Recent content by Umbran

Perfect? No such thing. Much like there's no single perfect movie, or perfect flavor of ice cream - what is "perfect" depends on the moods of the day. So, how about we talk about an awesome game session.... For me, what game/campaign doesn't really matter - I have a great time playing all...

I should add that NASA's live coverage event of the flyby starts at 1 PM EDT, on... NASA+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Roku, and the agency’s YouTube channel.

For those who are interested, closest approach and trip around the far side of the Moon should be on Monday, April 6th starting about 2:45 PM EDT and lasting until approximately 9:40 PM EDT

It isn't bizarre. It is marketing. You may not have noticed, but the world is loaded with people who will believe counterfactual claims that fit their desired narratives and/or play on their fears. "This technology is magic, and will make you super-efficient, and therefore rich, and if you...

Of course not. However, Wikipedia can always improve its material, but there's a point beyond which LLM output will not get better.

That's not entirely accurate. It is not "because of bureaucracy". We note that SpaceX has become known for "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of their equipment. No loss of life, but during development, they have a tendency of blowing up, crashing while trying to land, and so forth. As a...

Maybe? If you haven't noticed, taking action ahead of time is not our forte.

So, in the news - Anthropic leaked its AI source code. They've sent out some 8000 cease and desist notices over unauthorized copies. Ironic, that. But, there may be an "unclean hands" defense - you often can't sue someone for an act that you are committing yourself.

Except already back in September, OpenAI admitted that generative AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable. They are a result of the fundamental math of how the thing operates, and cannot be removed by improving engineering...

Yeah, and we drive on parkways and park in driveways. We're just pants-on-head crazy like that.

Halfway there

Yes, there are. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and flourinated gases are the main culprits we can put out. While some of them are pound-for-pound worse than CO2, we'd have to work at it to make the others in quantity enough to be a bigger problem than our current CO2...

Nope, it was literal. Because for anything else, we get into loss to space, which can be substantial. Well, mostly. Picayune aside: Some chemicals we produce, and changes we make, effectively store energy for much longer than a hundred years. Some plastics, for example, don't oxidize on...

It is not a veiled threat. It is, in fact, what we do in moderation. Like, we even have a specific "Junior Modding" warning point we can give out. Really. If you (generic, not personal) tell people what to post, they frequently don't like it - enough that it frequently starts fights. It was...

I mean, if you don't want to look in the mirror, that's your choice. I mean, historically, folks have gotten moderated and threadbanned for that behavior, so... You choose your own risks.