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thereisnospork commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
blindriver · 6 days ago
On one hand, the DOJ gets shit because it was taking too long to produce the documents, and then on another, they get shit because there are mistakes in the redacting because there are 3 million pages of documents.
thereisnospork · 6 days ago
Considering the justice to document ratio that's kind of on them regardless.
thereisnospork commented on Pandas 3.0   pandas.pydata.org/communi... · Posted by u/jonbaer
goatlover · 14 days ago
The Polars code puts me off as being too verbose and requiring too many steps. I love the broadcasting ability that Pandas gets from Numpy. It's what sceintific computing should look like in my opinon. Maybe R, Julia or some array-based language does it a bit better than Numpy/Pandas, but it's certainly not like the Polars example.
thereisnospork · 14 days ago
Likewise, I was considering trying Polaris until I saw that example. The pandas example is a good approximation of how I think and want to transform/process data even if it is ugly under the hood. I do occasionally find numpy and pandas annoying wrt when the return a view vs a copy but the cure seems worse than the disease.
thereisnospork commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
WheatMillington · 16 days ago
How would airtags work as theft prevention? Airtags only enter the equation once something has already been stolen.
thereisnospork · 16 days ago
Setting expectations and thinning the herd. If even half of items had a well hidden air tag, and the cops successfully followed up even half of tagged thefts:

There would a. be less dumb criminals around to repeat offend and b. The smarter would-be criminals will do the calculus and and not steal items which could have tags.

thereisnospork commented on DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment   apnews.com/article/federa... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
blowsand · a month ago
*all administrations

Or do you believe it’s only one party? What’s your take on the 4 years Biden was in office wrt investigations and prosecutions of Democrat rivals? Clean hands, all legitimate?

For reference I’m not a Trump supporter, since that seems to be relevant to up/down votes here.

thereisnospork · a month ago
Oh, so is what-aboutism what we're doing today? Deflect the legitimate and obvious with 'the other side might've done something bad too once upon a time'? No, I don't think anything the Democrats have done at the federal level wrt to the DOJ comes close to what Trump has.
thereisnospork commented on DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment   apnews.com/article/federa... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
thereisnospork · a month ago
>Are you saying the entirety of the DOJ apparatus could be politically steered to look for non-existent evidence or make frivolous referrals?

Yes, have you not been paying attention? Politically motivated prosecution is modus operandi for the Trump administration...

thereisnospork commented on AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds   emjreviews.com/radiology/... · Posted by u/Liquidity
ludston · a month ago
Given that every positive case needs to be verified by a doctor anyway because the patient has breast cancer, and every negative case has to be checked because it does a worse job than traditional methods... It only costs more.
thereisnospork · a month ago
Depends on the false positive rate. Hypothetically one can 'just' tune the model so false positives are low. This will increase false negatives but those are 'free' as they don't require follow ups. So long as the decrease in cost per real positive[0] goes down there's a benefit to be had.

[0] accounting for false positives, screening costs for true negatives, etc. etc.

thereisnospork commented on AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds   emjreviews.com/radiology/... · Posted by u/Liquidity
andrewstuart · a month ago
AI finds nearly 2/3rds of breast cancers!
thereisnospork · a month ago
Depending how the costs of AI detection vs doctor, that genuinely might be enough to shift the math and be a net positive. If it is cheap enough to test 10x the current tested population, which would have lower, but non-zero rates of breast cancer, then[0] AI would result in more cancer detected and therefore more aggregate lives saved.

[0]presumptively

thereisnospork commented on Advanced Rail Energy Storage of North America   aresnorthamerica.com/... · Posted by u/tomjakubowski
dhampi · a month ago
Presumably a lot less expensive than pumped hydro to build.
thereisnospork · a month ago
Pretty much zero chance of that. The complexity (moving parts, machined parts, number of generators, number of electrical interconnects (etc.) is so much higher per kilogram basis compared to pumped hydro. Much of the country does half of pumped hydro (storing potential energy in water towers) and delivers it to your door for fractions of a penny per kg, a price that includes a complete distribution network and sourcing/purification of the water.
thereisnospork commented on The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes   oaklandside.org/2025/09/3... · Posted by u/randycupertino
gottorf · a month ago
> People unlawfully squat

My understanding of CA tenancy law is that it's so tilted in favor of the tenant, that if someone just claims to be one, the police have to shrug.

> Small wonder people are unhappy with the system and there's a market popping up for extra-judicial evictions

Well-intentioned laws, upon contact with the real world, often end up with undesirable secondary and tertiary consequences such as this.

thereisnospork · a month ago
Broadly agree.

Would probably be much cleaner all around if in such cases the law dictated possession back to the property owner with ~ treble damages/attorney's fees/statutory damages/reversion of possession in the cases where the alleged squatter was lawfully occupying. Basically enough to entice a lawyer to take the case on contingency and make it unequivocally in the favor of a hypothetically wronged tenant, while not allowing squatters to abuse the existing legal process.

thereisnospork commented on The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes   oaklandside.org/2025/09/3... · Posted by u/randycupertino
thereisnospork · a month ago
> “Our officers will respond to investigate the nature of the call,” OPD said in a statement. “If our officers determine this is a landlord-tenant issue, the case will be referred to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for further investigation.”

People unlawfully squat and the official position of the Police is shrug.

Small wonder people are unhappy with the system and there's a market popping up for extra-judicial evictions.

u/thereisnospork

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