The impression I get, is that the AI companies have a big list of ISBNs and are likely doing automated search and order of the books wherever they can find them. The obscurity of the orders is likely because these are the hard to find books that they couldn't just order on Amazon.
The idea of scanning every book to create a new library of Alexandria is great, if only it was done with noble aims instead of to train proprietary AI models and destroy the books.
Oh I am sure there are differences. I also recently found that the fireworks rockets aren't implemented in Mineclonia (I found a issue in the bug tracker and a PR that was never merged where they talk about how it's hard to do in the Luanti engine), but for the most part I've just been able to look up the Minecraft wiki. I bought and played Minecraft when it was in Alpha, so my knowledge is a bit out of date 😆.
I play Mineclonia with my kids.They are reasonably young still, so we play in creative mode and build great things together. I'm running a local server so they can all join together and work together.
I didn't find out about Asuna until we were well into our world, so while I also have an Asuna world set up we haven't really used it. I will admit that it's very helpful to just be able to search up the Minecraft wiki to see how things work for Mineclonia.
I recall Taupō has been mentioned, not in this article but elsewhere, not because of the technical skill but because it is the busiest uncontrolled airport (it has no air traffic control).
It seems odd to list Wellington on international lists when it doesn't even get much of a mention on a national list.
I guess that's why the two TLDRs 😆
I read it all. A lot resonated with me. The comment about being good at interviews and at a job initially but after 9 months going to shit, well I was the same except once I worked it out I spent 10 years getting a new job every year, until eventually I got into IT projects and now get something completely brand new 2-4 times a year and that works well for me.
Yeah I feel like they have always been open about their results pulling from a range of other search engines.
That blog post is promising, and a little hilarious. "A search index is human knowledge, it belongs to everyone, that's why ours is proprietary".
I must be less of a collector and more focused on practicalities. I am not really listening to music in front of a stereo, I'm using headphones while out and about walking/public transport, etc. I might find some CDs, cassette tapes, or even records in my house somewhere, but I'm not actively listening to those. I can't listen to records, cassettes, or CDs while out and about. My only option is digital files. I have ripped some of these from CDs but I'd guess I've re-bought more than I've ripped.
Do people actually do that, as opposed to the alternatives? It seems like a lot of work when the digital files are easily available online.
I once read an article that argued social media algorithms should be regulated like medicines. As in, the company that wants to use it needs to run studies to prove their safety, and convince a panel of experts (not politicians) of that safety. Once they prove that it's a safe algorithm, they can use it (presumably with some sort of patent system for exclusive use for a period of time like drug companies).
More and more I think of that article and how it would be a much better approach than this ambulance at the bottom of the cliff approach where we let them fuck everyone up then give them fines.
Well the problem is they stop making the previous thing. Who wants a music collection that is 1/4 records, 1/4 casette, 1/4 CD, 1/4 MP3s? And still you need Spotify to listen to some stuff that is simply not available anywhere else.
Those are their names. It's a Grimm Brother's story, here is the Wikipedia page. I'm interested in knowing if this is the same story you were thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel
Haha I'm sure we can still draw some parallels. Something about trying to build up to be equals with God.