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WWGD said:
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?
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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Astronuc said:
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?
 
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(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
 
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WWGD said:
. Isn't it insane, UK's NHS promoting marriages between first cousins?

I need to check that
 

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