Comment Re:Futurama did it (Score 1) 16
posted on the wrong article -_- it's too early
Comment Futurama did it (Score 1) 16
Comment Enough with new designs, give it a light (Score 1) 78
Can we please get a basic CA53-W with an illuminator!!! I have had a few CA32-Ws over the years, and it is the main feature I miss. You have to be in pretty decent lighting to see it. The more expensive model has an illuminator, but it is also a physically larger watch.
Comment This is why I won't buy a rivian (Score 1) 143
no other reason, it's CarPlay preventing me from getting one, no financial point for sure.
But for real though, a couple of points. First, I expect better software from a dedicated tech company rather than a car company trying to be a tech company. Second, the way CarPlay and Android Auto work, turning your infotainment into essentially a glorified wireless display, I think would offer better long term support. Third, car manufacturers have shown before they have no problem sharing your data with anyone who asks if you use their connected systems, so at least if you use CarPlay/Android Auto, your data is consolidated onto one platform.
I have been using an aftermarket CarPlay system in my 2008 Honda CR-V so far and it has been pretty decent.
Comment I took a CS class in high school (Score 1) 70
I took a HS class that was supposed to be accredited, but apparently the board dragged their feet on getting the accreditation. The teacher found out we weren't getting anything besides math credit for the class, and he promptly quit the position. Then it was just programming book-work that nobody did but everyone still magically passed :\ As for this story, they have kind of already been doing it. Most of my grade school (and some HS, iirc) computer class experience was a room of computers operated by a total luddite, where you would use some stupid flash based computer-math-learning software, or maybe learn some rudimentary MS office.
Submission + - Boeing whistleblower steps forward ahead of CEO's testimony (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new whistleblower complaint alleges that Boeing improperly stored, tracked and documented parts that were damaged or otherwise out of specification.
Comment aI generated scripts? (Score 1) 29
I think that's a good idea, I don't know how many people are going to follow that rule. What I really care about though is what can be done about AI generated scripts with AI voiceover. I've seen so much incorrect AI generated content farm garbage, sometimes I get pretty far into the video before I realize it's just wrong.
Comment Isn't this already a thing? (Score 1) 113
In the top right menu -> more tools -> Create shortcut... -> check "Open as window". Is this new feature different from that? Does it change how the website loads to be more efficient? I've been using this open as window thing for a while for webapps that should really just be desktop apps and it works pretty well.
Comment Confused, base model 1 external display? (Score 1) 150
I was actually looking to replace my MacBook soon but the base model M chips still only do 1 external display at a time, or two if you close the built in screen. I'll probably end up going used M2 Pro which is fine because M3 is not that big of a jump anyway from the looks of it. I would really like an Air also because of the colors and it being smaller than the Pro, but you can't get the Air with the nice screen you can get on the pro.
Submission + - Ubuntu Core as an Immutable OS (ubuntu.com) 1
motang writes: Canonical, the sponsor of widely popular Ubuntu Linux plans on shipping the next LTS in two versions. One traditional deb version and another immutable version based on snapd technology for enthusiasts to play with and give feedback. I for one am looking forward, as I am sure immutable is future of Linux distros.
Submission + - Magnon-Based Computation Could Signal Computing Paradigm Shift (phys.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount of energy required to change the magnetization of a material via a collective excitation called a spin wave. Because they interact with magnetic fields, magnons can be used to encode and transport data without electron flows, which involve energy loss through heating (known as Joule heating) of the conductor used. As Dirk Grundler, head of the Lab of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics (LMGN) in the School of Engineering explains, energy losses are an increasingly serious barrier to electronics as data speeds and storage demands soar. "With the advent of AI, the use of computing technology has increased so much that energy consumption threatens its development," Grundler says. "A major issue is traditional computing architecture, which separates processors and memory. The signal conversions involved in moving data between different components slow down computation and waste energy."
This inefficiency, known as the memory wall or Von Neumann bottleneck, has had researchers searching for new computing architectures that can better support the demands of big data. And now, Grundler believes his lab might have stumbled on such a "holy grail". While doing other experiments on a commercial wafer of the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with nanomagnetic strips on its surface, LMGN Ph.D. student Korbinian Baumgaertl was inspired to develop precisely engineered YIG-nanomagnet devices. With the Center of MicroNanoTechnology's support, Baumgaertl was able to excite spin waves in the YIG at specific gigahertz frequencies using radiofrequency signals, and—crucially—to reverse the magnetization of the surface nanomagnets. "The two possible orientations of these nanomagnets represent magnetic states 0 and 1, which allows digital information to be encoded and stored," Grundler explains.
