Kajo

joined 1 year ago
[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To take things a step further, the only smart male on board is an orange cat.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 15 points 5 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's quite old: The Black Company by Glen Cook

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Psaum for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.

After these, I read all her books this year.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 8 points 9 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 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 1 points 10 months ago

Not much to complain about, we're having a nice September. /s

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

They have 300 facial expressions for that.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As a user, I see federation as a system in which one login gives you access to several forums. A bit like Discord, except that Discord is more like chat rooms (the decentralized architecture is not my point).

For me this is a nice but useless feature. I don't mind having several accounts on several servers, I have a password manager.

And, actually, even in the fediverse, I have several accounts to limit the risk of doxing. I can talk about intimate stuff on beehaw (like being bisexual), because I'm someone else on other instance(s) when I talk about the subject of my PhD or my projects on GitHub.

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