[-] thbb@kbin.social 29 points 8 months ago

The Helsinki declaration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki

Is the reference for health sciences these days.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, there were credible academic studies back in 2012 that explained the Arabs Spring revolts by climate change, leaving countryside communities unable to sustain their mode of life.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-conflict-arabspring-idUSKCN1PH23B

[-] thbb@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While there is some truth in this, humans and AI do not make the same type of mistakes with hands.

Humans will rebuild the topological structure of the hand: 5 fingers protruding from a base, and get the proportions wrong..while the topology is credible.

AI will rebuild the image of a hand from the 2d appearance of a hand: a variable number of flesh colored, parallel stripes, and improvise from that.

While both can get it wrong, the errors are not similar.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Python is actually a good example of this: see the mess that the transition from 2.6 to 3 generated.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Not really. We also have deductive capabilities (aka "system 2") that enable us to ensure some level of proof over our statements.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

And bankrupt and dispossess the lender if a disaster happens to their newly acquired home?

[-] thbb@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, eating industrial food over organic:

First because, per calorie produced, organic farming emits 12 to 40% more green house gases.
(Depending on the study).
Second, because you'll be less healthy and die sooner.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same type of program is being introduced at European universities.

In my doctoral school, this is a five hours course, presented as a MOOC. Not too sure it really is useful.

The educated public generally feels concerned about the subject, and such a generic course feels boring to its intended audience.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

My go to answer is to say that I don't have a mobile phone. Actually, I have one, but it's only for personal contacts, not for institutions. When a clerk asks me for my phone number, I answer: sure, give me your phone number, I'll text you my contact.

Same for administrations and my employer: my boss has my phone numbers but not HR in my company.

The only institution that has my phone number is my bank, and i'm seriously considering using an alternate authentication method for 2FA at my bank.

If enough of us do that, it won't happen.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It says it has a "high res monitor". For having learned to program graphics on this machine, we had to count the pixels to be able to fit our drawings in the screen: 512x342, that's not a lot of screen real estate. The 640x480 PC screen was a luxury.

[-] thbb@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Y a t'il un TL;PL des principales dispositions ? Notamment les ajouts par rapport aux textes européens du DMAnet du DSA?

[-] thbb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Chapman est un vieux rétrograde de l'époque "répressive" de l'anti-tabagisme, représentée aujourd'hui par le CNCT en France. Ces gens là ont en fait peur de cesser d'exister si jamais ils venaient à parvenir à leur objectif de disparition du tabac. Le résultat, c'est que leurs politiques, après avoir connu un certain succès dans la réduction du tabagisme dans les années 80-90, ont perdu toute efficacité à partir des années 2000, où les politiques d'augmentation des prix ont cessé d'être efficaces. Pour leur plus grand bénéfice, celui de l'industrie du tabac et de l'industrie pharmaceutique.

Il a fallu la révolution de la cigarette électronique pour que les autorités de santé publiques renouvellent leur approche: La cigarette électronique, c'est comme la bicyclette.

Aujourd'hui, les stratégies de santé publiques s'orientent vers la réduction des risques, qui a l'avantage de marcher, réduire l'impact sur la santé publique, sans pour autant emmerder le monde avec leurs approches puritaines.

Au passage, soutenez la pétition des associations AIDUCE, SoVape et la Vape du Coeur pour défendre les stratégies de réduction des risques face aux rétrogrades et à l'industrie pharmaceutique.

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