For me, it’s more that it’s a vivid image. I have felt that “immiseration” so it immediately resonates; I don’t need a metaphor. But when people who don’t know technology are gushing about the latest agentic process, I wonder if having a somewhat grotesque, embellished counter will be useful.
I clearly need to up my adblock game. But do y’all also use PeerTube, Nebula, Curiosity Stream? Happy to vote with dollars if there’s a good candidate.
Hadn’t heard “precaritized” either. Brings to mind some penultimate additions to pillow forts, though.
We may start to see people realize that “have the AI generate slop, humans will catch the mistakes” actually is different from “have humans generate robust code.”
I wonder how much of it was vibe coded. And how much the owners will have to give up because of the beach, if anything.
OK, 2nd sock took 45 minutes. So a bit longer than it felt like, but an amount of time is easily spend scrolling/watching videos/etc.
Shiu put his in silico fly brain to the test by simulating the activation of neurons that sense sugar or water. The model predicted that specific neurons would fire to extend the fly’s proboscis and initiate eating — a result he and his colleagues showed is true in real adult flies. When simulating activation of sensory neurons from the fly’s antennae, the model predicted the firing of neurons in the circuit involving grooming with the legs, exactly the behavior a fly exhibits when it gets dirt on its antennae.
That is impressive.
How does this deal with learning?
Getting a sense of the scale:
139,255 neurons and 50 million connections […] 10 year effort […] It was assembled from 7,000 thin slices through a female adult fly’s brain, imaged with electron microscopy and annotated by AI to identify neuron types and connections.
Compared to house mouse at 71M and human at 8.6×10^10.
We can stop subsidizing fossil fuels and make EV purchasing affordable. We could even make public transit usable, if we spent $43M/hr on it.
So for example, there was a study recently that found, when you’re looking for the best whatever it is, in something like 44 percent of cases ChatGPT is citing a blog post from a company’s own website where they listed themselves as the No. 1 best option and then 10 competitors, and ChatGPT is just spitting this out to other people.
It’s different than it used to be, right? People have been tricking search engines forever, but with a search engine it shows you the web page where the information came from. If you go to my website and it says, “I’m the world’s greatest hot dog eating journalist,” you go, “Well, maybe he’s biased,” right?
And somehow, not that many people are looking at source: AI and starting from the premise that it’s garbage at best and biased deceit most likely.
To save folks reading the long winded intro:
Reflect Orbital is a start-up company proposing a constellation of up to 50,000 satellites by 2035, to provide a sunlight-on-demand service to consumers. This would involve reflecting beams of sunlight with a diameter of about 5 kilometers onto Earth’s surface to provide lighting or solar energy to the customers.
Thanks! Hoping to try some color patterns soon, though that looks like it involves sewing in a lot more ends.
I bought the loom and then put it off for ages anticipating a big project, and then finished it up chatting while my kid picked up Legos.
Gosh darn it, you’ll make me blush.
For comparison, 50 minutes to cook 3 cups of white rice (v. 1 cup of white in the original). Similar for the mid/end sections, but seems like the 1st section it drew a lot more current, maybe just more heat for a larger volume of water during the soak.
Do we need new laws before impeachment?
I can’t tell if this was a “just because we wanted to” or a “court order” kind of handing over.
I have no desire to stay on Google, but also have a lot of use cases to migrate before I can cut loose. Shared calendars, email accounts (should be able to sync with FairEmail as I work on migrating accounts), maps (OSM address search never works for me), Fi carrier, maybe others. Was the LineageOS transition a big change? How often do you need to troubleshoot for app installation, carrier configuration, etc?
As with other HONOR smartphones, we aren’t expecting a US release for the Magic V6.
I don’t know the channel, but here’s a video titled “US and Israel intercept missiles over Iraq.” Sure is dystopian: a video of farmland with missiles launching from a distant city. No explanations. But it really brings home to me how countries and people are caught between other countries capricious decisions.
I agree, seems more like an insightful reminder about inclusivity, product design, and data analysis; and a window into someone who’s probably incredibly frustrated trying to be positive.