Comment Re:There was a mass shooting (Score 1) 89
She created a second account and avoiding getting banned by claiming it was a fictional scenario.
Comment Re:There was a mass shooting (Score 1) 89
"by framing them as hypothetical or fictional situations"
Just say you are doing research for a book or something.
Comment There was a mass shooting (Score 5, Interesting) 89
In Canada someone used ChatGPT to plan a mass shooting. It was detected and the account was shut down, but it was decided not to report it to police. He went on to kill 8 people in a school shooting and himself.
I'm sure Anthropic and the police had that in mind when they took action.
Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards (adafruit.com) 45
Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released "CircuitPython" in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython microcontroller-optimized programming language).
Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update: Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer, then loads them onto compatible microcontroller boards.
It builds on MicroPython's Native and Viper emitters. In a documented Metro RP2040 fixed-point Mandelbrot test, Viper cut computation time from 8.335 seconds to 0.423 seconds, a 19.71x speedup over bytecode. The rest of the application stays in Python. The guide includes benchmarks, source code and hardware demos. The speedup is for the measured computation, not the whole application.
"Turbo support is now included in the latest official CircuitPython builds for RP2040 and RP2350 boards..." explains Torrone's announcement at Adafruit.com. "The new Turbo in CircuitPython helps when the board spends time calculating: making neopixel effects, drawing fractals, processing audio, filtering sensor readings, or preparing lots of pixels. Those projects can get smoother animation, quicker responses, or room to do more things at once." With Turbo, it's easier, better, and now even faster to make LED light up costumes that also reacts to sound at the same time, a sensor dashboard with animated graphics, or a tiny game doing physics while drawing the screen. Turbo speeds up the busy Python parts. It won't make a slow sensor or display connection faster... Your computer turns selected functions into instructions the chip can run directly. Python still handles the rest.
We have measured speedups, real display captures, and examples you can pull apart to see what happened. None of this arrived alone. CircuitPython, MicroPython, PyMCU, compiler tools, open hardware, and people sharing their work gave us pieces to connect. The Bao experiments take that idea somewhere else, handing calculations to four helper cores. Now we get to make those paths easier to use, compare results, and find the next useful thing. Maybe that's smoother animation, a responsive instrument, or an idea we haven't tried yet.
That's what I like about open source. Someone shares a piece, someone else sees a possibility, and we get to keep building it together.
Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update: Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer, then loads them onto compatible microcontroller boards.
It builds on MicroPython's Native and Viper emitters. In a documented Metro RP2040 fixed-point Mandelbrot test, Viper cut computation time from 8.335 seconds to 0.423 seconds, a 19.71x speedup over bytecode. The rest of the application stays in Python. The guide includes benchmarks, source code and hardware demos. The speedup is for the measured computation, not the whole application.
"Turbo support is now included in the latest official CircuitPython builds for RP2040 and RP2350 boards..." explains Torrone's announcement at Adafruit.com. "The new Turbo in CircuitPython helps when the board spends time calculating: making neopixel effects, drawing fractals, processing audio, filtering sensor readings, or preparing lots of pixels. Those projects can get smoother animation, quicker responses, or room to do more things at once." With Turbo, it's easier, better, and now even faster to make LED light up costumes that also reacts to sound at the same time, a sensor dashboard with animated graphics, or a tiny game doing physics while drawing the screen. Turbo speeds up the busy Python parts. It won't make a slow sensor or display connection faster... Your computer turns selected functions into instructions the chip can run directly. Python still handles the rest.
We have measured speedups, real display captures, and examples you can pull apart to see what happened. None of this arrived alone. CircuitPython, MicroPython, PyMCU, compiler tools, open hardware, and people sharing their work gave us pieces to connect. The Bao experiments take that idea somewhere else, handing calculations to four helper cores. Now we get to make those paths easier to use, compare results, and find the next useful thing. Maybe that's smoother animation, a responsive instrument, or an idea we haven't tried yet.
That's what I like about open source. Someone shares a piece, someone else sees a possibility, and we get to keep building it together.
Comment Anubis load on mobile (Score 2) 43
For the proof of work trial I put on my site, I only apply it to browsers that claim to be Windows, X Windows or Mac OS so that mobile users, which are the vast majority in my case, aren't impacted. PCs are able to solve it quicker. It seems to bots usually don't claim to be mobile browsers.
Comment A Clockwork Origin (Score 1) 44
I remember that episode of Futurama. It didn't end great for the humans.
Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 133
Manufactures assume the increased RAM demand is temporary, so expanding supply won't pay off.
Comment Re:Follow the money (Score 1) 25
By installing this app you may find your IP blocked by more and more websites.
Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 1) 74
I don't think she was in fine mental condition. I remember someone talking about one of her last acting jobs, after every take they had to explain where she was and what her lines where because she lost the ability to remember anything new.
Comment Re:Comedian does not a fantasy writer make (Score 1) 140
Wasn't cancelling the Ring for being a symbol of systemic oppression was the whole plot of Lord of the Rings?
Wasn't Colbert's Late Show was highly political from day one as Colbert was brought in from his 100% political show The Colbert Report?
Comment Re:Sheer, unadulderated bollocks (Score 1) 157
You can even compile and run most Linux software on ARM by using MacOS.
Comment Re:We kinda tried. (Score 1) 64
Another risk of ignoring a small market is that a local company will take that market and use that as a based to grow becoming a serious competitor.
Comment Doesn't seem like it (Score 1) 32
It used to be Disney+ had a new Star Wars and/or Marvel live action episode almost every week, but now it has been reduced to a trickle.
I guess they are spending it all on sports.
Comment Avoiding Spoilers? (Score 2) 13
I've only seen the first episode, where there only small hints that the flashbacks aren't set in 1950s.
Comment Engineers initially suspected a coordinated attack (Score 0) 57
When something goes wrong your mind always jumps to hackers, but most of the time its your own fault.
