Kajo

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[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 15 points 7 months ago

Before being an appetite suppressant, it is a medication for diabetes.

The problem is not the margin Novo Nordisk makes on an appetite suppressant, contrary to what the headline says.

The twofold problem is the margin on a diabetes drug, which weighs heavily on patients and health insurers around the world. And the potential supply problems for diabetics, when a vital drug is sold as a miracle weight-loss remedy.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I live in Provence, 200 km (125 miles) from the Italian border.

You can find it at any outdoor market. It's called "cade", which derives from the Italian "calde" (hot). It was imported by Italian workers hundreds of years ago.

It's cooked on site over a wood fire and sold fresh from the pizza oven. One particularity is that it's thinner than socca from Nice, and is served with pepper and/or ground cumin.

Because it's thin, it cooks evenly and isn't creamy in the center, rather like a heavy pancake.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

I understand the statement is about in-game stuff, but I'm guessing a lot of game developers have been using GitHub Copilot and this kind of "AI tools" for months.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense to say that O(f(n)) is good or bad for any algorithm. It must be compared to the complexity of other algorithms which solve the same problem in the same conditions.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I just checked: there's absolutely no problem with this one. And even better: it produces a lot of nectar for the European bees.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They have 300 facial expressions for that.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's quite common in the parks and gardens in the South of France, where it's nicknamed "rince-bouteille" (bottle rincer). I didn't know it came from Australia.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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?

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