bruces

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*The MONIAC fluidic economic analog computer. Built in the 1940s, some of them still work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Six grand for an Artificial Intelligence radio

https://www.crowdsupply.com/deepwave-digital/air-t

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*Hmm, that's an interesting Mastodon feature -- people I follow on Mastodon who just sorta gave up on using Mastodon

*There's armies of 'em

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*The stretchiest long-distance hack in the history of humankind

bruces, 1 month ago to random

*One of the wackiest computational gizmos I've ever seen #chemputer

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45896-7

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*It's nice that Bluesky's AI scanner immediately labels this joke as possibly-way-too-sexy

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*A Fukushima that takes out a bunch of AIs, that'll be fun to watch

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/ai_boom_nuclear/

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*Okay, yeah, maybe -- the AI-weaponized "Lonely Russian Girlfriend" scam

https://medium.com/@profgalloway/mammal-ai-278e9a656fed

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*I just saw this Stalin-era Soviet robot thrller on YouTube and boy is it peculiar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_Sensation

bruces, 2 months ago to random

"Cybernetics" -- immediately overrun by opportunists and do-gooders who ruined the word so it didn't mean anything any more

http://www.cyberneticians.com/materials/mcculloch-recollections.pdf

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*Is this true? Did any actual human eat an actual pill and try this?

https://engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/2023/01/prime-posture-for-pill-taking/

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*After experiencing a lot of non-GMO food legislation, an anti-lab-meat movement doesn't much surprise me, but why are the right-wing the food cranks this time around

https://www.wired.com/story/cultivated-meat-florida-ban/

bruces, 2 months ago to random

"It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney's database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage"

https://80.lv/articles/midjourney-accuses-stability-ai-of-theft-bans-its-employees/

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*The AI music bots are spamming Soundcloud

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*Do these alleged "followers" actually follow anything at all, there seem to be pretty much zero metrics for measuring that

*They click "like" sometimes, but that's like nine guy, and usually the same ones

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bruces, 2 months ago to random

*When you live to be 100, people forget that you were once young

https://leonardo.info/blog/2023/12/21/remembering-vera-molnar-511924-7122023

bruces, 2 months ago to random

"the old chestnut about the relative merits of pigeon-based vs internet data transfers". #deadmedia #pigeonpot

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet

bruces, 2 months ago to random

"Scientists call it reversible rusting"

https://news.mit.edu/2024/power-when-sun-doesnt-shine-0229

bruces, 2 months ago to random

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*How come Large Language Models are measured in "vibes"

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/

bruces, 2 months ago to random

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-hackers-microsoft-source-code/

*So "secure" they've got the word in their name twice

bruces, 2 months ago to random

"Sponsored by U.S. Army"

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*Van der Waals magnetic computing

https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-harness-2d-magnetic-materials-energy-efficient-computing-0222

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*There's so much hardware orbiting in the solar system that one big blast from the Sun can whack machinery all over the place

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/06/aa45938-23/aa45938-23.html

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*Two hundred Chinese large language models that nobody uses