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News article:
AI pilot program in Los Angeles County courts will help judges craft rulings
The program, which launched last month, gave half a dozen Los Angeles County civil court judges access to AI software called Learned Hand [named after a famous federal judge]. Although it could prove critical in a shorthanded court system that is facing a workload crisis on many fronts, the announcement has also drawn concern from some members of the county’s legal community who fear the technology could create errors and erode public trust in the legal system.
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According to the Wikipedia article (citing a 1978 bibliography of Dumas's works), the misspelling "Monte Christo" was used as the title of several non-translated French editions.
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I expect that the typical person (1) has not assigned and recorded enough attractiveness ratings that he can construct a coherent normal distribution from them (I assume that dozens of data points would be required at the very least), and rather (2) assigns ratings (and does not bother to record them) on a purely ad-hoc basis without reference to any distribution.
(Also, obligatory reminder that rating out of ten is unreasonably granular, and rating out of five is better.)
Links instead of just citations:
Note that headings are omitted from the two paragraph-by-paragraph English versions that I looked at. In a Latin version that is not split up by paragraphs, 2270–2275 has the heading "Abortion", 2276–2279 "Euthanasia", 2280–2283 "Suicide", and 2288–2291 "Respect for Health".
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2270: "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person—among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life."
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2273: "The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation: 'As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights.'"
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At this point, Eugene Volokh has spotlighted many dozens of legal filings containing "AI hallucinations" (or "LLM shameless guesses"). See also this database of over a thousand such filings.
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A Kiwi Farms user claims:
Ethnonym surnames are extremely common in Hungary due to its being a multiethnic kingdom originally, like "Németh"—German, "Török"—Turk, "Lengyel"—Polish, "Oláh"—Vlach/Romanian.
Tóth (Slovak) and Horváth (Croat) are within the top 5 most common surnames in the country.
The USAian person most often memed in an equivalent manner is Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.
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I thought it was a request for a literal definition. I personally had never heard of these "racial-justice courts" before, and had to look them up myself.
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I was just relaying the results of a simple Google search before SecureSignals himself responded.
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A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses.
an unbuilt easement or farm road (on private property, but mapped for whatever reasons)
If the map itself is wrong, putting up extra signs is only patching the symptoms. Involved people—the owner, the municipal government, and even other inhabitants of the municipality if necessary—need to submit corrections to the mapping service in order to fix the actual disease. (In Google Maps you can just right-click and "report a data problem", and I vaguely recall reading somewhere that municipal governments also have special authority to upload information directly (which indeed may have been the source of the bad map in the first place). I don't know anything about Apple Maps.)
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>The virgin profile-image hater: Uses custom CSS to hide all profile images (.profile-pic-20{display:none!important;})
>The Chad profile-image lover: Uses custom CSS to make all profile images twice as large as the default size (.profile-pic-20{width:40px;height:unset;})
Perhaps admin @ZorbaTHut should weigh in on whether he wants profile images to be larger, smaller, or the same as they already are.
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I want to type set runes, give me set runes
HTML character references work in Markdown.
It's not B, it's A where A ⊂ B and B ⊄ A.
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That's easy to disable. Just right-click on some spoilered text, select the "inspect" option, and turn off the CSS rule .spoilerhidden{color:#fff!important;}.
Profile images should be banned on forums. The point of a forum is to influence others through the quality of your arguments. Exploiting the halo effect by being attractive IRL is unfair, and that goes double for using profile images that are even more attractive than your IRL face. On Kiwi Farms, one prolifically-posting moderator represents himself with various images of Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the degree to which it unfairly advantages him actually makes me angry. People should not be allowed to misleadingly imply that they are birds and princesses when their true forms are neckbeards and legbeards.
Until this website implements a ban on profile images, I recommend (1) using a barebones solid-color profile image for yourself and (2) using custom CSS (.profile-pic-20{display:none!important;}) to hide the profile images of all other users.
(This is very approximately half a joke.)
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I'm not an expert on the topic, but it is my understanding that the admin of TV Tropes was compelled by the site's advertisers to remove pages on controversial topics. The linked page—for Time Braid, a super-fun Naruto fanfiction story that depicts sex between underage characters—is one example of a page that was removed from TV Tropes but has been restored on AllTheTropes.
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In the US, flashing green indications are not permitted (MUTCD § 4A.04 ¶ 01 item A).
Under MUTCD § 4F.01 ¶ 03:
my expectation would be that if the next period is unprotected turning, it would flash yellow, and it does, but not before turning solid red for 1 second
This is the default under item F.6.
My preference would be for it to transition immediately from green to flashing yellow
This is permitted (not recommended or required) under item F.6.b.
