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  • Surprise! Facebook’s VR work is a disaster

    In short, Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse has so far been an unmitigated disaster — and given his newfound obsession with AI, it just might be an experiment he eventually abandons. https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-vr-department-reality-labs-catastrophe Consumer VR will never be a thing… 16 year old me found that out the disappointing way… 30 years hasn’t changed that.

  • 2024-07-19-Why Do We Need Operating Systems?

    Yesterday’s computer problems mostly consisted of computation – using hardware to build fancier and fancier calculators. Typical uses for computers consisted of moon-shot calculators and military missile ballistics calculators. Today, though, the interesting problems are mostly asynchronous and distributed. For example internet, robotics, gaming, blockchain, GUIs, etc., etc. We need a new workflow which uses new notations…

  • Elon Musk signals reaching limit of Tesla’s HW3 despite self-driving promise

    The CEO has publicly promised level 5 autonomy on all vehicles produced since 2016. Tesla has already been proven wrong with HW2, and now HW3 is seemingly reaching its limit. Sure sounds like the basis of securities fraud to me… https://electrek.co/2024/07/26/elon-musk-signals-reaching-limit-of-teslas-hw3-despite-self-driving-promise/

  • AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

    Researchers have found that the buildup of AI-generated content on the web is set to “collapse” machine learning models unless the industry can mitigate the risks. The University of Oxford team found that using AI-generated datasets to train future models may generate gibberish, a concept known as model collapse. In one example, a model started…

  • Time for a new bubble…

  • WinError 10053

    So. I fell down a rabbit hole last month. I was writing python to talk to a motion control platform using raw TCP messages. I was doing this on Windows (don’t ask). My initial prototyping worked just fine, but as soon as I went to integrate the work into a PyQt app is started to…

  • YouTube’s Favorite Ad: BetterHelp’s TAKEOVER Of Gig Therapy

    Here we go again… except for your mental health

  • Ya can kinda see why CNC is the kink of choice for the AI crowd

    Culture is set at the top… The situation is extraordinary because asking for consent, getting a firm “no,” and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry. https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson CNC: Consensual Non-consent

  • Somewhere, someone inside of Apple thought this was a good idea…

    It has been a long time since I’ve seen a company shit all over their core brand proposition so utterly. It’s like Tim Cook is pissing on the street sign at the corner of Liberal Arts and Technology… What. The. Actual. Fuck. Apple? It, honestly, hurts to watch that “Crush!” video… For the last year…

  • FINALLY: Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claims

    Rocket Jesus is finally at the “find out” stage of his multi-decadal fuck about… According to Reuters, the probe is looking into statements made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in particular. For years, Musk has been promising fully autonomous Tesla vehicles are just around the corner — while also admitting that he often sets overly optimistic timelines.…