Recent content by jedishrfu

Yes, Jack you need to look at the big picture here. New tech bring benefits, and we pay to enjoy those benefits in subscription fees but we also pay indirectly when resources are constrained and new infrastructure is needed then we all foot the bill too. I don't know how it will play out in...

Yeah, sometimes a heuristic is used that's easy to remember, like the famously wrong one used during COVID to stand 6 feet apart, which was traced back to some journal papers in the 1950s and to the droplet model vs. aerosol transmission, where there is no set distance. Aerosols continue to...

Perhaps what you need is an EPA test protocol where you filter the 100ml through a couple of filters and culture the filters for aerobic, anaerobic and fungal contamination. The sampling strategy to get to 99% means testing most of the water if not all of the water...

!!! SECOND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT !!! We aren't here to debate issues of competition for resources between humans and AI. It's real, but it is more about the conflict between consumers vs. big business, a dynamic exacerbated by the rise of huge data centers for AI products. Let's have a...

Yes MS destroyed many promising companies in their rise to dominance. Zip tools when MS introduced a compressed filesystem. I don't think users responded well to this new os since disk failures become unrecoverable for text files that looked encrypted. OS/2 when MS repackaged the code to...

Javascript has some libraries to do that. One example is pako https://github.com/nodeca/pako

Sometimes you need to put a stick in the ground and make a guess.

It seems 1ml would work. I guess you could imagine from 0.1 nanomolar = numerically how many bacteria (6.9E12). Then assume they are evenly distributed. Take your volume of 100ml and divide it into 100 1ml. So each 1ml would have 1/100th the number of bacteria (6.0E10).

I learned from past experience, something new on the horizon small companies jump in to sell add-ons or consulting. Later big companies come in with better solutions and support squeezing out the smaller companies or absorbing them to gain the expertise. This is what happened in the PC boom...

In Texas officials have put a pause on data center projects due to water constraints.

Every new revolution changes society in fundamental ways. ATT Networking equipment replaced operators. Computers replaced manual company ledger keeping. Sadly, the downside of what happened next is seldom reported. AI is doing the same thing now with CS grads. They are having a tough time...

I want to add that numerous stories, movies, and TV shows have explored these issues. Twilight Zone in the 1950s had a few episodes - Mr Whipple’s Factory - a critic who was tortured by his machines - the trial of a robot for murder More recently: Person of Interest with computers taking over...

!!! PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT !!! Please be sure to limit political commentary and instead explore how AI will transform for good or ill our current world societies. Jedi

Yes they do sound similar. In the Moog case, the Whistler was Dick Hyman and the other eclectic sounds was a Moog synthesizer. In the Henry Mancini Baby Elephant Walk, the instruments were orchestral piccolos to bass tubas. The piccolos for the baby and the tubas for the big Mama Elephant. The...

I can just see the time when the agent manages your work computer sees an April Fools joke and proceeds to reorganize and delete employee work files thinking everyone is going on a new pension plan called Universal Basic Income and AI agent is now in charge of all operations. Employee access...