Sorry about the orange tint on the slides, I forgot to turn off the redshift function in KDE and the talk was late at night.
Readit NewsKliment commented on The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-33... · Posted by u/fest
Short story idea:
An elderly person living isolated with their best friend. All amenities are delivered autonomously, so we only see these two the entire time. The friend starts acting strangely over time, as if he's developing the early stages of dementia. Slowly hint that the best friend is in fact an AI of some sort, but the protagonist has lived with them so long that they have forgotten. The protagonist eventually remembers and opens up the AI's control panel to fix them. The AI suddenly disappears or powers off. Protagonist looks at the control panel again:
Suspicious activity detected on your device. Your Google ElderCare MyAI™ account has been permanently suspended. All of your device data will be deleted shortly - Google cares about your privacy.
Please note this suspension is non-appealable.
Have a good day.You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank
Kliment commented on Why does pepperoni curl? (2019) seriouseats.com/the-pizza... · Posted by u/gitowiec
Pizza fruit of choice here is the banana.
The only fruit that belongs on pizza is durian.
Kliment commented on A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028 theweathernetwork.com/en/... · Posted by u/nick__m
I keep hearing they need to be switched off at short notice because… I’m not sure, accidents? I’ve never actually seen a link backing this claim, and I’d be interested.
Nuclear plants need to be switched off for weeks/months at a time for the following reasons:
- refueling (regularly done, highly plannable)
- insufficient cooling water/ too warm cooling water (regular, seasonal, not very predictable short-term)
- planned maintenance (often combined with refueling)
- unplanned maintenance (accidents)
Whenever these things happen, the entire reactor is producing no power. This is why most nuclear facilities have multiple reactors, so you can rotate these tasks among them and still have some power. Unfortunately, the cooling issue is becoming more and more of a problem, and many sites that used to operate year-round now have to scale down significantly in mid-summer due to lack of cooling water.
Fascinating.
I wonder if nerds like us could optimize the „bitrate“ of this.
Lvng out mddl vcls is one vry smpl optn, fr exmpl.
There must be even better ways, if you consider the frequency of words, for example.
I wouldnt be surprised if one could reduce bits needed to express a sentence by 90%, if those numerologists that proved their worth with predicting Wordle solutions had a look at that.
There are many ways to improve the speed and accuracy, but it's really important in settings like these to not make changes until the input method is fully reliable, because there's the risk of complete loss of communication.
Yeah, less than half of sessions yielded "intelligible" output.
From that, we learn that there's indeed an element of interpretation, as was seen with Koko the gorilla and the claims that she could talk, when in fact she was just spouting gibberish that her handlers would interpret.
I anticipate more scientists are going to become disgraced as this study is scrutinized by peers.
But, hey, I hope I'm wrong. It would indeed be nice to talk to locked-in loved ones.
The full event streams have been published this time around, including the failed sessions. I recommend reading the article and watching the videos of the system operating - they have a video of the input calibration/training, and another video of the longest session. The sessions are few and many days apart, and not all of them demonstrate successful control, but on the days where the patient can successfully drive the system there is no doubt of the communication method's authenticity, and the researchers have no input or interpretation capability.
The previous controversy around the researchers is not about them scamming patients, it's about them publishing only the positive results of their work and not disclosing negative results, making the average success rate appear better. This is one reason they publish full event streams and list days with no attempts and failed attempts extensively in this paper. The code has also been published, and the raw potential recordings are available on request. I had a careful read and I can't find anything methodologically problematic in this publication. When you watch the video, be aware this is the longest and most successful session, and the researchers made this very clear.
If anything, Wordle is proof that we can't have nice things. It is now full of privacy-eroding trackers [1] and nonsensical, inconsistent, and seemingly arbitrary word bans [2] -- wherein words like "agora" and "slave" have been removed, while words like "fucks" and "cunts" are apparently just fine.
[1] https://gizmodo.com/wordle-ad-trackers-privacy-new-york-time...
[2] https://nypost.com/2022/02/18/wordle-now-bans-offensive-word...
edit: it seems like sometime today, NYT re-added the previously-removed words like "slave" or "agora" or "wench" or any of the other words which up to today had been removed. That is interesting timing - did someone read this comment, or just coincidence?
Wordle, as we loved it, tracker-free and entirely non-evil, is still available to this day at https://web.archive.org/web/20220209234643id_/https://www.po...
Kliment commented on The case for induction cooking nytimes.com/2022/03/11/di... · Posted by u/mathieutd
> They're expensive as fuck, and eat lots of counter space.
I am comfortable with the latter at least, as my default would be a 5 ring gas hob! I cannot imagine cooking with fewer than 3 rings. (Say, duck breast, mash, veg is a pretty basic meal)
> Get a standalone induction plate. They're cheap and portable and they let you try it out without a huge expense.
That is actually a good shout, and not something I had considered. Am currently "camping" kitchen'd in the utility room with a microwave and a 2 ring camping gas stove. Will have a gander, Thanks :)
> I cannot imagine cooking with fewer than 3 rings.
You're allowed to own more than one standalone induction plate. And you're also allowed to position them freely over your work area :)
Kliment commented on The case for induction cooking nytimes.com/2022/03/11/di... · Posted by u/mathieutd
> is overall worse than induction when it comes to the cooking experience in just about all ways.
The way you would know this to be true is when professional kitchens are defaulting to induction instead of gas. (I think this has started to happen in a few high end places, which is exciting)
I am putting in a new kitchen soon and it will have a gas hob + electric oven because I love cooking and gas is my default. Every electric hob I have ever used has been garbage, and I am not dropping 2 grand to try induction and maybe discover what sound like familiar issues (ha, I am turning myself off now).
Gas always just works. Apply steady heat - perfect cooking experience. Maybe next time.
Get a standalone induction plate. They're cheap and portable and they let you try it out without a huge expense. I do 90% of all my cooking on a single induction plate I paid ~$60 for. Non-induction electric hobs are trash, and induction is much closer to gas, but more controllable, less messy, and less dangerous. That said, I would strongly recommend against a builtin induction hob. They're expensive as fuck, and eat lots of counter space. The standalone induction plates are amazing, much nicer to work with, and cheaper, and you can put them away when you need the extra space. Restaurant supply shops have standalone induction plates for ~3x the cost of the consumer ones which are phenomenally good, that's what the higher end new kitchens are going for.
I just checked and you can access Russian state media, so have at it please https://ria.ru - I don't speak Russian but from my research this is state owned media, please if others know better can we prove that if you really want to read Russia propaganda it is still possible, you just need a bit more effort then opening FB or twiiter or your TV
I understand Russian. Looking at ria.ru over the past few days there is barely any mention of the war, certainly no details, there's much more mention of sanctions but only some weird stories about their origin and motivation.