The rxscanner is a very cheap portable spectrometer, so it is probably a near IR or short wave IR device with quite poor spectral resolution.

On top of that, there is a lot of clutter in those spectral bands, not to mention measurement problems caused by varying reflectivity and light levels between samples taken in the wild

So it isn't as simple as taking a scan and comparing the spectra you measure to a database, there is a lot of noise.

Machine learning/AI models to help with this are quite common in this field, and have been around for decades to help with spectral library lookups - long before the current LLM hype phase.

Sounds like you haven't figured out the --context-size flag. Carry on.

Haven't they invented home insurance in Florida yet?

I guess then no one should build anything.

Silly consumer. Don't you realize it's your civic duty to purchase product?

It doesn't matter what it is, just purchase product.

After you've received product, discard product and purchase next product. Quality of product isn't relevant to the conversation.

What are you, some sort of commie trying to collapse the US economy?

You are exactly right. It very much seems like they've just rebranded the existing 'auto-compact' feature to 'dreaming'.

Everything after 2017. Your 2022 Ubuntu definitely has it.

The top end version of the Hyundai Ionic 6 has cameras instead of sideview mirrors. Quite a cool design and worth checking out if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Are you volunteering to do it yourself, or are you just wanting to send someone else's kids to die - just so we can roll back the orange one's f ups?

Agreed, but are they actually using agentic ai, or did they just vibe code a copy of dragon dictate commands and hope no one would notice?

So the radiator has to be simultaneously both bigger than the space data centre and also smaller than the space data centre so it can stay in the space data centre's shade away from the sun.

Cool, cool maybe they can use Time Lord technology.

Like I said, get back to me when you hsve a cost effective design that works.

BB84 doesn't create keys, it's a key *distribution* protocol

The key itself is a one time pad generated using whatever random number generator you wish.

BB84 is a protocol that distributes the key to your communication partner using a quantum physics technique plus a public open channel to guarantee that no one has eavesdropped on or tampered with the key.

For the record, in BB84, the public channel must satisfy certain very strict requirements which I've never seen any BB84 implementations get right - even when they do the quantum physics correctly (which is another part people often get horribly wrong).

Transmission, reflection, absorption. Think a little bit harder about which of those a rock in space is doing, and which of those a man made device that grabs visible light and converts it to heat is doing.

Then get back to us when you come up with a scheme to remove that waste heat that works in the vacuum of space, and isn't super expensive to implement and maintain.

But does your Claude subscription make you significantly more productive than my 30B qwen model running for pennies on a local 16gb gpu?

I doubt it.

And when 80gb gpus inevitably become affordable in 3-5 years time, even the large model slight edge is likely to be lost.

I just don't see how these hyperscalers will recoup their massive capital investments before consumer grade hardware catches up and their business model collapses.

Putting two and two together:

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What Detroit seems to be saying is that their market research shows that people who are dumb enough to be climate change deniers are the same people who are dumb enough to prefer driving ICE over EV, and are the same people who are dumb enough to happy when they are ripped off for massive profit margins when they buy a car.

And so there seems to be a short term business opportunity there.

I'm never going back to ICE from EV, but I guess I'm old enough and grumpy enough to enjoy watching fossil fools get ripped off.

It's a pity the current govt is killing so many foreign civilians in forever wars to try and keep gas prices down though.

A lot of bloggers are writing articles like this to purposely poison AI results these days, so I no longer am able to tell if the premise in stories like this is flawed by accident or design.

For example, try asking an AI who the best tech bloggers at eating hotdogs are.