"If we specified AGI to be something very specific [...] I believe we will get there within 5 years."

So if you "specify" artificial general intelligence to be not "general", as the term implies, but "something very specific", its opposite, you can have it soon.

Also, if you wanted broadband, we can give you narrow now, but let's call it broad, then everyone will be happy, no?

I see user account 'Informativity' has been deleted, and all comments posted from that account to this discussion have been removed. Not only that, the article and discussion in 2021 that you refer to have been deleted. Does this happen often on Slashdot? No explanation, no apology from the editors, just erasure of embarrassing history.

The study found that a widely used distance metric in a perceptual color space model is inaccurate, especially over long distances. Calling it a "math error" as phys.org does, is clickbaity. "All models are wrong, but some are useful." The current models have brought us quite far, but they could certainly be improved.

Oh, I see what you did there.

No, since the fall of the British Empire, God no longer uses GMT.

TFS says they will change to mean central Mexican time, not GMT.

Most towns worldwide used local (=sun =God's) time until railway schedules required standardization.

So now you can finally build a ship in a thermos flask, where nobody can see it.

It seems their analysis found that people who drink coffee live longer. Is the mentioned 'linked to' relation commutative? And would that mean people who live longer drink more coffee? Because even I could explain that ;-

Do you refer to ZA's 105 reported deaths on Dec 20, following 3 reported deaths on Dec 19, following 48 reported deaths on Dec 18?

If you do not have inside information, you should stick to the 7-day moving average, and not attribute any significance to the deviation of any single day from it, especially if it follows another day wildly deviating in the opposite direction.

The above numbers seem like reporting artefacts, not a "250% jump [...] just about right on cue."

cellular version of.

The lines in the second image of TFA reminds me of a space-filling curve. There might have been practical reasons for creating something like that.

Here is a demo video of a Wear OS app seriously using the GPU for graphics.

Disclaimer: It is my app.