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And you've posted this one twice. 
(I blame the "666" at the end of the Twitter URL.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had a lot of struggles posting the news. I fixed it for the newsletter, I think. I'll check the Insider Forum now.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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One of the telling tweets in that thread is the unfortunate truth that for many people, Chat GPT does a better job of writing than they do. What does that say about our ability to teach people to think?
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In the not-so-distant past, everyone in the UK or the US who graduated from primary school (grade school for USians) knew the three Rs, including grammar and spelling. That basic education has in many schools been replaced with other subjects. This says more about the priorities of "educational experts" than about the ability to teach.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Today we're launching the Experimental release of Photorealistic 3D Tiles, available through the Map Tiles API. This new geodata product offers a seamless 3D mesh model of the real-world, textured with our high-res RGB optical imagery, and uses the same 3D map source as Google Earth Look, there's my house! In 3D!
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Anthropic has expanded the context window of its chatbot Claude to 75,000 words — a big improvement on current models. Anthropic says it can process a whole novel in less than a minute. Ah! More input, Steph-an-ie. More!
modified 15-May-23 9:32am.
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You've got the wrong title on this one.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dimensional’s Matrix Book is an annual review of global returns that highlight the power of compound investing. It’s a fascinating document: you can look up the compounded growth rate of the S&P 500 for every year going back to 1926. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
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Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries. However, what Google didn’t mention is that Bard still isn’t available in the European Union. "Google Bard won't even bother to try and comply with consumer privacy protections"
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In other words, Google is admitting that their LLC (Bard) system is incapable of securing their data. Based on Italy's recent banning of Chat GPT for similar reasons, I suspect none of these systems are capable of securing their data.
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A new experiment uses superconducting qubits to demonstrate that quantum mechanics violates what's called local realism by allowing two objects to behave as a single quantum system no matter how large the separation between them. At long last we have an answer for how Star Trek can have instantaneous communication with a space station that'll take hours to reach in a ship going warp 9.5.
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God does not only play dice with the Universe, He sometimes throws them where they can't be seen.
-- Unknown
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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But the qubits weren't separated, they were connected via a 30 meter wire cooled to a few degrees Kelvin.
So the wires you can see in old Flash Gordon serials aren't poor special effects, they're quantum communication lines.
Do I get a NoPrize for that?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Do I get a NoPrize for that?
No. You get a dead cat in a box. When the box arrives empty, it won't be empty.
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... or was it "Meters 30 cubits apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong" ?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A private space station company, Vast, announced on Wednesday that it intends to launch a commercial space station as soon as August 2025. After deploying this "Haven-1" space station in low-Earth orbit, four commercial astronauts will launch to the facility on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle. This vehicle is like: What if SpaceX had a customer who had a reason to develop Dragon XL before NASA or SpaceX did?
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My only question on that design is why put it inside the F9 faring? Why not eliminate the faring and get the extra volume in the module?
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Because then they'd have to protect the entire outside against aerodynamic force on the way up. Not doing so nearly doomed Skylab.
Also unless they upgrade to a more powerful rocket it wouldn't do them much good. They're currently near the maximum reusable payload mass for F9, going from the fairings usable internal to external volume would almost double the module size. That in turn would push its mass into needing a more expensive expendable F9 or Falcon Heavy launch.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Quote from the article: As part of Wednesday's announcement, Vast said those four crewed seats are now up for sale, as are those for a second mission that will launch no earlier than 2026.
"It's a super aggressive schedule," Jed McCaleb, the founder of Vast,
Erm....ummm....yeah I think I'll pass on this one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year, citing tough economic conditions, but will continue with its bonuses, stock awards and promotions. *please don't have companies follow their lead*please don't have companies follow their lead*
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CEO: "Tough economic conditions for thee, not for me!"
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Like Tile and Apple, Google will now rely on devices owned by other people to pinpoint your missing gadgets. But the company insists privacy was at the top of its priorities. Beautiful ... unethical ... dangerous. You've turned every cellphone in Gotham into a microphone.
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Unique identifiers are considered personal data, and you are still required to have a privacy policy even when using these analytics tool. And other things you should definitely talk to a lawyer about.
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It's worse than this article indicates - cyber security researchers have proved that it's impossible to fully anonymize data.
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“It’s at least as good as our best customer service representative, and it’s probably on average better,” said Wendy's CIO Kevin Vasconi to the Wall Street Journal. After successful early tests, the fifth biggest fast food chain in the USA will start using AI chatbots to interact with drive-thru customers next month. Look, if an AI says I want nine sweet teas instead of one Diet Coke, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to our AI Overlords.
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