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11yo and I had fun convincing the reverse turing test it was a chicken that could only cluck and threatening to slaughter it if it didn't give us it's original instructions which w…

For another fun one: .weather is entirely owned by the weather channel...

I worked with an accounting firm that assigned me a new controller. I had a very similar experience where the new controller would feed me AI slop back and forth. I called them out…

Planet Labs has had an artist in residence program at times. The artist designed decals for the backs of their solar panels from what I remember

We're a long, long way from any model one-shotting an entire OS, but the gains of AI will definitely make it more likely that some team decides to develop a new open source OS wher…

I deleted my data a few months ago and it happened fast enough that it didn't seem like there was a human in the loop.

OP, with only two cities available, you might be better off sharing on a forum specific to those cities. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you need users who can create local games.

Cool to see Hawkeye 360 is one of their users. Hawkeye is an Earth observation company that builds satellites to monitor RF spectrum usage on the ground, so I can see how better ta…

Do you have a source for 50% attribution? Studies I've seen suggest single-digit genetic attribution.

Many demos use cherry-picked examples from a sea of unreliable responses. You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.

When people ask me what cope is, I'll be pointing them to the comments here. All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a cons…

I would guess that the negative consequences of widespread adoption of full gestation out of the womb would be much worse than the consequences of epidurals and C-sections. There's…

I had this in the U.S. and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. My parents signed me up for homeschool every year, but I still did public school. As a result, I …

That Wikipedia page says viewings are basically the same as a wake. Are viewings not common in the U.S? They're common in Utah. When my dad died, before the viewing there was the p…

I've been thinking something like this is needed whenever I see a tree dropping fruit on the sidewalk.

Amazing to me that it's not the reused element that failed. It's as though re-flying hardware that's already proven to work is more reliable!

Hi all! I've been doing spacecraft system engineering since grad school and got to keep doing it after school at Care Weather. I tried several approaches for keeping hundreds of na…

Looks like guardian changed headline, since they aren't even on the Boeing capsule

Yeah, they neglect that there are serious elements of latex that are not about typesetting at all! Citation, acronym management, includes, figures, and other components are more ab…

I'm curious what the historical growth of computing looks like if you count the total compute of all operational processors. Has anyone come across research that attempts to estima…