Posts by Julz

Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star

Re: How do they know that ...

A guess…

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Re: Top thirteen

AI been there and done that. Move along, automated trading going on here, nothing to see…

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

Just

Why. Why was the test rig bespoke and not part of the normal processes and built with the rest of the trundle bot?

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

Re: Cars dealer in America?

Sell direct…

Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed

The

Extra weight was probably lots of struts.

Airbus to test sat-stabilizing 'Detumbler' to simplify astro-garbage disposal

Re: I have two thoughts

Oh no, not again...

NASA geeks code new tricks to model rocket plumes and avoid a lunar dust-up

Re: Supersonic hot gas not that awesome for rocky, dusty surface?????

Space isn't. No ones going to hear you scream but pressure waves do propagate in the thin stuff that makes up what we puny humans call the vacuum of space.

So what is the speed of sound in space. It varies depending upon the density of space but is approx 10-100 Km per second. The exhaust gasses coming out of a liquid fueled rocket nozzle have a speed of about 4.5 Km per second. So, not supersonic with reference to moons (lack of) atmosphere.

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

Always found a Morris Minor Traveler good for that sort of stuff.

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

History shows us the solution. Most stay put, farm and attempt to defend their wealth. Others travel around and steel the wealth from those who stay put. There are also the fringe bands that travel to stay close to moving resources such as migrating animals. In time those that raided tend to join in with the subset of the stay-putters that defended the farms and offer to 'protect' the farming communities from their neighbors. Thus are kings and nations born. The nomads never get a look in. Best not to have an apocalypse as none of it sounds fun.

Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real

What

You need is blockchain

US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones

Re: Resistance is useless

Or the cast is dead…

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

1970's

Calling. Testing is important; no shit Sherlock.

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Re: When will this crap stop

In a nutshell.

The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech

Re: Carbon capture at home?

Yes, have less/no kids.

CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted

Re: Dark Matter? Anti-Matter?

If there was a load of anti-mater in the universe we would certainly be able to 'see' as it interacts with normal mater quiet well. Dark mater on the other hand, if is actually exists, keeps itself to itself as far as interacting with the stuff we can see. Oh, and by the way, we can 'see' quiet a long way, almost back to when the first stars were forming.

p.s. As for an equal amount of mater and anti-mater at the beginning, still just a theory. There is some wiggle room with the CERN experiment which might yet show that anti-mater behaves differently than mater in some crucial way which might account for it's lack of existence in the universe we observe. Perhaps it might go some way to explain why less anti-mater than matter formed during the big bang leaving the mater we can see. Or, perhaps we are just wrong about the big bang and all that.

Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries

Re: US <-> Germany mobile prices reflect ACTUAL $ value

You might like to research the oil euro related 'cause' for the second gulf war, a persistent theory despite attempts to debunk it.

DARPA takes its long-duration Manta undersea drone for a test-dip

Re: Really?

Those few surfacing events are the killer, especially for the UAV.

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

Since

This is meant to be a UK based publication, other SMRs exist:

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/

Re: "Three words: Cheap, reliable, power"

The coal fired power station site near me (Ratcliffe on Soar) would be ideal as a development site for SMR's being just a few mile south of the Rolls Royce factory but it is more radioactive than would be allowed for a nuclear facility. Apparently it's ok as a 'normal' power station...

Bids for ISS demolition rights are now open, NASA declares

Re: I know it's old, and I know it's wearing out...

Park it up with the decommissioned nuclear powered sats for safekeeping.

If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea

Re: LLM/ML processes

No

Re: tendency to generate false information – a phenomenon known as "hallucination."

There really needs to be a way of indicating irony or sarcasm in posts. Which I guess is a good lesson in itself of why you should be careful about the meaning or intent you attribute to anything you read or otherwise consume. Be you an LLM or a human.

Facts, bullshit, truth and lies are labels we put on things that do or do not fit with our current world view. A world view we each build individually and collectively. We perform many many little experiments modeling cause and effect, stimulus and response and other such simple things. We do this both internally, in our heads as is where, as well as out there in the real physical world. We remember the results and use the resulting web of data, a model of the world, to navigate our way through life.

I don't see that as too far different from what the LLM models are trying to do, all be it in a limited and one dimensional way. How much of a world model or theory of the world does a newly conceived human have? However much it is, we all end up with a much richer model as we grow older and we must do that somehow.

Re: tendency to generate false information – a phenomenon known as "hallucination."

And here was I thinking that only humans could mix fact and bullshit into digestible arguments and prose. I guess we are teaching our descendants too well.

Re: Generative AI has Charts for Charters and Chapters Championing Uncharted Territories

And so says our pet AI. Nothing to see here, move along now...

Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

Your missing the bit in law where it's up to the complainant to decide who they should choose to sue. The usual choice is the entity with the most money.

