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@Logical_Error Indeed, but there is a bit of a chicken and egg problem here: Unless it shows up prominently in a training data set, it won't matter, because the LLM won't know what to do with it.
Vaguely related, has anybody tried to use Claude Code to write something in INTERCAL, or Befunge-93? That might be a fun experiment.
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@Logical_Error I’ve not done it myself, but they have detailed docs on contributing patches: https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html
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@Logical_Error @alyssa It looks like Adreno 2xx is supported in general but not the specific 225 variant, and there is no GPU in the upstream msm8960 device trees, so it sounds like you probably have a bit of integration work to do to get all the pieces working together!
The panel drivers are here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/drm/panel
You'll probably want to ask on #freedreno or #dri-devel on OFTC so other folks more familiar with the freedreno driver can point you in the right direction!
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@pine64 @danct12 @hadrianweb @pastelsolitude @genode @Logical_Error This is my first time hearing about QuillOS for the #PineNote . Where can I find more info an that?
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Computational Validation of Ultrametric Error Confinement — new on Zenodo.
Ultrametric geometry for quantum error correction: the strong triangle inequality geometrically confines errors. Tree circuits achieve zero logical errors at depth ≥3 up to 40% error rates.
Energy barrier: 2^d exponential scaling. STI verified: 0 violations in 15k trials.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20134944
#QuantumComputing #ErrorCorrection #Mathematics #Physics #OpenScience
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What’s with these latest opinion polls on ghosts and cryptids?
This past week, two sets of survey results came out in regard to belief in questionable, and scientifically undetermined, entities. Both opinion polls appear to show high rates of belief in ghosts, the devil, aliens, and several cryptids. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here.
RealClear poll is not perfectly clear
The opinion research organization RealClear Opinion Research published results of a poll of 1000 Americans, where the pollsters asked about religious views. You can see the breakdown here. It was a fair poll, but note that the context framing was “religion”. I suspect people are more generous in expressing their religious beliefs than belief in the paranormal (though the stigma is much less now). Here are some general results:
In response to the question, “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it or not.”
Ghosts – 61% yes
Aliens – 57% yes
Devil – 70% yesNone of the results are very surprising, even though they might concern critical thinkers, scientists, and atheists. I’ve been tracking ghost belief since surveys of 2003. The results fluctuate from year to year, almost certainly due to cultural factors, including what’s disseminated in the news and popular media offerings. This is the highest ghost belief result I’ve seen in a representative poll. But note that 2008 was the next highest at 57% followed by a low in 2009 (18-33%). I don’t think this means a lot and you’ll see why in a bit.
There is no shortage of supposedly nonfictional depictions of ghosts and demons in visual media. And, aliens have been all the rage for a few years now. That topic exploded in popularity after it appeared to be dying out around 2017. You just never know what is going to suddenly surge in pop culture.
That brings me to the next set of results that relate to cryptids.
Cryptid communication poll
This survey came out in a paper published in the International Journal of Communication 18(2024) titled “Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs about Cryptozoology” by Dawson, Brewer, and Cuddy. The research goal of this paper was to examine some of the effects of media messaging on belief in cryptids, which is a highly complex situation that may not ever be well understood.
What is “belief”? Each person has different stages of, criteria for, and reasons for “belief”. Because of those reason, these opinion surveys results are squishy and not very useful.
Feel free to read the entire study for yourself – it has other issues that make it a bit weak. But, I’m just going to focus on the survey results they published as part of their experiments.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they strongly believed, believed, disbelieved, or strongly disbelieved the following statements:
“Bigfoot is a real creature” (12% strongly believed, 34% believed, 35% disbelieved, and 20% strongly disbelieved),
“Mermaids are real” (11%, 22%, 42%, and 25%, respectively),
“The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is real” (12%, 29%, 39%, and 20%, respectively), and
“The Loch Ness Monster is a real creature” (10%, 31%, 39%, and 20%, respectively).Combining the two “yes” categories and the two “no” categories (ignore rounding errors), we have this:
TopicBelief %Nonbelief %Bigfoot4655Mermaids3367Yeti4159Loch Ness Monster4159Does this fairly translate to: “Look how many people believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster!”. I would not go that far. The “strong belief” is only 10-12% for each cryptid. This correlates to previous surveys about belief in Bigfoot as “real” that ranged from 16-20% and likely reflects the portion of the population who deeply believes in these concepts.
Perhaps the moderate “belief” value (of around 30%) is reflective of people casually playing around with the idea, those who want it to be true, or those just having fun with it without any consideration of evidence.
There are countless other factors that influence how respondents might answer the question about “belief” and reality. One example is that mermaids are very much a cultural belief in other countries, where they are magical creatures. Another example may be if a person had an experience that they interpreted as a Bigfoot. It could have been a bear, but witnesses may be very much affected by the idea they encountered Bigfoot, and it bolsters their belief.
This study also included a second part that brought Mothman and megalodon into the discussion.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they believed Bigfoot (42% yes), “the Mothman creature” (13% yes), and “the megalodon shark” (45% yes) “may currently exist.”
Megalodon is a long-extinct, super-sized shark. While many people claim it still lives in our oceans, it most certainly does not. But the fact that it was a genuine, real animal means that it feels more likely it still could be out there. (Most people don’t have any sense of the timescale when they lived and died out.) Again, we may be dealing with an effect from the availability heuristic – people have a good idea of what a giant shark would be like in modern times because we’ve seen so many real and realistic depictions of sharks.
