A few days ago, me to Google home:

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Sorry, I can’t control powered devices.”

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Turning on the light.”

I had a similar experience getting it to summarize my maps info, it would alternate between correct answers and claiming it had no access to the data.

That would be fantastic in Baby Steps. To be able to wipe out the last few minutes of failure.

Last weekend I made zero progress, but I did it much faster than the weekend before.

Almost all billboards in the Silicon Valley area are for AI and related services, it really does look like selling shovels to shovel sellers.

AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. “smartest”) models.

The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.

You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it’s not too demanding (“smarter” models are bigger data files, so won’t fit in the memory of a small device).

Today, for instance, I had a phone call from “Spectrum Internet support” and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said “possible scam” on screen.

The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en

For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device

This reminded me to check on what happened to IKEA Monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(monkey)

Turns out he went live on a farm!

I watched a jumping spider video on Facebook, now the algorithm thinks I’m obsessed with them.

I do keep watching the videos though, they are cute.

Their behavior gives off a smart animal vibe, so they’re more relatable than the usual spider’s unpredictable scurrying.

“Why are they taking my tacos for a ride in the hills?” - me, about once a week.

Q as in queso.

Edit: having seen C, I retract my suggestion. Queue is better.

But that’s outside the 30-mile zone! Think of the cost!

Afaik this originated when John Glenn made a return to space, aged 77, in 1998, e.g. (first forum post that I found)

https://forums.jag-lovers.com/t/fw-when-john-glenn-returns/139070

Not me. I had a cataract operation and choose to have the lens in one eye be near-sighted (since they can’t change focus). I can see my phone clearer then I could in my 50s now.

The difference being that an ad is trying to sway you to buy a product, but a credit or signature on art is “here’s who created this thing THAT YOU ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING”.

I don’t know why they can’t distinguish between those.

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We had a big tree in the garden that was rotting, so now it’s gone. I did not expect to feel as strongly as I did over it.

Seeing the stump is so visceral, representing something that I thought of as effectively permanent being suddenly gone.

It shaded the garden and the house, it held a rope swing, so it was a tangible loss, but I think that its size is part of what made it so affecting.

Isn’t that twice as much tarp as you need? 10801080pi for a circle the same size.

I felt sorry for the one that nearly drowned in the recent LA rains

I mean, most objects are not human.

“Our Pixel range has a fast easy-to-find fingerprint reader on the back. It’s possible to unlock the phone as you’re removing it from your pocket without even trying. How can we improve that?”

“How about we hide a slow, unreliable one somewhere under the screen. You can’t feel or see where it is. When you do find the right spot, it’ll illuminate your finger with the light of a thousand suns. Then, it might unlock the phone, if you’re lucky.”

Is this another example of him hiding some disguised image, just as he hid a picture of the brain in the Adam And God painting?

https://clintavo.substack.com/p/the-mystical-secret-in-michelangelos

Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.

I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)