Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

@mimsical

Smoochy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVGFd9TZ01g #ryuichisakamoto

If "anathema" does not require a definite or indefinite article, I don't see why "anomaly" does.

@paul There's a reading list that goes along with this podcast. And a quiz.

I resisted, but all the talk about the coming of AGI and its threat to humanity, the thousand-signature open letter calling for a pause (questioned by some https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/125g8bq/open_letter_calling_for_pause_on_giant_ai/) -- so I signed up to try, on several of these experimental sites and tried to do something useful. The results have been very disappointing. The transformers are not connected to solvers that could help me be more productive. The technical problems I want to solve seem to lie more in the "shape rotator" camp than in the "wordcel" camp. That would not matter if what I was doing was some minor variation of existing code.

@mimsical possibly related? https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

@guan Purely from the sound of it, PCC is more attractive to me. Eg " Le Bureau politique du Comité central du Parti communiste chinois (PCC)"

Brad is lame.

"Although the females may appear to be dead during the mating process, the males are fully aware that they are faking." https://www.livescience.com/female-spiders-play-dead-during-sex-so-males-dont-have-to-worry-about-being-eaten

If only Alibaba had been split into 40 parts.

I tried to get Bard to work with a prompt based on an image, but found no way to give it the image. Bard told me to use the upload tab on the bard.ai website - which does not exist. I was able to make a prompt with a URL to an image, and this got a response. An incorrect response, but still a response.

There seems to be such consensus, on both sides, that "this time is different" (from other tech innovations). Remarkable.

My rendition of the Einstein Tile - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5938815

@mimsical "Mx. Blum, who uses the gender-neutral honorific" -- first I've seen this in WSJ. Is it in the style guide? https://www.wsj.com/articles/laundry-cold-warm-water-detergent-d8fc8eb9

Ten hours later, what was snow becomes this, on the exact same day. Crazy.

The morning surprise, captured in photo. How are you on this fine spring morning?

@paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

@Pat pickle ball

generated synthetic image of guess what

@mimsical The ones I sampled tend to be more "raw" content; I prefer well edited. Because I am lazy, I will sometimes listen to https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01plr2p/episodes/downloads