Comment Re: Brain rot even farther back ... (Score 2) 67
It depends on the complexity... Safety matches are an ultra-simplified procedure. I was taught to use flintstone but have forgotten how to.
Comment Re: Brah (Score 1) 60
The human body produces things like acetone, cyanide and bleach - but does this in molecular amounts and carefully compartmentalised enclosures.
Comment They'd ask, won't they? (Score 1) 103
But the customer pays for tarriffs, right? So if the business paid for an illegal tariff, and passed it down the chain, shouldn't their customer get the refund?
If not, why not pass a law saying so?
This could fund the stimulus/grant/tax refund that Trump wants to give common folk
Submission + - Linuxes which run as Windows screensavers (linkedin.com)
tjcw01 writes: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/... has gone viral, and the Internet is currently singing with Linux distros which run as screensavers for Microsoft Windows.
These are a follow-on to https://linux.slashdot.org/sto... back in 2005.
Open source, download at will.
IBM is a bit slow but very thorough.
These are a follow-on to https://linux.slashdot.org/sto... back in 2005.
Open source, download at will.
IBM is a bit slow but very thorough.
Comment Why? Greed, aka 'Incentives'? (Score 1) 96
Granted, eBay can be horrible. But
Gamestop's CEO is Canadian. TB Bank is also Canadian. From the CEO's Wikipedia page:
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In January 2026, the board granted him a 100% performance-based stock option award valued by press reports at approximately $35 billion if fully earned, covering 171.5 million shares at $20.66 per share. The award is divided into nine tranches that vest only if GameStop simultaneously hits market-capitalization and cumulative-EBITDA targets, with full vesting requiring a $100 billion market capitalization and $10 billion in cumulative EBITDA, roughly tenfold the companyâ(TM)s value at the time of the grant.[31][32]
Comment Re: age is not maturity (Score 1) 166
Ooh, that excludes me then
Comment Hillary Ben Rodham (Score 1) 166
Credit rating databases now cover multiple generations. When enrolling, ask for the father's name or mother's name and do some online verification (Facebook) and some math.
A 15-year old Hillary Clinton would be Hillary Rodham.
Submission + - AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop (nbcnews.com)
fjo3 writes: An AI model developed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, detected abnormalities on patients’ CT scans up to three years before they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to research published this week in the journal Gut.
The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The team then had radiologists review the scans and compared their ability to find early signs of cancer to that of the AI model. The model was found to be three times better at identifying the early signs.
The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The team then had radiologists review the scans and compared their ability to find early signs of cancer to that of the AI model. The model was found to be three times better at identifying the early signs.
Submission + - Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When The Sound of Rain Strikes (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops and
respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water,
new research shows.
respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water,
new research shows.
Submission + - Robots are building clay homes in Central Texas using dirt from the ground (kxan.com)
alternative_right writes: A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground â" a new approach aimed at lowering costs and changing how houses are built.
Comment In a couple of centuries... (Score 1) 19
ICANN rescinds
Comment Re:I do not see the problem here (Score 1) 244
Ebiikes are a legal workaround loophole for motorcycles.
Comment ignore (Score 1) 154
mod reversal
Comment Communists demand Communism (Score 0) 82
So yeah your AI can outperform a doctor that gets 5 minutes with the patient before having to move on to the next one in order to keep their private equity Masters satisfied.
So, suppose, we stick it to the "private equity Masters", compel them to double the number of doctors — forget for a second, who is going to pay for them — and afford them a whopping 10 minutes with the patient.
ChatGPT will still beat humans... And it will be getting better with every month, whereas the humans will not...
Comment Don't seek an ideal (Score 0) 82
A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases
AI is sufficiently anthropomorphic to be capable of making mistakes. Demanding perfection from it is stupid. It does not need to be error-free. It just needs to be better than humans...
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