Digital is perfect only for the parts that are not thrown away. Digital algorithms frequently parts of data streams that it deems as not necessary. Analog typically has the entire stream even if not useful or is considered noise. It comes from a different perspective of the definition of perfect. There is more than one. Digital is not complete, therefor imperfect.
I hate this with a purple passion. As an old fart that grew up in the 70's and 80's that had to live through the shit show that was the SuperFriends era with the wonder twins, the entire reason that DC got bitch slapped by Marvel in that era is because DC was so damn childish and "bright". Marvel covered tough topics and was dark. It was awesome. Marvel also bitchslapped DC at the theaters with their dark take on the superheroes. Prior to Thor Ragnarok, Marvel did humor RIGHT. The injected humor fit with the characters (hulk slamming Loki), but as of Ragnarok even Marvel went with the stupid humor shit. Taika Waititi and Disney destroyed Marvel. When I saw Ragnarok and Thor, a God, throw a rubber bouncy ball against a glass window that didnt break, but the returned ball knock Thor down, I just about got up and walked out. And now we have Superman on the DC side bringing back Krypto the super dog. We are only one small step away from the PTSD inducing wonder twins coming back. I refuse to watch this drivel and won't be seeing this movie. Screw bright. Bring back dark.
If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.
While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.
>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.
No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.
As a child of the 70's who lived through the stupid ass Super Friends age, I want no part of this new Superman that brings stupid shit like Krypto back into this. Marvel used to rock because it was much darker and everyone wrote off DC from the 70's on because Marvel got it. But then finally DC got dark and brooding and it was wonderful, but now the pendulum has swung back to this level of shit and Marvel is not immune. I would say the enshitification started with Thor Ragnarok and having Taika Waititi be the director. Taika is a enormously talented COMEDIAN. But he should not be driving any franchise that thrived on being serious, dark and brooding. He threw in humour in places and ways that just did not fit. Like Thor throwing a bouncy ball up against a glass window that did not break, but the ball knocks Thor down. I just about got up and walked out. Now you have DC bringing back the childish shit that I had to endure in the 70's and 80's. Give me back my dark and brooding and get rid of this crap. I won't be watching this new superman.
Of how much invested? Published numbers show plans for $80B ai splash. Anybody got to-date numbers? I see $14B on OpenAI and $20B for Nuance Communications. That's $34B sunk.
Also, is this crowing about as reliable as any other marketing babble? They mean to sell this service.
Don't Look Up
Watch it again.
The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.
No no no, see, these regulations are working exactly as intended.
Google/Alphabet is looking for ways to extract more and more "Value(tm)" for their shareholders, and since they have already plumbed the legal avenues for revenue generation, the only options left are grey, and outright illegal methods of generating it, as it concerns user privacy, and as it relates to monopolistic business practices.
The "Innovation!!" that this, and other large companies are screaming about, is the "NEW! and AMAZING, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES!" presented by Flagrantly violating consumer and market ethics, and they are OH, SO VERY UPSET by this.
The pointed response to this, is to ask google, bluntly, what exactly it has really brought in terms of USEFUL PRODUCT in the past decade, because search is DEMONSTRABLY inferior to what it was in the past (which is enshitification, not innovation), and Google Play services are just a walled garden pretending to be open by comparison with apple's white-plastic-dystopia.
The only thing it's really invested in, is in new and increasingly awful ways to fuck over users of their platform for profit. (The a-fore mentioned Grey and Illegal practices I mentioned)
EU regulation is doing EXACTLY what it is supposed to be doing, and Google needs to be FUCKING TOLD THIS, VERY VERY FUCKING PUBLICLY.
Sadly, our regulators here are so bought and paid for by these trolls, that such a missive will be a very long day coming, but hopefully EU stands firm in actually fucking protecting their citizenry, as opposed to the fucking gilded age horseshit we have over here in the states about these matters.
Mobile in general and touch screens specifically will never replace PC's for real work. Mobile devices and touch screens only really work for consumption only devices. But that also is the direction that the tech sector wants to push us. They don't want us able to create our own code. If we can create our own code, then its impossible for them to artificially cripple things so that functionality can be sold back to you.
I wouldn't say that I've known this, but this does seem like a very small leap of logic considering that metals have long been known to be able to cold weld when in space. When to chunks of identical metal and cut apart in space, or cut apart on earth and then carefully etched to remove oxidation once in space, when put back together, they become one object again. When there is no oxidative barrier, the lattice just rejoins together. This story seems like it is the same effect. And my non-scientific guess is that at the nanoscale level, oxygen would take time to get there, so basically cold welding can happen at a nano scale before oxygen is able to get into the small area.
AI ethics
Vibes and snake oil
Hmmmm
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
