Always boils down to the “If I buy a bigger car I’ll be safer!” fallacy. If I buy even bigger shoes I’ll be safer from injury in running! If I buy bigger and better trousers I will get less injured at work! If I buy a bigger phone I will get scammed less!
I hope people in all the countries facing their initial “Yank Tank” fevers will vote someone in that is responsible enough to reverse this process. I recently sold my 2003 “Combi”-style car because it was simply too big, looking for something smaller has me left wanting but I’ll make do without a car for the time being.
YouTuber Internet of Bugs examines the latest demo from Cognition that showcases their “first AI software engineer” allegedly solving UpWork programming tasks.
I think it’s a sensible position to be in. I tend to use AI in order to build awareness of it’s capabilities. I find that sometimes it is useful for brainstorming or “tip of my tongue” searches but as you say the actual coding capabilities are exaggerated.
To me Cognition AI is doing what most other hype-based startups do which is generate good headlines so that VC money can keep pouring in. It is up to us to spot and question things that don’t quite make sense… and anything with the words “AI understands X” don’t make sense currently ^^
It is a typical Youtube clickbait title but the Youtuber in question doesn’t seem to be nefarious, it does what it says on the tin :P I’d say the description covers what the video is about better.
Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long....
I think it would be fair to doubt your point, could you share which earbuds you were using and how you were using them? I think the disagreement here will also stem from the fact that IEMs + playing music is pretty great “active noise cancellation” in itself.
When I listen to a podcast on my IEMs I hear quite a lot of the outside world, when I do the same with ANC headphones on I hear much less.
I think the police have stated they are not yet aware of a possible motive, we know the child’s weapon was registered to a close relative but how they got it and why they used it is still a mystery. Terrible and sad that someone so young felt like taking a life is a valid course of action.
This entire fiasco is completely confusing. As far as I understand there was pressure for the current chair to drop the position and hand it over to someone else, Bangladesh was expected to take over but Saudi Arabia lobbied for the chair (this is the part that confuses me, do they think holding the position will boost their public image?). Since there were no rival candidates, part of the lobbying, they were unanimously voted for because the UN cannot be bothered to actually give a damn about women’s rights and wanted the whole meeting to be over with*.
So now we’ll get another 2 years of minimal progress from the CSW, as has been the case in the past, and Saudi Arabia will be in a scrutinising light for the duration but not much will fundamentally change.
A sample size of a few dozen people complaining online while thousands quietly purchase said bibles. Absolutely not buying into “the fury of Christians” either.
Exactly, in the last decade or so I went from pescetarian to vegetarian to vegan and for the last few years I have been “flexitarian”. My own adoption of it is different to others in the sense that most of what I eat at home is still vegan but on average I probably have 1-2 vegetarian meals at home a week and I don’t have many issues eating vegetarian (sometimes meat) outside of the house.
I still avoid a lot of meat, especially things like veal, but I find being “flexible” also helps talk to people about it. It is much less intimidating asking someone to try having 2 veggie meals a week than telling them they need to universally drop all animal products from their diet.
I think it’s more about knowingly switching out a meal rather than just patting yourself on the back because you eat mac and cheese twice a week. For every conversation we have online there are a few people that learn something from it, myself included, I think the thread is interesting!
I always thought it had more to do with the aesthetic of vinyls rather than any sort of ownership dilemma. A good chunk of my friends own multiple vinyl records but no record player. I also wonder what the production rates are like for vinyls vs CDs, are we producing about the same quantity of them?
I agree, this is not ground breaking in terms of BCIs (in general, maybe in how intrusive it was compared to standard projects using an EEG). Plenty[1] of YouTube videos on mapping certain brain waves to buttons.
At the end of the day this company is pouring a ton of money into a technology that could use it, I’m incredibly excited for the accessibility potentials but just so scared of the malpractices that might (and probably will) be going on. Sadly I think most of the “external” BCIs are in the “study” phase rather than any sort of production. If you do find something that is consumer available, please let me know!
I agree that the usage of “white” is irrelevant here. That being said, are you in academics? It is not an unusual situation for people to not be aware of the “face behind the maths” so to speak. Granted, this is not entirely unique to women in science but it is exhaustingly common for women to be questioned more than their peers.
I think questioning this is fine as many people lie but I wouldn’t take this to mean this type of situation didn’t happen/couldn’t happen.
Giant utes and SUVs are taking over Australia's roads - and that’s a problem (www.youtube.com)
Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed! (www.youtube.com)
YouTuber Internet of Bugs examines the latest demo from Cognition that showcases their “first AI software engineer” allegedly solving UpWork programming tasks.
Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km (www.newcivilengineer.com)
Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long....
Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC (www.notebookcheck.net)
Finland shooting: Child, 12, wounds three in Vantaa school shooting (www.bbc.com)
Police say they responded to the incident at Viertola school before 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and urged local residents to remain indoors....
Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights (www.amnesty.org)
No, this isn’t the onion....
Donald Trump selling Bibles sparks fury from Christians—"Blasphemous grift" (www.newsweek.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s latest venture selling Bibles has sparked the fury of Christians....
Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)
Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind (futurism.com)
degree in bamf (mander.xyz)
Sovereign citizen has a fake diplomatic permit. (lemmy.world)