He'll be dead before any technology exists that can even remotely come close to bringing her back. It's unlikely she survived having died and then was frozen, let alone repair the cancer AND the damage from the cancer that was severe enough to kill her.

I'm sorry but the words "most ambitious infrastructure project in human history " were put together to form that sentence. HUMAN HISTORY. Ever hear about the great pyramids in Egypt?

Installing solar panels, batteries (are they even using them?) and charge controller / inverter for a home is an extremely fundamental thing that most anyone can do given simple instructions. In the US and other developed countries it often isn't done by a homeowner because if they intend to sell power back to the grid it has to be done by a certified installer and signed off on by the power company.

Now maybe if the sentence was "most ambitious infrastructure project in Sub-Saharan Africa" I wouldn't bat an eye, and that sounds like a reasonable statement, but not when it comes to the entirety of the human population over all history.

Over exaggerate much? Installing solar panels to power individual homes doesn't even come close to the "most ambitious infrastructure project in human history". Maybe building a railroad across an entire continent, or building a massive roadway system with thousands of bridges that span mighty rivers and gorges. Perhaps digging canals to connect the planet's oceans, or building power plants and distribution systems to provide power to a billion people...

What is funding this is companies trying to buy carbon credits. I actually tried to read this article but it was so overhyped and the guy was so giddy to blow it out of proportion my eyes almost got stuck in a permanent eye-roll.

Well it did top a chart - the Digital Download (IE purchase for $0.99) Chart, with.... 3,000 sales. As Rick says, "So it cost $3,000 to get the #1 spot."

Were the lyrics generated by AI? Were they tweaked or modified by a person? Is any of the music "real" or all generated by AI? I can't seem to find specifics on any of that.

Here's a YouTube link for those who don't pay for Spotify.

Song starts out kinda flat but the vocals really build at the end.

I recently bought a Steam Deck, and I must say this is one of the best gaming devices / consoles I've ever owned. From the ability to switch straight over to a (very nice) Linux desktop, to a refined game store that just works, it seems to do a LOT of things right. The dual touchpads are awesome for mouse navigation in the linux desktop, even if they are hardly used in games.

It's totally unlocked / open platform (which is why I have several thousand games on there from about 20 different consoles - even Amiga games). And of course I have a bunch of modern games on there too.

A number of games run through Proton on the deck, and so all of this is ground Valve has already broken - it's just offering it with more powerful hardware which requires a non-portable form factor (for better cooling and greater power requirements).

This is a misleading headline, making it sound like more PS5s have been sold than all Xbox models combined. What this article is really saying is that more PS5 consoles have been sold than any individual generation of Xbox console. So more PS5s have been sold than Xbox 360, and more than Xbox One, etc.

Less PS5s have been sold so far (84 million) than any previous generation. The most popular was the PS 2, having sold 160 million.

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That's because China's industrial production has been flat to declining for 18 months.

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I watched the first two episodes yesterday (which are the only two released so far), and I have to say it's some of the best sci-fi I've seen in a while. Now how much they'll stick to the sci-fi type premise is yet to be seen. They have set this up so open-ended that they can go in so many directions with it.

The beginning absolutely invoked Contact (an awesome sci-fi movie based on the book by Carl Sagan), complete with the radio telescope array and so on. My concern is that now that they've established the premise they may go in other directions, and it sorta end up a bait-and-switch. Regardless I'm definitely looking forward to the next episode. I've watched all the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul episodes, and based on Vince Gilligan's past creativity and ability to flush out so many nuances in a show, I'm actually pretty excited to see where Pluribus goes. First time I've been excited about a TV series in a very long time.

The Switch came out 8 years ago in 2017. It was unique in that it was really a portable gaming system, with controllers that attached to the console, and they could be used in various combinations.

They haven't done anything new since then in the console / hardware front at all. The Switch 2 is just another iteration of the same design. So that means it will be another 5-8 years (so 10-15 in total) before they even potentially try something new.

Who coined the term? Did they use AI to come up with this word to describe this kind of coding?

This really isn't about the school or what is being taught, but it's because the neighborhood is ticked off he has bought up so many houses. He owns 11 homes now, and they don't like that he's "occupying" their neighborhood. The homeschooling thing is just their way of trying to get back at him in some way.

This realtor.com article goes into detail and even shows a map of his properties.

You can thank the federal DOT regulations for a good part of this. When every car is required to meet a very long list of requirements, like rear-view cameras and accompanied display, the cost is passed straight on to the consumer.

There are many vehicles kept out of the US market by these regulations. I own a Suzuki Samurai (you know, the little "jeep" thing from the 1980s), and there is actually a very large group of people still fixing these up and running them. Well, they still make them (called the Suzuki Jimny) and they are fully modernized, and start under $20k USD. These things would sell like CRAZY in the US, but they aren't legal here. Basically everywhere else in the world, but not here. Because there is some requirement (IE extra expense) they are not meeting to allow them in the US market. There are many affordable vehicles like these out there that can't be sold in the US.

This reminds me of "port knocking", but using small financial transactions instead of socket connection requests to various ports. Send a transaction of $1.23, then a transaction of $3.95 within 60 seconds, and that means a specific thing, etc. The cool thing about this is you can merely scan the transactions database looking for the pattern any time after the fact to see if the message had been sent.

If they can also include reversals, and can use up to, say, $9,999 transactions, then they can encode a decent amount of information.

Another cool thing about this is they can test their algorithm - that is the specific formula / numeric pattern that indicates a message - against many years of transaction history to make sure it is unique enough to avoid collisions that could happen randomly with the real-world data. Their trigger could be as naive as just using two specific transaction dollar amounts happening within so many seconds, or something far more advanced where two transaction amounts combined in some mathematical way. Think of a public / private key encryption just with much smaller numbers. For example two transactions happening within 30 seconds that are bitwise NOT (bitwise complement ~ operator in languages like C++ and java) of one another.

I came to a similar conclusion about a year ago. I have an app that, among other things, lists news headlines for local communities. Some news sources provide a short summary of the article as well, but many do not. If no summary is provided then I'm relegated to using the first sentence or so from an article.

I'd hoped to use AI to generate that summary when given the body of the article, but no matter how I prompted it would fabricate "facts" into the summary far too often for me to actually feel comfortable using it. 90% of the time it was great, but the utter failure the other 10% of the time made it unusable.

I think the way this is addressed now is just throwing more processing at it (and more energy expenditure) by having an additional arbiter AI role that checks the output to see if it is factual.