Singular Value Decomposition is widely used in machine learning, image processing, natural language processing, recommender algorithms…
Stable Video Diffusion is a good marketing name, but SVD is quite confusing from an academic point of view.
It’s not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.
In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her “do you condemn Hamas?”, the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn’t have to prove or justify her humanity.
I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?
To complete the article, there are two levels of (public) social protection in France.
Unemployment insurance, which pays a percentage of your last salary if you lose your job, for several months.
The RSA, mentioned in the article, which is a survival benefit for people who don’t have/no longer have access to unemployment insurance.
People do their utmost to get back to work before moving from unemployment insurance to the RSA, which is the gateway to extreme poverty.
This measure therefore attacks the weakest of the weak.
I live in France, and the term “camarade” is daily used in my union instead of the first name, or when you talk about several members of the union. It has no negative connotation, it’s not used as a reversal of stigma.
It’s also used in several left parties, but not all. It’s quite common between people who primarily fight for the workers rights, but it’s much less common between other progressive/leftist activists (feminists, climate activists, LGBTQIA+ rights activists…).
For me, it makes sense to use it this way, according to the context.
It’s a common misconception that Monopoly is a hymn to capitalism.
Actually, it’s a reimplantation of the Landlord’s Game, which was designed to demonstrate the mechanics of wealth accumulation and its nasty consequences when almost everybody end in poverty.
Not only that. It’s also a means of long-term tax evasion, by storing works of art in a freeport.
Xubuntu. Ubuntu because most of the time, I just want a plug and play experience with a huge community. And XFCE because it’s lightweight and has all the tiling features I like.
I really enjoyed tinkering Arch, I learned a lot of stuff, but it’s too much effort for my usual laziness.
I totally get that. For most people, watch history and relevant recommendations are indeed useful tools.
But if, for some reasons, you want to switch off these tools, the price to pay was a home page full of flashy clickbait miniatures. This terrible home page could have been an incentive to switch history on.
Now, it’s just a minimalistic google-ish search page. It’s an unexpected improvement when they could have done much worse, like a home page autoplaying ad videos, for example.
I don’t understand. Is this supposed to be an incentive to turn on watch history?
I’ve never heard of this. How is it linked to transhumanism? Is it a re-branding? A fork? An attempted to propose a moral stance to transhumanism? Unless they are two rival theories to think the future?
(I’m not a transhumanist)
Not everyone is on twitter, but lots (all?) of Content Management Systems and blogs have a RSS feed.
As an academic, I’m syndicated to several labs and research groups which have their own websites, but don’t care about being visible on Twitter.
Thank you for all these informations, and for the links.
I’m not a lawer, but the laws seems to have several exceptions which could be used by an authoritarian government. They just have to call their opponents violent or terrorists
Great news, but it’s only a first step. European political system is quite complex. Correct me if I’m wrong but the law has only been voted by the European Parliament, and now it has to be ratified by each country.
Personnal opinion: I don’t see the french government ratifying a text which would limits their authoritarian drift.
I think it’s a more global movement.
When I was recruited at my university in the early 2000s, every teacher had an ftp-accessible space with an http address like myuni.edu/~myname. The more techie ones did html, the fancier ones even added css. Muggles would export html from a Word document.
Then one day, the IT department decided to replace this with a “learning management system”. A wysiwyg platform with dozens of modules for videoconferencing courses, homework submission, online exams, and so forth.
Except that the user (the teacher) no longer has control over his or her personal space.