jonplackett

Yes but this is exactly my point - that is BECAUSE we are more intelligent than them.

We think we can introduce something cleverer than us and still control it. That makes no sense.

I don’t really understand how anyone believes we can control ai that becomes cleverer than us.

It’s like 10 monkeys trying to keep a human being a prisoner.

It’s just not going to work is it.

The entire meaning of being more intelligent is being able to outwit and out-think people less intelligent.

There's a free API for getting albums from QR codes

https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=barcode:50997465...

This was the first CD I ever owned

Just ignore everyone and make things you yourself want and love.

Yeah she was just 18 months early on that one eh.

Funnily enough I have also set her and 3 friends up on a private landline network for them to call and chat old school.

One thing I love most about old tech is that it is single purpose = no distrations!

I was in shop the other day with my daughter and the walls were covered in cassette tapes as decoration.

I has to take SO MANY steps back to explain what they were.

I realised she thought all music was just magically created when you ask Alexa for it - so we had to start there to explain someone has to make the music first, and go back though streaming services, digital downloads, to having to literally go to a shop to buy a single song for £4 - which is probably about £20 now adjusted for inflation.

We are genuinely at the point now where you can just mostly summon this into existence with a coding agent.

I thought through the UI and tech stack and reasearched what would actually work first and then wrote a very detailed brief for Codex. And about 2 hours of back and forth and re-thinking later, it works.

One challenge was that the phone has to have the NFC UI on while looking for cards, but i wanted it to turn off while playing so I could have a hole in the box to a blank screen she can swipe to skip back and forward.

This stumped Codex - but I then had the idea to use the depth cam to detect cards placed on the phone, then only show the scan UI again when the card is removed.

So now it works really seamlessly.

1) Place card on, music instantly starts, even remembers where in the song and playlist you are.

2) Remove card, phone detects it can see at least a few cm, instant stop.

3) Place a new, or the same card on and that instantly plays from the last position.

I LOVE THAT IDEA SO MUCH.

It's so dumb and so functional at the same time.

My favourite ideas usually hug that Pareto frontier.

I just finished making a ‘physical’ music system for my daughter.

The inverted commas are because it’s actually all MP3s that are stored on a phone.

But the phone is in a box

Connected to a speaker

Running an app I made that plays playlists when she places an nfc card on the box

Basically it’s a bootleg Yoto / Tonie box but completely free, and our own music.

Also got a desktop app where I download stuff, make plays lists and it auto syncs to the phone.

She actually really likes it. Having a physical sense of what you own feels good!

I wish I could take all the credit but Codex helped, a bit…

My my first comment is still -1. Everything is out of balance still.

Yeah I do see your point. And for some reason making it into audio does seem less offensive to me. Maybe it’s because it at least transforms it into something I can do while doing something else. Whereas a video is basically the same mode of operation: staring at a screen.

I’m still basically against this though. I consider it slop.

I feel I need to explain beyond just a whine.

I think this is exactly the opposite of what AI should be used for. It is going to make people dumb.

Watching a video instead of engaging your own brain makes you feel like you learned something without actually trying and I would bet it works much less well.

If someone is there adding something beyond what is already there - ie someone like Maruqise. Then it makes sense for them to be there.

If not it is just brain rot.

People already have issues with concentration. Allowing them to further allow that muscle to atrophy will not be good.

The thing I like about an explainer video is the personality and insight of the person giving it.

Like Marquise Brownlee just has opinions I care about and I watch his videos for this reason.

If a video just explains something I could just read all I’m getting is a layer of obfuscation.

I concur with only #1.

Could be a really interesting article but they disabled reader mode so I guess I’ll never know.

If you’re going to disable reader view on your website can you at least make sure the contrast isn’t completely terrible. Blue links on blue? Not great.

The hacking war between superpowers right now must be off the charts.

If LLMs can do this with everything stacked against them, imagine what the NSA has Astra doing right now.

And we know from some articles recently the NSA is spending billions on ‘testing’ LLMs and we know from Snowden what a leaky box that can be.

Their stock was $12 on debut but they’ve had many many stock splits since then. So the equivalent price of a share is less than a dollar. And it went to the equivalent of 7 cents when the bubble burst.

I wanted a 3DFX card so bad when I was 10yo.

And then I wanted a GeForce so bad. But I only got £10 a week from my paper round.

If I’d invested just one week of my paper round in Nvidia shares though, it would be worth over £10 million today.

What are the punishments for recklessness VS intent?

Or are OpenAI too well connected now to be punished for anything.

You can’t see through it. So it’s a small glasses shaped headset

The first time it happens you can say it’s negligence. Now that they know it keeps happening and they seemingly aren’t able to stop it but keep doing it. That has to be on them doesn’t it?

I hope they don’t have any test questions about nuclear power in the training set.

Everyone is sticking ads everywhere now.

I swapped supermarkets the other day because Tesco’s search now has several sponsors at the top of every search - and they’re weird keyword matching that doesn’t even work so you get nonsense products.

Search for ‘mint’ and you get 2 rows of toothpaste. Who searches for toothpaste by typing ‘mint’? Of course it’s bloody mint flavour. I want some actual mint.

Is it just me or are Alibaba / qwen’s websites often appear broken / very slow?

Thank you!

Thank you!

A while ago I made an algorithm to swap the gender in fairy stories.

(Genderswappedstories.com)

And I found another English weirdness trying to swap between his/him and her/hers.

Him always swaps to her

Eg it was him - it was her

But his can swap to her or hers

It is his -> it is hers

It is his thing -> it is her thing.

And her can also swap to him or his

It was her -> it was him

It was her thing -> it was his thing

And hers always swaps to his.

So hers and him are the only completely predictable - and they don’t even mean the same thing!

I had to write a very in-depth algorithm to work out the type of words surrounding the words - if they are nouns, adjectives etc - in each sentence to correctly guess the swaps. But even after that some were unpredictable due to word order keeping the important words apart. all I could do 100% reliably was to flag the ones that might be ambiguous to check. Of course now I could just get an LLM to check it!

Can anyone explain why this happens?