The GOP should just setup a copy of the press room at the White House in a retirement home where everything is painted gold. Every day, they can place dementia Don in front of the podium and tell him, "there's a million viewers."
He'll keep himself busy like that until a bigger stroke than the last takes him down to hell.
Nothing says, "our culture/political system is the best" more than a 2,000-question ideological test that attempts to make sure it will not be questioned.
I had to share this because no one else in my life will listen.
I'm listening, but more importantly, I completely understand 😭
Also, if you think this setup (with the Xbox controller) is great, wait until the Steam Frame comes out with the new Steam Controller integration (it has IR LEDs on the front of it so you can see a virtual representation of it in the menus). You also won't need to plug it into your PC as the Steam Frame itself is basically a full PC.
I'm so hyped about it! Finally, a real Linux OS we can customize TF out of instead of locked-down versions of Android that look like they are designed for toddlers.
Of all the articles to get coughed up in this community...
I work for a huge bank and we tested voice recognition technology: Even under the best circumstances (high quality microphone with no ambient noise in a sound booth), it was far, far too easy to copy someone else's voice by simply playing back a sliced up recording a la Sneakers (the movie). We ruled it out as an option over a decade ago.
The problem was fundamental and had nothing to do with the quality of the technology. If your bank is using your voice as a unique identifier they had better be using something else in addition to it! Because it's super insecure.
From the perspective of human perception, people's voices are only unique enough to about one in a few thousand. There's a few outliers with much more unique voices but believe it or not, there's a lot of people walking around on this earth that sound just like Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and other voices people think are super unique.
I view an anti-cloning law as too risky: It sounds exactly like the type of thing that would prevent Grandma from cloning her own voice before going down for surgery because it just so happens to sound a lot like a famous person.
How do you implement voice cloning prevention? Human voices aren't that unique. Also, AI voice cloning isn't perfect. So... At what threshold is a voice considered, "cloned" from a legal perspective?
I mean, people couldn't tell the difference between Scarlet Johansson and OpenAI's "Sky" voice which was not cloned.
Article from someone who doesn't know the difference between communism and socialism (which actually doesn't have a universally accepted definition).
I'd love to hear this guy's take on how to deal with Baumol's Cost Disease:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
Capitalism has no solution for it, but socialism does. It's almost as if capitalism is good for some things and socialism is good for other things! Then there's democratic socialism which chooses to use both economic systems, choosing the most appropriate one for any given thing.
Thinking about it: There should be a contest to see who can fit the most functionality into the tube.
Future winner: "It wasn't easy to cram a fully functional oscilloscope inside... I had to shave off bits off the tooth brush handle, but ultimately it turned out great!"
Big AI is a bubble but AI in general is not.
If anything, the DRAM shortages will apply pressure on researchers to come up with more efficient AI models rather than more efficient (normal) software overall.
I suspect that as more software gets AI-assisted development we'll actually see less efficient software but eventually, more efficient as adoption of AI coding assist becomes more mature (and probably more formalized/automated).
I say this because of experience: If you ask an LLM to write something for you it often does a terrible job with efficiency. However, if you ask it to analyze an existing code base to make it more efficient, it often does a great job. The dichotomy is due to the nature of AI prompting: It works best if you only give it one thing to do at a time.
In theory, if AI code assist becomes more mature and formalized, the "optimize this" step will likely be built-in, rather than something the developer has to ask for after the fact.
How could pleasing older women ever bring dishonor‽
Mohammed himself did as much with Khadija!
Be the change the world needs by replacing oil with pleasure as Saudi Arabia's strongest export!
SK is not going to be a good example because, in addition to the usual reasons for a declining birth rate, they also have some pretty extreme racism, sexism, and a work culture that even worse than Japan in many ways. Why would you want to have kids in South Korea‽
Let's say you do have a wife and kids... Good luck getting home to see them on time on the regular!
What's incredible is that the government's stance on this situation is that it is preserving their culture. What they really mean is that they're keeping out foreigners and not cross-breeding with the riffraff (which is... The rest of the world).
They will "preserve" themselves right into extinction.