Mothman is by far the most unrealistic of all these cryptids in the study. It doesn’t resemble any known zoological animal and, from its origin, has supernatural connotations. Even though it’s a popular cryptid, it’s not a realistic one. That mothman has the lowest level of belief is unsurprising.
Beware of opinion surveys
Belief opinion surveys are so messy. Even if the questions are phrased precisely so that every respondent is clear about how to respond, people’s opinions are messy, culture changes across area and time, and we use our own conceptions of the world to make personal sense of it. This is all reflected in each person’s individual response. We also don’t know how truthfully they responded, or if they might change their answer tomorrow. Finally, it’s a huge mistake to infer that a high rate of “belief” means a greater likelihood that the cryptid is “real”. That’s a serious logical error we should all be careful we don’t make.
Is the US population slipping into greater acceptance of magical thinking because a poll showed high results? These are strange times, but society is way more complicated than that. In fact, beware of all opinion surveys.
#beliefInGhosts #Bigfoot #cryptid #cryptids #doYouBelieve #DoYouBelieveInGhosts #Ghosts #megalodon #mermaids #Mothman #surveys
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8290
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What’s with these latest opinion polls on ghosts and cryptids?
This past week, two sets of survey results came out in regard to belief in questionable, and scientifically undetermined, entities. Both opinion polls appear to show high rates of belief in ghosts, the devil, aliens, and several cryptids. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here.
RealClear poll is not perfectly clear
The opinion research organization RealClear Opinion Research published results of a poll of 1000 Americans, where the pollsters asked about religious views. You can see the breakdown here. It was a fair poll, but note that the context framing was “religion”. I suspect people are more generous in expressing their religious beliefs than belief in the paranormal (though the stigma is much less now). Here are some general results:
In response to the question, “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it or not.”
Ghosts – 61% yes
Aliens – 57% yes
Devil – 70% yesNone of the results are very surprising, even though they might concern critical thinkers, scientists, and atheists. I’ve been tracking ghost belief since surveys of 2003. The results fluctuate from year to year, almost certainly due to cultural factors, including what’s disseminated in the news and popular media offerings. This is the highest ghost belief result I’ve seen in a representative poll. But note that 2008 was the next highest at 57% followed by a low in 2009 (18-33%). I don’t think this means a lot and you’ll see why in a bit.
There is no shortage of supposedly nonfictional depictions of ghosts and demons in visual media. And, aliens have been all the rage for a few years now. That topic exploded in popularity after it appeared to be dying out around 2017. You just never know what is going to suddenly surge in pop culture.
That brings me to the next set of results that relate to cryptids.
Cryptid communication poll
This survey came out in a paper published in the International Journal of Communication 18(2024) titled “Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs about Cryptozoology” by Dawson, Brewer, and Cuddy. The research goal of this paper was to examine some of the effects of media messaging on belief in cryptids, which is a highly complex situation that may not ever be well understood.
What is “belief”? Each person has different stages of, criteria for, and reasons for “belief”. Because of those reason, these opinion surveys results are squishy and not very useful.
Feel free to read the entire study for yourself – it has other issues that make it a bit weak. But, I’m just going to focus on the survey results they published as part of their experiments.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they strongly believed, believed, disbelieved, or strongly disbelieved the following statements:
“Bigfoot is a real creature” (12% strongly believed, 34% believed, 35% disbelieved, and 20% strongly disbelieved),
“Mermaids are real” (11%, 22%, 42%, and 25%, respectively),
“The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is real” (12%, 29%, 39%, and 20%, respectively), and
“The Loch Ness Monster is a real creature” (10%, 31%, 39%, and 20%, respectively).Combining the two “yes” categories and the two “no” categories (ignore rounding errors), we have this:
TopicBelief %Nonbelief %Bigfoot4655Mermaids3367Yeti4159Loch Ness Monster4159Does this fairly translate to: “Look how many people believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster!”. I would not go that far. The “strong belief” is only 10-12% for each cryptid. This correlates to previous surveys about belief in Bigfoot as “real” that ranged from 16-20% and likely reflects the portion of the population who deeply believes in these concepts.
Perhaps the moderate “belief” value (of around 30%) is reflective of people casually playing around with the idea, those who want it to be true, or those just having fun with it without any consideration of evidence.
There are countless other factors that influence how respondents might answer the question about “belief” and reality. One example is that mermaids are very much a cultural belief in other countries, where they are magical creatures. Another example may be if a person had an experience that they interpreted as a Bigfoot. It could have been a bear, but witnesses may be very much affected by the idea they encountered Bigfoot, and it bolsters their belief.
This study also included a second part that brought Mothman and megalodon into the discussion.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they believed Bigfoot (42% yes), “the Mothman creature” (13% yes), and “the megalodon shark” (45% yes) “may currently exist.”
Megalodon is a long-extinct, super-sized shark. While many people claim it still lives in our oceans, it most certainly does not. But the fact that it was a genuine, real animal means that it feels more likely it still could be out there. (Most people don’t have any sense of the timescale when they lived and died out.) Again, we may be dealing with an effect from the availability heuristic – people have a good idea of what a giant shark would be like in modern times because we’ve seen so many real and realistic depictions of sharks.
