My interpretation of entropy is that if you have X states that are equally probable, but not all states are distinct from each other in some sense, then the next state will likely be one where the states satisfying that condition is most numerous.
For example, if you flip N coins, there are 2^N states available once the flip is done. Each outcome has an 1/2^N probability of outcome. There's only one state where all of the states show all heads. While there's only one state where coins numbers 1-N/2 are heads, and N/2-N are tails, so that particular outcome is 1/2^N, if all we care is the macroscopic behavior of "how many heads did we get"--we'll see that we got "roughly" N/2 heads especially as N gets larger.
Entropy is simply saying there's a tendency towards these macroscopically likely groups of states.
This is a common reason that Sailors are known for partying after long deployments.
Imagine you are 21 and unable to spend money, have free housing (the ship) and free food, then you land in a foreign country where you can finally drink after 8 months at sea with all the money you saved.
This is US Navy-specific, and the person you are replying to seems to have a dated experience of when beer days are authorized. It's every 45 days underway without a port call in sight, and this is governed by formal published regulations. Most ships pull into port at least every 30-40 days outside of major combat.
Ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in the Global War on Terror were under General Order #1, which prohibited alcohol in theater, but elsewhere like Djibouti and Qatar were authorized three beers a day maximum.
Not that different. Bilibili is a big, above-board video streaming service; they definitely have distribution rights to a large collection of anime content. (They also have YouTube-style user uploads where proper licensing is less likely.)
It's the equivalent of Crunchyroll putting out a video generation model. If the rightsholders disagree with this usage, it'll come up during the negotiations for new releases.
OpenAI doesn't have an existing business based on licensing Studio Ghibli content, so the only option Studio Ghibli has to stop them is to sue them and hope that OpenAI is found to have infringed their copyright.
Bilibili does have an existing business based on licensing Studio Ghibli content, so Studio Ghibli can threaten to refuse to sell them distribution rights for future releases, even without a lawsuit.
then tell me what chinnese government stance on this matters, because I can tell that Meta doing is illegal but I cant say the same with chinnese company doing it on mainland china
Is there any workflow that can output HDR photos (like the real HDR kind, with metadata to tell the display to go into HDR mode) for photos shot with a mirrorless and not an iPhone?
Yes. For example, Lightroom and Camera Raw support HDR editing and export from RAW images, and Adobe published a good rundown on the feature when they introduced it.
My experience is that 4chan is obscure and annoying enough to browse and participate that it keeps the lowest of low effort posts down. Like if you look at websites that are easy to participate, like Facebook or reddit, you're just gonna see the worst of the worst.
Not sure that I agree. There's plenty of very, very annoying people completely derailing threads on every board by spamming shitposts and the like on 4chan. I'd say the anonymous nature is actually an incentive since there's no real consequences.
Because that was the number the person i was responding to gave.
In any case north korea has the bomb. I think the secret is out. The most difficult thing at this point is the engineering challenge not the book knowledge.
I was under the impression that information about how to build nukes was mostly well known by most countries, and it is just a matter of getting enough of the right type of uranium or whatever.
- Crypto building blocks are important basic research because it underpins everything.
- Good crypto (this exists btw) is impossible to beat, unless QC is available. That's why PQC is being researched. Think about what kind of crypto NSA wants to break, it's not your bank of america passwords.
- IDK why this guy thinks we need to shut down Los Alamos to do crypto, does he not think the NSA has datacenters of its own?
- The problem with "well, it's not a problem now, why are we preparing for it" is that nation states are storing everything that is going on in the internet, waiting for when QC becomes active. This essentially means you can assume every secret you have will not be secret in 10/20/50 years. Your password is probably fine, but if you sent secret diplomatic cable today, it might be unlocked for your adversaries some years later. These secret nation-state comms are designed to be unlocked after N years normally since keeping them secret forever is expensive; PQC is simply designed to withhold that number N.
- The NSA is generally known to be several decades ahead of the academia. They infamously knew and corrected a differential cryptography vulnerability in DES long before differential cryptanalysis was known in the public community. Saying QC isn't growing fast enough doesn't mean much.
- The 2008 financial crisis metaphor is the only one that seemed poignant
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