That’s already how animation works, except it uses normal math and algorithms to interpolate and generate frames. Frame generation using machine learning is good for generating frames for old film from when really low framerates where the only thing possible.
Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s
President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged Tuesday to revive those often shabby, limited government stores and continue efforts to achieve “food sovereignty.”
The policies appear to run counter to market trends and what Mexican food sales look like today, when consumption of most of the old basics has fallen.
However, the health benefits aren’t clear: The most common bean recipe in Mexico — refried beans — often contains a considerable dose of lard.
Apart from the challenge of trying to change consumer habits, the policy also runs counter to market trends. While some countries are trying to encourage high-value varietal and specialized chocolate strains, Mexico is focusing on the cheapest products.
Sheinbaum’s focus on self-sufficiency in oil, energy and foodstuffs is a holdover from her predecessor
López Obrador also appears to have passed on his nostalgia for a 1970s-style Mexico — including passenger rail service, state-owned industries, tight-knit families and small corner stores — to Sheinbaum.
But the government’s track record in actually changing consumer behavior is poor, columnist Javier Tejado wrote Tuesday in the newspaper El Universal. He reminded readers that the government banned junk food advertisements aimed at children in 2014.
“The result after ten years of prohibitions?” Tejado wrote. “Things are worse than when they started in 2014; Mexicans have decided to keep consuming things they like.”
Stay absolutely classy, Asshole Propagandists.
Some good Yahoo News comments.
The top one:
“The most common bean recipe in Mexico — refried beans — often contains a considerable dose of lard.”
First of all, no the most common bean recipe is simple boiled pot beans which have no oil–and they are healthy. Pot beans are the precursor to refried beans, refried beans are actually made with leftover pot beans from the previous day’s meal. And refried beans are often also made with corn or canola oils. Beans with red rice, maybe salsa, and corn tortillas are a simple healthy vegetarian based meal that provides a complete vegetable based protein, fiber, niacin, calcium, lycopene, iron, and vitamin C. Mexicans lived on such a diet for hundreds of years (plus tamales, etc.), and tended to live long (90s and 100s), permitting wars were not playing out.
There’s a reason obesity has increased in Mexico and that’s because Mexicans have adopted the more industrialized U.S. food styles of eating since the 1980s.
Going back to that would not be a panacea, but would be healthier.
Was listening to a show a while back. They were discussing the agriculture of Mexico over the decades. How things have changed for the worse. So many of the small family farms have disappeared, like they have here in the U.S. So many of the farms have been taken over by large corporations, many U.S. owned. These corporations have changed the crops grown in Mexico, to fit the demands of the U.S. markets. That’s why so much, U.S. produce, is grown in Mexico. They’ve done away with many of the native grown and consumed products, consumed in Mexico. Asparagus was another example. Normally found in the Northern U.S. at very high prices, was moved to the mountainous regions of Mexico. Now, it’s available to the U.S. consumers at very low prices. In the old days, my mother-in-law used to show up at the house with her 5-gallon bucket of lard. Sure tasted good, but it was terrible on my arteries.
Perhaps she is trying to help the rural poor rather than the urban wealthy? That would be different, huh?
This is part of a much broader effort to curtail the United States’ ongoing efforts to dump cheap and highly processed food on Mexico.
The US has tried to force GMO corn on that country for years (just as it’s done everywhere else in the world) and Mexico has resisted.
I commend Mexico for standing their ground.
The United States has devastated other countries’ agricultural systems in order to seize market control for Big Business. (Ex: Haiti use to be largely self-sufficient until the US put all their rice growers out of business and made that country dependent upon imports from the US.)
Mexico is being smart on this one.
(From November 28th, 2023)
generational politics 
Nobody has even developed a fully open source Minecraft server in Java yet. There’s never going to be one in Rust. The amount of work to keep up with changes or additions in content or the world simulation would just be too high.
