Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org
Computer Scientist, mineral collector, gardener, bike enthusiast; un peu de français; nederlands maar erg roestig.
Joined Nov 2022
Besides having some good graphics, this propublica article has an implicit example of American Royalty.
https://projects.propublica.org/california-farmers-colorado-river/
Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana ♫
Too many copilots and not enough pilots. This is the near-term danger of AI.
Me to ChatGPT: How much or how many is a slew?
ChatGPT: It is not a specific numerical value, so it doesn't have a precise measurement associated with it. Instead, it is a subjective term used to convey the idea of a significant amount or a substantial number of things.
Conclusion: It is a signaling word. Using "slew" as a noun says more about you than the topic at hand.
‘It’s like building a ship inside of a bottle,’ says a developer whose company is converting Minnesota office buildings into apartments.
Link found between age of stars and frequency of hot Jupiters
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-link-age-stars-frequency-hot.html
Touchless Clair de Lune. Cloyingly ethereal.
Cognitive disconnect.
1. From this NPR news story, "Iowa's popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds" [source https://text.npr.org/1210771417]
2. "Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) is America’s most unpopular governor" [source https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/senator-governor-rankings-joe-manchin]
3. The Law of the Excluded Middle [source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle]
The problem with daylight savings time is that the change is infrequent enough to be unusual, hence more annoying than it needs to be. One solution would be to have a time change every month, arbitrarily. The annoyance would fade because we'd learn to tolerate time changes.
Technically the longest day of the year isn't summer solstice (for those of us living under the daylight savings regime), it's today.
Me prompting Bard: How can you determine whether or not a bitcoin was ethically sourced?
Bard: long answer with considerations, then: "Even if you take all of these factors into account, it is still impossible to guarantee that any given bitcoin was ethically sourced."
Four Blazes sing All Night Long
Lullaby of the Doomed by Babs Gonzales. It's a strange melody.
Map of perceived temperature. Right on time, the five months of winter begin.
This satire article reminds me of Theranos, which was based on the idea of just one drop of blood being enough for thirty routine lab tests.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632
Incidentally, a neighbor who works with mass spectrometry told me the dream is coming close to reality in that many biomarkers can be detected with small samples.
Says it's *postponed* but was it really? https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/advances-in-deepfake-technology/
“Everyone is trying to pass off their company as an AI venture,” says Kartik Hosanagar, faculty co-director of a program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania focused on AI. He adds that most ideas at the campus’s most recent startup competition were tied to AI, even when they didn’t need to be.
Computer Scientist, mineral collector, gardener, bike enthusiast; un peu de français; nederlands maar erg roestig.
Joined Nov 2022
