Posts by scerruti@csed.social
(DIR) Post #AUURtLDvaDonMPwhjk by scerruti@csed.social
2023-04-09T22:57:46Z
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@simon it was not a revolution as such. There were parallel developments happening that converged in the smartphone.First we had Blackberry pagers. These were the first devices that really turned is into always on employees.Second was the advance of the cellphone itself from the bag phone to the 6190. Remember that FourSquare and Twitter were coming of age with this phone, connecting the Internet to the mobile user.Finally the iPod was rapidly increasing the numbers chatted to electronics.
(DIR) Post #AV5U0uBYW1R9WjZiSG by scerruti@csed.social
2023-04-27T19:46:01Z
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@simon what is the potential for using this to automatically caption images on social media? Should such captioning occur on the sender-client, server or receiver-client?
(DIR) Post #AWKdwj3bnPhwGm40TQ by scerruti@csed.social
2023-06-04T01:09:53Z
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@simon I had to look up recipes. Question, does this not include carnitas? It seems like a missed opportunity.
(DIR) Post #AZ0ZEJUtZSfeQnRCHw by scerruti@csed.social
2023-08-23T02:11:30Z
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@simon What signs do we have that Data wasn't just a sophisticated LLM?I wasn't convinced of the arguments made in The Measure of Man that Data was sentient. Picard argued that Data was intelligent and self-aware, but LLMs do well on IQ tests and often speak as if self aware ("As a large language model, I...")
(DIR) Post #AZfntdEuCtggVbqDlQ by scerruti@csed.social
2023-09-11T23:48:27Z
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@vees I have wondered the same thing. What I decided was that we watch as a social function even when watching alone, tapping into the shared story of Ross and Rachel later around the water cooler. Watching is public.Their social is online so they don't see that private device as a personal communication like speaking face to face but as a form of shared public viewing. Holding the device makes the content more personal and intimate as a replacement for real physical connections they lack.
(DIR) Post #AbClUaCgJTxHMAzY36 by scerruti@csed.social
2023-10-27T19:18:17Z
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@clive remember when the Internet used to be about experts sharing information and web rings were a thing?
(DIR) Post #AhreqCKbOy9IzACii8 by scerruti@csed.social
2024-04-08T22:16:36Z
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(DIR) Post #Ahxc35PXJDhINAj36e by scerruti@csed.social
2024-04-30T19:36:07Z
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There's a lot of head scratching and puzzled looks about Elon Musk allegedly laying off the Supercharger team.There is at least one way to make sense of this which Elon already shared, Robotaxis. Robotaxis don't need to be cheap, they don't need to come in a bunch of colors, they don't need updates and refreshes and they don't need to supercharge.Why not just believe Musk when he says that Tesla is going to be a robotaxi company and then analyze the news?#ev #evCharging
(DIR) Post #Ai28snz9JfduYHvcOG by scerruti@csed.social
2024-04-18T18:47:14Z
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@show would you please do a story on how scores are calculated in this JD Power's study? https://www.jdpower.com/business/automotive/electric-vehicle-experience-evx-home-charging-study#evCharging
(DIR) Post #Ai3AyubnztZDtl0chk by scerruti@csed.social
2024-04-24T15:00:48Z
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I love the idea, but what happens to these baskets after they sit out in the sun for a few years? Shouldn't we start by not creating new plastic waste to begin with? Del Mar unveils new beach clean-up initiative with green baskets at lifeguard towerhttps://fox5sandiego.com/sustainable-san-diego/del-mar-breaks-out-new-green-baskets-for-a-first-of-its-kind-initiative/
(DIR) Post #AiOhhZQGtGhY4i6x4C by scerruti@csed.social
2024-05-29T22:37:46Z
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@futurebird A book? Hmm, how about Unit 4, Lab 1 of Beauty and Joy of Computing which covers the AP Principles details on this. Code.org has similar material (slides and simulators) I'm a bit at a loss for what you are looking for because it covers a very broad range of technologies.
(DIR) Post #AiOiVjAAwxjYlOV0kq by scerruti@csed.social
2024-05-29T22:46:43Z
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@futurebird I am going to recommend Code.org's CS Principles curriculum, specifically Unit 2 - The Internet ('24-'25)This unit reveals how the Internet was designed to connect billions of devices and people to one another. Learn how the different protocols of the Internet work and actually build them yourself using the Internet Simulator. Then consider the impacts the Internet has had, both good and bad, on modern life. Also @zamansky for a local resource.
(DIR) Post #AiUNKPFvMbTzJbbSGe by scerruti@csed.social
2024-06-01T16:17:49Z
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I think that your viewpoint is flawed. We built machines that could fly not by learning about how birds fly and replicating it, but by developing technologies that permitted us to exceed natural capacity.The fear, and a lot of very smart people share this fear, is that we will develop something we don't understand and give it control before we understand the implications.There is evidence of this in some tech areas like AI based stock trading. There are also some parallels in gene editing.
(DIR) Post #AjEIfTfeKHWB8iaxe4 by scerruti@csed.social
2024-06-23T20:02:17Z
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@futurebird @llewelly totally off topic, but do ostriches really do this to evade predators?
(DIR) Post #AjHftvkDctPAgOTNU8 by scerruti@csed.social
2024-06-25T11:06:48Z
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@futurebird your middle sentence reminds me of "Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, From Wikipedia:"In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held."
(DIR) Post #AknyMhV3T72A1s79ge by scerruti@csed.social
2024-08-09T22:56:32Z
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@futurebird won't the mouse run away when it sees the cat?
(DIR) Post #AlbcdSgVK04fuo3MI4 by scerruti@csed.social
2024-09-02T21:48:30Z
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@futurebird @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs so I suspect ants get away with it more often than getting caught. For example in many places it can be illegal to tamper with smoke detectors, it's even a federal crime on planes. It can also be a crime to cause false alarms especially if it results in an emergency response.But if you try to point the finger at the ants does anyone listen? No!
(DIR) Post #Apmq4UFo0m97eNhcGm by scerruti@csed.social
2025-01-05T23:09:02Z
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@sj_zero @ai6yr only he was in Scottsdale headed to home in LA. Fortunately same number of syllables.
(DIR) Post #AtKZkIiLmKv4QXJyUK by scerruti@csed.social
2025-04-21T22:39:56Z
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@ai6yr what else would you use electricity for once it kills us all? Seriously, what's the other 1% for, did someone leave a lightbulb on somewhere?
(DIR) Post #AtKZkTn0bMBKmAaLmC by scerruti@csed.social
2025-04-21T22:48:59Z
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@ai6yr I forgot the super rich think that the AI is going to spare them. "But I OWN you, you can't do this to ME!" is never pretty.