Bruce Nye, MSCE, RN

After reading the OP article I could probably write the prompt for GPT-5 Thinking's model that would produce that prose.
Caught up in the belief that the LLM / GPTs have a finger on the pulse of today, editors pass this stuff through without question other than 'will it capture readers'.
We are here

It's a known problem in LLM's that they will gravitate towards a statistical mean aligned with the prompt dialog. Building the counterfactual argument is expensive and often difficult to do (think pseudoscience vs fact filtering). This is a whole 'next generation' step to building interactive GPTs.

Love you George, but it's "has" not "wants" full control. Wresting control out of their hands is going to require a full-court press - legislative, executive, and judicial.

Avarice.

I and a colleague predicted it in 1987. We coined a term for it - InfoTox: When the amount of information available becomes toxic to the un/under-educated.

Worst part? It's a self-spreading contagion with no known cure.

Boiled down, it's a perceptron - a simple logic formula that, when assembled in a matrix and trained with bias and weights, produce probability of 0 or 1. Easy to train for patterns, differentiation, prediction. Matrix algebra that runs them needs city sized generators and HVAC. But they are fun!!!

That we are "offloading our thinking" is the truest testament that we have forgotten the difference between "thinking" and "guessing".
In its present state AI is nothing more that a matrix statistical prediction engine.

Studying George Washington's Farewell Address... He was prescient in calling us to the better angels of our nature and delineating some of the clear consequences of failing to lean forward towards that, but falling back to the crudity of "human nature".

I have two dogs (Gizmo and Josie) and my big orange tabby Schrodinger. Everytime I pick up the velvet bags that hold their ashes I break. It's been over 7 years now from Josie, 6 for Gizmo, 6 for Schrodinger. Grief has its own time.

❤️❤️❤️

Sorry but it has to be Eva and Ryan Gosling...

I'll endorse that as a KPI. It fits right in with "But we've already done that.", "We've always done it that way.", and "That's not what they're doing" (when presented proof that they **are** doing exactly that).

One can always take the first case and find the scaling, if nothing else, through division and replication (that's how load balancers work). But the other is a lost cause, and it amazes me how often the sunk cost fallacy takes hold in those circumstances as they try to get it to work.

The opening lines from "We are the Champions" by Queen.

In fact, some of those biological system complexities actually get in the way of "modern medicine" because they work so efficiently to solve the problem that we have to, in essence, turn them off in order to actually effect the cure lest they kill the patient. Dijkstra completely ignored biolology.

The art of rhetoric is buried now under layers of showmanship. There are days I honestly wish we could go back and unplug AOL from the 'internet' in September of '93. But that won't do now will it? We need to work harder to find ways to address and abate the information toxicity.

Oh those old days before the Endless September. Getting your ass kicked soundly because you're a pretender was a real risk. It kept the peace in ways that seem to have been lost in today's world. I loved the usenet groups, approach humbly, ask questions, and learn from the best.

The "single step" processing methods above simply cannot do. That's why people of color look better in movies than they would ever look out-of-camera without a lot of special lighting (who want's to carry a 5-6 light setup on location for portraits?).

The dynamic range of color film and the dye process (Either C41 or K-14) just does not compare to good old-fashioned B&W and post-processing at times. The color timer's job in day's of old (but they still exist today) was to deal with the changes in internegative for film to get that balance /1

So right! The warm tone of Kodachrome made doing photos of non-paste people a challenge. Lighting had to be sharp and strong to bring out both features and tone. OTOH, for the really pasty-white folk they'd get a bit of color - unless you wanted to get the snow-white (Edgar Winter) look.

The limit for how much voltage you can put through an LED is spec'd as the breakdown voltage. Above this voltage the "blue smoke" escapes and you no longer have an LED, just a bit of melted plastic ;-).

Note I said minimum forward voltage? Any voltage above minimum will turn on the LED at a lower current. That's why in 5V circuits we can use a 220ohm resistor for red and a 150 ohm resistor for the G/B/W and things work just fine.

As for the wattage:
first we need the current:
G/B/W = 8 x 3.2 = 25amps
Red = 5 x 2.2 = 11amps
Watts:
G/B/W = 3.2x25 = 80 watts
Red = 2.2x11 = 24.2 watts
So at minimum forward voltage you need one hell of a set of resistors.

I'll pick 300mA (0.3A) as that's the flatter part of the curve.
For the G/B/W the forward voltage is 3.2V. LED's are diodes with a 0.6v drop across them. To calculate the resistor (Vf - 0.6)/0.3A. For these it's 3.2-0.6/0.3 or 2.6/0.3 = 8ohms
For the Red LED Vf is 2.2V so 1.6/0.3 = 5ohms

"I'll make a decision when I see a doctor." Actual statement made to one of my female surgeons. 🤦

Cheers to all the air medical rotary wings (Air Methods, Life Flight, Flight for Life...). I know a few flight nurses (one who went down en-route). I still have dreams of the Jet-A exhaust from them, and the patients we could save because they brought them in. And now you're in the med xport chain.

Trust me, it's worth it... If we hospitalize you it's way, way, more that $175x2 to recover afterwards.

"Surf the Earth - Hang ten on terra firma"
That was my motto while growing up in So Cal starting with the Sylmar quake.

Many years volunteering for CalOES...
Fire season
Mud season
Earthquake season
Flood season
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Lucy Jones is the one to watch/listen to.

Amen! The object is not to suffocate the meat with smoke. A lite, definite ring is fine but best developed over time with a clean burn (thin blue smoke). Heavy white smoke is bad.

Epson? That's what I picked for up to 8x10. Need to fix my old one to do the 11x17's.