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kladni

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Fascinated by the universe and some subsets of it.

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seachanger, to random
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rain on sunday is a get back in bed free card

kladni,
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@seachanger @stephanie
One of our favorites, too. I'm jealous of you setting it for the first time!

kladni, to random
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"Please pay close attention to the question I actually asked, also."

I'm in a technical support chat. I felt the strong need, based on one of the support person's answers, to write this. The person seemed to be off to research something different than what I'd typed.

jinxhart, to Cartoons
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If ya ever wondered what Ernest P. Worrell's friend, Vern, looks like:

kladni,
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@jinxhart
I must admit that back in the day I owned this book. Where'd it go? I have no idea.

kladni,
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@jinxhart I bet that I loaned it to someone. That always is a sure-fire way to never see a book again.

kladni, to random
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Gmail feature I use all the time that some folks still aren't aware of.
You can add a + to the first part of the email (before the @) and then whatever you want after. Any email sent to that address will still go to your Gmail inbox.
For example:
example@gmail.com
example+account01@gmail.com
example+account02@gmail.com
all resolve to the same inbox, but most apps will treat each as unique.
I use this all the time for testing and to know who's sold my email.
Nice writeup:
https://liamhammett.com/make-infinite-gmail-addresses-for-one-inbox-nqoVprjX

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Do you have a favorite computer-related book from the 1970s or 80s?

Looking for interesting things to read. Can be technical but it should be at least leaning towards cultural and the people and ideas behind things or be otherwise interesting.

Update: I have a few of the suggestions already, but ordered a few more that I haven't read! Please feel free to keep adding to it; gonna bookmark this and will come back to it occasionally.

kladni,
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@thomasfuchs
This is much earlier than the 70s but might be something you'd dig:
"The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society" by Norbert Wiener. First published in 1950, but I found it really fascinating and surprisingly relevant still.

kladni,
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@thomasfuchs
It's a classic book, probably still available. I got it in recent memory on Amazon but I'm sure it's out there as a free ebook by now.

thomasfuchs, to random
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I think the basic technical problem with LLMs is that contrary to what people (including tech bros) think, the more processing power and the more source data gets thrown at them, they won't get better and more intelligent.

They will just deliver ever more average results quicker.

kladni,
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@thomasfuchs
One thing I think about is separating the "knowledge" we expect from an LLM from the "language processing".
I think the former will do as you say, but the latter can improve.
So, things like the ability to translate from one language to another, or from speech to text, will get better.

kladni,
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@thomasfuchs
We all agree "garbage in, garbage out" here. I also agree there probably is a turning point in 2023 where the inputs can't be assumed to be human generated. I've been assuming the primary symptom will be content-based.

dancinyogi, to music
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Listening to"

Enigma - Seven Lives

https://youtu.be/A2s4PXq8F1M?si=Vk8UoroI8k0DkWFf

kladni,
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@dancinyogi
For me, Enigma will forever be strongly associated with "my roommate is having sex in the other room right now".

kladni, to random
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Macklemore is sonic sunshine

thomasfuchs, to random
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Who could have possibly foreseen that this was a scam designed to distract people from building high speed rail

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hyperloop-one-shut-down-failing-191602421.html?guccounter=1

kladni,
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@thomasfuchs
The local Walgreens removed the drive-thru pneumatic tubes, also.

Although you could argue that this idea has theoretical potential, most failure conditions if anything were to go wrong would be generally catastrophic.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Nature has equally strong opinions about vacuum-based systems, too.

kladni, to random
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We've been watching the latest Fargo with Jennifer Jason Leigh. Which reminds me that I saw Howard the Duck in theaters. All I remember about that movie was her hair. Was it any good?

Waitnwallflower, to random
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Maybe we should start showing images from the trump era, because really, will people be so stupid? A second chance of crazy will be worse, and the end.

Please join me.

Share a trump era bullshit in this thread for our democracy.

I'll boost it.
Let's unite.
Let's cut off the head 2024.


kladni,
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@acm_redfox @Waitnwallflower

annaleen, to random
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I've been working on an article about the history of brainwashing as an idea. Today a researcher pointed out to me that there is one obvious difference between the way brainwashing is portrayed in the British novel 1984 vs the American movie The Manchurian Candidate. In 1984, the characters are being brainwashed by their own government. In the Manchurian Candidate, it's "the Reds." It's interesting to ponder the difference between those two fears, especially given contemporary politics.

kladni,
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@annaleen Definitely an interesting topic. With all the disinformation out there, much of it created intentionally to sway public opinion en masse, this is timely and important.
I suspect (with some points of reference, but mostly opinion) that powerful entities (government or otherwise) have been putting not insubstantial resources into honing the craft of brainwashing over time.

kladni,
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@jbaggs @annaleen
I get your point. Perhaps there are subtleties to explore. Check this example:
Person 1 spreads intentional disinformation to person 2.
Then person 2 is alarmed and wants to let the world know this crazy fact they just learned. So they share it.
Person 1 is doing the disinformation on purpose, but person 2 is an unwitting accomplice.
Are you defining what person 2 is doing as "misinformation"?

kladni,
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@jbaggs @annaleen
Thank you jbaggs, I've learned something.
Annalee, I look forward to your article and its take on this, which may be entirely a different entry point than my comments.

geordie, to random
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I am a simple man begging for tutorials with written word and not some 19 year old screaming WHAT'S UP YOU GUYS in a YouTube video

kladni,
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@geordie This is someone's side project, but if you grab a YouTube video URL and paste it in, it uses AI to summarize the video's contents in text form. SUPER helpful!
https://vreader.va.reichard.io/

kladni, to random
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What were the inventors of egg nog actually trying to accomplish?

kladni, to nature
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When a leaf leaves, sometimes there's still something left.

kladni, to photography
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Sometimes you realize that you're seeing the same view that others have seen, hundreds of years earlier.

kladni, to random
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Use words. Don't use belligerence. Don't invent conspiracies. Don't assume dark intentions. Don't grab for a weapon. Words will do. Words are enough. They always have been.

kladni, to random
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Vincent Price was the William Shatner of horror.

kladni, to random
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I don't think it says anywhere in the US constsitution or in any law that our country should be governed based on whether something pisses off Donald Trump or not.

kladni, to random
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For those supporting old software:
A software update was just sent to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away. The device (Voyager 2) is over 50 years old.
NASA gives new meaning to legacy systems. Truly.

https://bgr.com/science/nasa-just-sent-a-software-update-to-a-spacecraft-12-billion-miles-away/

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