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But a language starts exactly with associating more and more meanings with symbols (symbolic actions): - but when there are enough symbols already they start to shape the way reality is perceived - they will affect your success (in communication) ...I do agree that it's not (yet) a...

I'm not exactly suggesting the idea. It'll just happen. ...actually, it's not that bad of a career for a 'city dog'. Degradation of 'working breeds' in favor of primarily being pets/company is a long established process.

That's the obscure intelligence of those breeds within their own area of expertise. For common people it's not trivial to be related with it. What I'm talking about is, that there will be a new breed (direction of selection) emerging with expertise in (buttoned) human relations.

The linked video is not accessible for me, either... Well... On one side, by now we know that communication issues and mismatched conceptual systems makes evaluations of intelligence inherently problematic. On other side, AI just show us that actually how overplayed was the self-evaluation of...

A lightning strike nearby can cause water taps to be 'lively' up to ~ a hundred meter distance or so. 240V... Well... I would expect a few meters: at most, a dozen. (Right near a building this can be more complicated, though.)

They are the 'not without electronics' ones. A small Li-ion battery (at 3.7V) with a charging electronics and a step-down converter (to provide the 1.5V) is fitted in the AA case. Some has dedicated charger, some has USB slot or similar, or an USB plug hidden under a cap... Pretty creative...

Erm... That's a bit different. Li-ion cells (rechargeable) works around 3.7V Standard AA (Zinc-Carbon, non-rechargeable) is around 1.5V There is 'high energy' AA, with Li content but still not rechargeable at nominal 1.5V, though during usage they run a bit lower than standard cells...

Erm... As far as I know there is just no suitable Li-based chemistry for the usual voltages associated with the AA format.

On the other hand, only the cheap batteries keeping some product prices low (and this is not only about this particular battery format - the low quality and very liberal parameters of cheap batteries is a quite widespread issue).

The answer would be something no-ish, I think Unless some random behaviour is intentionally incorporated in programming, a computer is clearly deterministic. However, if the question is about expecting a result based on pre-analysing the training data instead - that's a very different story.

There are plenty of hike trails in the area, so I would say it may be up to a dozen km... (Ps.: and if it was a car&foot hike then ...) There seems to be a (not too high) lamp pole on the left, so I assume it's some walkway within city/village boundary.

A common misunderstanding, but it was never trained to be correct or consistent. It was trained to be similarly satisfying as its training data (of human produced text). Your examples are perfectly displaying this point. Could be worse. Could be trained on telemarketing.

-10 C° outside. Time to de-frost the freezer... o0)

Just keep the temperature tolerance of the device in mind. As long term storage in humid environment a sealed plastic bag with some fresh (or freshly baked) desiccant is perfect.

The idea is good, but I have some concerns regarding either the 'debloater' and also the debloated piece vs. MS future interaction (and I'm also not really happy with MS itself, to be honest...). So the only affected tablet of my collection will just get a fitting Linux when the time comes.