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2 points·by ableal·há 8 meses·1 comments

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ableal
·mês passado·discuss
> the harris end

I guess that's the rear (or arse) end, if anyone else is puzzled and doesn't have a couple of spare minutes to chase it down ...

>> top floors were the least desirable. Poorer residents occupied the upper story.

Some writers placed Julius Caesar's aristocratic but down at the heel family in the lower floors of a Subura tenement, but apparently it really was a house.
ableal
·há 3 meses·discuss
Somehow this story isn't as fun today as it was when first printed ...
ableal
·há 5 meses·discuss
To be fair, he was pointing out that the invisible "credentials in cookies" issue was much harder to get fixed:

The turnstiles were visible. They were expensive. They disrupted everyone's day and made headlines in company-wide emails. Management could point to them and say that we're taking security seriously. Meanwhile, thousands of employees had their Jira credentials stored in cookies. A vulnerability that could expose our entire project management system. But that fix required documentation, vendor approval, a month of convincing people it mattered. A whole lot of begging.
ableal
·há 6 meses·discuss
Thank you for the several decades of smiles over human foibles.
ableal
·há 7 meses·discuss
There was some math joke that zero, one and infinity were OK, but the rest of the natural numbers were weird and hard to justify ...
ableal
·há 8 meses·discuss
Company also promotes "Community air monitoring"
ableal
·há 8 meses·discuss
> The reasoning, I think, was that humans can drive using sight and a little bit of sound, so an AI should be able to do this too.

If memory serves, a few years ago the official position, on a Karpathy presentation, was that if radar contradicted vision they would have to discard one, so they would stick to vision only.

I could never swallow that argument - seems obvious that a radar failsafe would keep you from making bad vision errors ...
ableal
·há 10 meses·discuss
>> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence

Neal Asher did pretty well with his Polity universe. Besides AIs with some capacity for playful violence (Agent Cormac thread, but always there), we also get crablike aliens (the Prador war) and very weird biology (in particular the Spatterjay water world).
ableal
·há 4 anos·discuss
Thank you. That's a few weeks news in two paragraphs.