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Fascinating! I hadn't heard of Sam Ash for decades (pre-internet) when I'd call on the phone asking for deals.

We have had the technology to do that for a long time. Its just a matter of will. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html

I don't know why, but I love the smell of gasoline, turpentine, coal..... One of the funniest scenes ever is in Breaking Bad when Jessie goes nuts dousing Walt's home with gasoline, and the fallout. Fortunately ethanol is not considered a fossil fuel and isn't on the hit list.

All of the eternal questions, e.g. "What is Hip?" "Where Does Hammond Oil Go?" Reminded me of this classic "Only so much Oil in the Ground". Doesn't get any funkier.

I love this one, because most practicing lawyers understand the bar exam merely filters out some of the idiots but has almost nothing to do with being a good lawyer. Yes. Since existing law (anything that would be on the bar exam) is completely codified in language it makes sense that the LLM would be nearly perfectly suited to the task. But what makes a good lawyer is reasoning and applying the law to ambiguous and new situations which LLMs can’t do. It’s interesting that some lawyer tried to use the LLM to write a brief or a motion and it got caught just making up bullshit (hallucinating facts that don’t exist).

To me the irrational part is the fear of radiation. Like airline disasters, there will always be power plant disasters due to the human element but you work to eliminate them over time by learning. Look how many people have died over the years in the aviation industry and we allow it because a system is in place to make it safer over time. I think it’s irrational to give up on nuclear energy when the benefits are so great.

Very good info in here from one of the pioneers: Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI. A neat little sound byte: LLMs (chatGPT) can pass the Bar exam but it can't grasp the concepts of how to load a dishwasher that a 10 year old can learn in one shot.

Here's an interesting take on Nuclear by a guy who wrote about it and studied Chernobyl. The future is bleak, largely because of irrational thinking that cannot be overcome:

@Dave Bryce was using the Slate Raven to control it as well as his CA OB-8. I wonder how close this gets to operating the real thing?

Please. Can we bring it back to sex change operations?

True. I ask myself where oil goes in nearly everything I do. My mechanics can never tell me where my engine oil goes exactly so I've had to fire several hundred of them, now having to get my oil changed 1500 miles away in Schenectady.

Every time I turn on my Montage, it takes me 20 minutes of fumbling on how to call up my user patches. I go through 10-15 minutes profuse sweating that I've lost them in my last firmware upgrade, The UI makes Zero sense to me despite it being a sonic beast!. UI's like this are why Chernobyl occurred. "You failed to realize that disconnecting the control of part two's oscillator's filter envelope was being used by part 4 -- happily humming away generating uranium for Vladivostok and it went critical! We're producing music AND refining weapons material here!" Doing a Backup, Firmware upgrade, and Restore is like doing a days worth of tax filing researching the new IRS rules for inherited IRA RMDs for minors. Still I have GAS for the new M8x because it's the most killer HW instrument doubling as an HP signal generator.

They weren't expecting Henley's past arrest for child sex charges would be admitted along with a whole bunch of emails showing he had given away the material to a third party anyway. It was all over at that point.

Actually that's not true at all. My choice of name for Joe Buck is "Horse Face".

That reminds me…. At the tail end of CRT television technology I owned a massive Sony that would perform the 16x9 anamorphic squeeze in analog, vertically compressing (squeezing) an encoded source dvd into 16x9 on the CRT. I thought that was the cat’s meow at the time. Always had to make sure the DVD was 16x9 anamorphic when purchasing.

I take a hard line approach and hope to have some chords cancelled rather than suspended in certain pieces.

I don't see it being a mainstream consumer product, but it could find a niche like the Segway did with security guards.

Anthony has a video on this

Joe Rogan's Podcasts are now 100% Back on Youtube. So now they are free again. I heard something about a backlash happening. 2113

At the risk of repeating myself, there's the possibility that those simple math turn out to be how our brains work, just at a massively larger scale. Not possible given the number of neuron synapse states (more than the number of elementary particles in the universe, as Carl Sagan pointed out), and the timing for a human to make a decision (i.e it would be a nice model, but it's been ruled out quickly).

Well yes. From a freshman college point of view, it's fitting three points to a line to minimize the error to that line. Least Squares. When they train millions of weights and biases in a deep neural network model using backpropagation and minimize the output of a similar loss function (least error) , it somehow becomes "AI". It's amazing that people think that a computer program minimizing millions of variables to an objective function via a well known algorithm that maximizes the slope (gradient descent), that your can write down, makes it "Intelligent". It's in a textbook

I can't help but think I'm looking at a Scuba diver on land every time I see a picture of someone. It's a ridiculous product. IMO It is a Guaranteed Failure, second only to Google Glass, third to Apple Lisa. I'll take bets here with anyone who disagrees and wants to gamble . Man I wish Tim Cook would issue 5:1, 10:1, 100:1 or 1000:1 odds on Vision making $1B. I think I would bet $10k against in any case. (though I'd have to think hard about 5:1).

OT: Chris, are you related to Jimmy Link, of The Links band back in the day?

Makes sense! Aside.... We also discussed above preferences for the vintage experience based on personal experience with, and love for, the gear at the time. I'm a collector of vintage calculators. Both early early simple 4 function, like a Royal Digital 88M (my first as a 12 year old kid), and then the vintage scientifics used in college TI 59. HP's (35, 25, 41C, 15c, etc). And a fan of Ham Radio gear from my youth.. T599D, R599D, TS520, FT101. My Juno 106 is prized for being my first synth, regardless.

All of his above cited offending responses in the thread were honest and helpful, and specifically ignored his original inflammatory remarks to the innocent bystander who may have wanted to help him out with their expertise. And yet he was ranting and raving to Dave Bryce in his introduction as if Dave's responsible for allowing bad weather and hail storms. I don't know. I don't understand it. I wish he wouldn't leave (I held back from any delicate criticism before he bailed. so I couldn't be cited as a troll).