Mazda's implementation of AA starts by making a bluetooth connection to the device and starting music playback. It quickly starts connecting wifi and then back to bluetooth a few times causing several skips. Disabling playback doesn't seem to actually work as the music often start playing anywy. I had to fiddle around and disable bluetooth for the profile and finally it connected smoothly. Has worked mostly fine since then, I've had a few connections failures that were resolved by rebooting both the car and the phone. I suspect most Mazda/AA users never get past the part where it has a problem connecting 100% of the time.

We judge people based on their follower count rather than competency now.

To me the initial reaction in a situation like covid should be an overreaction since we couldn't determine the appropriate reaction at that point. It's really easy to forget just how little information we had. It had overwhelmed medical facilities and nobody had any real information yet about the spread to determine what was safe and what wasn't.

I like an afternoon coffee. In the winter it's always hot and unsweetened. In the summer I like to make heavily sweetened iced coffee creations. Otherwise I mostly drink water and unsweetened seltzer where the sugar is flat/zero year-round.

The article says 100 m of tape = 36 PB.
Earth circumference ~ 40,075,000 m.

Scale it up:
Per meter: 36 PB / 100 m = 0.36 PB/m (= 360 TB/m).

All the way around Earth:
0.36 PB/m x 40,075,000 m = 14,427,000 PB.

That's:
14,427 EB (decimal) = 14.4 ZB (decimal, 1 ZB = 1,000 EB)
13.8 ZB (binary-ish comparison using 1024s)
Songs at 10 MB each (as in the article):

36 PB/100 m -> 3.6 billion songs/100 m -> 36 million songs per meter
40,075,000 m -> 1.44 quadrillion songs.

This can help: https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc The reason I'm aware of it is that it's used by URL:https://frigate.video/. Also worth checking out if you use IP cameras.

How could you miss the fact that Chrome is preinstalled on every Android device? Kind of a major omission when discussing it's rise vs. other browsers.

In future iterations the LLM should be able recognize that it needs help to optimize it's chess play and deploy/use the best chess playing software when facing a master. Assuming it has the goal of defeating the opponent and has "reasoning" and agentic abilities it is not much of a jump for it to pull it off.

I have done a bunch of songwriting with AI and early on I noticed a tendency for it to use the words: neon, echoes, glow, and several others in almost every song. I added instructions to avoid those patterns to my chats and it no longer produced those patterns. In that context it might make sense to assume that some of these papers used AI that was instructed to avoid obvious AI patterns and therefore went undetected.

It was ruined by people who use it to indicate the release of something.

If you play competitive multi-player games and care about security it makes sense to have a system dedicated to gaming. These types of anti-cheat measures aren't appropriate for a secure general purpose system.

My last trip to MCD was almost entirely human free and the interaction with their large touch screens was slow and poor. If their "AI" doesn't have to be very good to improve on that.

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Life goes by really fast and without joy when you commit to a job like that. If you're going to put in that level of commitment it should be for yourself or someone who cares.

This is easy. Since we have a free market they can simply purchase all the ai companies and redirect the work away from agi.