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Re:When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:14AM (#44888723)
The issue isn't software developers working with the military. It is a matter of offensive U.S. military operations and the associated self-serving geopolitics being treated as countercultural.
Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as device...
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:10PM (#41569992)
They didn't. Al Jazeera's headline was updated to read "Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers."
Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza
on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:00PM (#39921543)
Actually, The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fired its campaign manager Ousman Noor as a result of him advocating against the IDF's killings in Gaza. The Campaign initially denied that it was over his Gaza advocacy, but eventually admitted that it was because of him speaking to diplomats which he met through the Campaign. Many members of the campaign support the IDF's arguable genocide, despite how surprising that might be.
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Re:Aztec Diamond
on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:09PM (#32271151)
I wrote some open source code a few years ago that introduces a simple way to convert LU factorizations into a Determinantal Point Process sampler and used large Aztec diamonds as the example