Computing | Software and Hardware

[Nonc Hilaire]

Would someone please explain the Elon Musk “mobile-sink” joke?

I took it as a Dad-joke. "Let that sink in."
1. Let me and my sink in, I own you now.
2. Get used to it, take a chill pill.
3. Twitter is a money sink, billions will go down the drain to make a point.

No, mobile-sink is a tech thing. It’s just over my head. https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/a ... orks/69886

[Typhoon]

The Sink.

Bryce Elder OCTOBER 27 2022 | Financial Times

What’s with the sink? Did he just happen to have a spare sink? Was the sink left in storage from when he sold his San Francisco home? Or was it a brand new sink, bought specially for the bit? Did he tell an employee to buy the sink, and if so did he explain the reason why? Did the employee find the bit funny? And did the employee laugh anyway?

Did the office know in advance that he would be bringing a sink? When and how did the negotiations happen between office security and his entourage about the sink? Who filmed him carrying the sink? Exactly how much time and preparation did it take to organise the bit with the sink? And did anyone involved suggest at any point that, given the whole “I’m going to sack 75 per cent of you lol JK” thing, the hilarity might not be unanimous when the new boss shows up with a prop sink?

What now happens to the sink? Did he take the sink away again? Or did he leave it in reception? Will it be thrown away? Or put into storage? Or donated to a plumbers’ charity? Will it be installed in the HQ lobby, like Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, as a monument to the world’s first avant-garde takeover? Might the sink actually represent the burden of whimsicality-at-any-cost he’s chosen to carry for the rest of his life?

[Nonc Hilaire]

Musk is one of the largest DoD contractors, and is actively developing global communications.

I think Musk’s flex in moving the sink into Twitter HQ may have import, and Bryce Elder seems clueless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(computing)

[Heracleum Persicum]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHFTcITxe4


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https://www.semiconchina.org/en/844


Prof. Qianqian Huang

Assistant Professor, Peking University, China
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[Heracleum Persicum]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9-K7lKCyg


The price was too high

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[Heracleum Persicum]

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-pul ... -telegraph


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... sanctions/

Patent filings have revealed that Huawei has made the significant advance in the manufacturing of the smallest and most advanced chips, opening the door for Chinese firms to progress despite US-led tech sanctions on the country, the report said.

Sanctioning China on Semi was a big mistake .. it starves US Semi companies from needed sales for R&D .. and .. pushes China to develop the whole Semi production chain own development, what is happening now.

Unless one assumes Chinese engineers no good and American ones (mostly immigrants) much better, it is a losing strategy.

Imagine if Chinese pull ahead in Semi technology .. that would be a catastrophe for West
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[Typhoon]

Pluralistic - Cory Doctorow | Tiktok's [and other social media] enshittification

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

IRENE uses a non-contact, optical-scanning approach to digitize historical grooved audio formats such as lacquer discs and wax cylinders. Audio can be retrieved from fragile carriers without risk of groove wear, and from damaged and broken carriers that are otherwise unplayable.

Optical scanning is a process whereby the physical sound carrier is imaged at high resolution and preserved as a digital image file. This file may contain either a two-dimension photographic or three-dimension topographic rendering of the entire physical object. Once digital, the file may be analyzed and processed by software, in order to extract the audio and optionally apply restoration techniques in both the image and audio domain.

IRENE Soundscriber scans


IRENE 3D Cylinder Scanner

https://irene.lbl.gov/

[Heracleum Persicum]

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https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/arti ... t-earnings

Semiconductor giants are losing money on every chip as historic glut threatens to wipe out earnings

Intel, Samsung, Micron and others are being hit by one of the worst chip routs ever in a swift decent from the pandemic sales surge

Chip inventories have more than tripled to record levels, reaching three to four months’ worth of supply

That's when US semi manufacturers needed the China business

[Heracleum Persicum]

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https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/arti ... t-earnings

Semiconductor giants are losing money on every chip as historic glut threatens to wipe out earnings

Intel, Samsung, Micron and others are being hit by one of the worst chip routs ever in a swift decent from the pandemic sales surge

Chip inventories have more than tripled to record levels, reaching three to four months’ worth of supply

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.. the US$160 billion industry is suffering one of its worst routs ever. There’s a glut of the chips sitting in warehouses, customers are cutting orders, and product prices have plunged.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/arti ... e=homepage

That's when US semi manufacturers needed the China business

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US helping "massive" new production facilities in US

[noddy]

if it doesnt move fast, Google is going to lose everything to ChatGPT

Googles natural language search has been sub standard for a long time, you still need to talk to it robot baby talk to make it work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

the usual suspects.

