Random Thoughts 7

[symbolipoint]

I've been stuck for a long while , in the first half of my plan of becoming a mad genius.

Are you sure that it's the first half you are stuck?

 

[WWGD]

Seems you can use just about any phrase to preface an autobiography: " Potatoes aren't sweet. The Charlie Smith story". Or: " If you have no shoes, call your mother for money". The Bob Culpeper story.

 

[Astronuc]

Oops! From FORTUNE: ‘Proceed with caution’: Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly had mandatory meeting to address ‘high blast radius’ and AI-related incidents
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/proceed-caution-elon-musk-offers-194901281.html

Elon Musk has weighed in on reports Amazon is addressing recent outages, including one related to AI-assisted coding.

The e-commerce giant held a mandatory meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into multiple outages, including some as a result of the use of AI coding features, the Financial Times reported, citing internal briefs and emails. According to the outlet, Amazon said there was a “trend of incidents” in the past few months with a “high blast radius” and relating to “Gen-AI assisted changes,” as well as other variables.

Earlier this month, Amazon’s website and shopping app were down for some users, with more than 22,000 users reporting an issue, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Customers were unable to check out, view prices for goods, or access their account information. At the time, Amazon said the outage was a result of “a software code deployment.”

I think ‘high blast radius’ refers to outage or service disruption.

 

[WWGD]

Oops! From FORTUNE: ‘Proceed with caution’: Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly had mandatory meeting to address ‘high blast radius’ and AI-related incidents
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/proceed-caution-elon-musk-offers-194901281.html


I think ‘high blast radius’ refers to outage or service disruption.

Isn't flexibility, redundancy, one of Amazon's main selling points, in that they have several distributed back up servers, data centers?

 

[WWGD]

 

[symbolipoint]

(placement? I am looking for the Random Thoughts topic but searches results are confusing.)

Some effort I have given to how to think about Authenticity.
This is an interesting article online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticity_in_art

 

[pinball1970]

. Isn't it insane, UK's NHS promoting marriages between first cousins?

I need to check that

 

[WWGD]

I need to check that

Please,follow up . It seemed legit.

 

[Ibix]

I need to check that

Please,follow up . It seemed legit.

There have been recent moves in various countries in Europe to ban cousin marriages. The current UK government is opposed to a ban, preferring a strategy of education. I'll merely note that there are strong feelings on both sides of the debate over which is the better strategy.

There do seem to have been a couple of instances of the NHS praising the "social capital" of cousin marriages in training materials. Here's an article in the Indy about it.

I haven't seen the training materials in question. It is certainly possible that they said something stupid. However, I think the training was for midwives, and it's a bit late for trying to dissuade a relationship at that point. A soft-pedal "I can see the benefits (or at least I'm going to tell you I can) but the rest of your family and your children should really consider all these downsides" approach seems defensible in that context, and might be spun by the press as "NHS supports cousin marriage". Unless somebody has seen a copy of the training I wouldn't care to guess whether it was actually stupid training materials or unreliable press coverage.

 

[WWGD]

Ok, as it's common in YouTube, , the title was click-baitish.

 

[WWGD]

Penrose's take on Mathematics. Seemed interesting.

 

[WWGD]

RIP Chuck Norris 1940-2026.

 

[BillTre]

RIP Chuck Norris 1940-2026.

Time for some end of life Chuck Norris jokes (obtained from the internet):

1. Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience
2. dang must be going down in heaven, they called Chuck Norris for backup.
3. The news has it wrong. Chuck Norris didn't die, he decided to visit God and the two got along so well he decided to stay.
4. Death took Chuck Norris. Death is in the hospital on life support.
5. Chuck Norris didn't just kick the bucket. He kicked the bucket's ass.
6. Chuck Norris didn’t die. He invaded heaven.
7. Chuck Norris didn't die, he just decided to be the Grim Reaper now
8. He didn't die-he just leveled up.
9. Chuck Norris didn't die... He just got bored of being undefeated on Earth.
10. I heard he was in critical care, but Death is expected to make a full recovery from the injuries.

 

[OmCheeto]

...Chuck Norris jokes...

I saw a post on Facebook yesterday regarding how the author had once met Chuck.
The very first comment was IMHO quite rude, stating we shouldn't make heroes of bigots.
So I googled and found that Chuck was what I would describe as a magat, and therefore, despicable.
Then I found out that Chuck had died.

This reminded me of when I first learned that 'Chuck' Yeager was a bigot, about a year after his death, and posted something to the effect; 'Good riddance'

(FBoogle FBoogle FBoogle)

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November 27, 2021​

'Today I learned that Chuck Yeager was a racist piece of s**t.​

Glad he's dead.'​

This was after watching the following video posted by astronaut Leland Melvin:

This is the story of Ed Dwight Jr., who was invited by his country to train to be the first African-American astronaut. Back in 1963, it was hot news. But the United States never sent Dwight to space. For decades, he has maintained that he was discriminated against during his time at the Aerospace Research Pilot School, a prerequisite to NASA run by the legendary pilot Chuck Yeager.​

thirteen minutes long

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ok to delete, as I've saved my thoughts

 

[BillTre]

I saw a post on Facebook yesterday regarding how the author had once met Chuck.
The very first comment was IMHO quite rude, stating we shouldn't make heroes of bigots.
So I googled and found that Chuck was what I would describe as a magat, and therefore, despicable.

Its often unsettling when someone's querulous background surfaces.