I’m ok with them chasing ethical applications of AI. I’m more tired of their half-assed efforts to chase every shiny new object over the last few years. It feels like as a non-profit, they should be comparatively immune to chasing the same transitory trends that other shareholder-owned companies are obsessed over. But it seems like for Mozilla, they have an even shorter attention span than their corporate competitors. We’ve seen them chase after crypto, metaverse, augmented reality, Firefox OS, and now AI. All of those efforts fizzled out with a whimper.

It is pathetic in a way how desperate they are to prop themselves up with taxpayer funds. They know their ideas can’t succeed on their own merits. They need state muscle to help coerce people to believe their myths.

I just donated to Freedom From Religion Foundation, which files lawsuits challenging attempts like this to undermine church-state separation

Ultimately, the zoo failed to protect its animals from the guests as much as the other way around. Humans are the most unpredictable animals in any zoo. It is horrible that the tiger had to pay the price

Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like “cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements” I’ve been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.

Short video describing his various friends in the movie business and showing a couple appearances.

US Marine

Yes, and DDG has really been degrading over the last few months in quality of results imo.

Extending the hot cylinder wall can take a lot of power

flips table and screams incoherently

First, please list for me thirteen colleges and universities that won’t accept Wikipedia as a source. I’m waiting.

I personally am content to remain an amateur

That Odin drawing has meme potential

He has a bit of a thing for this (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)

I think it should be the suits and shareholders who destroyed Boeing’s engineer-first culture.

Doesn’t seem like much thinking was involved

Me posting links to suck up everyone’s mornings

I watched some of the Paralympics and found it fascinating how the players navigate the court, and how the crowd makes sure to stay quiet. Really unique sport!

Within a particular core, the lines can be calibrated (set to a known base point) by radiocarbon dating, comparing to known marker events such as a fire, and also integrating records across trees to create stitched meta-records. Doing so they can also start to estimate the “instrumental” error of the tree itself, since trees can just stop growth entirely sometimes.

Ha exactly. I learn so much cool stuff on that channel!