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This is superbly written.


Then you may enjoy Elements of Statistical Learning[1] or Kevin Murphy's books[2][3][4], which this chapter is heavily indebted to; it is mostly a short gloss of the topics covered in those books.

[1]: https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/

[2]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book0.html

[3]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

[4]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html


Did someone dig into the UFO files?


well, the comparison is quite far off the track:

in case of Kennedy, there is a real case with whatever information hidden for the last 50 years.

in case of UFO, well - we have some smartphone video (which are by coincidence always blurred due to pixels, even on a 8k 2025 device) and some guys claiming whatever topic.

so, regarding a possible evidence for (X), i would dig into the former, while the latter would be much more fun


> well, the comparison is quite far off the track:

Might not be that far off the track.

A post on X says "US Military Intelligence leaders (MJ-12) didn't like this idea because it would antagonize the Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities who inhabited to the dark side of the moon."

https://x.com/Andercot/status/1904692633697730644 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm7T2wBbYAMEN3_?format=jpg&name=...


Zero evidence that the document you're referring to isn't completely fake.


FWIW, any interesting information about the JFK assassination is still likely withheld. The newly released files still have plenty of redactions and include a warning that they are not every record related to the case. You will probably die before seeing anything surprising come from JFK's CIA folder.

> in case of UFO, well - we have some smartphone video

We've got FLIR videos too, it's kinda what GOFAST et. al are famous for. Plenty more interesting than the Kennedy files, but that's just my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos


I also believe really interesting things, if there is any, did not leave a trace. People who send assassins towards presidents, if it did happen, probably did not write down their plans in detail. And any agreements between the power groups is most likely oral and "within certain understanding", likely built through generations of common interests.


Did you notice has we had no more sightings or tic-tac Air Force videos in the last 2 years?


Probably done testing whatever it was, most likely some kind of tech for drones or maybe even the B-21 or F-47. Just like the "Flying triangles" from back in the 1980's and early 1990's were probably the F-117 and B-2 test articles.


The stuff they showed on those videos a few years ago were a lot of the often balloons or children's birthday balloons and the incredible speeds were ~40mph.

There is several guys that on YouTube that seriously investigate the UFO sightings and almost all of them are either flares, children's balloons or in some cases people literally filming a reflection of a light fitting in a hotel room.


CACM used to be high quality.


How does Microsoft's deal with one country affect its software distribution in other countries?


"Daily occurrence" is fairly obvious if you consider script-kiddies and small time criminal activities. As for electoral security, plenty of post-2013 events already to check the validity (and exaggerations) of this. What should concern is how much of this will be state sponsored.


…and also how much big tech companies want to block the spread of this misinformation.

Because, for example, X/twitter knows that the same (misinformation) article/link is shared by 100 accounts created few days before. But X doesn’t block the sharing of this link/article because it makes more money as it is more shared/interacted.

Law makers should write some rules on this.


What are the problems with using Digital Object Architecture to replace DNS?


link says page not found.


How much do you think a single individual's data worth?


Depends with use case -- a single piece of healthcare data would easily go for triple digits, while high volume data (blogs, text, images) would go for single or double.

The investment model also throws things a bit off, since the value of contract for profits also has a worth, and fluctuates with company performance.


Basically $30 a month to talk to a chatbot pretending to be Riley.


What happened to C2PA?


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