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by zw123456 1y ago
I am writing a book about this topic. I started my career in 1978 at Bell Labs and worked in 3 different startups after that. After 45 years in R&D, I have recently retired. So many times, the inspiration for new inventions we worked on
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by zw123456 1y ago
Simple hack for Sam. Hire a bunch of people for some nominal amount. They do not have to do anything and they know nothing about AI. Then let Zuck waste his wad paying out signing bonuses to fake employees.
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Sam Altman says meta offered OpenAI staff 100M-bonuses(msn.com)
3 points by zw123456 1y ago|1 comments
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by zw123456 1y ago
Can a human who is a sociopath express heartfelt condolences? Perhaps they can mimic words and phrases they know are the appropriate words for the occasion but lack the true emotion.
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by zw123456 1y ago
Sperm whales have the largest brains on earth but they have not invented fire, the wheel or internal combustion engine or nuclear weapons... Oh wait. Hmmm.
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by zw123456 2y ago
I recently retired after 45 years in tech. I started out in 1978 at Bell Labs. I have had great jobs and terrible jobs. Great bosses and horrific bosses. And all the things in between. I did not just survive, I thrived and beyond and worked
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by zw123456 2y ago
What if someone takes their license plates off and makes a fake temporary paper one, the kind you put in the back window when you get a new car? Not permanently but if you wanted to go do something illegal and not be tracked. Can the LPR pi
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by zw123456 2y ago
Weird it just popped up. Probably they cranked up a new algo that said, if they live near water, hit 'em with kayak ads. Why not paddle boards or boats too? Whatever.
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by zw123456 2y ago
Hmmm, I live alone and in a pretty remote area (on an island). I keep my wifi pretty secure, so, that seems pretty unlikely. But who knows, anything is possible I suppose. Maybe because I live on an island.
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by zw123456 2y ago
OK, but query me this batman. Lately, I have been inundated by ads for anything to do with Kayaks. I do not own a Kayak. I do not want to own a Kayak and have never even spoken the word as far as I can remember. But for some reason, I am se
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by zw123456 2y ago
The Tower of Babel was a library that contained every possible combination of letters to form a 400 page book. Or something like that. It made me wonder, what if you made a content honey pot full of just random text and a chatbot vacuumed
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by zw123456 2y ago
This is a really nice resource for monitoring earthquake activity in the PNW. https://pnsn.org/earthquakes/recent/ https://pnsn.org/volcanoes/mount-adams
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Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials(cnn.com)
3 points by zw123456 2y ago|1 comments
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There's a problem with that 'bullet in flight' photo of Trump(haje.medium.com)
8 points by zw123456 2y ago|2 comments
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by zw123456 2y ago
I am so sorry to see this. The absolute last thing we need is yet another fossil guzzling vehicle. Please stop what you are doing immediately and go back to the drawing board and help save our planet by inventing a craft that uses solar pow
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Host circuit engagement of human cortical organoids transplanted in rodents(nature.com)
2 points by zw123456 2y ago|0 comments
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The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man(smithsonianmag.com)
6 points by zw123456 2y ago|0 comments
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by zw123456 2y ago
And yet they persist. And continue to evolve. And TV, now streaming over the internet. The way humans communicate evolves. And so will the internet, and social media and all the rest to come. Think of it like this... Radio didn't die,
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by zw123456 2y ago
The person who wrote the article used the internet for all the sub-references. Had it not been for the internet, this person most likely would not have known all the things they mentioned. I don't know if they are listening, but it wou
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by zw123456 2y ago
I am old enough to remember when people said TV was a passing fad. And the radio. And the printing press. And the telegraph. And the written word. I mean come on you lazy shlubs, memorize Beowulf like we had to back in my day. OK, I am not
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Polaronic polariton quasiparticles in a dark excitonic medium(arxiv.org)
1 points by zw123456 2y ago|0 comments
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by zw123456 2y ago
I have been lucid dreaming for many years and about five years ago, I started keeping my tablet on the nightstand and when I wake up, if I remember it, which I generally do, I use speech to text to record it. If I don't do that I often
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Physicists find a new way to represent Pi(phys.org)
3 points by zw123456 2y ago|0 comments
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by zw123456 2y ago
Who is this Taylor Swift Person?
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by zw123456 3y ago
My grandfather wrote something one could only describe as a manifesto while he was in prison in the 1930's for moonshining, which he was doing to save the family farm during the depression. He sighted Spinoza multiple times which is wh
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by zw123456 3y ago
Fastest organ piece ever... https://youtu.be/yypr7J4any0 53 seconds !
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by zw123456 3y ago
When I was working on m Masters degree in Electrical Engineering way back in 1978, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth :) I had a prof who was really amazing, he was a Comp Sci prof and he gave me a copy of GEB and it changed my life. OK, I&#x2
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by zw123456 3y ago
A few years back, I had a condo on Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and a buddy of mine is a microwave engineer and we were hanging out one day out on my deck with our laptops and he mentioned how amazing it was that there were so many WiF
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by zw123456 3y ago
I always thought they totally missed an opportunity with their moronic Xfinity brand, why not just flip the cards and call it InfiniG, Yeah, forget 5G, 6G, or the 8G band (Seth Meyers sub-reference) and simply say we having infinity G, hell
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by zw123456 3y ago
I know ahead of time that what I am about to say, will result in me getting yelled at by the HN crowd that what I am saying is anecdotal and all that. But, after refraining for a while, I guess I have to say something so, I know you will do

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