Mothman is by far the most unrealistic of all these cryptids in the study. It doesn’t resemble any known zoological animal and, from its origin, has supernatural connotations. Even though it’s a popular cryptid, it’s not a realistic one. That mothman has the lowest level of belief is unsurprising.
Beware of opinion surveys
Belief opinion surveys are so messy. Even if the questions are phrased precisely so that every respondent is clear about how to respond, people’s opinions are messy, culture changes across area and time, and we use our own conceptions of the world to make personal sense of it. This is all reflected in each person’s individual response. We also don’t know how truthfully they responded, or if they might change their answer tomorrow. Finally, it’s a huge mistake to infer that a high rate of “belief” means a greater likelihood that the cryptid is “real”. That’s a serious logical error we should all be careful we don’t make.
Is the US population slipping into greater acceptance of magical thinking because a poll showed high results? These are strange times, but society is way more complicated than that. In fact, beware of all opinion surveys.
#beliefInGhosts #Bigfoot #cryptid #cryptids #doYouBelieve #DoYouBelieveInGhosts #Ghosts #megalodon #mermaids #Mothman #surveys
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8290
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What’s with these latest opinion polls on ghosts and cryptids?
This past week, two sets of survey results came out in regard to belief in questionable, and scientifically undetermined, entities. Both opinion polls appear to show high rates of belief in ghosts, the devil, aliens, and several cryptids. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here.
RealClear poll is not perfectly clear
The opinion research organization RealClear Opinion Research published results of a poll of 1000 Americans, where the pollsters asked about religious views. You can see the breakdown here. It was a fair poll, but note that the context framing was “religion”. I suspect people are more generous in expressing their religious beliefs than belief in the paranormal (though the stigma is much less now). Here are some general results:
In response to the question, “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it or not.”
Ghosts – 61% yes
Aliens – 57% yes
Devil – 70% yesNone of the results are very surprising, even though they might concern critical thinkers, scientists, and atheists. I’ve been tracking ghost belief since surveys of 2003. The results fluctuate from year to year, almost certainly due to cultural factors, including what’s disseminated in the news and popular media offerings. This is the highest ghost belief result I’ve seen in a representative poll. But note that 2008 was the next highest at 57% followed by a low in 2009 (18-33%). I don’t think this means a lot and you’ll see why in a bit.
There is no shortage of supposedly nonfictional depictions of ghosts and demons in visual media. And, aliens have been all the rage for a few years now. That topic exploded in popularity after it appeared to be dying out around 2017. You just never know what is going to suddenly surge in pop culture.
That brings me to the next set of results that relate to cryptids.
Cryptid communication poll
This survey came out in a paper published in the International Journal of Communication 18(2024) titled “Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs about Cryptozoology” by Dawson, Brewer, and Cuddy. The research goal of this paper was to examine some of the effects of media messaging on belief in cryptids, which is a highly complex situation that may not ever be well understood.
What is “belief”? Each person has different stages of, criteria for, and reasons for “belief”. Because of those reason, these opinion surveys results are squishy and not very useful.
Feel free to read the entire study for yourself – it has other issues that make it a bit weak. But, I’m just going to focus on the survey results they published as part of their experiments.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they strongly believed, believed, disbelieved, or strongly disbelieved the following statements:
“Bigfoot is a real creature” (12% strongly believed, 34% believed, 35% disbelieved, and 20% strongly disbelieved),
“Mermaids are real” (11%, 22%, 42%, and 25%, respectively),
“The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is real” (12%, 29%, 39%, and 20%, respectively), and
“The Loch Ness Monster is a real creature” (10%, 31%, 39%, and 20%, respectively).Combining the two “yes” categories and the two “no” categories (ignore rounding errors), we have this:
TopicBelief %Nonbelief %Bigfoot4655Mermaids3367Yeti4159Loch Ness Monster4159Does this fairly translate to: “Look how many people believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster!”. I would not go that far. The “strong belief” is only 10-12% for each cryptid. This correlates to previous surveys about belief in Bigfoot as “real” that ranged from 16-20% and likely reflects the portion of the population who deeply believes in these concepts.
Perhaps the moderate “belief” value (of around 30%) is reflective of people casually playing around with the idea, those who want it to be true, or those just having fun with it without any consideration of evidence.
There are countless other factors that influence how respondents might answer the question about “belief” and reality. One example is that mermaids are very much a cultural belief in other countries, where they are magical creatures. Another example may be if a person had an experience that they interpreted as a Bigfoot. It could have been a bear, but witnesses may be very much affected by the idea they encountered Bigfoot, and it bolsters their belief.
This study also included a second part that brought Mothman and megalodon into the discussion.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they believed Bigfoot (42% yes), “the Mothman creature” (13% yes), and “the megalodon shark” (45% yes) “may currently exist.”
Megalodon is a long-extinct, super-sized shark. While many people claim it still lives in our oceans, it most certainly does not. But the fact that it was a genuine, real animal means that it feels more likely it still could be out there. (Most people don’t have any sense of the timescale when they lived and died out.) Again, we may be dealing with an effect from the availability heuristic – people have a good idea of what a giant shark would be like in modern times because we’ve seen so many real and realistic depictions of sharks.
Mothman is by far the most unrealistic of all these cryptids in the study. It doesn’t resemble any known zoological animal and, from its origin, has supernatural connotations. Even though it’s a popular cryptid, it’s not a realistic one. That mothman has the lowest level of belief is unsurprising.
