I'm actually going to tap the sign, here, whichever mod 2nd-chanced this (reposted) — this fluffpiece is a few fiscal quarters late for any attempt at moraleboost (read the room: Oracle's recent 30k axe; <http://www.layoffs.fyi>; obliteration of translation/transcription industries). We are tired, ridden, put away wet.
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I have been saying this since first using GPT-2, years ago, then with only a few tokens at a time (mostly to responses of laughter):
genAI will soon make at least one of two things necessary (&/or):
1) the necessity for some minimal Universal Basic Income
2) the necessity for many young men to die in pointle$$ war$ of di$traction
History, rhyming...
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Please don't resuscitate this tone-deaf WSB article for thrice.
My mid-sized US city (Chattanooga) has recently announced a partnership with Vanderbilt and EPB (local govt-owned fiber ISP) which creates a Quantum Computing Research Facility [$,$$$,$$$,$$$] [1].
As locals are covering this news, I keep having this thought that nobody (perhaps less than a few?) even knows what those words mean (certainly not me). You speak confidently and clearly enough that I'm incline to believe it's kind of real.
So thanks for sharing your P[0]V with this dumbass (former data center) electrician (me). All the "Quantum"-phrasing represents to me is more local job opportunities.
>>@3m27s: "Quantum computing is basically trying to treat some isolated piece of the universe to behave slightly less randomly, for a very brief timeframe, so that it is useful to you when you try to solve some problem."
>>@20m: [simple flow-chart of interacting with Quantum Processing Unit]
>>@final.words: [paraphrasing] "Right now you buy a quantum computer simply to research quantum computers. Ours is $14MM"
The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time", and after the obsevation only one state exists, while all other possibilities are gone (or exist in other worlds, according to one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics [0]).
So, in that meme, the guy looks at one girl (the observed state) and "ignores" all other girls (all other possible states).
>It’s bonkers to me that there’s any developers out there working for these companies that never thought to implement simple email verification
Other POV: I simply do not use email — like at all (don't even have a SPAM account anymore) — if your website requires me to enter an email address just to buy something, I WILL find a burner/temporary email that will allow the transaction script to proceed ("10 minute email").
I am personally grateful when a store allows me to proceed with a guest transaction [i.e. non-login, non-email purchase] — even if that means I might need to "call in" should the transaction be flagged/delayed [usually isn't].
Intentionally not giving examples to avoid hacker/targetting, but many US clothing manufacturers offer these frictionless (and legitimate) purchase pathways.
Really surprised this [very well-written] article didn't suggest the fantastic technique of owning an entire domain (although author's own examples obviously include unique handles@ for each tested practice).
Then you can hand each recipient an absolutely unique email which isn't just ole "name.morewords@" period trick — block those which receive SPAM.
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OR: the even "easier" lifestyle of just not using email (like me). Obviously this is difficult for modern living, but that's what temp email is best for [i.e. circumventing ubiquitous `REQUIRED` email address fields].
I've been doing that for two decades. Most of the spam comes directly to my primary gmail. Because I shared that with friends and family. And at least some of my friends and family shared their entire contact list with the wrong app at least once.
This article however is talking about publishing your email address on a public website. It matches my experience, that simple javascript concatenation stops 100% of spam. Not that I would or ever did trust my primary email address to that.
Years ago, I considered your approach. Programmatically create a custom email address for each person I wanted to talk to.
Then I hit upon a simpler solution. Have one email address. Happily share publicly. And whitelist the sender's email addresses. Emails not in the whitelist go into a quarantine folder that I glance at once in a while.
It's almost equivalent in efficacy, but much simpler to implement.
I don't have a phone ringer anymore, but when I did whitelist-only is how I screened incoming calls. Your method for email sorting has the advantage of being reviewable (verse entirely blocking specific handles@) — and much easier to implement/maintain.
A decade ago, I worked at a facility which owned 1,000,000 sqft of datafloor space. My location was "only" 300,000 sqft, their largest single location.
During my tenure there, we went from continuous ~2MW to ~3.5MW (5MW designmax). Certain days of the year we would spend hours just shedding load with our on-site 1MW loadsink/"toaster", being paid by PowerCo to burn off their excess baseload. This cut our energy bill in half (despite using even more energy!). Hopefully battery grid storage has reduced this practice..?
On those days our entire cooling yard would exceed 130°F (asphalt surface, primarily). Semi-arid Texas, otherwise, at a balmy 102°F.
>whether something special happens when a service is involved in preparing a message to his lawyer.
I use an online LLM to field better questions to my lawyer — he is aware, as I send him these AI conversations. His only warning to me is don't say anything that you wouldn't want the judge to read, which is the same warning given about email. Lot's of "devil's advocating" phrasing...
During our current lawsuit (my first, as plaintiff) — years brewing — I have built myself a local Ollama computer, which can answer offline questions better. But for something quick or simpler, I still use online services often.
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Local LLMs are the future. This massive datacenter overinvestment is going to become obvious (similar to how ProTools destroyed recording studios).
I use a 4K 45" Aorus (Gigabyte) on M4 and M2 Pro — also eyesight/age...
Both will run at 144Hz, but the M4 will occassionally flicker if you're close to limits on dual-screens. I set to 120Hz and don't notice any difference.
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My M4 complaint is that I can no longer update my OS with a USB Installer offline. My M3 (and lower) will, using the same Sequoia media.
For $650, I just purchased a consumer-level CCTV (writes locally, on a loop) which can auto-detect all humans, vehicles, and pets — creating montages of visitors (for later review). This is entirely offline, eight camera, just over two weeks retention at 12MP (configurable to months with dual SATA slots and video setting changes).
What cloud recording is capable of determining... is absolutely limitless. I think this is what makes Flock so scary / "different."
Appreciate this, also put in another link in the footer to "Report an Error" just in-case it does become a reference source. No factor of safety in the periodic table of elements.
As second suggestion: this probably looks great on a cell phone, but on a 50" display you've got tons more space for additional elemental facts/tidbits. Perhaps detect monitor size, then keep simple for phones?
This could additional put the lanthomides into their correct placement (if window widened enough) [0].
Much prettier. Could easily have larger pop-ups (entire point is to get information on elements, no?) <https://i.imgur.com/IVx5MY5.png>
Heck, even have a link to Wikipedia articles (why not?). You're obviously in the enjoyment of information sharing =D
You also have plenty of space for an example element (e.g. describe what each line represents e.g.g: density, atomic mass, proton/element #). The map's "key" if you will... not everybody knows these standardized chemnerd properties (you can then also remove the 120+ "RT" by simply placing in example element @STP, with a link to what that means, too).
I like that you've chosen to use an actual element for the example / explainer.
To streamline the UI, might I suggest replacing example element (copper) with just the explainers, next to hydrogen [2]... using that elements information (without adding a free-floating copper).
If that doesn't make sense, let me know.
Thanks for being a responsive educator.
[2] perhaps use Beryllium for your example/explainer -- because then you can explain the electron orbitals too ..?
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Replace the topbar (color==atomic class) location to between Group II & III elements (e.g. whitespace between Be B); does not need to be explained on example element text.
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I have been saying this since first using GPT-2, years ago, then with only a few tokens at a time (mostly to responses of laughter):
genAI will soon make at least one of two things necessary (&/or):
1) the necessity for some minimal Universal Basic Income
2) the necessity for many young men to die in pointle$$ war$ of di$traction
History, rhyming...
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Please don't resuscitate this tone-deaf WSB article for thrice.
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