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ai6yr, 6 days ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Dang, I missed my opportunity to get a fully automated robot farm. #auction #farm #robots

alex, 7 days ago to ai

#AI #DEFENSE || The most captivating industry use case you'll encounter this week. Read the article, watch the interview. Think cargo, think ships, think space. Think humanitarian aid drops. Think 'what else could this be transferred to?'...

AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test - Slashdot https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-fighter-jets-air-force-6a1100c96a73ca9b7f41cbd6a2753fda

alex, 9 days ago to climate

#CLIMATE #SCIENCE || Like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that opened in Norway in 2008, these researchers in the Netherlands are banking coral from around the world for when (not if) our reefs collapse.

Corals bred in a zoo have joined Europe’s largest reef. This is offering scientists hope https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/corals-bred-in-a-zoo-have-joined-europes-largest-reef-this-is-offering-scientists-hope/

ttpphd, 11 days ago to Autism

Study shows heightened sensitivity to PTSD in autism

Parvalbumin interneuron activity in autism underlies susceptibility to PTSD-like memory formation
Abed et al., 2024, iScience

"ASD and PTSD share common features, including impaired emotional regulation, altered explicit memory, and difficulties with fear conditioning.

“We demonstrated in four mouse models of ASD that a single mild stress can form a traumatic memory.” "

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2024/05/study-shows-heightened-sensitivity-ptsd-autism

#Autism #science #ptsd #trauma #ASD

hotdogsladies, 16 days ago to random

Gave myself a weird home haircut.

I was kinda thinking George Hurley and was ready to settle for Mike Patton but in the end I landed in an unanticipated third location.

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GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

About to leave Sacramento for home, the longest and most utterly boring part of our trips. (I5– Grapevine) Harris Ranch does have great bathrooms though. 🤭

Our realtor timed it out so we’d be driving home during an Open House today instead of kicking us/Hammy out for 3 hours tomorrow. Pays off to have our neighbor/friend in that role.

As always, posting & replying may be spotty.

andresmh, 1 month ago to random

I just enabled sharing to the fediverse on my Threads account.

I might regret saying this but I think this is a net gain for the fediverse, even if Meta is doing this to potentially appease regulators.

I’ll continue to use the Mastodon instances I helped start (hci.social and micro.blogs.pricneton.edu) but it’s nice to follow Threads folks from afar👋

Video one enabling fediverse sharing

dangillmor, 1 month ago to random

I was looking around to see if anyone is making a decent small (7"-8") tablet running Linux when I realized that no one is even making a good small tablet running Android. (Amazon and Samsung small tablets are not good...)

It's a reminder that Google once sold a GREAT small Android tablet, the Nexus 7 -- and like so many things the company has produced, killed it off in a fit of boredom or stupidity.

pluralistic, 2 months ago to random

Bid on naming rights to an upcoming Martin Hench novel, support Locus Magazine, the nonprofit paper of record for science fiction

https://locus.betterworld.org/auctions/locus-magazine-science-fiction-f/items/tuckerization-by-cory-doctorow

jeffowski, 2 months ago to random

#NoBillionaires

ethanschoonover, 2 months ago to random

DO YOU SUFFER FROM SCROLL TRANCE?

You know it: 3 minutes of scrolling turned into an hour & you feel like you just ate the full bag of chips without thinking.

I have tested ALL the apps folks. From iOS ScreenTime to $100-a-year apps (don't waste your money).

I've found THE app that works for me. And my kids.

SCREENZEN, people.

N.B. This is NOT a paid post! Nobody asked for this. I'm just a user who is relieved to find an app that works. It's free, but tip the guy!

https://www.screenzen.co

alex, 2 months ago to ai

#AI #HALLUCINATON || Fixed, I've found. \O/

Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped https://futurism.com/microsoft-copilot-alter-egos

alex, 2 months ago to ai

#AI #JOBS || As Cory Doctorow and others have noted, in these early days of generally available #AI, the risk isn't so much that it will replace you, but that your manager might think they can replace you. NOTE: This isn't a dig against managers per se, but a nudge to help people at all levels understand what's actually possible now versus #AIhype.

Tyler Perry Nixes Huge Film Studio Expansion, Says He Can Just Green Screen in Backgrounds From OpenAI's Sora https://futurism.com/the-byte/tyler-perry-studio-openai-sora

alex, 2 months ago to bluesky

@kegill

Personal data server, anyone?

#bluesky

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/26/bluesky-begins-to-make-its-decentralized-vision-real/

alex, 2 months ago to NealStephenson

@kegill

Wonderful reconnecting with you tonight at the #3rdPlaceBooks event with @pluralistic and #nealstephenson.

Was like a mini #Gnomedex reunion (H/T @ChrisPirillo )

rooster, 2 months ago to random

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alex, 3 months ago to nuclear

#NUCLEAR #ENERGY || Small Modular Reactors (SMR) that can be mass produced in a factory have the potential to collapse the cost and time to market required for traditional reactors. Imagine if your town had a few 10ft reactors for local generation...

Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes a day https://newatlas.com/energy/nuclear-reactor-weld-one-day/

devnull, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

On multiple occasions I've listened to instance admins speak about high S3 costs. The sheer amount of data absolutely balloons the more activity your server sees, I get it.

What I don't get is whether there's some unknown fedi ethical reason everybody insists on setting up an S3 cache (followed immediately by complaining about it).

Y'all want to know what the rest of the web does? Hosts their own uploaded media, and links out to the rest...

#fediadmin #s3 #devops #sysadmin

tantramar, 3 months ago to random

Is there a website somewhere under all this garbage? Why do so many websites look like this in 2024? #WebDesign #AdGarbage

ramsey, 3 months ago to random

432 total hours played, and I’ve finally finished my first play-through of #BaldursGate3.

I’ll say this: when you finish it, stay until the end of the credits.

ai6yr, 3 months ago to Plumbing

Something this old and everything else attached of similar era makes plumbers grumpy! Lesson so far on this disaster is to plan on refreshing plumbing more frequently. That was not in the "becoming a homeowner" brochures, LOL. #plumbing #plumbingdisaster #homeownership

glennf, 4 months ago to random

The default demo reel runs 24 hours a day at the local micro-mall’s display sign…for at a year. Maybe longer. The stores are all in business. Nobody has noticed (or figured out how to update it via its RS-485/232 interface).

Video showing a micro-mall sign with T-Mobile at top, Subway near bottom, and a cycling message on a digital sign board showing its marketing features, like “Eclipse” and “firmware updates via the Web”

the_etrain, 4 months ago to random

I tell people about Mastodon and they say "yes, but are there any cats?" Sister, if there were any more cats, they'd be crawling out of the USB port on my phone.