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We did in a way. Tractors help produce more goods. Those goods incur VAT at the point of sale to consumers.

They don't "help produce more goods". They "reduce the need for human labor", enabling fewer people to produce as much as before.

That's exactly what AI is doing.


Betting should be banned, full stop.

That just creates black markets. Drugs are banned, but overdose deaths are at an all time high

Absolutely. We should get rid of options and other type of betting contracts called "insurance" on financial markets.

If betting markets were regulated like financial markets they would not look even vaguely the same.

Adverts should be banned, full stop.

The client sort of exists to have code injected into it though?

If you want to describe text mark-up as programming, then yes. But most people do not do that.

Call me when it can do Russian Cursive.

Seems to do an OK job:

https://g.co/gemini/share/e173d18d1d80

This is a random image from Twitter with no transcript or English translation provided, so it's not going to be in the training data.


That's Gemini 2.5 Flash btw

The result from Gemini 3 Pro using the default media resolution (the medium one): "(Заголовок / Header): Арсеньев (Фамилия / Surname - likely "Arsenyev")

    Состояние удовл-

    t N, кожные

    покровы чистые,

    [л/у не увел.]

    В зеве умерен. [умеренная]

    гипер. [гиперемия]

    В легких дыха-

    ние жесткое, хрипов

    нет. Тоны серд-

    [ца] [ритм]ичные.

    Живот мяг-

    кий, б/б [безболезненный].

    мочеисп. [мочеиспускание] своб. [свободное]

    Ds: ОРЗ [или ОРВИ]" and with the translation: "Arsenyev
Condition satisfactory. Temp normal, skin coverings [skin] are clean, lymph nodes not enlarged. In the throat [pharynx], moderate hyperemia [redness]. In the lungs, breathing is rigid [hard], no rales [crackles/wheezing]. Heart tones are rhythmic. Abdomen is soft, painless. Urination is free [unhindered]. Diagnosis: ARD (Acute Respiratory Disease)."

My first language is Russian. I can't fully understand this dreaded "doctor's cursive", but I can see that some parts of Gemini's text is probably wrong.

It's most likely "но кашель сохр-ся лающий" ("but barking cough is still present"), not "кожные покровы чистые" ("the skin is clean"). Diagnose is probably wrong too. Judging by symptoms it should be "ОРЗ", but I have no idea what's actually written there.

Still, it's very, very impressive.


Ok fine I'm impressed

No, transcription has nothing to do with written text, it guessed few words here and there but not even general topic. That's doctors note about patient visit, beginning with "Прием: состояние удовл., t*, но кашель / patient visit: condition is OK, t(temperature normal?) but coughing". But unreadable doctors handwriting is a meme...

This is a historical church document from 19th century and Gemini got it right with common words but completely hallucinated the names of village and people.

https://gemini.google.com/share/f98de1d5ac55


Right, it can do modern writing but anything older than a century ( church records and census)and it produces garbage. Yandex Archives figured that out and have CER in a single digit but they have the resources to collect immense data for training. I'm slowly building a dataset for finetuning TROCR model and the best it can do is CER 18% ... which is sort of readable.

How do you do, fellow TrOCR fine-tuner?

I'm using TrOCR because it's a smaller model that I can fine tune on a consumer card, but the age of the model and resources certainly make it a challenge. The official notebook for fine tuning hasn't been updated in years and has several errors due to the march of progress in the primary packages.


I think I based my notebook on the official example but yes at some point new versions of the libraries completely broke it. I had to pin the versions for it to work again.

This one works, you can check the versions https://pastebin.com/QPjGHN8j



I feel like you've only played 1 genre of video game or something.


It's funny that game makers make a fuss about anti-cheat not working on Linux but then publish Switch versions of their games. That platform has almost zero security and is commonly emulated with cheats even in multiplayer these days.


If people cheat in the switch, they can blame Nintendo. If people cheat in PC, they can blame the anticheat. Without anticheat, they have to take the blame.


I still blame the devs of the games.


> is commonly emulated with cheats even in multiplayer

There is no Switch emulator that can play online on official servers.

The only way you can cheat online is by hacking a real console, but the percentage of people who do it is quite small.


AIUI you can do it, but you risk the Switch you got the data from being banned.


This. Even kernel level anti-c-spyware can't stop a cheap vision model hokked to a mouse, see youtube for examples from simple auto input up to full on elctromuscular stimulation.


Yes the channel “Basically homeless” has a few variations on this. Using electrodes to move your muscles to more practical a bot that moves your mouse pad for you to give you perfect aim. No anti cheat can detect that because there is nothing to detect.


Based on the latest report from Dice/EA/BF6, seems indeed like they're detecting hardware-based cheating as well: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2807960/view/4972134...

