Comment Re: same old same old (Score 1) 72

by kencurry on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:21PM (#66382530) Attached to: 'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California

Attending this cage match can expose you to chemicals which are known to the State of California to cause cancer or, which are known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/

Yes! so true. Even going into the hospital, you will see this posted on the entrance.

Comment Re:Not sure what's meant to be demonstrated here (Score 1) 72

by kencurry on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:17PM (#66382520) Attached to: 'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California

That people still want bread and circuses.

Comment big hype machine behind this movie (Score 2) 74

by kencurry on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:10PM (#66382504) Attached to: Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening

A lot of teasers and stories in the new. Someone is betting money on this.

Comment Guess I have to go back to dumb light bulbs (Score 1) 84

by kencurry on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:23PM (#66375994) Attached to: Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate Through IoT Devices

Bought "smart" ones for Halloween a couple years ago, what a pain in the balls. I naively assumed that once you set them up they could just run on their own. Nope, unless they are connected to the app on your phone, they are just a light bulb w/o effect.

Not sure to what nefarious purpose AI could used those pieces of crap.

Comment Re:The original Pykrete (Score 1) 57

by kencurry on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:04PM (#66374112) Attached to: A New 'Super Ice' Is 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to The Strength of Concrete

So glad someone remembered this. I was had a vague recollection of it, but no way I was going to peruse 6000 pages of Churchill's WWII memoirs to find it.

Comment Re:Funny thing (Score 2) 55

by kencurry on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:26PM (#66369194) Attached to: Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90

Women need positive role models today more than ever. I'm glad that this lady had her time on this planet and made the most of it.

Comment Re:So right it’s wrong. (Score 1) 189

by kencurry on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:03AM (#66369060) Attached to: A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month

Beginning science students were taught to never make predictions from extrapolating, only from interpolation. Especially true if the equation is non-linear. Was true in the 60's and is especially true today. Although it seems all of society has forgotten this simple rule.

Comment Re:Sure, and then ... (Score 3, Interesting) 196

by kencurry on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:05PM (#66363018) Attached to: Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'

I had a VW with the crap stock AM radio. I put a decent FM radio w/ tape deck (expensive back then) but I hid the install behind a panel In the glove box. My bug was broken into more than once, but no one ever found my FM radio!

Comment I love the part about NO!! it's still AI! (Score 1) 41

by kencurry on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:29PM (#66361746) Attached to: California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'

Like anyone was going to say SI. lol (okay, you got me, those sycophants at the White House did say SI)

Comment I'm no statistician (Score 0) 125

by kencurry on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:41PM (#66359874) Attached to: 20% of Swiss Glaciers Lost In Five Years

But when you give percentages as facts, you must state your basis values, and back up assumptions. % total from X or year over year? Volume? Mass? length along an axis? What year are you starting from? Sheesh, the world is in trouble, less so because of climate challenges, more so because of "intelligent people" challenges.

Comment Re:again, don't blame the computer (Score 2) 63

by kencurry on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:49AM (#66359780) Attached to: Error-Prone AI Nearly Sparked World War Three Last Month

It's a Guardian story, what are you expecting?

Comment Could be worse (Score 1) 20

by kencurry on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:03PM (#66358942) Attached to: Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft

At least Nadella had something nice to say, hopefully bought the guy lunch. Gestures mean something with or without the sincerity.

Comment Re:I'm going to try it (no irony post) (Score 1) 115

by kencurry on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:36PM (#66357734) Attached to: Trump Administration Launches New AI-Powered 'America.gov' Website

reply to myself:

here's what I got:

I cannot complete or submit the application for you, and I cannot fill in form fields. I can map the official NIH process and the form set.

I didn't expect much but I did expect a little more than this . . . lol

Comment I'm going to try it (no irony post) (Score 1) 115

by kencurry on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:00PM (#66357378) Attached to: Trump Administration Launches New AI-Powered 'America.gov' Website

I'm in the middle of NIH/SBIR grant submission, and the process and number of forms is a nightmare. I was thinking of giving up on the application because we a very small lab and can't afford the time overhead to deal with this. I was just telling a friend this would be perfect opportunity to get agentic AI on it; let them fill out the damn forms.

Comment Their CEO is fast on his feet (Score 3, Funny) 31

by kencurry on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:04PM (#66353768) Attached to: Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog

Hugging Face break-in getting you down? we bought them and I'll straighten it out!

Rogue agents a worry? We got a watchdog circuit for you!

Think our mountain of cash is shameful! We will use it for stock buybacks!