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Training a Self-Driving Kart

There are certain tasks that humans perform every day that are notoriously difficult for computers to figure out. Identifying objects in pictures, for example, was something that seems fairly straightforward …read more
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Vous vous souvenez (enfin, surtout les personnes nées ya un bon moment) de l'epoque-ou-on -ecrivait-des-mails-sans-les-accents-cedilles-tremas-en-francais?

Il y a encore des langues qui doivent passer par des fonts spéciales qu'il faut installer pour pouvoir lire correctement et ne pas avoir des carrés ou des caractères au hasard.

Or, cela fait super longtemps que le problème n'est pas technique. Il n'est pas non plus linguistique évidemment...

Article en libre accès, en anglais ⤵️

Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?

"The challenges to achieving universal encoding for historically-marginalized languages are no longer technical; they are bureaucratic and political". ⤵️⤵️

theconversation.com/why-is-it-…

#linguistics #digital #typing #language

in reply to Linguistes atterrées ☑️

J’avoue, mon clavier bépo est d’un grand confort pour l’accès aux caractères accentués français.
in reply to Le Monolecte 😷🤬🐧

@Monolecte Sur mon clavier allemand banal, les accents se font par "touche avec juste l'accent" puis la lettre à accentuer (y'a forcément un terme technique, flemme de chercher dsl), c'est super-pratique. (Par contre, y'a pas de cédille, ni de barre pour faire des ł).
in reply to Siegfried Ehret

@SiegfriedEhret
Vraiment super, cette variante : ma fille écrit essentiellement en anglais et japonais… avec un clavier azerty, ce qui est vraiment chiant.

Là, elle vient de prendre un clavier mécanique… mais qui n’existe qu’en qwerty. Avec cette variante, ça va juste embellir sa vie.

in reply to Le Monolecte 😷🤬🐧

@SiegfriedEhret
En plus, je réfléchissais à entrer un clavier qwerty pour ma pomme, vu que des fois, je me retrouve dans le bios ou en root où il faut taper en qwerty et c’est très très chiant à partir d’un clavier bépo.



in reply to Christoph S

@Mark Wollschlager The guy says he's sick, and the dog suggests that fresh air and ball throwing will help and is good for the immunity. Of course, just unselfishly suggesting that...
in reply to Christoph S

Ruby is always lecturing me on the benefits of fresh air and sunshine. Right now as a matter of fact.





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in reply to Weird Christmas, Rev. (rev.)

you and my wife both think this is horrid. I think it is cute. We will agree to disagree.


Franchement, qui serait surpris que le tonton raciste du repas de No€l parle de "Mamadou aux urgences" après qu'il ait affirmé qu'on "trouve du taf en traversant la rue", que "bon ça vaaaa c'est Gérard !" ou qu'il y a des gens qui ne "sont rien". #racisme #homophobie
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vicesimo primo die Decembris, Minimus fistellam invenit. (On the 21st of December, Minimus finds a whistle.) #latinadventcalendar
in reply to Minimus

🤣 I think the winning strategy is to tell Silvius he can play with the whistle - but only for a couple of minutes a day! 😉🤣


Israeli troops shoot Syrian protester as forces move beyond buffer zone - theguardian.com/world/2024/dec… not enough suffering in #gaza alone, it seems... #syria #israel

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Today we experience the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This is not just a date on the calendar — it is an important point in Earth's orbit, symbolizing the end of an astronomical cycle and the beginning of a new one.

From this point on, it will not get any darker. Each following day will be a little longer, and our hemisphere will begin to receive more solar energy. We are taking the first step towards spring, summer, and new horizons.

Christmas and New Year are cultural symbols framing this objective natural process. Yes, we still have many cold winter days and snowy nights ahead, but with each dawn, we inevitably get closer to warmth and light.

Congratulations to everyone on the new astronomical cycle! May it be clear, bright, and full of energy for you.

#AstronomicalCycle #ShortestDay #WinterSolstice #BrighterDays #TowardsSpring #NewHorizons

in reply to Henry Fisher

A woolly mammoth stands in a snowy forest at night. The trees are covered in snow and illuminated with warm, golden lights. Above, the night sky is filled with stars, a galaxy, and several constellations outlined in white. A faint aurora borealis is visible in the sky.

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St. Cloud politician, educator Lenora Hunt faces criminal charges byteseu.com/580113/ #access:free #Politics #ssts:news:politics #sstsn:Politics #Tag:CourtProceedings #tag:Crime #Tag:Crime&Justice #Tag:DrugAbuse #tag:Elections #Tag:Firearms&Weapons #tag:Government #tag:Guns #tag:Legal #Tag:LocalNews #Tag:OverallNegative #tag:Politics #Tag:St.Cloud #type:story


UK to ban #bee-killing pesticides but highly toxic type could still be allowed - theguardian.com/environment/20… "one teaspoon of the chemical is enough to kill 1.25 billion honeybees" selfish farmers strike again
#bee