lamy, david

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mathematician interested in logic programming, functional programming, cycling and skate skiing.
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The Former Israeli Spies Building AI Systems At Global Tech Companies

Dozens of former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 - a secretive cyber warfare team accused of building the AI systems that helped enable the Gaza genocide - are now building AI systems for the world’s biggest tech and AI companies.

¡Do Not Panic!
@jmcrookston @crowgirl
I used this graph to buttress the fact that COVID is a threat to more than an elderly man like me.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=17ENT
The comment thread was populated by COVID skeptics. One response to the graph was, "Are these disabilities the result of vaccine injury?"
As your age gets aged you become accustomed to willful ignorance. Still,
the too late, too little monetary support and too limited lockdowns coupled with vaccine only mitigation and no universal masking dooms us.
Civilian Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 to 64 Years, Men | FRED | St. Louis Fed

Graph and download economic data for Civilian Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 to 64 Years, Men from Jun 2008 to Feb 2024 about 16 to 64 years, disability, males, civilian, labor force, labor, household survey, USA, and females.

Part-time jobs, no benefits: The real state of the working class

In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unem…

COVID infections can confer lapses in judgement and periods of inattention. For example:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/14/cdc--f14.html

#Covidisnotover #LetHerRipAnyWay

Normalizing mass infection and death, CDC to scrap COVID-19 isolation guidelines

This policy change is the latest in a continuous stream of attacks on science and public health by the CDC, which has wholly discredited itself over the course of the pandemic after once being the world’s preeminent public health agency.

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A COVID infection doubles the risk of new onset dementia (NOD) in those 60 and older (my peeps). But not only COVID, RSV and the flu increase NOD risk too.
This is serious. Think of the large percentage of elderly in our political class.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/13/nzsh-f13.html

#Covidisnotover #LetHerRipAnyWay

Study finds that COVID infection increases risk of new-onset dementia among elderly people

When compared to an elderly population that never contracted COVID-19 or other respiratory infections, those with prior COVID-19 infections had a nearly two-fold increased risk of new onset dementia at one year after infection.

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@w7voa
Who could have guessed?
One can surely find more reasonably priced blinders.
A good primer on the AI that shapes our choices today:
https://youtu.be/R9OHn5ZF4Uo
How AI Learns

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@crowgirl

Fairy tales of the evil spirit conjuring up a plague on your house -- meets the modern news cycle.
Now the spirits are real and so is the plague they enable.

This story does make me wonder if this is one of a disturbingly large number of ways that cognitive function damage from #covid may have such far-reaching ripple effects that we can't even fathom. Everyone makes errors. If everyone makes even a few more errors, but we aren't increasing our safety checks and inspections, more people will die. Airplanes, peanuts... what next? https://globalnews.ca/news/10253166/dancer-peanut-allergy-dies-stew-leonard-cookie-orla-baxendale/
Dancer with severe peanut allergy dies after eating mislabelled cookies

Órla Baxendale died of anaphylactic shock after she ate Stew Leonard's vanilla Florentine cookies which she assumed, based on the label, were peanut-free.

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