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uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough

Protecting Vancouver's pedestrians, one highly-realistic foam brick at a time Activists in Vancouver are building a safer city for pedestrians, one brick at a time.  According to The Daily Hive a group called Vision One Vancouver has taken a unique…

Meek. Atleast this matched the tone boingboing.net/2024/04/02/p...

I mean at this point (…)

Holy shit what

Seeing Like a Supply Chain: Data in the Circuits of Global Trade Miriam Posner

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Systems at War in a Hostile Universe: The Informatic Roots of Logistics 2. Exploding the BOM: Digitizing Production in the Cold War 3. Phantoms, Backflushes, and the Trumpet of Doom: The Dilemmas of Just-in-Time 4. Inventing SCM 5. The Sensate Company in the Animate Cloud 6. Transferring Risk in a Calamitous World

It’s in 😬😱

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!! Super excited for this

I finally watched Foundation this past week. I hadn’t read the Asimov stories before so the whole world building was incredible to experience.

During second rewatch it struck me that 2020s has a lot about it that feels like the second crisis.

Oh, look at that. They finally found a business use case for AI.

AI has enabled the trend of disciplines being overtaken by technologists and Big Tech, and making actual field specialists and the disciplines themselves a kind of side dish to the "innovation," as is evident in education and healthcare, for eg. A lot of irreparable damage will be done.
~fin~

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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Chatbots turned to for companionship A chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation. For the lonely, a chatbot can be a companion, as Meg Oliver reports in tonight's "Eye on America."

Super cool how society just hands off the some of the most vulnerable to the most predatory.

If the concern is to get a job afterwards, I would say that it’s increasingly difficult to get an academic position in Norway. And they’d have to learn the language too.

We might have not have to wait decades plural.

With the pace of climate change finally hitting many EU countries, there’s a lot that would need to change, and fast. I don’t know if easy is an option anymore.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Retrofit Reimagined 2022 | Notion We all know how important our homes, streets and neighbourhoods are. We may have many different ideas about how we relate to them and what they mean to us, but the pandemic showed us all how crucial t...

I agree. There are many orgs working on similar initiatives, eg Civic Square in the UK civicsquare.notion.site/Retrofit-Rei...

Definitely, we have to think about effective ventilation and cooling at the same time we retrofit our ceilings for heat capture.

The latter has significantly reduced my electricity consumption during winters. The former shouldn’t cancel that out with new air-conditioning costs.

Yeah. Mine is a concrete building with south west facing windows. I was practically inside an oven for weeks this July.

Lived through this exactly in my Oslo apartment the last two weeks. It’s become quite unbearable without needing air conditioning (even if I’m reluctant to go that far).

UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.

Amazing!

The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.

A comic depicting a person despairing because someone has cut down their rare cherry tree, and lawyers appearing out of nowhere — around fences, out of shrubbery — saying, "Tree law? TREE LAW???" and then lifting the person on their shoulders while carrying pitchforks and torches and chanting "TREE! LAW! TREE! LAW!"

TREE LAW????

Wooden boxes with angles for more light attached to the existing wall, windows moved forward to the insulation layer.

Really tight and overly thick; I guess 48cm straw bales, attached firmly on the wall,standing on a new foundatuon of gabions filled with crushed lime stone.

Finished rough lime plaster on the straw bale retrofitted house with metal roof and angled window openings looking gorgeous.

It's so hardcore at the beginning, yet obvious and subtle in the end? I had to modernize my house like that as well. Haus Susch, a regenerative 🌾 #deeprenovation by Atelier Werner Schmidt 👏 Photos: Lucia Degonda / AWS
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage

Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

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with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summary Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summary

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Five years on, still confounding.

Doing things you don't want to do is what family time is all about.
-my forever wisdom to the kids.