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When the kids from next door lose their ball over the fence and try and retrieve it they’re gonna get a face full of flame!

Would have done better if he could kiss a few babies out on the campaign trail - but the bin over his head gets in the way. It’s a shame, I like Count Binface’s policy platform…and the cape.

I’m with you.

It looks like he can funk, imo - it’s the hat, you see.

Yeah, this guy was the Roman evening news channel. 2000 years of progress and this guy turns into Fox News - which tbh makes that guy 2000 years ago probably a better news source than most of the news and media of today. In other words, news anchors should go back to togas.

…can Richard funk?

“Well, you know, you go out there and give 110%, and you wanna play good, and you hope you play good - I think we played pretty good tonight…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5IpCpeb0M

Sky news link in a science forum, really? Don’t they promote covid conspiracies and all sorts of anti-science crap for their right-wing audience?

Yeah, and I’m pointing to your pointer pointer and I’m a pointer pointer pointer. Or more accurately but less funny is that I’m pointing to your pointer-to-pointer and I’m a pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer.

Copy paste of my research:

Nostr

• https://nostr.com/

• https://nostr-resources.com/

• https://nostr.com/clients

• Nostr is a Twitter alternative that’s decentralized, not a Reddit alternative.

• Nostr is not P2P. Its a broadcast protocol. Nostr is pub/sub, distributed, decentralized; while others such as Matrix,mastodon, bluesky are federated and are somewhat closed than nostr.

• Nostr is just a protocol - a structured way to send and receive data. Not tied to one-email or a centralizd service for identity. Anyone can create anything on top of nostr. (https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/14ea9y3/whats_the_difference_between_nostr_matrix/)

• No, they (Nostr) are not doing ActivityPub. ActivityPub requires server-to-server communication, which Nostr does not have. They only have client-server communication. And the actual protocol is different to ActivityPub, all the way from the transport (which uses WebSockets rather than HTTP REST) to the schemas of the objects being passed. They also rely much more heavily on public key cryptography.

• Nostr takes decentralization too far to be practical for a wide audience IMO. The relay model is even more abstract than Mastodon instances (which can at least be analogized to e-mail hosts) and the public/private key system is both inaccessible (copy/paste a key or look people up in a directory-- like a phone book! Friend codes on steroids) and unforgiving (no password resets). Like much of crypto, there are interesting ideas that don’t seem practical in actual use. Curious if it pans out. (https://kbin.social/search?q=nostr)

• But unlike ActivityPub, the Nostr protocol is extensible with NIPS (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips) so maybe there is hope to fix these problems (https://kbin.social/search?q=nostr)

• Browser addons:

  • Snort
  • Iris
  • Primal

• Android app:

  • Plebstr
  • Amethyst (getting more updates than Plebstr)

• Here is a link to most if not all Nostr clients if anyone is interested: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr#clients

• Here is a link of clients that Nostr themselves recommend if anyone is interested: https://nostr.com/clients

• Full of Crypto-currency traders.

Send everyone in charge to an Enya concert. “We can sail, we can sail, With the Orinoco flow…”

If you zoom in you can see the pineapple pieces.

I think he means the inactivity timer, that logs you out automatically, is too short. Leave a few kbin tabs open, go away and do something for 10 mins, come back and you’re logged out and have to log back in. Annoying. No way to change the timer in settings that I could find.

Nice article.

Interesting that Hinton’s alarmist views e.g “My intuition is: we’re toast. This is the actual end of history.” are being poo-pooed by other experts in the field, just like they were “respectfully scorning” his ideas for many decades on how to create AI before her was proven right.

Memorable quotes:
“We’re dealing with an event that’s never occurred before in human history, of something more intelligent than us,” he said
“There is not a good track record of less intelligent things controlling things of greater intelligence,” he told the New Yorker in a brief exchange.
“Well, it’s too awful.” What is? “Them taking over. It’s not going to be pretty. Did you ever see a big change of power like that, that was pretty?” But couldn’t we turn off a machine that threatened us? “No, you can’t. You will be completely dependent on it by then.”
He continued: “This is a realm where we have no experience and no understanding of the possibilities, but they’re going to be very good at manipulation. And if they’ve got any sense, they won’t let us know that they’re much smarter than us. I’m not confident about any of these conclusions. But I’m confident that there’s not nothing to worry about.”

Seems like Hinton’s life story is a movie in the making…ending in the AI apocalypse, oh well…