There is a part of me that is ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't emerge from the capsule wearing ape masks.

What if we enacted policies to make having children, you know, affordable?

Let's say that Elon is right and the economics of space-based solar energy make the expense of launching into orbit worthwhile. Let's also say that we manage to avoid the Kessler Syndrome that Elon's companies have largely helped to make more dire.

Compute generates heat. Lots and lots of heat. And heat is difficult to dump in space. How does he plan to get around that not insignificant engineering problem?

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's not going to happen in three years.

Any source that doesn't have some type of fact checking or review process should NOT be used as training for an AI or LLM. There is so much mis-information on ALL the social media platforms, from both sides of any debate or discussion that it's just asinine to expect anything other than your LLM being up to date on propaganda.

The POC uses GGWave, which implements a simple FSK based transmission protocol and has a bandwidth rate in the range of 8-16 bytes/second.

I'm from the modem days, and yes, if you dealt with modems on a daily basis you learned how to whistle in the phone to make the calling modem think there was an answering modem on the line so it wouldn't hang up. You don't have to actually replicate the handshake, just enough sounds in the right frequency range and the calling modem would think it was getting a partial handshake, so would try the handshake again.

Yeah, that would be cool if AI chatbots were actual Artificial Intelligence and what you saw was an emergent property. But even though chatbots SOUND more intelligent that a vast segment of the population, they aren't intelligent, in the way that a true Artificial Intelligence would be. Also, you aren't seeing any kind of emergent property, it's a working prototype of an existing sound based communication framework called GGWave. There's even an Arduino library if you want your esp32 projects to all talk to each other using sound.

I was thinking the same thing. There had to be some prior training on the concepts or hacking, or even the simple fact that both the chess ML and the 'opponent' are enclosed systems that can be altered to change their actions.

I made a similar remark to a friend a couple of days ago. I think that world leaders should congratulate trump on naming it for the entire 'America' landmass, where a lesser man might have named it 'Gulf of United States of America'. That will SURELY burn his ass!

Although, it has to have you wondering if trump had even considered that when he rage signs executive orders.

I've been in the software development field for ~35 years and the parent post is spot on, this is NOT a new problem. Even back to the first dot com boom that ended in the early 2000s, the IT field was flooded with 'specialists' whose only knowledge was a weekend cram course on whatever subject they were interested in. That one certification was enough to get many people in the door at that time because positions were opening up faster than they could be filled. It could be that the available pool of good talent is pretty small so some hiring companies have to take what's available. It could also be that hiring companies want to pay bottom dollar rates so are limiting themselves to the bottom of the barrel right from the start.

The unique identifier that YouTube uses for videos is a randomly generated 11 character string, there's no sequence, so you can't extrapolate.

That's really just a different flavor of War Dialing and isn't even relatively a new thing, so 'designing a computer program' seems like a bit of an overreach. The old school war dialer called a predefined or sequential list of phone number looking for a modem, but this type of URL war dialing is hunting for resources on the same site. If the calls aren't spread out enough, it could look like a DOS attack on the server side. I'm curious to see how they were able to get around that potential problem.

Unless SiriusXM is baking this logic into the user agreement for all new / renewing subscriptions, hedging on this being something that gets wider implementation, there's a simple fix for this then. Just cancel the initial satellite subscription, then create a new account and add your radio Id to the new account. That's a pretty intrusive implementation and is something that ends up biting someone on the ass.

Nothing exactly wrong with believing in aliens. However, let's place some (more than half, IMHO) on the investors that KNEW Firmage not only believed in aliens but also that his gravity defying plans were provided by said aliens.

Then again, maybe if he hooked up with Bob Lazar, they could have gotten something off the ground (see what I did there).

For the games that I play, I don't find it to be all that underpowered, but I'm playing Zelda games and Tunic mostly. I like the slightly larger controllers on the new Switch, the current version controllers are just small enough that my hands get fatigued pretty quickly.

I'll probably buy the new version, I have plenty of friends with kids that would buy my OLED Switch in a heartbeat.