A future article: Scientists have discovered a technique that allows identification of a person using only the advanced technology you likely already carry with you, and which is not affected by the ambient electromagnetic interference that is omnipresent in our technological society. It allows tracking a person from room to room with a near-perfect degree of accuracy, provided that each room is irradiated between approximately 380 and 700 nanometers. The technique begins to falter outside of this range, so it's not perfect. However, it has been shown to be able to distinguish a person from others even in crowded areas, which opens up a plethora of heretofore untapped potential.

As an added bonus, we are all carrying a pair of electromagnetic receivers that can directly detect this range of the electromagnetic spectrum, so this technique is very cheap and highly cost effective. We tend to reflexively keep these receivers turned off, so it may take some adjustment to your daily routine before you start noticing the benefits of keeping them activated, but scientists confirm that it takes very little practice before keeping them always-on becomes routine.

My brain have have reversed in age during the pandemic:

1) Psychological stress. I have never been happier in my entire adult life as I was during the pandemic. Working from home became the accepted norm. I didn't have to deal with shitty workplace offices (they are all shitty, without exception). I got to watch my kids grow, rather than only witnessing a small sliver of it. My wife and I got much more time with each other, which let us bond more than we had ever been able to bond in the past. Online shopping became the norm, etc. My stress level went down by an order of magnitude. My entire family got COVID, were bed-ridden for a day or two, then recovered like nothing happened. I hadn't slept that well in years, and my wife and I were supposed to be in the high-risk of death category. The pandemic years were the best years of my entire adult life, and they ended all too soon.

2) Social isolation: I was able to get away from people in general. Talk about mental rejuvenation! I had my wife and kids with me, which is all the socialization I need and want. I had the Internet for entertainment and education, and whatever socialization I wanted. Better yet, I could end socialization as needed and wanted. I was able to measure out what little socialization I wanted, and end it when I had enough. It was great.

3) Disruptions In Daily Life: Daily life requires all the things I don't want, so changing it was highly welcome. My stress level (and blood pressure) went way down during the pandemic. The worse part of the disruption was when it ended. Going back to daily life has raised my stress level (and my blood pressure) again.

4) Reduced Activity And Wellness: I lost 40 pounds during the pandemic due to increased and regular exercise, and due to greatly reduced stress. My blood pressure went down, my bonding with my family increased, and every metric of wellness I can think of improved (including my blood lipids). They were the golden years of middle-aged wellness.

If these are the markers for brain aging, my brain must have reversed aging by a few years. Bring on the next pandemic!

Very few people claim to be working full steam for 40 hours a week. The claims are just the opposite. We see substantial diminishing returns well before then, with rare exceptions.

The most effective way to destroy focus is to be in the office. Phone notifications are far down the list of focus issues. I get way more done in my home office than I ever get done at the company premises.

I have a corporate customer for whom I install Linux and VirtualBox on the bare metal, then install Windows in VirtualBox. It works great.

The GPL is not a usage license, so there is nothing with which an end user has to comply.

I have noticed a few website saying the Firefox won't work on the site. I change the user agent to Chrome, and the site then works.

So any resume that lists Washington University immediately goes into the shit can with no further consideration. Thanks for the warning.

If this Superman is the DCCU's last gasp, then the DCCU is doomed. From everything I've seen of the trailer and other snippets, this movie is terrible.

It is not. You just specified an additional condition for receiving the SRPMs, which is a violation of the GPL.

I totally understand the need to feel like you haven't been hoodwinked by the chemical industry, but you have been. They poison our food, and then deny that poison is poison.

Then it gets into your food. Chemical pesticides are unequivocally bad. All of them. I don't care what the corrupt oversight agencies say, all chemical pesticides are inherently dangerous. The best pesticides are natural pesticides: animals.

I have started referring to AI as the Age of Idiocy. It was an accidental reference I innocently made elsewhere before realizing that it applied in more than one way.

I disagree. The human can reason through bad logic, while the LLM merely chooses the most statistically likely arrangement of tokens without regard to whether the arrangement is reasonable.

Even if the LLM usually arrives at the correct token sequences much of the time, it will make you lazy and error prone as time goes on. The inevitable result is that your own error rate will go up over time.

There is no such thing as AI in the current era, or ever with digital computers. There is only pattern matching, regardless of how advanced it may seem. It is still advanced pattern matching, and nothing more.

Results like this are to be expected, and should never be a cause for alarm or confusion. This is the inevitable result of trying to make a pattern matching system appear to reason.