you SEARCH for things rather than navigate menus
The problem with this is that the primary way that humans find things is by going to the place where we remember them being. There is ~60M years of evolution behind our spatial memory. We're REALLY good at it.
Text-based searches, not so much...
When assessing AI, we should keep in mind that the reference implementation is the human brain, which runs on 12 watts.
We bought a house ~5 years ago.
It had solar hot water panels on the roof, installed in the 80s or 90s.
They worked; they gave a boost to the heat and H/W.
But...the panels were at end-of-life, and were starting to leak, and nobody, nobody, services these things any more.
We ended up scrapping them and installing solar electric panels in their place.
your phone supplier would verify the phone owner's date of birth, the porn site asks your phone "is the owner 18 or older", and the phone says "yes" or "no". With exactly one bit of personally identifiable information.
The phone can send the age bit along with the evil bit.
Problem solved!
MariaDB is GPL
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mari...
props to Rudy Rucker
https://thedailywtf.com/articl...
HVAC Guy: It didn't fail. We're just changing the chiller bars and doing some other preventive maintenance.
Mark: But we've got two air conditioners in here, why are they both down?
HVAC Guys: We figured it'd be easier to do them both at the same time. Why, is there a problem with that?
What it lacks in factual accuracy it makes up for in writing clear, structured articles
We lose money on every sale and make it up in volume\b\b\b\b\b\b bullshit!
A tale of unrequited love
https://theworld.com/~swmcd/st...
Artificial stupidity
The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one thing missing: Smart machines.
https://www.salon.com/2003/02/...
Richard Feynman won the Nobel prize in Physics for his work on quantum electro-dynamics.
He disliked the celebrity that came with it.
I travel in Europe occasionally, and the web is close to unusable there.
Every freaking site puts a pop-up in your face demanding that you answer its questions three...
if you actually cared if something works you wouldn't have Devin Nunes in charge.
Maybe he should have hired Devin Nunes' cow?
Latest allows users to engage with Twitter in a directed fashion. They read what is new in their chosen feeds and then get on with their lives.
Twitter desperately does not want users to do this. Twitter wants to keep users mired in an endless scrolling morass of Twitter stuff, sinking deeper and deeper into the tar pit while Twitter puts ads in the stream.
"Giving people choice and control over their Twitter experience is super important" [...] Sullivan added that he was hoping the platform could achieve "a nice balance for all."
The arrogance here, the double-speak, the misdirection is...breathtaking.
The "balance" that Twitter seeks is not a balance between the interests or needs or desires of various users. It is not even a balance between the interests of Twitter and the interests of its users. It is merely the balance point where the marginal revenue gained by keeping some users trapped in Home (or the like) is exactly offset by the marginal revenue lost by driving other users off the platform entirely.
Remember, users do not pay for Twitter, and if you do not pay for something, then you are not the customer. If you do not pay for something, then you are prey, or fodder, or collateral damage. Set your expectations accordingly.
This video gives a pretty good sense of how things go in Russia
Saving cat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pull quote: "We have acquired electricity"
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?
