22 September 2024

Happy Autumnal Equinox.  This is the middle of autumn, not the start.

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Remember in the movie Elysium there's a machine that scans you and immediately determines what wrong? Well, the guy that founded Spotify (Daniel Ek) is trying to create something similar. It's called the Neko Body Scan.  You still need blood tests and a grip strength test, and the results go to a human to interpret, but it's a start, I suppose.

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Joe Hisaishi isn't concerned that AI-generated music will replace him. I agree. All it will do is sample bit and pieces of his music, and try to stitch it together. Listeners will probably be more confused and amazed.

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Good! The FTC is suing pharmacy benefit managers for making insulin expensive. They are the scourge of healthcare, and should be eliminated.

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Nice article on ScaleAI, which creates the sweat shops of the AI world. We all need labeled data, and companies are willing to pay for it. So ScaleAI takes advantage of the poor in third-world countries to sit and label data all day for low wages. It can be viewed as exploitation, but no one seems to be complaining.  Someone's gotta do it.  Those data aren't going to label themselves, you know.

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The pager/walkie-talkie attacks have changed the world. There goes globalism.  But even domestically manufactured electronics could be sabotaged, although it's probably easier to do in a third-world country. 

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The Internet has a dictionary server, a remnant of the old days. Like the author, I'm surprised it still works.

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