WWWBoard is such a nostalgia hit. My local music venue's forum was where my early internet persona originated. Sometimes I nostalgic and use Wayback machine to see what all my fellow teenagers were talking about 25 years ago.
Readit Newsnotadev commented on Matt's Script Archive (1995) scriptarchive.com/... · Posted by u/huang_chung
notadev commented on Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice sesame.com/research/cross... · Posted by u/monroewalker
I tried both models. I could easily tell Maya was AI, but Miles sounded so lifelike that I felt that initial apprehension like hopping on a conference line with strangers. I even chuckled at one of his side remarks. It was strange knowing it wasn’t a real person, but it was very hard not to feel like it was.
notadev commented on What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/bcta1
Then I suppose AI laundering is where you slightly modify, or manually reproduce, the results of AI chatbots so there’s no trace that AI was used.
notadev commented on The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows nbcnews.com/news/crime-co... · Posted by u/paulpauper
An interesting analysis, but do you have links to the primary sources or to a more credible source than the Daily Caller?
> As a personal anecdote, my car was broken into last year and I did not bother filing a police report.
What does that represent? Not only are you just one person, people have been behaving like that for generations, not just the last 4 years.
What would you hope to gain from a “more reliable” source when the DailyCaller article links to the sources of its claims? Do you not even bother to read something if it’s from a source you don’t frequently read?
I've been working in ag-tech for about 10 years, having spent the prior 10 years in other kinds of startups/tech companies.
When I see the new ag-tech startups coming out of accelerators or being established by supposedly seasoned entrepreneurs, the ideas that keep coming up over and over are vertical farming, weed-killing laser robots and insect protein.
They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere.
And in my view it's all based on a flawed premise: that farming needs any kind of technological revolution. It just doesn't. It's mostly fine. And whilst some things could/should be improved (environmental externalities and resource consumption being the most significant), these issues aren't going to be solved by outsiders with messiah complexes coming in and telling established growers/experts that they're wrong/stupid, they'll be solved via unglamorous work over many years by people who really understand the field.
If not vertical farming, weed killing lasers, an ze bugs, where is innovation needed in AgTech?
Any theory that suggests a grand conspiracy involving most of the companies in the country (and world) simultaneously all changing their behavior in an immoral way, in tandem, is a pretty much instant rejection for me.
It would only take a few of the 17 companies that own nearly everything to affect hundreds of millions of products worldwide.
notadev commented on White House warns it might break patents of high-priced drugs finance.yahoo.com/news/wh... · Posted by u/qclibre22
It is essentially impossible for the Democrats to pass serious drug patent reform. Even if the senate Republicans don't filibuster just to prevent Democrats from appearing effective, there's enough Democrats that don't support it that it would be dead.
I'd much rather spotting and dodgy executive action than nothing.
Couldn’t you just say not enough Democrats support it without somewhere interweaving blame on Republicans?
My unit got a couple sets of combination image intensifying/thermal goggles back in 2008 to try out (long before the AN/PSQ-42s were even in development). The thing that stuck out most to me was how much everyone disliked them without really being able to articulate why.
There was also a rumor that if you turned your head fast enough with them on they’d cause you to vomit and pass out, which is almost certainly not true but boy did we believe it.
How many people tried to intentionally make themselves vomit once they heard the rumor?
notadev commented on Who makes the most reliable new cars? consumerreports.org/cars/... · Posted by u/deletionist
I love my Toyota and will always recommend them as a reliable brand. Their replacement parts are relatively cheap and they’re easy to maintain.