<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norcal.social/@UweHalfHand" class="u-url mention">@<span>UweHalfHand</span></a></span> Right. People keep talking about &quot;how do we reproduce Silicon Valley&quot; (or at least used to), and don&#39;t think enough Florence in the same breath.</p><p>It really is stark how the art quality dropped off when it went from being a republic to dukedom.</p>

<p>In short: The brain is an analog machine not like a computer that uses logic reasoning.</p>

<p>The brain is a biological machine built from continuous, noisy, parallel components that learn by adjusting analog connection strengths. Its intelligence emerges from this fundamentally analog substrate, not from executing discrete logical operations. Neural computation is inherently noisy and probabilistic.The exact timing of a spike or the release of neurotransmitters involves randomness. Information is often encoded in population averages or statistical patterns, not precise single-bit values</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> we had HotOS there once!</p>

<p>Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Meta</span></a> was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.</p><p><a href="https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t</span><span class="invisible">racking-explained-it-could</span></a></p>

<p>are u author superlinker?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Probably a Congolese member of their embassy who marks their car as non-combatant so as to not be caught up in the fighting of the local factions.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> You really wonder what was in the water in Florence at that time. And it makes at least me wonder what might be, in other places and times (here! now!) if conditions were right.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> magnificent</p>