Can't really see what all the fuss is about. They shouldn't have made the changes, no doubt, but they're all pretty insignificant. Publisher's exert significantly more influence when the author is alive and writing the book in the first place. The only one that ticks me off is that they added a "dedication to doctors" to one of the books.

I wonder, if it were your favourite childhood author, would you be okay with hundreds of sneaky little cuts and changes being inflicted?

Agreed on the 'dedicated to doctors' being added - that's even more fucked up than the memory holing.

A lot of people in the comments here are saying that this is beneficial because it will teach people that they can't trust video or audio. But I don't see how that makes sense because this isn't some neutered or weakened form of the technology. That's like saying shooting people makes them more aware of gun violence.

> That's like saying ...

It's like releasing some software that cracks all encryption (or more accurately, authentication), before of which only elite members of society had access to.

It's not a physical weapon, it's an information-security weapon; I don't think the gun metaphor is appropriate.

This is a fair point, but we have no way of knowing how close we came or will come to a nuclear apocalypse, so the risk posed by nuclear technology is difficult to evaluate.

The same as what would have happened have we not invented them.

We don't have reliable ways to project predict the future, or to predict the present based on past conditions.

It just said "about nine o'clock", I guess no one has anything to write about 9:03

Always gotta mention hypnospace when a post like this shows up :) https://www.hypnospace.net/

Disgraceful, what's even the point of putting pen to page when you're only gonna get a measly 95 years of ownership.

Photos won't work with this, it works here because text is discrete and provides a limited search space.

“Attacks always get better, they never get worse“ —Bruce Schneier

Yes, but that doesn't mean this particular attack is relavant to the problem space.

What makes it possible to search over font characters but not, eg, convolution tiles?

Photo identification is done with a limited search space of “tiles” that the image is decomposed into, for convolutional NNs.

This thread reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDITNAME

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Why only 90 degrees?

Well, we can't get a full 360 degrees because of the zone of avoidance caused by the center of the milky way.

Also after a particular number of degrees it doesn't matter quite so much, the universe is isotropic enough that looking in any direction pretty much gives the same results.

I suppose we only have one point of reference to make observations from, but it feels a little strange how the graphics tend to give a false sense of us being at the center of the universe.

Would this graph essentially look the same if the observations were made elsewhere, like way over near the redshifted elliptical galaxies? Sometimes it's difficult to wrap my mind around the combination of distance and time represented at these scales.

We are the center of the Universe. Of our observable universe, at least, by definition. And the total Universe might be much bigger, potentially infinite [or even smaller than the visible universe!]. Even if finite, the Universe would have no center. It's different from a finite amount of matter forming a sphere within an infinite grid, but much like a spherical surface that has no center (the sphere does, the surface does not).

> Would this graph essentially look the same if the observations were made elsewhere

Yes, an alien in a very far away galaxy would see a similar picture. If they are within a few billion light-years, they would see a younger red-shifted Milky Way.

I think it said right on the map that it's not only essentially the same in all directions, it's pretty much the same from any vantage point, since the distance makes most of the difference in what would be seen.

Not a physicist but that's how I understand it, anywhere you go in the visible universe should have a perspective that looks more or less just like ours, as if they were at the center. We can only see so far though, so someone a billion light years from here would have a visible universe that overlaps with ours like a Venn diagram, but would be seeing things we can't. Who knows, maybe there's something really interesting they could see that we cannot, like an edge of the actual universe with nothing beyond?

> This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

So, this is the slice that the telescope was observing.

My experience has been the opposite, last year a speaker came in (some high up business guy, can't remember the details) and briefly mentioned blockchain. He did a show of hands for who had a favourable opinion on blockchain and no one put there hand up (20-30 people).

This was in a GameDev club at university in the UK. I wonder where all these web3 advocates are coming from, maybe it is just a loud minority, or maybe that fact that they're game developers makes a difference.

Game devs definitely are much more aware that their consumers don't buy into the crypto scam. I've seen way too many NFT and crypto bros in the UI/UX/Design field.