Building Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks

It's

A standard numerical analysis technique.

Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet

Re: Is a Mach 4 Airliner Possible?

While your at it removing windows turn the seats 180 so in the event of 'landing' on water your forced into the seat back and not doubled up over the lap belt.

California DMV hits brakes on Cruise's SF driverless fleet after series of fender benders

Re: Well forget the second accident

Are you sure about that? Quantum mechanics suggests otherwise.

Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin

I've

always liked the Easy All-Stars, Dub Side Of The Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEZWsnIECo

Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons

Re: Wrong game

Your never alone with a clone...

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Companies which don't deliberately compromise user security will be fined

In particular, from Nyarlathotep in the basement of the Home Office.

Norway to hit Meta with fines over Facebook user privacy from next week

Meta

says, "Meta has already committed to what Datatilsynet is asking for (consent), but it cannot simply flick a switch to comply, the company said".

But it could flick a switch and not offer it's products in jurisdictions in which they do not comply with the local laws as is the case with companies producing physical products.

Experiment arrives at the ISS to see if astronauts can keep things cool

Re: I'm a little surprised...

Came here to say the same. What have they been doing up until now?

Computer scientist calls for new layers in the tech stack to make generative AI accurate

What

They need to do is train another LLM AI with the output from the first LLM AI with the aim of interpenetrating the first LLM AI's responses.

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Type! Luxury!

We had to scribble coding sheets with incantations and send them off to the high priestesses of the Hollerith. After the next full moon, if you had been a good boy, in the great tray of doom, a small banded package of cards, bearing your name and containing their great wisdom encoded via holes and not holes, would await you. Full of hope and trepidation, you would transfer the holy package to the tray of feeding awaiting the uncaring attention of the operators of the great engine. If you were lucky, your feeble set of cards of wisdom would be scooped up and join the many others awaiting attention of the primary carcass in the hall of wind and noise. Once fully digested and considered for less than a blink of it's invisible eye, a great tearing noise would erupt from the chained scribes. Devouring banded sheets of bi-folded parchment at an infeasible rate, they would transcribe the great engines calculations, dumping the results in the bin of outputting. Some time later, if the correct muse entered them, a kindly operator might dip their holy hands into the bin and harvest the great engines uncaring doodles. With aplomb, they would separate each judgment, write the name of the troublesome acolyte in righteous script atop the engines conclusion and place them, without a care, into the pidgin holes of lost hope. Full of trepidation, you would retrieve your response. Unfolding the worryingly short deliberation, you would scan for the engines wisdom and there it was:

ERR 101, MISSING SEMICOLON< RUN STOPPED>

Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error

Re: The

And thus we enter the deep dark realm of none end-to-end encryption. Answers on a post card (sic) as to why this doesn't really help.

The

Problem is in thinking that emails are in any way secure, they are not. Anything sent on email can be read by anyone; it's at best a kind of shouty postcard. This issue then becomes, why are people sending anything sensitive via email?

Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions

Harming

The economy is only a problem if the only thing you measure by is money. There are other considerations.

Senator trying to force Uncle Sam to share everything it knows about UFOs

Remberence

Of Earth's Past ,reference didn't seem to hit the comentards spot. Mines the one with a Sophon in the pocket...

Report reveals US Space Force unprepared to counter orbital threats

I

Think an off line computer system is just fine for handling secret stuff. People in the loop interpreting the results of it's analysis and passing it on to those who need to know. Works for me.

Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software

Isn't

Overselling and under delivering the capitalist way.How else does one gather wealth at others expense.

BepiColombo probe turns to the dark side … of Mercury

So

Why did they put the camera in a position with an impeded view?

Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard

Missed Headline

Bard code barred.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Apple

Wired keyboard; A1243

Cops crack gang that used bots to book and resell immigration appointments

Re: Do they ever learn?

I suspect the down voters didn't get the sarcasm but maybe not and they were correct. Always difficult to tell on the tinternet.

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

What have the Romans even done for us...

China has 50 hackers for every FBI cyber agent, says Bureau boss

Why

Is it I'm reminded of the cold war missile gap. Answers on the back of a government founding application please.

Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration

The bonus for a successful migration?

FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

Re: mongo

Hum, perhaps making sure idiots can't fuck things up too much is a better ambition for computer software design; especially for operating systems, databases and programming languages. It was certainly the approach taken by developers of mainframe operating systems and many databases and languages developed in the seventies and eighties. We, of course, do things better now.

It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary

Well

Perhaps you could just decide for yourself what you might like to watch. There is a difficulty in knowing what is available but this is true of all big data repositories and is usually solved in some way by knowing what it is your interested in or just browsing. Kinda like libraries or book shops, although you do have to walk past the algorithmically chosen books on display at the front of the shop.

As for inappropriate pimple related suggestions; could I interest you in:

https://www.youtube.com/user/drsandralee