Beware of opinion surveys
Belief opinion surveys are so messy. Even if the questions are phrased precisely so that every respondent is clear about how to respond, people’s opinions are messy, culture changes across area and time, and we use our own conceptions of the world to make personal sense of it. This is all reflected in each person’s individual response. We also don’t know how truthfully they responded, or if they might change their answer tomorrow. Finally, it’s a huge mistake to infer that a high rate of “belief” means a greater likelihood that the cryptid is “real”. That’s a serious logical error we should all be careful we don’t make.
Is the US population slipping into greater acceptance of magical thinking because a poll showed high results? These are strange times, but society is way more complicated than that. In fact, beware of all opinion surveys.
#beliefInGhosts #Bigfoot #cryptid #cryptids #doYouBelieve #DoYouBelieveInGhosts #Ghosts #megalodon #mermaids #Mothman #surveys
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8290
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What’s with these latest opinion polls on ghosts and cryptids?
This past week, two sets of survey results came out in regard to belief in questionable, and scientifically undetermined, entities. Both opinion polls appear to show high rates of belief in ghosts, the devil, aliens, and several cryptids. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here.
RealClear poll is not perfectly clear
The opinion research organization RealClear Opinion Research published results of a poll of 1000 Americans, where the pollsters asked about religious views. You can see the breakdown here. It was a fair poll, but note that the context framing was “religion”. I suspect people are more generous in expressing their religious beliefs than belief in the paranormal (though the stigma is much less now). Here are some general results:
In response to the question, “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it or not.”
Ghosts – 61% yes
Aliens – 57% yes
Devil – 70% yesNone of the results are very surprising, even though they might concern critical thinkers, scientists, and atheists. I’ve been tracking ghost belief since surveys of 2003. The results fluctuate from year to year, almost certainly due to cultural factors, including what’s disseminated in the news and popular media offerings. This is the highest ghost belief result I’ve seen in a representative poll. But note that 2008 was the next highest at 57% followed by a low in 2009 (18-33%). I don’t think this means a lot and you’ll see why in a bit.
There is no shortage of supposedly nonfictional depictions of ghosts and demons in visual media. And, aliens have been all the rage for a few years now. That topic exploded in popularity after it appeared to be dying out around 2017. You just never know what is going to suddenly surge in pop culture.
That brings me to the next set of results that relate to cryptids.
Cryptid communication poll
This survey came out in a paper published in the International Journal of Communication 18(2024) titled “Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs about Cryptozoology” by Dawson, Brewer, and Cuddy. The research goal of this paper was to examine some of the effects of media messaging on belief in cryptids, which is a highly complex situation that may not ever be well understood.
What is “belief”? Each person has different stages of, criteria for, and reasons for “belief”. Because of those reason, these opinion surveys results are squishy and not very useful.
Feel free to read the entire study for yourself – it has other issues that make it a bit weak. But, I’m just going to focus on the survey results they published as part of their experiments.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they strongly believed, believed, disbelieved, or strongly disbelieved the following statements:
“Bigfoot is a real creature” (12% strongly believed, 34% believed, 35% disbelieved, and 20% strongly disbelieved),
“Mermaids are real” (11%, 22%, 42%, and 25%, respectively),
“The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is real” (12%, 29%, 39%, and 20%, respectively), and
“The Loch Ness Monster is a real creature” (10%, 31%, 39%, and 20%, respectively).Combining the two “yes” categories and the two “no” categories (ignore rounding errors), we have this:
TopicBelief %Nonbelief %Bigfoot4655Mermaids3367Yeti4159Loch Ness Monster4159Does this fairly translate to: “Look how many people believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster!”. I would not go that far. The “strong belief” is only 10-12% for each cryptid. This correlates to previous surveys about belief in Bigfoot as “real” that ranged from 16-20% and likely reflects the portion of the population who deeply believes in these concepts.
Perhaps the moderate “belief” value (of around 30%) is reflective of people casually playing around with the idea, those who want it to be true, or those just having fun with it without any consideration of evidence.
There are countless other factors that influence how respondents might answer the question about “belief” and reality. One example is that mermaids are very much a cultural belief in other countries, where they are magical creatures. Another example may be if a person had an experience that they interpreted as a Bigfoot. It could have been a bear, but witnesses may be very much affected by the idea they encountered Bigfoot, and it bolsters their belief.
This study also included a second part that brought Mothman and megalodon into the discussion.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they believed Bigfoot (42% yes), “the Mothman creature” (13% yes), and “the megalodon shark” (45% yes) “may currently exist.”
Megalodon is a long-extinct, super-sized shark. While many people claim it still lives in our oceans, it most certainly does not. But the fact that it was a genuine, real animal means that it feels more likely it still could be out there. (Most people don’t have any sense of the timescale when they lived and died out.) Again, we may be dealing with an effect from the availability heuristic – people have a good idea of what a giant shark would be like in modern times because we’ve seen so many real and realistic depictions of sharks.
Mothman is by far the most unrealistic of all these cryptids in the study. It doesn’t resemble any known zoological animal and, from its origin, has supernatural connotations. Even though it’s a popular cryptid, it’s not a realistic one. That mothman has the lowest level of belief is unsurprising.
