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Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown
NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes.…
The Voyager probes are surely some of the most remarkable achievements in space exploration, and the fact that they're even still going is remarkable. If we can keep them going it would be amazing.
London, United Kingdom
I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast?
Brenda.
Who is Brenda?
She is a mid-level employee in every finance department, in every business across this stupid nation and the Excel goddess herself descended from the heavens, kissed Brenda on her forehead and the sweat from Brenda's brow is what allows us to do capitalism. [...]
She's gonna birth that formula for a financial report and then she's gonna send that financial report to a higher up and he's gonna need to make a change to the report and normally he would have sent it back to Brenda but he's like oh I have AI and AI is probably like smarter than Brenda and then the AI is gonna fuck it up real bad and he won't be able to recognize it because he doesn't understand Excel because AI hallucinates.
You know who's not hallucinating?
Brenda.
— @belligerentbarbies, on TikTok
Tags: generative-ai, ai, excel, hallucinations, llms, tiktok, ai-ethics
Worse, Brenda understands the business in ways that the executive and the AI cannot - because she sees the whole, as she's in a support role.
The executive might be asking the wrong question, and the AI will congratulate them on what an excellent question it is, then give an answer which is technically correct but actually wrong. Or worse, illegal.
Oh crap, we're headed towards multiple accounting scandals because of this, aren't we?
The executive might be asking the wrong question, and the AI will congratulate them on what an excellent question it is, then give an answer which is technically correct but actually wrong. Or worse, illegal.
Oh crap, we're headed towards multiple accounting scandals because of this, aren't we?
London, United Kingdom
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I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast?
Brenda.
Brenda.
Melbourne, Australia
I run NewsBlur[0] and I’ve been battling this issue of NewsBlur fetching 403s across the web for months now. My users are revolting and asking for refunds. I’ve tried emailing dozens of site owners and publishers and only two of them have done the work of whitelisting their RSS feed. It’s maddening and is having a real negative effect on NewsBlur.
NewsBlur is an open-source RSS news reader (full source available at [1]), something we should all agree is necessary to support the open web! But Cloudflare blocking all of my feed fetchers is bizarre behavior. And we’re on the verified bots list for years, but it hasn’t made a difference.
Let me know what I can do. NewsBlur publishes a list of IPs that it uses for feed fetching that I've shared with Cloudflare but it hasn't made a difference.
I'm hoping Cloudflare uses the IP address list that I publish and adds them to their allowlist so NewsBlur can keep fetching (and archiving) millions of feeds.
[0]: https://newsblur.com
Oh great, another threat to RSS, just what we needed...
London, United Kingdom
I've suddenly realised that I have been in SO MANY control groups in my life...
And it feels fine. 😉
And it feels fine. 😉
London, United Kingdom
Because the human condition isn't harrowing enough
Fear, shame, regret and Quarter Pounder® with Cheese – now you can relive the scents of last night in your living room thanks to obesity merchants McDonald's.…
I choose not to weep for humanity.
I choose to be f***ing amazed we made it this far...
I choose to be f***ing amazed we made it this far...
London, United Kingdom
Enlarge / The iPhone 11. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Apple is seriously considering the possibility of allowing users to change the default apps for Web browsing, mail, or music on their iPhones. The company might also allow users to listen to Spotify or other music streaming services besides Apple Music via Siri on the iPhone or on the HomePod smart speaker.
These revelations were outlined in a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman this morning, who cited multiple people familiar with Apple's internal plans.
While Apple's plans are not final, the changes could go into effect as soon as Apple's iOS 14 release later this year, which means they would likely be introduced during Apple's developer conference this June.
At last.
London, United Kingdom
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