This is what every rebel base will look like in 2040 in order to confuse the autonomous attack drones’ computer vision subsystems.
Sending some capitalists to fire missiles wouldn’t really be justice either. The notion of them “doing their own fighting” isn’t as relevant when it comes to imperialism, because the fighting is so one-sided already. I could see some politician easily doing a sort of photo op where they actually “do the fighting”. I mean, American propagandists will go to war zones and “embed” with soldiers. There’s some risk to life but obviously not that much of a risk. American soldiers themselves don’t have high casualty rates. Since they’re just doing airstrikes. People still have the WWI trench warfare mental image of war.
“Candidates are electable if you vote for them”
Well, no. But maybe this image is somewhat sarcastic.
It looks like a poster for a benign quirky corporate-sponsored community event with all those sponsor logos at the bottom. But for ethnic cleansing.
Jakins was responsible for drilling and inserting strings into other competitors’ chestnuts as the competition’s top judge, known as the “King Conker”.
So a competitor prepares other competitors’ “gear”? I guess if it’s small enough that the only people at the event are competitors.
Don’t really like the use of numbers for these kinds of things though. Obviously most of that 2.5 billion is just whatever massive price US companies feel they can charge. That vehicle probably took a lot less labor to build than than the 1.3 billion going to rebuilding people’s homes. So in this specific case it isn’t apples to apples. I think it would be better to focus on the amount of manpower involved in the war industry. The number of workers who’s entire existence is to help murder people. It may be more comparable if you point that out as whole instead of how much one thing costs, because that’s so immaterial. We’re all used to hearing nonsensically large numbers.
The GPS thing at the end of the video is interesting. I guess they have a GPS spoofer, maybe for trying to confuse GPS guided missiles so they don’t think they’re near Mossad HQ?
Qatar is a land of contrasts.
So it sounds like “Red Info” by the two most (only) famous people on Disco Elysium would be the obvious one to watch. It appears they don’t have a website yet (based).
You have to write -ai in your search query to disable it :(
Might be able to edit the url template in your browser to always have the -ai in it
I wonder which employees they have host and attend these events. Does Apple hire a bunch of police-type psychos? Do they find the most pro-cop software developers at the company? Do they make the actual people developing the software do it?
The article says
The timing of the story comes one year after the last Global Police Summit, and according to the report, the Apple employee who led the efforts—Gary Oldham—recently left the company.
The details around his exit are unknown. Notably though, there was no Global Police Summit held this year. It’s unclear whether the event will return without Oldham at the helm.
Is thst really thst unusual? They are obviously going to charge more for last minute extremely popular flights. People usually book months out to get better prices. And taking a plane to get away from a storm…? I don’t know if taking a plane from Florida to Chicago like the next day is really anyone’s God given right in the first place. Not shedding tears that someone is getting “ripped off” trying to take an airplane instead of just driving for a while or going to a shelter.
In their defense, I’m sure there are tons of actually useful machine learning models that don’t use that much power once trained.
I have an iPhone with Face ID and I think the way they did that was to train a model on lots of people’s faces, and they just ship that expensive-to-train model with the operating system and then it trains a little bit more when you use face ID. I can’t imagine it uses that much power since you’re running the algorithm every time you open the phone.
I’m sure any model worth anything probably does require a lot of training and energy usage. I guess it really depends on the eventual utility whether it’s worth it.
I also don’t know if there’s any Linux program that will automatically do the configuration for you.
It seems like it would be pretty complex since I guess you need to disable the linux host from using the GPU, and do PCI passthrough in a VM that has Windows installed.
And there’s still the problem of the graphics needing to move around the system in order to get to the display instead of the display being directly connected to the GPU.
Seems like a pretty cool thing that would be neat to have a nice automated GUI solution for.
I was just looking at, seems like it’s difficult but not impossible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY
I’m in the same boat that it seems too difficult (and I bet the performance still isn’t near native).
I just dual boot and boot into Windows if I’m going to play a game.