Beware of opinion surveys
Belief opinion surveys are so messy. Even if the questions are phrased precisely so that every respondent is clear about how to respond, people’s opinions are messy, culture changes across area and time, and we use our own conceptions of the world to make personal sense of it. This is all reflected in each person’s individual response. We also don’t know how truthfully they responded, or if they might change their answer tomorrow. Finally, it’s a huge mistake to infer that a high rate of “belief” means a greater likelihood that the cryptid is “real”. That’s a serious logical error we should all be careful we don’t make.
Is the US population slipping into greater acceptance of magical thinking because a poll showed high results? These are strange times, but society is way more complicated than that. In fact, beware of all opinion surveys.
#beliefInGhosts #Bigfoot #cryptid #cryptids #doYouBelieve #DoYouBelieveInGhosts #Ghosts #megalodon #mermaids #Mothman #surveys
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8290
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What’s with these latest opinion polls on ghosts and cryptids?
This past week, two sets of survey results came out in regard to belief in questionable, and scientifically undetermined, entities. Both opinion polls appear to show high rates of belief in ghosts, the devil, aliens, and several cryptids. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here.
RealClear poll is not perfectly clear
The opinion research organization RealClear Opinion Research published results of a poll of 1000 Americans, where the pollsters asked about religious views. You can see the breakdown here. It was a fair poll, but note that the context framing was “religion”. I suspect people are more generous in expressing their religious beliefs than belief in the paranormal (though the stigma is much less now). Here are some general results:
In response to the question, “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it or not.”
Ghosts – 61% yes
Aliens – 57% yes
Devil – 70% yesNone of the results are very surprising, even though they might concern critical thinkers, scientists, and atheists. I’ve been tracking ghost belief since surveys of 2003. The results fluctuate from year to year, almost certainly due to cultural factors, including what’s disseminated in the news and popular media offerings. This is the highest ghost belief result I’ve seen in a representative poll. But note that 2008 was the next highest at 57% followed by a low in 2009 (18-33%). I don’t think this means a lot and you’ll see why in a bit.
There is no shortage of supposedly nonfictional depictions of ghosts and demons in visual media. And, aliens have been all the rage for a few years now. That topic exploded in popularity after it appeared to be dying out around 2017. You just never know what is going to suddenly surge in pop culture.
That brings me to the next set of results that relate to cryptids.
Cryptid communication poll
This survey came out in a paper published in the International Journal of Communication 18(2024) titled “Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs about Cryptozoology” by Dawson, Brewer, and Cuddy. The research goal of this paper was to examine some of the effects of media messaging on belief in cryptids, which is a highly complex situation that may not ever be well understood.
What is “belief”? Each person has different stages of, criteria for, and reasons for “belief”. Because of those reason, these opinion surveys results are squishy and not very useful.
Feel free to read the entire study for yourself – it has other issues that make it a bit weak. But, I’m just going to focus on the survey results they published as part of their experiments.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they strongly believed, believed, disbelieved, or strongly disbelieved the following statements:
“Bigfoot is a real creature” (12% strongly believed, 34% believed, 35% disbelieved, and 20% strongly disbelieved),
“Mermaids are real” (11%, 22%, 42%, and 25%, respectively),
“The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is real” (12%, 29%, 39%, and 20%, respectively), and
“The Loch Ness Monster is a real creature” (10%, 31%, 39%, and 20%, respectively).Combining the two “yes” categories and the two “no” categories (ignore rounding errors), we have this:
TopicBelief %Nonbelief %Bigfoot4655Mermaids3367Yeti4159Loch Ness Monster4159Does this fairly translate to: “Look how many people believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster!”. I would not go that far. The “strong belief” is only 10-12% for each cryptid. This correlates to previous surveys about belief in Bigfoot as “real” that ranged from 16-20% and likely reflects the portion of the population who deeply believes in these concepts.
Perhaps the moderate “belief” value (of around 30%) is reflective of people casually playing around with the idea, those who want it to be true, or those just having fun with it without any consideration of evidence.
There are countless other factors that influence how respondents might answer the question about “belief” and reality. One example is that mermaids are very much a cultural belief in other countries, where they are magical creatures. Another example may be if a person had an experience that they interpreted as a Bigfoot. It could have been a bear, but witnesses may be very much affected by the idea they encountered Bigfoot, and it bolsters their belief.
This study also included a second part that brought Mothman and megalodon into the discussion.
Belief in cryptids was measured by asking respondents whether they believed Bigfoot (42% yes), “the Mothman creature” (13% yes), and “the megalodon shark” (45% yes) “may currently exist.”
Megalodon is a long-extinct, super-sized shark. While many people claim it still lives in our oceans, it most certainly does not. But the fact that it was a genuine, real animal means that it feels more likely it still could be out there. (Most people don’t have any sense of the timescale when they lived and died out.) Again, we may be dealing with an effect from the availability heuristic – people have a good idea of what a giant shark would be like in modern times because we’ve seen so many real and realistic depictions of sharks.
Mothman is by far the most unrealistic of all these cryptids in the study. It doesn’t resemble any known zoological animal and, from its origin, has supernatural connotations. Even though it’s a popular cryptid, it’s not a realistic one. That mothman has the lowest level of belief is unsurprising.
