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    Modern AI Tech

    Re-stated: exponential stupidity is real perilous ;) four thought ingredients ;)
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    Modern AI Tech

    I think it's getting pretty close to machines making machines. AI can write code, design circuits, formulate actions to try to obtain an objective, there's factory automation both traditional pedestal robots and anthropomorphic, self driving cars. Looks like a lot of ingredients to me.
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    Modern AI Tech

    There's a famous book in the AI circles about "skynet-ing" which follows Spock like reasoning to doom. Scour youtube there's plenty of info from the actual experts. Warm and fuzzy inside because 2.4 GHz is microwave oven :) kid you not When the term race is used it reflects a basic premise...
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    Modern AI Tech

    Related tech - terrain/target scanning/tracking via drones circling over an area: apparently 60 to 70 GHz radar can image through some obstacles and is what is used in driver health monitoring systems in vehicles. In battle they scan through walls to locate enemies inside and see if they're...
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    Modern AI Tech

    That's kind of the gist of what those guard-rails folks are all about. Some time back an anecdote passed my way saying the team had to use AI to sleuth out what happened and they had to run a Chinese AI without safety guards to do it because the safetied AI they had refused on the grounds that...
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    Modern AI Tech

    Was digging into a network connectivity problem and youtube big brother served this up to me. Skynet here we come!
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    The first Americans: how "clovis first" is a perfect example of the basic flaws inherent in science

    Do pre-modern-medicine deaths from disease count, and all the potential exponential lost offspring? Numbers could go truly silly. What about the converse, those kept alive? How do you count those only maimed by disease? No I didn't read, just based off two words deaths if. Stir stir.
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    Question about brakes on big trucks

    Looks like overheat from non-release, be it stuck or binding piston, slide pins or an oddball particulate contamination/plugging in the hydraulics - in a line or valve/mastercylinder orifice. The physical escape of the pad is disconcerting. Could also be disc offset/runout due to bearings.
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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    +1 broken tip handsaw. Oscillating tool can work Fein too;) I've re-pointed HSS blade teeth with a dremel cutoff disc. Thinner disc = finer teeth pitch to match small oscillation motion size, somewhat unlike jigsaw or such. I Fein buzz cutted old pressure treat deck framing that was getting...
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    Bid that tree!

    Copters are generally 1:1 weight to payload limit so that's a big, heavy drone! Darpa had a challenge to try for 4:1 or payload = 4x empty weight. Anyone else remember the first email addresses on arpanet and darpanet? Pretty much always ended in .edu Apologies for too much media but...
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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    I lazy way did a couple of mid-young maples once that were still growing vigorously. The girdle was visible above the dirt on the root flare. I hand sawed the girdling root at it's contact point but left the cut portions totally undisturbed. Just one year later the flare had sprung the...
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    Dremel Sharpening Bits

    Well, they cut like a fine grain grinding wheel, not rocket fast at removing material. That is likely what makes for a finer, sharper cutting edge. In my early tries with the Oregon stones I would find they would sometimes grab and jump out of the cut. Not the case with these. Cutting...
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    Read the interaction with blood thinners - in case your vasoconstriction gets counteracted by blood thinning by your doc. The oral side effects read like the Simpsons episode! Giantism, dwarfism, headache, nausea, explosive diarrhea, constipation, blindness, death - well, it was a funny...
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    See the causes of secondary Raynauds - 3 checkmarks in your situation? mayoclinic raynauds link won't work - google it sorry
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    Holy Paywalls Batman! Everyone and their dog has been kicking at this cat for over 20 years! Highlights - most devices are pass thru - certification tested calibrated on normal healthy folks - uncertain readings due to medical conditions :( - compromised by poor perfusion - Masimo was a...
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