Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

On today's ride, I noticed a young, small Killdeer scurrying on the road. Then an adult flew close by, making a lot of noise - a distraction strategy that did the job.

Wild roses, roadside today, while biking.

Google Bard sez - "If necessity is the mother of invention, then the father is curiosity. Curiosity is the desire to learn and explore, and it is often what drives people to invent new things. When people are curious about the world around them, they are more likely to see problems that need to be solved, and they are more likely to come up with new ideas for how to solve those problems."

@paul I am able to see flagstone paths I laid by hand in my back yard, from Google map's satellite view. "Visible from space" no longer eye-popping.

@danluu Read about 2.97 ± 0.07 kg in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures and you can get some of the appeal.

There is a great anecdote from the Financial devils Dictionary about Olive Oil:

"Perhaps the earliest recorded options trade, according to Aristotle, was made by Thales of Miletus (ca. 624-547 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of Greece, who put down deposits on all nearby olive-oil presses one winter when his knowledge of astronomy purportedly told him that the next year would bring a good olive crop. Thales paid almost nothing and profited hugely when the abundant harvest created high demand for presses thus making him one of the first individual investors to make more money trading options than his brokers did. He was also one of the last."

By October 1773, Phillis Wheatley was back in Boston, where she was now a free woman waiting ardently for copies of her books to arrive. “Since my return to America, my Master has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom,” she writes to Colonel David Wooster. In an odd coincidence, her books arrived in December 1773 on the Dartmouth, one of the ships involved in the Boston Tea Party.

Thirty years ago, an Attenborough narrated something about dinosaurs (Jurassic Park, 1993). Once again, this winning formula applies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlmzl2jCNs

Mechanical Turks considered in danger due to LLM/Chat tech. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

My experience with Trader Joe's is that they will ONLY trade for money.

Not Turkmenbashi news, but in related area. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65596470

It's one of the worst things in current online software.

Solving the problem of protein folding is easy. If you want hard problems, look to fast food automation. “You may think driving by and speaking into a drive-through is an easy problem for AI, but it’s actually one of the hardest,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, the company’s cloud-computing division.

I love how the stage for the Google I/O keynote had shelves with plants. I wonder if the design was inspired by "staging" in the sense of setting up a home's interior to get a better selling price. Staging on a stage, as it were.

@w7voa What about the Edgelord role?

@parismarx Yes, and nothing stops Microsoft from copying that and also taking over the web. Plus Facebook. Possibly even China, in its own way. Remember simpler times when people worried about whether or not caching CDNs violated copyright?

@paul I have this old Waterman fountain pen that really works well. I prefer using 5x5 graph paper in a bound notebook. Sure, it's not the Montblanc Meisterstück on parchment experience, but it has served well.

I requested and Bard answered.

@mimsical I've read more than one article predicting AI will be a key technology for improving US workforce productivity. Probably includes the OnlyFans sector?

looks bad