Beware of opinion surveys
Belief opinion surveys are so messy. Even if the questions are phrased precisely so that every respondent is clear about how to respond, people’s opinions are messy, culture changes across area and time, and we use our own conceptions of the world to make personal sense of it. This is all reflected in each person’s individual response. We also don’t know how truthfully they responded, or if they might change their answer tomorrow. Finally, it’s a huge mistake to infer that a high rate of “belief” means a greater likelihood that the cryptid is “real”. That’s a serious logical error we should all be careful we don’t make.
Is the US population slipping into greater acceptance of magical thinking because a poll showed high results? These are strange times, but society is way more complicated than that. In fact, beware of all opinion surveys.
#beliefInGhosts #Bigfoot #cryptid #cryptids #doYouBelieve #DoYouBelieveInGhosts #Ghosts #megalodon #mermaids #Mothman #surveys
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8290
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nice, someone found a bootrom exploit (warning: ai)
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RE: https://toot.cat/@clarfonthey/116580155538541496
ugh… what an unfortunate situation
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where do i report a #linux kernel maintainer’s behavior?
one particular maintainer’s comments are starting to aggravate me
edit:
- https://www.kernel.org/code-of-conduct.html
- https://www.kernel.org/doc./html/next/process/code-of-conduct.html -
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116522889714585276
hm…
ai as a tool is great, but i absolutely hate everything surrounding it
seems like ai companies want to embed themselves into the economy (both physical and software) as quick and deep as possible so that once they fail, the gov can simply bail them out because they are necessary for the economy
the “open source” models by chinese ai companies will be a great counter to this narrative. i wish FOSS had their own ethically trained AI to serve as another counterweight
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anyone know what happened to #TowBoot? seems like the version is stuck on 2023
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@pine64 #PinePhonePro update: sent wifi, bluetooth, and modem patch upstream
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260112-p[email protected]/
at this point if you would like to test it, please reply to the patches with a Tested-by: Name <email> as shown in this link
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/submitting-patches.html
i think i will get battery/charger next and then switch the pmOS kernel to use mainline Linux. if u would like a feature of the ppp to be included, please let me know and be available to test my changes
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is anyone able to test the modem patch for the #Pine64 #PinePhonePro?
i dont have a sim card for the device as its unfortunately not my daily driver. will give u pmbootstrap commands and the kernel tree so u can build it locally to test. can also field any questions if u have any
bonus: u can get credit in the linux kernel for testing the patch too! would need name and email for that
i think ill also try to get wifi and bluetooth working too. phosh seems to recognize the modem with my patch
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anyone interested in trying to get the #Pixel6 in #PostmarketOS to run vanilla mainline linux? there has been a lot of upstreaming work done:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctF8cFCQOPo
device:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_6_(google-oriole)u can refer to device-samsung-expressatt on how to use vanilla mainline kernels
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CW: ppp upstreaming
as 6.17 is about to be released, i created a pr to update the ppp kernel from 6.13 to 6.17: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/7070
please test using https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mrtest if u are using the #pinephonepro on #PostmarketOS
the kernel is rc-5 (meaning in development). will update the pr to 6.17 proper once megi updates it
i switched this to the megi kernel as megi has been consistently keeping it updated. seems like the pine64 branch in gitlab is dead
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CW: pewdiepie linux
i came back to the #linux video that #pewdiepie made, and i saw this comment that made me super happy (pic attached)
makes me so happy to see people with no engineering experience taking control of their computers again just by watching a single video
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🎓 Memory Card Recovery Success / 記憶卡救援案例 / メモリカード復旧事例
【🇹🇼 繁體中文】
Lexar 128GB MicroSD 讀不到？外籍交換生珍貴回憶救援
對於離鄉背井的交換學生來說，記憶卡裡的每一張照片都是無價之寶。
這次的客戶是一位外籍學生，他的 MicroSD 卡裡面裝滿了在台灣的大學生活照與畢業報告，卻在接上電腦時突然跳出「磁碟需要格式化」的恐怖視窗，完全無法讀取。
這通常是檔案系統邏輯損壞造成的。我們堅持「不通電寫入」原則，先製作唯讀鏡像，再透過虛擬重組技術修復目錄結構。
最終，我們成功救回了 100% 的照片與文件，守護了他珍貴的留學回憶！
💡 提醒：看到「需要格式化」千萬別按確定，資料其實都還在！
【🇺🇸 English】
Saved: Exchange Student's Lost Memories (Lexar MicroSD)
For an international student, digital photos are the most precious link to their journey.
Our client, an exchange student, faced a nightmare: his MicroSD card containing years of university photos and thesis work suddenly prompted "Disk Needs Formatting" and became unreadable.
This is often a logical filesystem error. We prioritized safety by creating a read-only disk image first, then reconstructing the corrupted filesystem virtually.
The result? We successfully recovered 100% of his photos and documents, preserving his cherished memories of studying abroad!
💡 Tip: If you see "Format Disk," click NO! Your data is likely still there.
