Lake Michigan is famously terribly cold to swim in. However this year I’ve found it mostly comfortable, almost as comfortable as a swimming pool. Looking online, it’s above 70 degrees! https://apps.glerl.noaa.gov/marobs/php/data.php?sta=0
Up in Door County the lake would freeze enough to ski on, but nowadays, well good luck with that.
It’s like parroting the king in the royal courtroom but for the 21st century. Look what happened to Spain as a warning, next thing anyone knew, one day their whole country woke up talking with a lisp.
Let’s say they do alter the price based upon demand (which it sounds like they won’t do at a granular scale like the other commentators are suggesting). It will punish customers who come later, but reward early customers who buy in bulk. Imagine scalping ice cream in a parking lot on a hot day!
But seriously, i would like to see non linear scaling of prices for people who buy a lot at once, for scarce items. Everybody gets a little seems like a more moral way to handle scarcity, but Walmarts new pricing system won’t handle this. Oh well. Overall though still a fun development.
Interesting take! I like how the app embellishes the real world rather than replacing it. What’s more interesting is that old me would like this app way more than young me.
When young me had wanted to date and was lonely enough to use an app, just seeing an attractive person in real life could be stressful and therefore awkward if it felt like a high stakes, rare opportunity…something this app would make worse.
However, to older me who doesn’t care anymore but would want to meet an interesting somebody, no stress, this app could make a great ice breaker. A neet niche you’ve found!
How do you deal with partial matches of interests?
You are correct.
“Karl Fundkvist, a design engineer at Goodyear who specializes in acoustics.
At low speeds, the engine and exhaust system are the primary sources of noise, but at about 35 mph tire noise comes into play. At freeway speeds, the tires account for about 60% of the noise a typical car makes, Fundkvist said.”
Searching for jobs in ML/NLP, I’ve seen many companies specify they want 5+ years experience in both natural language processing and 5+ years experience in neurolinguistic programming. Always gets a laugh. The poor job poster. Knows they need nlp, and there’s this thing called neural networks, but can’t quite understand what all these acronyms are…
Should be fun but is just depressing. How about a reverse trolley problem where good things happen? Now that i think of it, this might become the next great life/career planning tool…:)
A moment of reflection: on the positive trolley tool, not being able to pick both good things is its own tragedy (let’s say family and career). But the reverse doesn’t behave the same - the decision to pull the lever for two negative outcomes doesn’t cause me to feel joy that only one of the disasters occurs and not both!
This is really cool. I was thinking the one biggest contributions to the feeling of public spaces being "not as nice" in the united states vs Germany/Europe is not the views or lack of money invested, but background car noise. You can hear the sound of a background highway almost everywhere in the USA, whereas the background world in for example Germany is much much quieter. And of all the ways cars make noise, I thought there was nothing to do about the sound of tires slapping the road.
The page points out the intent is to reduce tire noise in the cabin. I can see this being a marketing angle to sell it to the average driver, but will this mechanism lower tire noise for everyone or just the driver?
No problem reading it for me. I’ve noticed some news organizations putting access behind a human verification step (cloudfare), maybe something like that is stopping you
Very cute! Love the concept. One thing i would love to see is character development, or if the AI will snap at a certain point. That would make the harassment feel more rewarding ;) but nicely executed.
Now that I think of it I should set up poisoned models on huggingface which, when used to read resumes, will auto-accept anything with my username on it