If you feel like making a long shot, you can try asking your jurisdiction about this signal, citing these specific passages of the MUTCD in your complaint.
Steady and flashing signal indications shall be applied as follows:
(F) A steady YELLOW ARROW signal indication:
(6) Shall be terminated by a RED ARROW signal indication for the same direction or a CIRCULAR RED signal indication except:
(b) When the movement controlled by the arrow is to continue on a permissive mode basis during an immediately following signal phase, the display of a CIRCULAR GREEN signal indication or flashing YELLOW ARROW signal indication shall be permitted following a steady YELLOW ARROW signal indication. To provide a red clearance interval, it shall be permitted to display a steady left-turn RED ARROW signal indication immediately following the steady left-turn YELLOW ARROW signal indication.
turning left onto a one-way street
This is legal in some jurisdictions but not in others. NJ Statutes tit. 39 ch. 4 § 115:
The driver of a vehicle or the motorman of a streetcar:
(a) Intending to turn to the right or left at an intersection where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or by a traffic or police officer, shall proceed to make either turn with proper care to avoid accidents and, except as provided in (b) below, only upon the "go" signal unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, an official sign or special signal; or
(b) Intending to turn right at an intersection where traffic is controlled by a traffic control signal shall, unless an official sign of the State, municipality, or county authority having jurisdiction over the intersection prohibits the same, proceed to make the turn upon a "stop" or "caution" signal with proper care to avoid accidents after coming to a full stop, observing traffic in all directions, yielding to other vehicular traffic traveling in a direction in which the turn will be made, and stopping and remaining stopped for pedestrians crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk, or at an unmarked crosswalk, into which the driver is turning.
Both the approach for and the turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, unless such intersection is otherwise posted.
most drivers don't realize they can
And @gattsuru:
it's rare enough that a lot of motorists don't recognize it
Installing signs whose only purpose is reminding the motorist of something that he should already know is a bad practice. MUTCD § 2A.20:
Signs should be used and located judiciously, minimizing their proliferation in order to maintain their effectiveness. Regulatory and warning signs should be used conservatively because these signs, if used to excess, tend to lose their effectiveness. Route signs and directional guide signs for primary routes and destinations should be used frequently at strategic locations because their use promotes efficient operations by keeping road users informed of their location. In all cases, however, sign clutter should be avoided and minimized as much as practicable.
Sign clutter is the proliferation of sign installations or assemblies along the roadway or roadside, either separately or grouped, to such an extent that adequate spacing between installations necessary for orderly processing of the sign messages by the driver cannot be achieved. Sign clutter can reduce the effectiveness of one or more signs in a sequence of signs.
The basic role of traffic control devices is to provide only as much information to the road user as necessary to promote the safe and efficient operation of streets and highways. Sign clutter can result from the overuse of MUTCD-compliant signs and or signs that display information unrelated to traffic operation, navigation, or transportation information. Examples of such signs would include, but are not limited to, those displaying the birthplace or home of a noted person, local sports team accomplishments, population information, and self-described qualities of a community such as “friendly” or “open for business”.
Rather than installing superfluous signs, the jurisdiction should conduct an education campaign (e. g., through billboards or mass mailing if television/radio/YouTube advertisements will not achieve the desired penetration).
when the project was complete he drove down there to take a look and said that whatever other problems there were with the plan they got the signs wrong
LOL. Just a few weeks ago I myself sent to PennDOT a complaint about some signs that were blatantly wrong. Multiple signs all said "left lane ends, merge right", but in reality the right lane ended and motorists had to merge left! And I drove past these signs for many months before I got around to making the complaint. I imagine the lawsuit resulting from a crash at that location would be legendary. (No standards compliance? No design immunity!)
he thought that the MUTCD should adopt something similar
MUTCD-compliant signs serving this purpose already exist.
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R3-1: "trucks over XX tons no right turn"
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R5-2: "no trucks"
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R12 series: "weight limit XX tons", "axle weight limit XX tons", "weight limit 2 axles XX T, 3 axles YY T, 4 axles ZZ T", etc.
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W8 series: "pavement ends", "loose gravel", "rough road", etc.
Presumably the municipal governments are just too incompetent to install them (and pass ordinances backing up the R (regulatory) signs).
No, it's a confusing localization—or, in Nabokov's words, a paraphrase.
If "shield" sounds wrong to Anglophone ears, that's their fault for failing to acknowledge the validity of French currency units. And there are zillions of fantasy stories that use outlandish-seeming currency units with which readers quickly become comfortable.
It doesn't matter. There is no good reason to falsely insert the French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. shields into the ranks of the English/British, Scandinavian, Czech, etc. crowns, and thereby erase a meaningful distinction between two categories.
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