【🇯🇵 日本語】
留学生の大切な思い出を救出 (Lexar MicroSD)
異国で学ぶ留学生にとって、日々の写真はかけがえのない宝物です。
今回のご依頼は、台湾での大学生活の写真や卒業論文が詰まったMicroSDカード。「フォーマットが必要です」というエラーが表示され、アクセスできなくなってしまいました。
これは典型的な論理障害です。私たちはデータを上書きしないよう、まず安全な読み取り専用イメージを作成し、仮想的にファイルシステムを修復しました。
その結果、写真とドキュメントを100%復旧することに成功。彼の貴重な留学生活の記録を守ることができました！
💡 ヒント：「フォーマットが必要です」と出ても、絶対に「はい」を押さないでください！
🔗 Case Study / 案例詳情 / 詳細はこちら:
https://2025.data-recover.com.tw/cases/Lexar-128GB-MicroSD-%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6%E5%8D%A1%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%EF%BC%9A%E5%A4%96%E7%B1%8D%E4%BA%A4%E6%8F%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%8F%8D%E8%B2%B4%E5%9B%9E%E6%86%B6%E9%87%8D%E7%8F%BE
#tech #technews #technology #DataRecovery #MicroSD #Lexar #Photography #StudentLife #Memories #DigitalStorage
#資料救援 #記憶卡救援 #照片救援 #新竹 #鴻華資料救援 #交換學生 #回憶
#データ復旧 #SDカード復旧 #写真復旧 #メモリカード #留学 #技術 -
🎓 Memory Card Recovery Success / 記憶卡救援案例 / メモリカード復旧事例
【🇹🇼 繁體中文】
Lexar 128GB MicroSD 讀不到？外籍交換生珍貴回憶救援
對於離鄉背井的交換學生來說，記憶卡裡的每一張照片都是無價之寶。
這次的客戶是一位外籍學生，他的 MicroSD 卡裡面裝滿了在台灣的大學生活照與畢業報告，卻在接上電腦時突然跳出「磁碟需要格式化」的恐怖視窗，完全無法讀取。
這通常是檔案系統邏輯損壞造成的。我們堅持「不通電寫入」原則，先製作唯讀鏡像，再透過虛擬重組技術修復目錄結構。
最終，我們成功救回了 100% 的照片與文件，守護了他珍貴的留學回憶！
💡 提醒：看到「需要格式化」千萬別按確定，資料其實都還在！
【🇺🇸 English】
Saved: Exchange Student's Lost Memories (Lexar MicroSD)
For an international student, digital photos are the most precious link to their journey.
Our client, an exchange student, faced a nightmare: his MicroSD card containing years of university photos and thesis work suddenly prompted "Disk Needs Formatting" and became unreadable.
This is often a logical filesystem error. We prioritized safety by creating a read-only disk image first, then reconstructing the corrupted filesystem virtually.
The result? We successfully recovered 100% of his photos and documents, preserving his cherished memories of studying abroad!
💡 Tip: If you see "Format Disk," click NO! Your data is likely still there.
【🇯🇵 日本語】
留学生の大切な思い出を救出 (Lexar MicroSD)
異国で学ぶ留学生にとって、日々の写真はかけがえのない宝物です。
今回のご依頼は、台湾での大学生活の写真や卒業論文が詰まったMicroSDカード。「フォーマットが必要です」というエラーが表示され、アクセスできなくなってしまいました。
これは典型的な論理障害です。私たちはデータを上書きしないよう、まず安全な読み取り専用イメージを作成し、仮想的にファイルシステムを修復しました。
その結果、写真とドキュメントを100%復旧することに成功。彼の貴重な留学生活の記録を守ることができました！
💡 ヒント：「フォーマットが必要です」と出ても、絶対に「はい」を押さないでください！
🔗 Case Study / 案例詳情 / 詳細はこちら:
https://2025.data-recover.com.tw/cases/Lexar-128GB-MicroSD-%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6%E5%8D%A1%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%EF%BC%9A%E5%A4%96%E7%B1%8D%E4%BA%A4%E6%8F%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%8F%8D%E8%B2%B4%E5%9B%9E%E6%86%B6%E9%87%8D%E7%8F%BE
#tech #technews #technology #DataRecovery #MicroSD #Lexar #Photography #StudentLife #Memories #DigitalStorage
#資料救援 #記憶卡救援 #照片救援 #新竹 #鴻華資料救援 #交換學生 #回憶
#データ復旧 #SDカード復旧 #写真復旧 #メモリカード #留学 #技術 -
🎓 Memory Card Recovery Success / 記憶卡救援案例 / メモリカード復旧事例
【🇹🇼 繁體中文】
Lexar 128GB MicroSD 讀不到？外籍交換生珍貴回憶救援
對於離鄉背井的交換學生來說，記憶卡裡的每一張照片都是無價之寶。
這次的客戶是一位外籍學生，他的 MicroSD 卡裡面裝滿了在台灣的大學生活照與畢業報告，卻在接上電腦時突然跳出「磁碟需要格式化」的恐怖視窗，完全無法讀取。
這通常是檔案系統邏輯損壞造成的。我們堅持「不通電寫入」原則，先製作唯讀鏡像，再透過虛擬重組技術修復目錄結構。
最終，我們成功救回了 100% 的照片與文件，守護了他珍貴的留學回憶！
💡 提醒：看到「需要格式化」千萬別按確定，資料其實都還在！
【🇺🇸 English】
Saved: Exchange Student's Lost Memories (Lexar MicroSD)
For an international student, digital photos are the most precious link to their journey.
Our client, an exchange student, faced a nightmare: his MicroSD card containing years of university photos and thesis work suddenly prompted "Disk Needs Formatting" and became unreadable.
This is often a logical filesystem error. We prioritized safety by creating a read-only disk image first, then reconstructing the corrupted filesystem virtually.
The result? We successfully recovered 100% of his photos and documents, preserving his cherished memories of studying abroad!
