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erinptah.wordpress.com, 1 month ago to ArtificialIntelligence

I have made 2 whole phone calls today. Where’s my medal.

Crypto rubbernecking opportunities are way down these days*, but here’s a few things I’ve saved:

“Amy and David’s sure-fire* analyst predictions on crypto for 2024! (* within acceptable margins of error)” — plus a scorecard on last year’s predictions for 2023.

David Gerard versus LLMs: “deeply disappointed, i asked gemini to write something in my style and it seemed to channel The Register wahey blokey british style with jellied eels”

“At first the plan was for the DAO to vote on whether or not to hire a writer & how much to pay them. But although the DAO was fine for making so-called smart contracts, it didn’t have a mechanism for signing regular old-fashioned dumb contracts, or for paying anybody in what crypto people derisively call ‘fiat currency,’ but which you and I call ‘money.’ […] In the end I was offered a contract from Mysterious Entity. I submitted my invoices to and was paid, in dollars, by Mysterious Entity, Inc. The Piper DAO was not a party to the contract.”

“bro they stole your entire game” — latest roundup from Jauwn, the Youtuber on a neverending quest to find and review an NFT game that’s actually good.

(*To be clear, crypto scams are still chugging right along. Web 3 Is Going Just Great has a steady influx of new posts! They’re just all variations on the same 3 or 4 themes. Even Amy and David’s blogging has occasionally thrown in an AI-scams roundup to fill space.)

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/i-am-very-tired-so-heres-a-tiny-crypto-link-post/

#artificialIntelligence #blockchain #scamsCultsSchemesFrauds

erinptah.wordpress.com, 4 months ago to random

“Yes, plants need sunlight, but some need less than others, and indeed get stressed by too many photons. Shading those crops [with solar panels] means they will require less water, which rapidly evaporates in an open field. Plus, plants “sweat,” which cools the panels overhead and boosts their efficiency. ‘It is a rare win-win-win.'”

“Running Tide and other carbon-removal companies are discovering what it means to take carbon seriously. It’s still very possible that kelp itself won’t end up being a feasible approach to removing carbon from the atmosphere. Still, the company is a preview of a future in which “net zero” is something more than faraway corporate promises.”

This cat’s skin glows fluorescent green under UV light! The gene is in his living cells, so it doesn’t show up in his fur…they should’ve shaved him for the news segment.

“These days, ‘Ata is considered uninhabitable. But “by the time we arrived,” Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.” While the boys in Lord of the Flies come to blows over the fire, those in this real-life version tended their flame so it never went out, for more than a year.“

“Simply enter your text and see it transform into visual retro-futuristic wave.”

Extremely-cool color visualization tool. Upload your art, see what kind of 3D value waveforms it makes. (Check out this long demo video to see it in action on a WIP.)

“I got bored during this quarantine season so I made a nostalgic personality quiz! Take it and find out which of six common Otaku Senshi tropes you fall into and get gently called out!“

Turns out there’s a simple and easy step you can add to basic shoelace knots to make them twice as strong. Suddenly, my laces don’t come undone by themselves while I’m in the middle of a walk anymore! Bless this website owner whose special interest is “tying your shoelaces.”

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/end-of-year-link-cleanout-happy-fun-uplifting-things-only/

#artReferences #environmentalist #SailorMoon #SCIENCE_ #useful