The scientists made their discovery using a conventional vector network analyzer, which sent a spin wave through the YIG-nanomagnet device. Nanomagnet reversal happened only when the spin wave hit a certain amplitude, and could then be used to write and read data. "We can now show that the same waves we use for data processing can be used to switch the magnetic nanostructures so that we also have nonvolatile magnetic storage within the very same system," Grundler explains, adding that "nonvolatile" refers to the stable storage of data over long time periods without additional energy consumption. It's this ability to process and store data in the same place that gives the technique its potential to change the current computing architecture paradigm by putting an end to the energy-inefficient separation of processors and memory storage, and achieving what is known as in-memory computation.
This inefficiency, known as the memory wall or Von Neumann bottleneck, has had researchers searching for new computing architectures that can better support the demands of big data. And now, Grundler believes his lab might have stumbled on such a "holy grail". While doing other experiments on a commercial wafer of the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with nanomagnetic strips on its surface, LMGN Ph.D. student Korbinian Baumgaertl was inspired to develop precisely engineered YIG-nanomagnet devices. With the Center of MicroNanoTechnology's support, Baumgaertl was able to excite spin waves in the YIG at specific gigahertz frequencies using radiofrequency signals, and—crucially—to reverse the magnetization of the surface nanomagnets. "The two possible orientations of these nanomagnets represent magnetic states 0 and 1, which allows digital information to be encoded and stored," Grundler explains.
The scientists made their discovery using a conventional vector network analyzer, which sent a spin wave through the YIG-nanomagnet device. Nanomagnet reversal happened only when the spin wave hit a certain amplitude, and could then be used to write and read data. "We can now show that the same waves we use for data processing can be used to switch the magnetic nanostructures so that we also have nonvolatile magnetic storage within the very same system," Grundler explains, adding that "nonvolatile" refers to the stable storage of data over long time periods without additional energy consumption. It's this ability to process and store data in the same place that gives the technique its potential to change the current computing architecture paradigm by putting an end to the energy-inefficient separation of processors and memory storage, and achieving what is known as in-memory computation.
Comment "Leaked" is not the word I would've used (Score 2) 31
Leak is when someone gets hacked, or a disgruntled employee sends out an unreleased design. I feel like a willing disregard for HIPAA protected medical information should be called something else, like "shared" or "delivered" data.
Submission + - OpenAI Releases Tool To Detect Machine-Written Text (axios.com)
An anonymous reader writes: ChatGPT creator OpenAI today released a free web-based tool designed to help educators and others figure out if a particular chunk of text was written by a human or a machine. OpenAI cautions the tool is imperfect and performance varies based on how similar the text being analyzed is to the types of writing OpenAI’s tool was trained on. "It has both false positives and false negatives," OpenAI head of alignment Jan Leike told Axios, cautioning the new tool should not be relied on alone to determine authorship of a document.
Users copy a chunk of text into a box and the system will rate how likely the text is to have been generated by an AI system. It offers a five-point scale of results: Very unlikely to have been AI-generated, unlikely, unclear, possible or likely. It works best on text samples greater than 1,000 words and in English, with performance significantly worse in other languages. And it doesn't work to distinguish computer code written by humans vs. AI. That said, OpenAI says the new tool is significantly better than a previous one it had released.
Users copy a chunk of text into a box and the system will rate how likely the text is to have been generated by an AI system. It offers a five-point scale of results: Very unlikely to have been AI-generated, unlikely, unclear, possible or likely. It works best on text samples greater than 1,000 words and in English, with performance significantly worse in other languages. And it doesn't work to distinguish computer code written by humans vs. AI. That said, OpenAI says the new tool is significantly better than a previous one it had released.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 15
I dunno, the music app on Roku is okay if not a little slow, but that is probably just a result of the crummy specs shipped in Roku integrated TVs. Also I don't really mind the iTunes app for windows as long as its the exe version and not the awful windows store version.
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