💡 Tip: If you see "Format Disk," click NO! Your data is likely still there.
【🇯🇵 日本語】
留学生の大切な思い出を救出 (Lexar MicroSD)
異国で学ぶ留学生にとって、日々の写真はかけがえのない宝物です。
今回のご依頼は、台湾での大学生活の写真や卒業論文が詰まったMicroSDカード。「フォーマットが必要です」というエラーが表示され、アクセスできなくなってしまいました。
これは典型的な論理障害です。私たちはデータを上書きしないよう、まず安全な読み取り専用イメージを作成し、仮想的にファイルシステムを修復しました。
その結果、写真とドキュメントを100%復旧することに成功。彼の貴重な留学生活の記録を守ることができました！
💡 ヒント：「フォーマットが必要です」と出ても、絶対に「はい」を押さないでください！
🔗 Case Study / 案例詳情 / 詳細はこちら:
https://2025.data-recover.com.tw/cases/Lexar-128GB-MicroSD-%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6%E5%8D%A1%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%EF%BC%9A%E5%A4%96%E7%B1%8D%E4%BA%A4%E6%8F%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%8F%8D%E8%B2%B4%E5%9B%9E%E6%86%B6%E9%87%8D%E7%8F%BE
#tech #technews #technology #DataRecovery #MicroSD #Lexar #Photography #StudentLife #Memories #DigitalStorage
#資料救援 #記憶卡救援 #照片救援 #新竹 #鴻華資料救援 #交換學生 #回憶
#データ復旧 #SDカード復旧 #写真復旧 #メモリカード #留学 #技術 -
🎓 Memory Card Recovery Success / 記憶卡救援案例 / メモリカード復旧事例
【🇹🇼 繁體中文】
Lexar 128GB MicroSD 讀不到？外籍交換生珍貴回憶救援
對於離鄉背井的交換學生來說，記憶卡裡的每一張照片都是無價之寶。
這次的客戶是一位外籍學生，他的 MicroSD 卡裡面裝滿了在台灣的大學生活照與畢業報告，卻在接上電腦時突然跳出「磁碟需要格式化」的恐怖視窗，完全無法讀取。
這通常是檔案系統邏輯損壞造成的。我們堅持「不通電寫入」原則，先製作唯讀鏡像，再透過虛擬重組技術修復目錄結構。
最終，我們成功救回了 100% 的照片與文件，守護了他珍貴的留學回憶！
💡 提醒：看到「需要格式化」千萬別按確定，資料其實都還在！
【🇺🇸 English】
Saved: Exchange Student's Lost Memories (Lexar MicroSD)
For an international student, digital photos are the most precious link to their journey.
Our client, an exchange student, faced a nightmare: his MicroSD card containing years of university photos and thesis work suddenly prompted "Disk Needs Formatting" and became unreadable.
This is often a logical filesystem error. We prioritized safety by creating a read-only disk image first, then reconstructing the corrupted filesystem virtually.
The result? We successfully recovered 100% of his photos and documents, preserving his cherished memories of studying abroad!
💡 Tip: If you see "Format Disk," click NO! Your data is likely still there.
【🇯🇵 日本語】
留学生の大切な思い出を救出 (Lexar MicroSD)
異国で学ぶ留学生にとって、日々の写真はかけがえのない宝物です。
今回のご依頼は、台湾での大学生活の写真や卒業論文が詰まったMicroSDカード。「フォーマットが必要です」というエラーが表示され、アクセスできなくなってしまいました。
これは典型的な論理障害です。私たちはデータを上書きしないよう、まず安全な読み取り専用イメージを作成し、仮想的にファイルシステムを修復しました。
その結果、写真とドキュメントを100%復旧することに成功。彼の貴重な留学生活の記録を守ることができました！
💡 ヒント：「フォーマットが必要です」と出ても、絶対に「はい」を押さないでください！
🔗 Case Study / 案例詳情 / 詳細はこちら:
https://2025.data-recover.com.tw/cases/Lexar-128GB-MicroSD-%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6%E5%8D%A1%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%EF%BC%9A%E5%A4%96%E7%B1%8D%E4%BA%A4%E6%8F%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%8F%8D%E8%B2%B4%E5%9B%9E%E6%86%B6%E9%87%8D%E7%8F%BE
#tech #technews #technology #DataRecovery #MicroSD #Lexar #Photography #StudentLife #Memories #DigitalStorage
#資料救援 #記憶卡救援 #照片救援 #新竹 #鴻華資料救援 #交換學生 #回憶
#データ復旧 #SDカード復旧 #写真復旧 #メモリカード #留学 #技術 -
Quantum computing's reality check
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics
#ycombinator #optimization #quantum_computing #qubits #logical_qubits #quantum_error_correction -
Quantum Computing's Hard, Cold Reality Check
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics
#ycombinator #optimization #quantum_computing #qubits #logical_qubits #quantum_error_correction -
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits - Enlarge / Some of the optical hardware needed to get QuEra's machine to... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1989292 #quantumcomputing #quantummechanics #computerscience #errorcorrection #science #qubits #quera
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Avoid falling into logical traps! Check out my new article on category errors and meaningless propositions to sharpen your reasoning skills and spot common mistakes online.
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Avoid falling into logical traps! Check out my new article on category errors and meaningless propositions to sharpen your reasoning skills and spot common mistakes online.