Comment Acronym SI means... (Score 5, Insightful) 127
I think we should assume that the acronym SI means "simulated intelligence."
Because that's what it is. It's not intelligent in any way, it just simulates intelligence.
Comment Re:Compatibility is always going to be a problem.. (Score 2) 131
Or even better, make ODF the standard, and judge Office on its rendering and creating ODF formats.
Again being the size it is the government Denmark can start with publishing all of its forms in ODF format, no more DOCX; also use open/free fonts.
Since the pilot program was 38 employees , this advice fails implementation at the pilot stage, since the other half-million employees are making documents in Microsoft.
Comment Re: Invisibility cloak (Score 1) 21
It would have to reproduce the light field to sell the illusion.
Exactly.
Comment Re: Invisibility cloak (Score 2) 21
Yeah, it's gonna be literally impossible to see you walking around in that thing emitting visible light in all directions.
If the visible light emitted is exactly the same intensity, color, and pattern as the background behing you, yes, you'd be very nearly invisible.
Only from one direction, though (unless the background is nearly featureless).
Comment Thank you for the heads up (Score 1) 6
I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.
Comment Re: Accident is what worries me (Score 1) 152
Nope. It was due to their not building for the site they were on, period. There were literally stone markers telling them not to build there due to tsunami risk!
No, you're confusing two different things. Yes, Fukashima event was due to a tsunami, and yes, in Japan there exist places where stone markers showing how far tsunamis of the past flooded, but on, the Fukashima reactor was not on one of the sites where stone markers existed saying said don't build here.
Comment Re:Not a real physicist then. (Score 5, Insightful) 189
The basic rule you learn in your first real physics course is that in real life there are no exponential solutions.
I think the original article was somewhat tongue in cheek.
Comment Re:If you want to be really stupid .. (Score 1) 85
If I were, perhaps it's because I'm not seeing any of the real stuff here.
Comment Re:My watermark would work better (Score 1) 85
As Eric Raymond (ESR) says, AI is a force multiplier. My elaboration: If you are good at what you do, it will let you do accomplish more good stuff faster. If you are not very bright, AI will let you be not bright more efficiently, but it won't make you bright. It's just a tool. It needs to be utilized correctly. There is no shortage of things in this world that can do tremendous damage if not used properly. AI is nothing new in that regard.
Comment Re: Very funny (Score 1) 85
"AI slop" is so 2024. That argument isn't valid any more.
Comment Re:If you want to be really stupid .. (Score 2) 85
I'm surprised you didn't use the word "slop". Spewing a bunch of slogans that would have to be more clever to make it on to bumper stickers makes you look like the people you are complaining about. There are legitimate criticisms to make about AI, and ways to support and defend those arguments. You are not doing that.
Comment Re: If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 129
The ISS is a closer example of how you can build something large with brute force. It's actually a smidge over 100m on the longest dimension, and it took 40 dedicated individual launches and cost $60bn to assemble.
For comparison, Starlink V3 satellites have a solar array wingspan of 70 meters.
https://www.cctvmanuals.com/20...
See also https://grokipedia.com/page/St...
They are, of course, technology that is about 40 years later than the ISS design
Submission + - Google tests AI processor in space (npr.org)
Geoffrey.landis writes: Google just put a satellite testing AI chips into space. The refrigerator-sized satellite is part of a research project, "Suncatcher," the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the sun. The prototype satellite has four specialty chips in it called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, that Google designed for machine learning and has already deployed in data centers on Earth. The chips will run a version of the company's Gemma AI model for 15 minutes at a time due to heat management constraints, using the open weight model to answer simple queries. In a blog post, Google said the mission will gauge how the TPUs handle "the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space." The satellite launched October 1 is a prototype that Travis Beals, senior director and lead of Project Suncatcher, called "a very minimal test" to make sure the chips can run in space. A SpaceX rocket carried it into orbit, and Planet will get it up and running. Beal said Google will then fire up and test the TPUs. The goal is for the mission to be operational for a year.
Comment Re:Access sucks (Score 1) 65
Sounds like you're not defending Access so much as ODBC.
Comment Re:I've literally seen it done (Score 1) 80
It's mighty convenient for you that your claim makes it impossible for you to provide evidence of this outrageous claim.
