Wow, I haven't seen that name for quite a while. I remember as a kid really rooting for BeOS and hoping they would challenge Windows. I'm still a bit nostalgic for those days!

That's incredibly hypocritical that this hosting site wants money for "their" when they never paid a cent for the data that helpful users posted there. If they're ready to take money for the data, they should pay money for the data.

I think it would be awesome if the scientists in this town would get together and talk, and then they make some CAD files and start building stuff. If you sped up the world at like 1000x speed, maybe they'd actually make something useful!

Dammit, I want underpaid serfs to do all my labor. I tell you, civilization started collapsing when technological contrivances started doing the jobs of the underclass. Can you believe that dishwashers are now appliances and not some repressed laborers? How am I supposed to feel posh when I'm not lording it over someone who's beneath me? This idea of machines animating the backgrounds of my anime is just another step down the slippery slope. That's a job for poor kids in an Asian sweatshop, not an usuffering AI! In the end, when commercial machines replace even my butler, driver and maids, being in the ruling class will come to mean nothing at all!

I have, without any teaching assistants, organized and administered high-stakes examination interviews. Each meeting used up about 30 minutes of my time in my office, which is not too different from how long it takes me to read and grade a written test or term paper. This was in a large-ish US university, where students get nervous about that sort of thing. I can confidently report that due to my careful use of follow-up questions, I can get a very clear sense of the depth of each student's knowledge.

This was another missing piece in procedurally generated video games. I suspect that pretty soon somebody is going to stitch together a tool like this, some diffusion-based visuals generator, and chatGPT for dialogue, and we'll have an awesome open-world game with infinite replayability. All the pieces are falling into place!

,,, it would never need to close! The real issue is about less than a mile-long stretch of the beach road that could be exposed to danger from pressure tests, static fires and launches. Digging a mile-long tunnel should be pretty easy for The Boring Company. They wouldn't even need two lanes of traffic - just one lane and a traffic light on each end. Whatever dirt they dig up would probably be useful as infill on the site itself.

I feel like I consume more than my fair share of audiobooks, and I have definitely run into human readers who were so douchey that their terrible performances ruined my immersion in the book. The worst is when you can tell by their intonation that they don't understand what they're reading. AI readers now are far worse than the worst smarmy douchebag voice actor, but AI improves fast.

If some machine learning geniuses got a hold of the problem and used few million hours of transcribed, natural speech as a training set, they might achieve a lot. Another huge improvement would be to hire a human creative director with very high standards and give them easy-to-use tools by which to micromanage the diction of the AI on a granular level. I'm imagining something like a musical clef for the audiobook performance that would precisely determine each syllable's pitch, pace, and other elements of the performance. (The decisions of the human production director would themselves become training data for the AI's prediction engine.)

Good production directors wouldn't need good voices to direct the AI how to read a certain hard passage. The AI could just extract the essence of the performance data from the voiced examples of the director - kind of like motion capture in CGI video. Companies could even give the authors the courtesy of reviewing the AI audiobook and fixing any remaining mistakes of intonation by simply recording those parts the right way and importing the essence of those recordings into the voice synthisizer.

What I'm saying is that AI audiobooks will not automate everything all at once. If they're any good, lots of very competent human labor will be needed to guide the AI voice.

They plan to do it "as soon as possible"? Why is it not possible to submit the application for Emergency Use Authorization right away? Did the FDA fax back something like "Hey Merck dudes, I know you wanted us to look at that emergecy use thingie, but only Janet knows where all the forms are, and she's gonna be in Cancun for maybe another ten days. Sorry, hope there is no EMERGENCY! Haha, jk! But when she gets back you should totally submit that thing, looks sweet! - FDA"

In California as a whole, 3.615 million have been found infected with COVID-19, or just over 9% of the whole population. If the Tesla plant really employs 10,000 workers and 450 got COVID, that's exactly 4.5%. So it seems that a Californian who didn't work at Tesla Fremont was twice as likely to catch COVID-19 as someone who did.

The rollout of Starlink will surely be slowed down by the regulators of all those national governments on Earth. But if I buy boat-Starlink and dock in Somalia or whatever, will it keep working? What if I bring it on land, or maybe even many miles inland? Is this mobile Starlink thing not basically and end-round of all federal regulation on internet service - basically a go-anywhere internet box? If the same regulation that applies to satellite phones would apply to this, then it's actually pretty revolutionary. Nations like Chad apparently ban satellite phones, but the phones still work there if you operate them illegally. Is that how mobile Starlink will be?

My apartment building has 17 floors. It's the same height as sn9. Objects that size can't use parachutes. If the second engine ignited, I'm confident it would have landed. To me it looked like a lack of oxygen this time. But I wonder if it would make sense for the third engine to fire up and gimbal if one of the other two has problems. It would be good to have a spare just to shed velocity. They could have at least brought it to hover, something that Falcon 9 cannot do but Starship can, even with two working engines.

Protesters were doxxed by online vigilantes and exposed by Orwellian biometric databases, but I said nothing, because I thought the reason behind their protest was totally moronic, and honestly, I thought they were kinda garbage people. But is that really the right approach?

Or is the real courageous position to say that yes, the reason behind this protest was moronic and the people doing it were kinda garbage, but we need to stand up in their defense anyway, because even though we recoil at the thought of looting in the Capital, we should recoil even more at the thought of becoming a country that lacks the pressure valve of rowdy, ugly dissent. The protesters who actually destroyed property should get a bill, and anyone who hurt someone should go to jail, but for "crimes" like trespassing, committed in the context of political protest, I think it's very important that we show leniency. And we have to be consistent about this. We can't apply different rules depending on whether the protesters wear MAGA hats or pussy hats, even if our feelings about their causes are really different.

True. And you know who else? Every other company ever, including the the one you work for. Prove me wrong and upload to ArXiv a research paper with your name that claims to have discovered that "our company's product kills children" and see how long you keep your job.

What good are they doing on Wall Street? Would we have any reason to miss them?