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Chamath Palihapitiya Threatened?

Posted by takyon on Friday December 15 2017, @06:30PM (#2859)
4 Comments
Business

Previously: Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out

Palihapitiya's initial remarks included the statement that Facebook "overwhelmingly does good in the world". Maybe that wasn't good enough for somezucky?

Former Facebook Exec Who Suggested Social Media Was Destroying Society: I Love Facebook

He's already rich. He can feed his kids. But can he protect them from the reach of Facebook?

A New Internet

Posted by turgid on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:18PM (#2856)
21 Comments
Digital Liberty

The USA just decided apparently to abolish "Net Neutrality" making the public Internet beholden to large, established corporations. This is bad news for individuals and small businesses.

What we need is a new internet, a grass-roots one, ad-hoc, created by volunteers.

Many years ago when WiFi was new, there was one such attempt I seem to remember called "Consume the Net." I never had the money to buy the hardware at the time, but it sounded like a great idea. The problem in those days was getting any sort of broadband connection was difficult and expensive. You could get a 56kbps POTS modem, sometimes ISDN (64k * 2) or cable (500-600kbps) if you were very lucky and ADSL was just coming out. WiFi was already running at megabits.

Now we have a different set of problems to work around, but the technology is ubiquitous, cheap and mature.

It would we cool to have the equivalent of open access points on this new co-operative internet that you could scan for and join if you promised to behave.

Any ideas?

Harry Potter by Algorithm

Posted by turgid on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:36PM (#2852)
5 Comments
Software

The Guardian has a story about some Harry Potter stories written by Botnki's predictive text keyboard (complete with link to github).

        “He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family. Ron’s Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself.

        ‘If you two can’t clump happily, I’m going to get aggressive,’ confessed the reasonable Hermione.”

So not much worse that the original.

Expensive ITER Fusion

Posted by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:48PM (#2850)
4 Comments

Origami Cube Bitmaps For Christmas Decorations And Suchlike

Posted by cafebabe on Tuesday December 12 2017, @08:42PM (#2847)
2 Comments
Code

For Christmas 2016, I released a rotating torus and fractal animation. Admittedly, this was test data for a video codec but it was also a fun and frivolous software. For Christmas 2017, I've automated the algorithm for converting 1, 2, 3 or 6 bitmaps into a bitmap which can be folded into origami cube with the pictures on all sides. This has a variety of uses including corporate branding; like an unusual business card. It is also great for making unique Christmas decorations. Indeed, I've now got some really strange Christmas decorations including cubes of:-

  • A six sided dice.
  • James Bond actors.
  • Clover, Sam and Alex from Totally Spies.
  • Pinky Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Bob Dobbs, the Cheshire Cat from Disney's version of Alice In Wonderland and a hexagonal toroid from Mathematica.
  • The Ford Escort RS2000 from Fast And Furious 6.
  • Characters from Wingi's BunniSpace.
  • Goatse.
  • Tubgirl.

The program uses the current verion of the generic Makefile for C programs using libgd. This works with a local copy of libgd-2.2.2 and libgd-2.2.5. Like previous programs, it also requires a local copy of libpng and zlib. On Linux, via bash, invocation is as follows:-

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/build/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png 6.png output.png

If you don't have six images, it also works as follows:-

./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 2.png 2.png 2.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 3.png 2.png 1.png output.png

Further documentation is inside the archive:-

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end

Debug test data which should be saved as test1.png and suchlike:-

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end

Example data for a dice:-

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Bug fixes and other examples may follow. Actually, bug fixes are most likely because there are multiple techniques for folding an origami cube and I don't think that I'm using the most common technique.

(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)

12-Year-Old Girl Flies From Virginia to Interview Roy Moore

Posted by takyon on Tuesday December 12 2017, @02:34AM (#2846)
5 Comments
/dev/random

Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl

Trump Group Sends 12-Year-Old Girl to Interview Roy Moore Ahead of Alabama Election

Millie in Alabama (5m49s)

Roy Moore seemed delighted to be interviewed by a friendly, innocent, and untainted young reporter. He touched her at 4m49s into the video.

Dennis Rodman Has Secret Message From Kim Jong-un for Trump

Posted by takyon on Monday December 11 2017, @07:06PM (#2845)
2 Comments

Rolls Roil

Posted by takyon on Sunday December 10 2017, @07:15PM (#2842)
14 Comments
/dev/random

Racial dispute at beloved bakery roils liberal college town in Ohio

The three students were arrested after punching and kicking the white shopkeeper. The 18- and 19-year-old students said that they were racially profiled and that their only crime was trying to buy alcohol with fake identification; the shopkeeper, Allyn Gibson, said the students attacked him after he caught them trying to steal bottles of wine.

The day after the arrests, hundreds of students protested outside the bakery. Members of Oberlin's student senate published a resolution saying Gibson's had "a history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment."

Few colleges put the "liberal" into "liberal arts" more than Oberlin, which in the early 1800s became the first in the country to regularly admit women and minorities. But it also more recently has become, for conservatives, a symbol of political correctness gone awry and entitled youth.

News articles in 2015 quoted students decrying the school dining hall's sushi and Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches as cultural appropriation. The divisive, voice-of-a-generation actress Lena Dunham, famously a 2008 Oberlin alumna, was quoted in Food & Wine magazine as saying, "The press reported it as, 'How crazy are Oberlin kids?' But to me, it was actually, 'Right on.'"

"I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump."

Posted by DeathMonkey on Friday December 08 2017, @10:41PM (#2837)
22 Comments
News

I spent the first two decades of my career as a social scientist studying liars and their lies. I thought I had developed a sense of what to expect from them. Then along came President Trump. His lies are both more frequent and more malicious than ordinary people’s.

...

The college students in our research told an average of two lies a day, and the community members told one. (A more recent study of the lies 1,000 U. S. adults told in the previous 24 hours found that people told an average of 1.65 lies per day; the authors noted that 60 percent of the participants said they told no lies at all, while the top 5 percent of liars told nearly half of all the falsehoods in the study.) The most prolific liar among the students told an average of 6.6 lies a day. The biggest liar in the community sample told 4.3 lies in an average day.

In Trump’s first 298 days in office, however, he made 1,628 false or misleading claims or flip-flops, by The Post’s tally. That’s about six per day, far higher than the average rate in our studies. And of course, reporters have access to only a subset of Trump’s false statements — the ones he makes publicly — so unless he never stretches the truth in private, his actual rate of lying is almost certainly higher.

I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump.

Kepler Announcement on Dec. 14

Posted by takyon on Friday December 08 2017, @10:21PM (#2836)
2 Comments
Science

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data.

NASA and Google are both users of the D-Wave "quantum annealer", ostensibly for machine learning purposes.