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Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons The Eudaemons were a small group headed by graduate physics students J. Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard at the University of Calif…

Just a reminder here of this experiment using adversarial techniques to confuse the license plate readers. Just an experiment, may not be legal in all locations, check your local l…

Flagstaff, Arizona. https://www.azfamily.com/2025/12/20/flagstaff-cancels-contro...

Make money from the next greater fool who walks in the door. That's the essence of crypto, magic beans and greater fools.

The part that was spun off was "Infrastructure Services" (from the Wiki article.) Outsourcing and operations, not the business consulting organization that provides high level stra…

Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the aliens visit Earth and someone on Earth snags a book from them with the title "To Serve Man." The rest of the book is written in t…

"we built a tool using other people's copyrighted content and now they're suing us and want to know how much use the customers of our "other people's content" tool made of the copy…

Silicon Graphics was still viable in 2006, mostly used for engineering (and maybe video production) graphics. Sun and IBM also competed in this space. SGI went bust in 2009 due to …

The issue is the gun goes off by itself without the trigger being pulled. Remember that all this type of gun has the firing pin under spring tension all the time. The only thing ke…

It's important to add some context to the "hand count" idea in the US. It was part of a larger scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election which involved creating doubt abo…

You let machines count your money don't you? Who insists on a hand count of the currency to verify your monthly checking or brokerage account? They don't even count cash by hand, i…

What many people outside the US may not realize is that ballots here may include 40-60+ races. The presidential race appears on the same ballot the races for Senate, House of Repre…

Air Cadets appears to be a part of the Canadian Armed Forces and intended to provide an on-ramp for young people interested in different aspects of the Armed Forces (Army, flying, …

Modulating a laser beam for communications is not new but this distance effort by amateurs doing a two-way voice transmission over 167km in New Zeland is pretty cool. This article …

We are dependent on a relatively small number of complex weapons systems. In a high intensity conflict with a peer like China, say, we could expect to loose a significant number of…

The first one went over during evasive maneuvers while it was being moved by a tractor. So it wasn't tied down and the people on the ship can't schedule plane movements around miss…

The catalog is a reminder of a time when the prime motive power for moving material was a human. Thus, the large number of different shovels(for different materials and situations,…

From the title I was expecting a discussion of physical building subsystems, like HVAC and elevators.

Here's a fairly detailed description from NASA of the space craft and subsystems and science experiments as well as a list of subcontractors. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19…

I owned a number of 2001 CNG Chevy Cavaliers around 2010, purchased through govt. surplus auctions. Their tanks were 3600 PSI. The tanks were certified for 15 years with no recerti…

There's a hotlink at the bottom where it says "the undersigned."

On the right side where it says "Access Paper:" pick one of the options such as "download pdf."

One problem that doesn't, in my opinion, get enough attention is that a model trained using unlicensed copyrighted work also stores some amount of the copyrighted material and uses…

Here's the thread from 72 days ago(from 9/20/23) on Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement lawsuit for the same issue with Open AI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540#…

Isn't part of the problem that some of the training data is retained by the model and used during response generation? In that case it's not just that the copyrighted book was used…