My comment was tongue in cheek. Solar and AC are a good combo.

I’d argue there’s still a energy+climate reckoning coming where energy won’t be as abundant as it has been and high energy use activities (like AC) will be more challenging. the EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) of renewables/low-carbon are much lower than peak fossil fuels.

Incidentally I’m the same as you I’m so socialised on sleeping under something I do it regardless of temperature

cries in climate crisis

Personally, I’m planning additional physical storage of photos off site. Not yet configured but planning for a subset of photos deemed too important to lose to be automatically printed and stored on physical media (DVDs).

In general I’m hoping it to promote a more careful approach to what media really is important to keep.

Oh then I was being dense. I actually use kg because I’m of a generation that was only taught that and have no internal conception of stones :(

British people are annoying more likely to reply in imperial units to this question.

Strange - I can’t reproduce that. It’s the wiki page for Simo Häyhä.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä

I think the latest understanding of the impacts from the calibre of nuclear weapons we have now is if anyone is nuked we are all fucked regardless of location but sadly that doesn’t seem like enough of a deterrent :/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke’s_three_laws

The third law is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I merely meant that the beauty of mathematics and natural science was a form of magic.

Go on?

Although a second look I agree they don’t look right for that. Guess I should have taken more graph theory modules.

Arthur C Clarke would like a word.

I wasn’t sure if Feynman Diagrams.

I really want to learn this stuff. Its looks so much like magic

I think this inherently accepts the narrative that the work women were doing before had no or little value.

That care and emotional labour should not fall solely on women and we should all have the opportunity to partake in meaningful work but we shouldn’t accept having to accept less time for care (and leisure) on some trumped up definition of what’s productive/economic or not.

According to that site you can downgrade the firmware (some people really disliked the various UI changes and the firmware is getting quite prescriptive)

You can also run your own homebrew apps so I found someone who installed KOReader which they claim is better experience than default reader especially for pdfs and also link better to personal cloud storage.

There’s also ability to use locally stored Web Application Frameworks but I’m not 100% sure what the use case would be.

I read something about how the best outputs are done using a blend of make-up/models with CGI adding the layer of realism on top so pure CGI is worse but film studies pursue that because its cheaper and outsourcable compared with a heavy unionised make-up/prop workers.

“Enjoys” is not how I would describe it.

I won’t rehash the arguments around “AI” that others are best placed to make.

My main issue is AI as a term is basically a marketing one to convince people that these tools do something they don’t and its causing real harm. Its redirecting resources and attention onto a very narrow subset of tools replacing other less intensive tools. There are significant impacts to these tools (during an existential crisis around our use and consumption of energy). There are some really good targeted uses of machine learning techniques but they are being drowned out by a hype train that is determined to make the general public think that we have or are near Data from Star Trek.

Addtionally, as others have said the current state of “AI” has a very anti FOSS ethos. With big firms using and misusing their monopolies to steal, borrow and coopt data that isn’t theirs to build something that contains that’s data but is their copyright. Some of this data is intensely personal and sensitive and the original intent behind the sharing is not for training a model which may in certain circumstances spit out that data verbatim.

Lastly, since you use the term Luddite. Its worth actually engaging with what that movement was about. Whilst its pitched now as generic anti-technology backlash in fact it was a movement of people who saw what the priorities and choices in the new technology meant for them: the people that didn’t own the technology and would get worse living and work conditions as a result. As it turned out they were almost exactly correct in thier predictions. They are indeed worth thinking about as allegory for the moment we find ourselves in. How do ordinary people want this technology to change our lives? Who do we want to control it? Given its implications for our climate needs can we afford to use it now, if so for what purposes?

Personally, I can’t wait for the hype train to pop (or maybe depart?) so we can get back to rational discussions about the best uses of machine learning (and computing in general) for the betterment of all rather than the enrichment of a few.

Me too. Noticeable Delay around 6s.