Weird. I bought a used car in Canada last week, and paid about two thirds by check, and the rest in cash, with a bit also on a credit card, just to collect points. Cash is still good in Canada, at least for the moment.…
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You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you haven't accounted for the cash you've…
I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, there was a pivot away from hardware to…
It does seem to have the tsundere model nailed down pretty well. I encountered a fair number of errors trying to generate a response in the beginning. After a bit, the dialog starts to show some repetition and some…
Ted Chiang is a really smart guy, obviously benefitting greatly from his Asian genes, but he seems to have a deliberate blind spot in his essay specifically regarding family cultural attitudes about schooling. Academic…
Methinks the man doth complain too much.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present example #1. Detroit.
https://archive.is/GGuCt
It's totally hilarious, how organizations are training large language models and calling them "intelligent". These overgrown & overstuffed stochastic parrots are just toys to amuse and shock the ignorant. Once the…
It's pretty clear the only solution going forward is more inflation. Almost certainly the Fed inflation targets will be raised from 2% to 3% or even 4%. Inflation socializes the cost over everyone who possesses $US. Not…
https://archive.is/tckqR
These are BS patents, since they magically somehow couple the eletromagnetic force to gravitation, which has NEVER been observed at the energy levels we are capable of generating with current technology. It's magical…
Musk is being cautious. Starlink terminals on the ground work fine in Ukraine. What has been disabled are mobile terminals mounted on drones that would be used for attacks on Russian soil. That could provoke Russian…
We obviously need a new test. The new benchmark for large language models should be "Truth" with a numeric score defined as -Log( Percentage_of_Lies_Told ). This way, a perfectly truthful model will have a numeric score…
I would use VHDL-2008, but freely admit, it's more difficult and complex than Verilog. My reason for this choice is that you can do physical design in VHDL, since attributes are part of the language, and not grafted…
you've hit upon a thorny problem. water testing services only test for obvious things like heavy metals, leaving organic contamination (i.e. drugs, industrial chemicals, etc) pretty much untouched. There are rather…
High energy radiation breaks organic bonds all over the place, resulting in changes in color, taste, and nutrition, not to mention carcinogenic tendencies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820857/
Hackers that are seeking banking passwords will sometimes monitor hacked devices for months, until they can convert stolen credentials to cash by buying crypto. The real question is whether any of your devices have been…
Nah, I tried it, and it failed to generate usable code. The level of sophistication and understanding is an inch deep. It will need serious retraining in specialist subjects to be usable. Once that happens, it may…
https://archive.ph/HgdJM
https://archive.ph/fbguP
I actually joined Twitter, because I wanted to have a front row seat to the story as it unfolds. Twitter was never that interesting before, but now it's a madhouse of humor, revenge, and right wing zeitgeist. It's…
I was never interested in Twitter before, but under Musk, it's become hilariously entertaining. If Musk can add functionality, like payments, crypto, markets, etc, I can see myself paying the $8 to subscribe. The…
Probably a near earth asteroid, orbiting between Mercury and the Earth's orbit. So what?
Weird. I bought a used car in Canada last week, and paid about two thirds by check, and the rest in cash, with a bit also on a credit card, just to collect points. Cash is still good in Canada, at least for the moment.…
[flagged]
You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you haven't accounted for the cash you've…
I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, there was a pivot away from hardware to…
It does seem to have the tsundere model nailed down pretty well. I encountered a fair number of errors trying to generate a response in the beginning. After a bit, the dialog starts to show some repetition and some…
Ted Chiang is a really smart guy, obviously benefitting greatly from his Asian genes, but he seems to have a deliberate blind spot in his essay specifically regarding family cultural attitudes about schooling. Academic…
Methinks the man doth complain too much.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present example #1. Detroit.
https://archive.is/GGuCt
It's totally hilarious, how organizations are training large language models and calling them "intelligent". These overgrown & overstuffed stochastic parrots are just toys to amuse and shock the ignorant. Once the…
It's pretty clear the only solution going forward is more inflation. Almost certainly the Fed inflation targets will be raised from 2% to 3% or even 4%. Inflation socializes the cost over everyone who possesses $US. Not…
https://archive.is/tckqR
These are BS patents, since they magically somehow couple the eletromagnetic force to gravitation, which has NEVER been observed at the energy levels we are capable of generating with current technology. It's magical…
Musk is being cautious. Starlink terminals on the ground work fine in Ukraine. What has been disabled are mobile terminals mounted on drones that would be used for attacks on Russian soil. That could provoke Russian…
We obviously need a new test. The new benchmark for large language models should be "Truth" with a numeric score defined as -Log( Percentage_of_Lies_Told ). This way, a perfectly truthful model will have a numeric score…
I would use VHDL-2008, but freely admit, it's more difficult and complex than Verilog. My reason for this choice is that you can do physical design in VHDL, since attributes are part of the language, and not grafted…
you've hit upon a thorny problem. water testing services only test for obvious things like heavy metals, leaving organic contamination (i.e. drugs, industrial chemicals, etc) pretty much untouched. There are rather…
High energy radiation breaks organic bonds all over the place, resulting in changes in color, taste, and nutrition, not to mention carcinogenic tendencies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820857/
Hackers that are seeking banking passwords will sometimes monitor hacked devices for months, until they can convert stolen credentials to cash by buying crypto. The real question is whether any of your devices have been…
Nah, I tried it, and it failed to generate usable code. The level of sophistication and understanding is an inch deep. It will need serious retraining in specialist subjects to be usable. Once that happens, it may…
https://archive.ph/HgdJM
https://archive.ph/fbguP
I actually joined Twitter, because I wanted to have a front row seat to the story as it unfolds. Twitter was never that interesting before, but now it's a madhouse of humor, revenge, and right wing zeitgeist. It's…
I was never interested in Twitter before, but under Musk, it's become hilariously entertaining. If Musk can add functionality, like payments, crypto, markets, etc, I can see myself paying the $8 to subscribe. The…
Probably a near earth asteroid, orbiting between Mercury and the Earth's orbit. So what?