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Adams lawyers urge City Hall staff to watch their words - POLITICO
by Gunnar Larson 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

NEW YORK — Top lawyers for New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently held a private briefing coaching City Hall staffers on how to avoid unwanted public scrutiny of government information. The key? Be careful what you write down. Or pick up the phone instead. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/adams-new-york-city-hall-staffers-…

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Punching back at critics, Mayor Adams says ‘swagger’ is at the center of his leadership style – New York Daily News
by Gunnar Larson 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

“I am the CEO of the largest corporation in America, and my bald head, earring-wearing swagger is running this city,” Adams said Friday during an appearance at the African American Mayors Association’s annual conference <https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-…> in Washington, D.C. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-…

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Sotheby’s Helped More Rich Clients Dodge Sales Tax, NY AG Says
by Gunnar Larson 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

What about NYCCoin and the Mayor? ---- An alleged effort by Sotheby’s to help wealthy art collectors avoid paying sales tax on purchases for their homes was “far more extensive and serious than previously known,” New York’s attorney general said. Sotheby’s Helped More Rich Clients Dodge Sales Tax, NY AG Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-22/sotheby-s-helped-more-ri…

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At Least Nine Lawmakers Sold Bank Stocks During Turmoil, FT Says
by Gunnar Larson 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

At least nine members of Congress sold banking stocks before and during the market turmoil in March, the Financial Times reported. At Least Nine Lawmakers Sold Bank Stocks During Turmoil, FT Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-22/at-least-nine-lawmakers-…

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Karl Semich committing suicide after discussions with a chatbot, that included the possibility of him killing himself
by professor rat 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

I would love to sell you some Fentanyl K. But I'm on the other side of the planet and it should be a lot easier to do it where you are - maybe try a Silk Road style website is better for a cretin like you than in person. If you still want me to do it then I'll need your home address and you'll have to pay upfront in a crypto of some sort. 100 USD worth for the F - 100 for moi. Plus all postage. Another alternative that may be more attractive is one of those ' Nitrogen " suicide advisory sites. Get cracking.

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McAfee Founder’s Neighbor Dead in Belize After Dogs Poisoned
by professor rat 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

And since then ( 2012! ) John McAfee went on to scam people through crypto before being arrested and dying in Belmarsh, sorry, some Spanish equivalent of Belmarsh. Dumbass Gramps tried to make a martyr out of this jerk. But he's as dead as Julius Caesar Rot in peace John McAfee.

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3d Printing for Dummies
by professor rat 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

I was implying you were an extremely dishonest, bad-faith arsehole - but I assume we all know that already. So to get back to the fun - if you support 3d printing things like AK-47's I'm going to try and flag you as a probable school/ Mall / church shooter. And if you oppose that I'm going to frame you as an enemy of this list Hell bent on attacking it from every angle. Its a lose-lose scenario for you - just what any moronic dipshit, scat-submissive masochist loves to revel in. So revel away Bozo. And keep the other thread going! ARSEHOLE!

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Karl Semich committing suicide after discussions with a chatbot, that included the possibility of him killing himself
by professor rat 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

" . . . what does this mean? . . . " FENTANYL > > The smallest step to self-murder Find someone in your Rainbow group whose HOLDING ie has some opioid drug for sale. Its not rocket-science.

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[ot][spam] ai-guided 3d printing
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

how i found papers: i looked straight for papers, but no info. looked for news, which mentioned commercial products. i looked for the commercial products, but no info. i looked for papers that mentioned commercial products and found things this way. as if were 14 (i’m roughly 40) i showed off a gear assembly i 3d printed to my father. he said i should make a rocket like he had seen in the new. well, i’m all about shooting for the moon. the rocket from the news was ai-designed. due to dissociation, i’m only stealing mainstream approaches and not pushing the edge of algorithm training (until it’s more common to?) i’m presently experiencing inhibition (due to resisting it aggressively again) and have stopped playing video games [again?] so this seemed like something that reasonably crossed productivity and recreation. here’s a recent paper on ai and 3d printing: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20875-1_33 Computer Vision Based Analysis for Fused Filament Fabrication Using a G-Code Visualization Comparison Abstract [edited down for conciseness and clarity] a probability of 41.1% remains that the printed part will have errors. This investigation provides an account of a camera based monitoring system developed to detect complex problems. - Image segmentation was used to remove the background of the printed part and the result was compared to a visualization of the G-Code. By using an exclusive-or method it was possible to determine differences, which can indicate defects. Depending on the similarity, the printing process can be canceled promptly. Tests have demonstrated that this method works reliably even under changing lighting conditions in most cases but can lead to poor segmentation due to shadows being cast in the infill. The application is also able to recognize differences when printed parts detach or layers have shifted if they are not covered by lower layers. The use of a light source on top of the 3D printer and additional cameras, beside the build plate, could solve both problems in the future. comments: addresses detection of failure, which is possibly a part of a potential larger problem of ai-designed g-code. the approach of image segmentation appears simple, one could probably finetune a popular pretrained model or 3d architecture to outperform this method. here’s another similar-looking recent paper: https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/149946 Building a Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D Printing Visual Defect Detection System, Part 1: Creation of a Dynamic Imaging System, a Pixel-wise Segmentation Dataset with a Hybrid Synthetic Data Creation Method, and a Semantic Segmentation Algorithm with the SegFormer Deep Learning Model Abstract: As a part of an effort to develop a surface defect detection system for FDM 3D printed objects, this work project studies the application of the SegFormer network to semantically segment 3D printed objects. The project also showcases an affordable and accessible imaging system designed for the surface defect detection system, to support the decisions made during the segmentation task and to be used to evaluate the segmentation models. To achieve this, the first-ever pixel-wise annotation dataset of 3D-printed object images was created. Model-O1, a SegFormer MiT-B0 model trained on this dataset with minimal data augmentation resulted in an Intersection-over-Union score of 87.04%. A synthetic data creation method that caters to the nature of 3D printed objects was also proposed, which expands upon existing synthetic data creation methods. The model trained on this dataset, Model-A2, achieved an IoU score of 89.31%, the best performance achieved among the models developed in this project. During the evaluation of the model based on the inference results, Model-A2 was also identified to be the most practical model for building a surface defect detection system. comments: this paper references a 3d printed imagery dataset which sounds quite helpful if public. it’s a little confusing to me that it discusses “synthetic data creation” but is only addressing defect detection and not g-code synthesis. this is because i searched for the term “spaghetti detective” which is a corporate-built defect detector. the seed article i started with was https://www.hubs.com/blog/ai-assisted-3d-printing/ . it may be productive to look for other phrases from the article.

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3d Printing for Dummies
by professor rat 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

What issue? You have yet to address the serious issue that you're seen as a serial-pest attacking this list. Not just by me but at least two others fairly recently. I'm also not the only one whose suggested the best way for you to resolve our serious issue is for you to kill yourself. Now would you just kindly fuck off and kill yourself? FINALLY!

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