Recent content by jack action

I don't like the spam filter concept where a computer program try to guess legitimate emails from spam, and your legitimate emails go to your inbox and the rest in the spam folder (usually deleted after 30 days). Then - because no automatic filter is perfect - you are stuck going through two...

The problem is still accurate age verification while keeping the registration and access processes simple.

A doggy door accessing an outdoor cage where the giant, stinky doggy litterbox is. For example: By using the keywords catio and dogio, I found this source: https://k9-kennelstore.com/other-products/exercise-play/dogio-dog-tunnel-systems/individual-dogio-components.html, and here's their...

Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

I thought it was associated with Canada. I remember the Moose Molten Metal album - with the coolest moose ever! - back in the day:

I just found out my new electric toothbrush is not waterproof. I was shocked.

That is funny. I can imagine technical workers working with AI being more efficient, thus requiring less of them in the work force (or have them work less on technical issues). But I cannot imagine the use of AI leading to unskill workers doing the job. How does one know the job is done...

In the case of search engines, a German court has ruled that the words of AI represent the words of the company:

What about twins marrying twins?

Nuclear fueling itself might even have been easier than that, according to the experts and their knowledge at the time: The experts - about something nobody ever had experience with - didn't know for sure it wouldn't have created human extinction, but they went with it anyway. And they didn't...

TIL about shockwave traffic jams and the fact that they moved backward at a rate of 20 km/h.

Also, even if the weight is evenly distributed when perfectly straight, if the floor is crooked and the stand is leaning, there will be a weight transfer from one side to the other. The following image is an example of the principle with a vehicle. The higher the TV's center of gravity and the...

From the link I gave above, note that the first four classes of intelligent agents are pretty similar, each one having an add-on over the simpler one. The model for the fifth one is completely different, though. This might help reconcile the facts that every automated machine is an agent, and...

To learn more about intelligent agents, Wikipedia has a nice little resume. Those are the classes of intelligent agents: A thermostat would be a simple reflex agent. ChatGPT and the Roomba vacuum are examples of goal-based agents.