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bluetwo··on B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person
I am pretty sure CNN is also doing this, using some content from real people, then having the AI write the article. Check out their bylines and who "contributed" when you real an article.
bluetwo··on Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer
Minor point: Creativity doesn't need a lot of tech.
bluetwo··on Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
Yep. I'll never need or use this implementation, but the tricks used will make it to other tools, which will be great.
bluetwo··on Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity
I appreciate the attempt to create objective evaluations by leveraging existing tools. It isn't a perfect experiment or article, but I like the goal.
bluetwo··on Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
The problem I have with Reddit is every subreddit seems filled with amateurs posting the same starter questions daily, never looking at the feed to see these questions have been asked and answered daily.
bluetwo··on No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy
The last episode of the last season of "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is about this.

"What happened to the days when a THING was a THING?!"

bluetwo··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
At a music festival last summer I counted 4 drones in the sky monitoring 24/7 over 5 days. Never saw them come down. They were each tethered to a base station which seemed to run electric and probably returned a video feed.

I expect to see this everywhere.

bluetwo··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Currently working on building a virtual art gallery populated with fictitious works from dead artists generated by Stable Diffusion. Users in the same room can talk to each other using WebRTC.
bluetwo··on How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)
Use FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) tool to find your coverage and figure out how to maximize it:

https://edie.fdic.gov/calculator.html

bluetwo··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
There are some big parts to this story we don't know.

Yes, they sold the treasuries and took a bath. But if that was their best option, it speaks very poorly to the other "assets" they held on their balance sheet.

We may find out in the coming days that they had a big position in Silvergate, which went bankrupt yesterday, and they had to mark their position to zero, creating the need for liquidity.

bluetwo··on A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
Unicode. AmI right?
bluetwo··on The End of Programming
It would be nice if the AI was used to build libraries for targeted purposes. That would actually be pretty handy.

And then it would also be handy for it to design a programming language for both readability and writability that leveraged those libraries.

bluetwo··on We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)
Pages filled with crappy generated AI are what I get every time I have searched for anything recently.

Which leads people to post what would be their google search to Reddit, after finding any group related to the topic.

Which is leading to Reddit forums being filled with the same beginner questions over and over and over and over...

... from people who don't even bother to join the group.

bluetwo··on FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall
Actually this is not correct either.

A married couple each have 250k coverage for their personal accounts, and each have 250k for shared account(s), so they could in theory have 1M coverage at a single institution.

Other qualified relationships work similarly.

bluetwo··on CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
> What technology didn't get cheaper?

Insulin.

bluetwo··on Why do arrays start at 0?
I always said it was an argument between the counting of things versus the relative offset of things.

This is a great example.

bluetwo··on DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby
To add to that, often EDITORS are the ones who come up with the titles, for reasons beyond being clear, like using words that draw attention and to fit in a specific space.
bluetwo··on Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
You nailed it.
bluetwo··on The Balloon Learning Environment
I thought this project was pretty impressive. I feel like this is a thing that is going to come back around once costs come down and a killer app is found for it.
bluetwo··on USWDS: The United States Web Design System
I have used this several times, and I have to say I really like the lightweight setup of the V1 version of this and can't stand the V2 version they now support.

The V1, which you can still download, just works so well out of the box it is amazing. It adds styles to the base tags and is easy to just drop into an html site you are already working on. You only have to add classes when you need to do something different than the defaults.

V2 makes you add classes everywhere, which means content managed by HTML editors like CKedit won't work without extra pain.

bluetwo··on An Alleged Fraud Uncovered by a Short Seller Ends in Gunfire
Paywalled.
bluetwo··on When Double Precision Is Not Enough
I'll admit being lost in some of the math here but I wonder perhaps naively, if a language like Julia, which does fractions as fractions, would handle it better.
bluetwo··on Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices
I agree in general that an open forum of ideas should be encouraged, but I have to make an exception for low-effort posts. They waste everyone's time.

(Not really a critique of your post but the one it responds to.)

bluetwo··on Vectorizing the Code of Federal Regulations
Yes, I was happy to see the modern changes, I agree Cornell Law had done a better job, although I think a lot of people use Google as the search tool and then link to their prefered site, since they are always the first two.

My experience has been with 14 CFR and 21 CFR. I would love to see any tool you come up with in the future and would be happy to give you feedback.

bluetwo··on Vectorizing the Code of Federal Regulations
I have worked with eCFR and have thought about some ideas for processing large sections and how it might be useful.

What are your larger plans here? Do you have an interface in mind for searching or organizing things?

bluetwo··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
The second link, posted at the same time, does.
bluetwo··on SPAs Were a Mistake
If it makes you feel better, SPAs were a mistake when they were all the craze in Flash. Also way before that in Director.

In those two cases, they signified (or accelerated) the end of the useful lifespan of those languages.

SPAs, like frameworks, always make some things easier and some things harder. As long as you stay within the lines of what is easy, you are good. As soon as you stray outside those lines, you get punished.

bluetwo··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrom...

bluetwo··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
Yes, a giant cooling system dug underneath the reactor after the accident takes water from a nearby river and pumps it out to a cooling pond where it evaporates. This keeps the concrete from melting and the core contained.

Here is a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency:

https://www-pub.iaea.org/iaeameetings/IEM4/29Jan/Voitsekhovy...

(Poor english but good diagrams)

bluetwo··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
Chernobyl is the ultimate dead-man's switch.

It needs 24/7 maintenance.

Do nothing and it melts down and destroyers the globe.

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