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harborsparrow reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Optical Building a Raman spectrometer… with
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I've seen hand-held scanners used on a TV show that I watch about US Customs & Border Protection. Here is what my Google search turned... -
harborsparrow reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread How Vulnerable Are Large Language Models to Malicious Data Poisoning? with Like.
It's hard to quantify, but for open-minded critical thinkers, it's far less likely to happen. Their filtering systems are strong...
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harborsparrow reacted to Esim Can's post in the thread How Vulnerable Are Large Language Models to Malicious Data Poisoning? with Like.
Yes, an AI is highly vulnerable if it comes to this kind of alteration of its probability-space. Simple explanation is; Even in one chat...
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harborsparrow replied to the thread Need advice on a computer monitor that goes dark.Given its age, I suspect the monitor first. If you buy a monitor and that doesn't fix the issue, you should be able to return it...
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harborsparrow reacted to bhobba's post in the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone with Like.
Perhaps a double major in CS and AI + Data Science? From my 30 years of experience as a computer programmer, these things go up and...
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harborsparrow reacted to sophiecentaur's post in the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink? with Like.
But they'd have to have been prepared, in the first place, to get into Kindle and, even way back, it was a hard step to take. I have no...
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harborsparrow replied to the thread Who is responsible for the software when AI takes over programming?.This may seem off topic, but it might be related too, since we're talking about the phenomenon of software development managers possibly...
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harborsparrow reacted to Rive's post in the thread Who is responsible for the software when AI takes over programming? with Like.
Nice, but most programmers I know (and are blessed with AI-supportive management) deals with lot less structured/organized/proper code...
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harborsparrow reacted to Rive's post in the thread Who is responsible for the software when AI takes over programming? with
Agree.
With the so called 'increased effectiveness' of AI-supported coding the humans assigned will need to watch over lot more and lot less... -
harborsparrow replied to the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink?.I don't think Amazon really expected to make money from the Kindle hardware anyway. Where they make money is in sales of Kindle books...
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harborsparrow reacted to phinds's post in the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink? with Like.
Or ... just dumb.
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harborsparrow reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink? with Like.
Well, that's maybe part of the "problem" then. Your problem from their perspective! :woot: EDIT: Love the word "naff"! New one for me! :)
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harborsparrow reacted to sophiecentaur's post in the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink? with
Wow.
I once posted an adverse comment on a kindle users’ forum, saying that that the UI is naff. “We like it as it is!!” I was told. “Go... -
harborsparrow reacted to sophiecentaur's post in the thread Did Amazon stop trying once they chose E Ink? with
Sad.
The room full of floppy disks was another problem that modern TB drives finally put to bed. People bat on about the look and feel of... -
harborsparrow reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Who is responsible for the software when AI takes over programming? with Like.
I probably should have said "not nearly enough". They do no harm, and can catch obvious mistakes. That leaves the question of how to...