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RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

I entirely fail to see how a government related pollution problem is related to a potential EV charging breakthrough by a private company.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting

There was a zero chance the company with the best AI LLM models would not get involved in weaponization, willingly or not.

DAI is going to be one of the first things the next administration brings back, mark my words. Saying it's discriminatory is like saying affirmative action is discriminatory

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

Tampermonkey scripts with chatgpt is even faster. Adding a functionality to a website just by pasting the site's html in chatgpt and in 2min I get what I need.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force

Uuh, where do you live? I haven't met a single person (technical or non technical) with such an attachment to a single app in my life.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

I don't think this can be prevented with a schema. The only thing someone has to do is legally rename themselves to "Driving license" to be the edge case in this check. Teach cops to look for the (almost) international driver license format where your names are preceeded by the numbers 1 and 2 on the license.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

I'm sorry, but PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) is the stupidest name for a "computer system" I've ever seen.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

Not yet, but I imagine soon they will. Closed source is moving to video and open source is catching up to static images with incredible pace. I won't be suprised if not only GIMP integrates something like a couple of general stable diffusion models but pirated copies of photoshop find a way to hook up a local generative model instead of the online stuff.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

As is the case with this exact company " Fight Corporations Beat Bureaucracy Find Hidden Money " this is exactly and entirely the thing a exploiting company would say it does.

RustySpottedCat | 1 year ago | on: Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable

Can someone explain exactly what is the "unknown" of neural networks? We built them, we know what they comprise of and how they work. Yes, we can't map out every single connection between nodes in this "multilayer perceptron" but don't we know how these connections are formed?

RustySpottedCat | 7 years ago | on: 1.1.1.1

I've always wondered why Netherland citizens say Holland instead of the right name of the country.

RustySpottedCat | 7 years ago | on: Let Teenagers Sleep In

yea but we're not in tribes, are we? People take this evolutionary bullshit way too seriously, like we still run around with sticks and stones. None of that crap matters when we live in a modern society. Teenages are going to "socialize with themselves" whether they sleep in or not, no matter what, because, guess what, that's what people do in modern times. They can choose.

RustySpottedCat | 7 years ago | on: China’s all-seeing surveillance network

Yes but saying "screw the government" on social media today, doesn't really matter if it's going to be applauded in the future, it's still going to be aimed at the government, which is the whole point of the system.

RustySpottedCat | 7 years ago | on: China Is Testing Roads Paved with Solar Panels

Wasn't there an indiegogo called Solar Roadways exactly for these types of roads? Didn't they fail after a couple of weeks of traffic?

RustySpottedCat | 8 years ago | on: Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information

That has got to be the worst pick up line I've ever seen.

RustySpottedCat | 8 years ago | on: Apple Is Developing Its Own Screens for the First Time

"promise to make future gadgets slimmer", isn't current oled technology, like, really slim? As in, paper thin?

RustySpottedCat | 8 years ago | on: Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s chaotic roads

Each symbol of the 11 characters in the plus code is in base 20. There are about 2500 emojis, meaning that you can encode 2 symbols from the plus code with one emoji (20*20=400, if you try to encode 3 symbols, it becomes 8000, which is way more than the current emoji count). So that would become 5 emojis, instead of 11 characters, which in my opinion would look quite nicer.