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A perhaps interesting (and sometimes even useful) property of the 1D Kalman filter is that it becomes an EMA when it's in the "steady state" (the gain to which it converges asympto…

There's also the open source Sweet Home 3D that has tools for making a model from floor plans and includes a lot of furniture. There's even a WebGL version nowadays. Not sure if it…

> Reversing last year’s trend, a slim majority of ASEAN respondents selected China (52.0%) over the US (48.0%) if the region were forced to align itself with one of the two strateg…

Qwen3.6 27B FP8 via openrouter/deepinfra: Based on historical records and international reporting, the events in Tiananmen Square refer to the *1989 Tiananmen Square protests* and …

Many Chinese frontier models aren't censored, at least for Tiananmen etc. They'll discuss them freely if served through non-Chinese providers. The Chinese providers seem to have so…

This seems to be some self-help for the well-off (and their kids) to not feel bad about such dependence, but totally ignores the large population whose parents aren't affluent enou…

More or less the definition of a state is that it upholds the monopoly of violence within its borders. In modern liberal states that monopoly comes with extensive regulations on ho…

The government is an institution protecting us from commercial interests. The government also protects against e.g. abject poverty and dying of easily treatable medical conditions.…

This is not about government reading messages, it's about how large social media companies present content. The European part probably is that these two things are not seen as the …

Many, including me, don't see e.g. personal privacy and freedom as the same case as regulating commercial activities. In fact, large business interests are well capable of authorit…

GDPR ship has largely sailed too. E.g. the illegal Pay or Okay is widespread, including in Instagram.

Maybe, but you may not afford to find out.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google’s lawyer army could explain to some Google-paid arbitrator how it’s in their interest to find that such behavior violates Google’s database copyri…

The use started to decline when Google started the extreme marketing campaign of Chrome around 2010 or so. All Google services had huge banners and included all sorts of dark patte…

No, and the raid was deemed illegal by a judge and the case was dropped.

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 11: Freedom of expression and information 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opi…

Can't wait for one of those launch rockets to explode in the atmosphere!

For context, as yearly spending of 285 million €, that compares to building roughly 20 km of motorway, or 0.5% of EU's agriculture subsidies, or half what the German federal govern…

Brain's information flow also isn't just through direct neuron-to-neuron connections. Firing also releases neuromodulators into the extracellular space which affects how other neur…

> Almost everyone knows what "healthy food" looks like without needing to know anything about much else. I highly doubt this. A lot of people think stuff like juice smoothies, gran…

Sections, anchors, url text fragments. In many fields citing a page is also quite rare.

The galaxy brains in the labs putatively buying the logs wouldn't notice this? Or figure out a structure to prevent this?

Please no. LaTeX and its ecosystem needs to be put out to pasture.