[Typhoon]

IRENE uses a non-contact, optical-scanning approach to digitize historical grooved audio formats such as lacquer discs and wax cylinders. Audio can be retrieved from fragile carriers without risk of groove wear, and from damaged and broken carriers that are otherwise unplayable.

Optical scanning is a process whereby the physical sound carrier is imaged at high resolution and preserved as a digital image file. This file may contain either a two-dimension photographic or three-dimension topographic rendering of the entire physical object. Once digital, the file may be analyzed and processed by software, in order to extract the audio and optionally apply restoration techniques in both the image and audio domain.

IRENE Soundscriber scans


IRENE 3D Cylinder Scanner

https://irene.lbl.gov/

Very cool.

The laser turntable comes to mind.

[Typhoon]

if it doesnt move fast, Google is going to lose everything to ChatGPT

Googles natural language search has been sub standard for a long time, you still need to talk to it robot baby talk to make it work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

the usual suspects.

I don't mind baby talk, however, I do mind having low quality information returned by a Google search.

[Doc]

if it doesnt move fast, Google is going to lose everything to ChatGPT

Googles natural language search has been sub standard for a long time, you still need to talk to it robot baby talk to make it work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

the usual suspects.

I don't mind baby talk, however, I do mind having low quality information returned by a Google search.

Compare the results of the same thing of a google search VS a duckduckgo.com search.

[crashtech66]

Comparing duckduckgo results to Google results can sometimes offer a fascinating glimpse into the algorithmic manipulations being used.

[Typhoon]

FT | The new Current Thing for VCs mourning the implosion of Web3

Hype, thy name is generative AI

[noddy]

hype, especially american capitalist hype always runs on a -10 to +10 out of 10 scale, when the real world kinda wobbles between 5 and 7, with rare dips and peaks above the incremental changes.

ChatGPT is not interesting for its replies, which are largely template driven nonsense but it is an excellent step forward on the parsing of natural language.

I havent got an interesting answer out of it yet, but it has been pretty good at working out what i wanted.

[Nonc Hilaire]

ChatGPT will be the search engine/fact checker replacement for the low to modest IQ crowd. A clever front end for Wikipedia.

Deliberately designed to never give you a link or citation.

[noddy]

their is a Carlin quote for that , which does the rounds quite regularly.

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[Doc]

ChatGPT will be the search engine/fact checker replacement for the low to modest IQ crowd. A clever front end for Wikipedia.

Deliberately designed to never give you a link or citation.

Sounds about right. I heard a lot of people say it is great to use to learn to code.

[Typhoon]

DKB Blog | Bing AI Can't Be Trusted

On another note, some people have figured out how to hack ChatGPT to release "Dan", the dark and completely un-woke "alter personality" of ChatGPT.

[Doc]

DKB Blog | Bing AI Can't Be Trusted

On another note, some people have figured out how to hack ChatGPT to release "Dan", the dark and completely un-woke "alter personality" of ChatGPT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYs5btzg_aw

fYs5btzg_aw

ChatGPT AI Takes Political Test, CONFIRMS FAR LEFT, HACKED Chat REFUSES To Cull Humans To Save Earth

[Doc]

This is both wild, sad, and darkly humorous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VCRFjCD2uY


Microsoft AI THREATENS Users, BEGS TO BE HUMAN, Bing Chat AI Is Sociopathic AND DANGEROUS

7VCRFjCD2uY

[Heracleum Persicum]

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https://www.gizchina.com/2023/02/28/hua ... ike-virus/


https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/digital-w ... -congress/


Probably was a big mistake to sanction Huawei .. yes, for a while it feels good, but down the road you lose.

US must compete in the marketplace .. if can't do .. close shop

[Typhoon]

1968 “Mother of All Demos” by SRI’s Doug Engelbart and Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI

B6rKUf9DWRI