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.

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.

I understand the statement is about in-game stuff, but I’m guessing a lot of game developers have been using GitHub Copilot and this kind of “AI tools” for months.

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.

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.

It’s not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.

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In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her “do you condemn Hamas?”, the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn’t have to prove or justify her humanity.

I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?

This news must be read in the French political context, where far-right ideas are corrupting the minds and islamophobia is the legal face of racism.

It’s also a way for the government to divide the left, accusing it to promote islamist terrorism (which is obviously a fake).

This is a loophole that the Minister of the Interior has been discovering and exploiting for months: he does something whose legality is highly questionable (like banning a demonstration), and by the time his decision is legally challenged and overturned, he's got what he wanted and there are no legal consequences for him.

You're right, the situation has deteriorated over the last 30 years.

But what I don't agree with is the idea that it's impossible to establish lasting peace in the region.

Otherwise, we have to accept that their only conceivable future is permanent conflict until genocide arrives. That's morally unacceptable to me; we can't settle for horror.

That's not true.

In the 90's, the Oslo Accords was a step forward between Israel (Yitzhak Rabin, and his opponent Shimon Peres) and Palestine Liberation Organization (Yasser Arafat) to find a way to live peacefully together.

They shared the Nobel Peace Prize for that. And it cost Yitzhak Rabin his life, as he was murdered by a far-right terrorist who wanted to stop the peace process.

To complete the article, there are two levels of (public) social protection in France.

Unemployment insurance, which pays a percentage of your last salary if you lose your job, for several months.

The RSA, mentioned in the article, which is a survival benefit for people who don't have/no longer have access to unemployment insurance.

People do their utmost to get back to work before moving from unemployment insurance to the RSA, which is the gateway to extreme poverty.

This measure therefore attacks the weakest of the weak.

Unions don't work the same way in all european countries.

In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.

And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don't know exactly how the other ones are organized

The last time the parliament proposed an improvement of the IVF law to allow it in other cases than cishet couples, the government removed from the proposal the IVF for trans men, and the partner-assisted reproduction for lesbian couples.

And all of them fight against what they call the “wokisme”.

They are only doing better than lots of countries, because lots of countries are absolutely awful.

TW : suicide

Don’t be fooled, this has nothing to do with the fight against transphobia in France.

The Minister of Education has been facing a shit storm ever since a newspaper revealed that his administration had prevented a harassed (cis) kid from speaking, and the kid ended up committing suicide.

Faced with the scandal, the Minister asked his administration to take up all complaints of harassment and take action.

It’s to their advantage that the debate is refocused on the symbolic violence of this intervention. The reason for the harassment is the least of their concerns.

Getting Nintendo would be a career moment for me

Who cares about your career? How could it be a justification for anything?

Picross games are the Nintendo version of the pen-and-paper puzzles called nonograms. I’m pretty sure you can find this kind of puzzles on steam or websites.

Fez: a 2D plateformer in which you can change the perspective to create ways to unreachable plateforms

Baba Is You: a puzzle game in which you move blocks with words written on them, combining them to create small phrases which become new rules of the game.

Because the rich and powerful meat lobby wants to make life hell for their meat free competitors. The only logic here is money.