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   – Benjamin Franklin
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tmfi··on Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript
Links to the other parts in the series:

"Getting Creative with Trigonometric Functions":

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2021/06/02/trigonometry-in-css-...

"Beyond Triangles":

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2021/06/04/trigonometry-in-css-...

tmfi··on Self-Sustaining, Intelligent, Electronic Microsystems from Green Material
Link to paper "Self-sustained green neuromorphic interfaces":

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23744-2

tmfi··on Green Software Foundation
See Microsoft's announcement: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/05/25/accenture-github...
tmfi··on Moderators de-ranked my post on Ayahuasca by changing the title
It could be down to the flame-war detector being triggered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031
tmfi··on Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing
See creator's previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667847
tmfi··on Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing
There was a Show HN recently by one of its creators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666142

tmfi··on Send a message to your future self
Reminds me of FutureMe [0] which I've used in the past to set goals for myself for the year only to receive the email and realize I had failed miserably. Eventually stopped using it. It wasn't a reliable way to keep me on track.

[0] https://www.futureme.org

tmfi··on Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power
"let’s actually look at who’s running the levers of these systems. That means shifting away from just focusing on things like ethical principles to talking about power."

"We’re looking at a profound concentration of power into extraordinarily few hands"

I think you are using the wrong definition of power to frame this article

tmfi··on How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious
There was a good discussion recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26620186

and another briefer one from two years ago when this article was written:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309764

tmfi··on Machine learning expert Jordan bemoans use of AI as catch-all term
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650738
tmfi··on [dead]
This is an April Fools joke.

Previously submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670545

tmfi··on Atomic structure of a glass imaged at last
I think this is the preprint article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02266
tmfi··on Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm
See current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323
tmfi··on Jeff Hawkins claims he’s figured out how intelligence works
See recent hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240901
tmfi··on Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless (2019)
The author is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence to make their point that "we have to stop romanticizing or fear-mongering about the pointless concept of a human-like intelligence being produced by software."
tmfi··on Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless (2019)
The author, confusingly, is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence.

Main points from the article:

"Artificial general intelligence is something we have plenty of here on Earth, most of it goes to waste, so I'm not sure designing AGI based on a human model would help us much."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something that we can define, since nobody has come up with a comprehensive definition of intelligence that is self-sufficient, rather than requiring real world trial and error."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something we can test, since we can't gather statistically valid training datasets for complex problem and we can't afford to test via trial and error in the real world."

"Even if superhuman artificial intelligence was somehow created, there's no way of knowing that they'd be of much use to us. It may be that intelligence is not the biggest bottleneck to our current problems, but rather time and resources."

tmfi··on Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]
To be fair the article is from 1995. I'm guessing it was considered fairly original back then.
tmfi··on Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]
There is a recent related article from Amazon Science if anyone is interested:

"Does the Turing Test pass the test of time?" https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/does-the-turing-test-...