Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning (dyna.org)
6 points by matteodelabre 1h ago 0 comments
How randomness improves algorithms (2023) (quantamagazine.org)
45 points by kehiy 2d ago 19 comments
Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members
34 speckx 9 8/16/2025, 6:50:07 PM torrentfreak.com ↗
It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane to not only throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to saying doctors should let patients die on the sidewalk if they can't pay.
I'm torn on the issue of sharing files, because I've watched its rise over the past 25 years and seen how tremendously it has improved educational opportunities for poorer peoples.
In fact, since the authors both do the work of creating the content and peer-reviewing submissions, they must also pay the journal in exchange for doing this work.
Think of it like the patient paying the hospital, the doctor paying the hospital, and in exchange the doctor can do their work at a prestigious hospital, which is all very lucrative (for the hospital)
This analogy is not even remotely applyable to piracy. Piracy is about content that can be shared, you can't grab a surgery and share it with someone else after buying it.
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