Re AI in coding: my oldest nephew is working on his PhD in genetics. He uses AI to sort out DNA chains. It does the otherwise prohibitive number of tedious iterations necessary to eliminate sequences that don't "work".
It seems to me there’s going to be a whole lot more data gathering, sorting, and evaluating in the near future. That’s going to mean a lot more recording and storage, too. More audio and video recording for data mining. The process will likely be ubiquitous and behind the scenes, punctuated by excitement over excesses and abuses.
All those data storage and processing centers have a voracious appetite for electricity, too. We can still lose the tech race if we continue along with policies that restrict energy.
the premise of the podcast sounds interesting, especially to me as an IT professional. But a 2 hour pod if off-putting. I'm not a big fan of Jonah's pods for their length (and because, Jonah), and he *only* goes to about 1.5 hours.
I run most podcasts at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. There was actually an audio podcast version of this that I listened to, it’s just that the YouTub segmenting made it easier to find what sections I was looking for.
I just can’t seem to get interested in anything AI. I don’t like the fact that some of the videos I see might be fake though. I’m still questioning whether or not the video I saw of the porta potty getting blown high into the sky in Denver was real or not. In any event, it was funny!
Good morning. I'm back from my Bird Time walk. It was cool this morning. I kind of wished I had a jacket, but I hadn't put it out, so I just stepped lively with my crossing guard vest as an extra layer.
Good morning. It got down to about 50 last night, and it will barely reach 70 today.
The new, improved mothership with the new, supposedly improved comments system, is reporting on the actions of two international courts, the International COurt of Justice and the International Criminal Court, with respect to Israel. It’s worth a read.
As for the new comment system, I seem to be logged out of it ever since the first day. Don’t know whether it was something I did or what, since I played around with it a little at first. But I gather others are having less than ideal experiences with the switch, too.
Don’t know when I’ll try to sort it out. I’ve got enough other stuff to keep me too busy for that now anyway.
"I’d imagine that millennials and younger folks aren’t familiar with using brick-and-mortar libraries or paper-based reference books (dictionaries, phone books), either, and they will miss out on the experience of finding related information accidentally when looking through shelves of books in a library and coming across unexpected titles nearby."
I think this will be a real loss to the younger folks. I know it sounds like a "we used to walk 6 miles to school in the snow up hill both ways" kinda thing. But having spent most of my college career in some great libraries (FDR Presidential Library, Library of Congress, National Archives, Sterling Library) I agree completely. And cursive writing? Forget it.
I like to think I put the curse in cursive writing.
The most exciting I’ve experienced were boring central U library stacks, and they were plenty full of related books and authors that you wouldn’t find via the card catalogue (old-fashioned or electronic).
The breaking news put me in mind of Doonesbury:
https://readingdoonesbury.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/guilty-3.png
"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"
I was neither a defender of Nixon and Watergate, nor a leftist. That's me--comfortable without a "side" since 1973!
Aren’t we afraid this will obscure the round-the-clock Alito flag coverage?
Re AI in coding: my oldest nephew is working on his PhD in genetics. He uses AI to sort out DNA chains. It does the otherwise prohibitive number of tedious iterations necessary to eliminate sequences that don't "work".
It seems to me there’s going to be a whole lot more data gathering, sorting, and evaluating in the near future. That’s going to mean a lot more recording and storage, too. More audio and video recording for data mining. The process will likely be ubiquitous and behind the scenes, punctuated by excitement over excesses and abuses.
All those data storage and processing centers have a voracious appetite for electricity, too. We can still lose the tech race if we continue along with policies that restrict energy.
Excellent tie-in in the last paragraph.
Phone books....I sure do miss them. Straightforward, no games, no ambushes, no cookies.
Pleasant here this morning, high forecast in the low 80s.
the premise of the podcast sounds interesting, especially to me as an IT professional. But a 2 hour pod if off-putting. I'm not a big fan of Jonah's pods for their length (and because, Jonah), and he *only* goes to about 1.5 hours.
Here’s the audio version link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-is-overrated-why-theprimeagen-ripped-out-github/id1313660749?i=1000655918894
I run most podcasts at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. There was actually an audio podcast version of this that I listened to, it’s just that the YouTub segmenting made it easier to find what sections I was looking for.
I just can’t seem to get interested in anything AI. I don’t like the fact that some of the videos I see might be fake though. I’m still questioning whether or not the video I saw of the porta potty getting blown high into the sky in Denver was real or not. In any event, it was funny!
Terrifying yet funny. https://youtu.be/-35-hdWUZuk?feature=shared
Reckon they were occupied? 🤔
Good morning. I'm back from my Bird Time walk. It was cool this morning. I kind of wished I had a jacket, but I hadn't put it out, so I just stepped lively with my crossing guard vest as an extra layer.
The Bird Time walk was cool or the weather?
Both. Bird Time is always cool, but sometimes the weather is hot and humid.
At this time of the year I always stop and smell the peonies on my walks.
Due to an unusually warm early May, the peonies have come and gone here.
I just walk by front yards and cars in the early morning. I don't feel comfortable going outside my neighborhood at that time of day.
That’s a foreign concept to me. Life is safe in rural WI.
It's safe here, too. It's just me being irrational.
Morning. It’s low 50s here now. Supposed to be sunny and dry.
The guessers say a high of 78, no rain.
Good morning. It got down to about 50 last night, and it will barely reach 70 today.
The new, improved mothership with the new, supposedly improved comments system, is reporting on the actions of two international courts, the International COurt of Justice and the International Criminal Court, with respect to Israel. It’s worth a read.
The Times of Israel and Call Me Back podcasts have explained it. Meanwhile, the latest "evil Jews killed civilians" story is, once again, not true.
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/israel-is-doing-what-biden-asked-of-it/
As for the new comment system, I seem to be logged out of it ever since the first day. Don’t know whether it was something I did or what, since I played around with it a little at first. But I gather others are having less than ideal experiences with the switch, too.
Don’t know when I’ll try to sort it out. I’ve got enough other stuff to keep me too busy for that now anyway.
"I’d imagine that millennials and younger folks aren’t familiar with using brick-and-mortar libraries or paper-based reference books (dictionaries, phone books), either, and they will miss out on the experience of finding related information accidentally when looking through shelves of books in a library and coming across unexpected titles nearby."
I think this will be a real loss to the younger folks. I know it sounds like a "we used to walk 6 miles to school in the snow up hill both ways" kinda thing. But having spent most of my college career in some great libraries (FDR Presidential Library, Library of Congress, National Archives, Sterling Library) I agree completely. And cursive writing? Forget it.
Yes, I've had that experience of stumbling across unexpected books on shelves.
And not just because people forgot to put the books back on the shelves!
You just reminded me of a scene near the beginning of "Ghostbusters" in which library books literally fly off the shelves!
I like to think I put the curse in cursive writing.
The most exciting I’ve experienced were boring central U library stacks, and they were plenty full of related books and authors that you wouldn’t find via the card catalogue (old-fashioned or electronic).