Although who knows, they might be outright lying about that just to scare cheaters, but I tend to default to assuming what they're saying is more or less true.


Looking at the accessibility alternatives they suggest, they were probably detecting XIM users, not the much nastier PC stuff like DMA cards.


They can’t detect me splitting my hdmi output, feeding one of them to a separate machine with a vision model to detect what needs to be detected and the same machine moving and clicking the mouse. People are already doing this.


Could you please share examples of ML-based cheats that actually work?



Thanks, interesting! Looks like it works way better than I expected.

Client side anti cheats is a lazy excuse why they don't want to spend on server side anti cheats anyway.


How do you stop a client-side wallhack with server side anti-cheat?


Don't send the client information about players they should not be able to see based on their current position.


How does it know what isn't visible? Can it handle glass? Frosted glass? Smoke? What if I can't see the player but I can see their shadow? What if I can't see them because they're behind me but I can hear their footsteps? What if I have 50ms ping and the player is invisible after turning a corner because the server hasn't realized I can see them yet?

To answer all those questions you either have to render the entire game on the server for every player (not possible) or make the checks conservative enough that cheaters still get a significant advantage.


GeforceNow begs to differ.

I know, not the same, but IMHO the future of anticheat. We just need faster fiber networks.


Yeah. Stadia worked well in ideal conditions, so for people lucky enough to live that life, the technology's there.

I never understoof why google gave up so early on cloud gaming. Clearly it is the future, the infrastructure will need to develop but your userbase can grow by the day.

I live a bit remote on an island group, and even though I have a 500Mbit Fiber, my latency to the next GeforceNOW datacenter is 60-70ms (which is my latency to most continental datacenters, so not NVidias fault). That makes it unplayable for i.e. Battlefield 6 (I tried, believe me), but I have been playing Fortnite (which is less aim sensitive) for 100+ hours with that.


And under such system, how do you stop people from abusing latency-compensation to make their character appear out of thin air on the opponent’s perspective by fake-juking a corner to trick the netcode into not sending the initial trajectory of your peeks?


Fortnite had this same issue when BR was first released. It was promptly fixed after cheaters started abusing it by adding more stringent checks.


Fortnite has a fairly invasive root kit level anti cheat too, don’t forget.


The invasive kernel root kit came months after they fixed the netcode abuses.


Then how would the client know where to render the positional audio of their footsteps for instance?

run your own servers, an admin watches them track people behind walls, player gets banned, move on. Oh, they took away player run servers...


Not scalable


Improve your server AI to catch weird behavior. Client side approach with this malware idea is simply unacceptable.


It's a numbers issue. How often do people encounter cheaters while playing Switch games online?


Try playing Pokémon Legends Z-A multiplayer.


Often because of cross play.


The Switch has good security as long as you can check the OS version robustly.

Any Switch game using an anti-cheat solution that can't trivially detect that it's being emulated is... not using a very good anti-cheat solution.


what multiplayer (esports) game that can run on switch ????

fornite???? its not gonna be main playerbase


From the top of my head: Rocket league, Splatoon.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the 2 I play


Splatoon is a Nintendo game.


Sure, but it's still an esport and any discussion of anti cheat ought to apply regardless of publisher methinks

mario karts


Super Smash Bros.


Madden and NBA2K


The thing is: the Switch has a clear ToS, and if the user breaks it they can get into trouble. OTOH, if you release your game in Linux... that's it


The games have ToS though right?


The Switch is a closed proprietary platform, so Nintendo can give some guarantees, and if the user does something at the Switch level, the responsibility of legal action will be on Nintendo, saving up headaches to the publisher.


Beaches of a Terms of Service agreement have no inherent legal penalties.

Some actions which breach ToS may be illegal, but that has nothing to do with them being outlined in a ToS.


Bad excuse, they could rely on Steam ToS for example.


Creating a steam account is cheap. Needing to buy a new switch is not.


> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period.

Unclear how all the random side projects align with this goal tbh.


Or how using what amounts to a state-owned search engine - when that state is a corrupt, censorship-heavy authoritarian state dedicated to the conquer of their sovereign neighbor states - is helping toward "the best results". Outside of the "funding invaders" issue, of course it's results will be skewed.

Especially if he simultaneously claims it's hardly used and only represents 2% of costs. If it's so infrequently used, why so resistant to offering a toggle?


Glad I stopped subscribing to this pro-Russia company that keeps wasting my subscription on things other than making a good search engine.


What’s your alternative?


Did you know that ADHD is more common among people on the autism spectrum?


And up until about ten years ago, the psychiatric profession considered ASD and ADHD to be mutually exclusive conditions.


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