Recent content by Borg

From today's Tom the Dancing Bug:

Appears to be one of those Facebook things: No, an Austrian airport doesn't have a desk for travelers ...

Cats are probably mostly invisible also. :oldwink:

Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera “undetected” thanks to hiding in boxes.

So that would be a number 2 pencil?

I'm guessing that the woman at dinner drew the same conclusion about our arrangement.

I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny. I've decided to just own it. 😆

Screw two nuts lightly together near the top. Put a wrench on the top one when you try to turn the butterfly fastener and it should bite into the second nut enough to turn the butterfly nut. I would use some WD-40 on it as well. If the nuts slip, you can try a barbed washer between them.

My next vacation can't start soon enough.

I ran across this paper this morning - AI-induced dehumanization. In the paper, they discuss how attributing socio-emotional capabilities to autonomous agents (like robots or chatbots) makes people see them as more humanlike while lowering the perceived humanness of real people.

I've been there twice in the last year. I really don't get the attraction.

Congratulations @berkeman Thanks for all your hard work on the forum!

Verizon customer "service" has an AI that you have to make it past. It tells you how helpful it is and then asks the same questions over and over until it gets your request completely wrong and then tries to add services that you didn't ask for... Speaking from personal experience on this one...

Seems secure to me. :oldtongue:

A site with one million screenshots. Yup, PF is there - https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=physicsforums.com.