the discussion.

Oh, and next time don't put words into someone's mouth, very much a bad faith action that harms meaningful discussion. I never said we should ban it or never use it. A better answer would be to legislate that doctors must still oversee, or must be the approving authority. That AI can never have a final say in someone's care and that research must never be sourced from AI sources. All I said, is that if we continue what we're doing and rely on AI in any meaningful capacity, we will run into problems. Especially in the context of the comment I responded to which opined upon corporation controlled AI.

FFS... they can't even run a vending machine. https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Oh.. and actually I would consider the 85% that it gets to be pretty poor considering that the AI was likely trained on the full breadth of NEJM information. Doctors don't have that ability to retain and train on 100% of all knowledge of the NEJM, so mistaking things makes sense for them. It doesn't make sense for something that was trained on NEJM data to screw up on an NEJM case.

My stance is the same for all AI. I'll use it to generate basic code for me. I'll never run that without review. Or to jumpstart research into a topic... and validate the information presented with outside direct sources.

TL;DR: Tool is good... Source is bad.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And the risk is that if we rely on AI in any meaningful capacity, it will eventually erode away the expertise who would be knowledgeable enough to detect the problems that the future AI may create/ignore. This assumes even best case where AI isn't being specifically tampered with.

802.11a was 5ghz, 802.11b was 2.4ghz. Both developed at the same time.

802.11g was 2.4ghz and extended b since 2.4 took off faster than 5ghz in the market.

Since g, n onwards has been used across both bands.

Since 802.11ax we now have 6ghz.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We're already significantly short on judges. Requiring judges in triplicate would have some crazy side effects. Court cases currently take too long to resolve due to the shortage. The entire system would grind to a literal standstill.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Citizenship is already required to vote in state [...] elections.

This is incorrect. The law you think you're referencing by this is only applicable to Federal positions. Several states explicitly allow non-citizen voting in local elections. Many have no laws on the books at all addressing it. Only 15 states explicitly prohibit non-citizen voting for local positions.

https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States

This fact alone should mandate that the federal level maintains their own registrations. The State and Federal levels have different applicable voter rolls because the state doesn't have the same requirements as the federal elections.

Edit: Wrong word.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had no idea the numbers were that high.

They're definitely not. First hand experience tells me that when a soldier enlists during in processing they start the process for naturalization. I saw several recruits that came in with me go through the paperwork with a drill instructor. If this 38% is "real" then it must be "all time". But modern military for sure it is not.

Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment... If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days... You're going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don't lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year... not just once. It's hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc...

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those "comparable" countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It's a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

The range in "comparable" countries is also about 4 years... Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here... yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

I'm willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for "the USA"... Just like the EU countries listed here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

Turns out that is wildly true... The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

Edit:

If you drill down to counties.... which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

Edit2: I should clarify that I don't doubt that the EU overall is better off... Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing... Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most Europeans have a poor understanding of what the USA looks like as well... Turns out that most people have no idea what most of the rest of the world looks like! This could even mean inside of their own country! The USA is quite large and very much varied.

 

So there's a fantastic site called chronolists.com... It's a bit incomplete from the dataset perspective, seems to be missing the "latest" releases (the 2022 Fantastics Beasts for example), and is limited to very particular "universes".

Is there an *arr that does this?

Automatically grab the items you have and populate playlists like "Stargate - Chronological", "Stargate - Airdate", etc...

And as items are added to your library that were missing in the "universe" it fills in the playlists. Playlistarr?

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