Our RCA TV had a habit of blowing a 6SN7 at inconvenient times. I convinced my dad to keep a spare.

Looking for videos after reading your linked post same-day, one had a clip from a manufacturing test of RAT deployment. It sounded very much like the Air India video.

Way back when I first learned of heads-up displays, I imagined that they could be useful in wiring harness and hydraulic installation and maintenance in close quarters in aircraft and ships. I might've been influenced at an early age, by crawling around inside the local playground F-86 engineless jet with its mysterious wires and tubes, and realizing that it was much more complicated than my plastic model kits.

This is not inference. It is at best autoconjecture. Polly wanna syllogism.

HP instrumentation was forked off as Agilent then as Keysight.

I overheard someone ordering a "flat white" the other day. All I could think of to meet this description, apart from paint, was Ally McBeal. Not remembering the actress's name, I searched and determined that it was Calista Flockhart, that she is married to Harrison Ford, and that they have an adopted son named Liam.

The search offered a drop-down to answer the burning already answered question about whether Liam was adopted. Unable to resist, I took the bait. The "AI" answer included this hallucinated statement: "Harrison and Calista began dating Liam when he was around eight months old, and they have been together ever since."

I got this when I threw a Magic 8 Ball at NASA, though it has gained an additional profanity here. It's almost like particle physics revealing an excited state of a turdon.

I studied Spanish in US grades 6-12. Even by grade 8, teachers who had experience in Peace Corps or other foreign service, noted at least the existence of variations of pronunciations and cadence. Yo/Joe was specifically called out, as was a tendency for rapid cadence in Cuban speech. Exposure to Los Angeles street Spanish brought some additional knowledge of diverse profanities. Lesson of greatest enduring value: teachers who had been in Spain during the Franco era, had a tendency to look around and lower their voices before relating certain experiences.

Philosophy and linguistics are the realms best qualified to assess ethics, and source and inferential soundness for whatever is passing as "AI" this week. Philosophers are not lavishly paid, and train for skepticism and rigor. I trust their perspective on issues of ethics and soundness, more than I would trust that of anyone engulfed in the hype, cash, and gigawatt tsunami. I worked for a poorly funded MA Phil. years ago, who believed that corporations should have a philosopher on staff for guidance in ethics.

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This is not a joke. My local CSU campus, after 20+ years of bad management and fancy construction projects amidst declining enrollment, has abruptly discontinued the Physics major and the Philosophy major, among others.

My mom, child in Texas, had malaria. A kid in my childhood California neighborhood had disabling brain damage from Western Equine Encephalitis. Mosquitos are not only a distant threat.

If I have read everything correctly, Lip-Bu Tan, current CEO of Intel, is listed as an investor in Cerebras.

0 + ki: imaginary chickens (and bats) are especially suspicious

My gauge figure from reading 1980s accounts, was 1 in 7 startups making it to be a continuing business or acquired, and 1 in 30 to IPO. I have been at 2 acquired, 1 acquired/IPO'd, and 1 that IPO'd directly, though I joined not long before IPO, and one where I joined not long after IPO.. Of these, both acquired ran for one product line life cycle, acquired/I|PO'd failed after an industry direction change incompatible with a fundamental design decision in the product, both direct IPOs are still operating.