It's my job to communicate complex ideas to a general audience in clear, concise ways. I've been doing it for 30 years, and I still sometimes fuck it up. Communication is hard, and it's amazing that it ever works. But watching the general level of public discourse become a race to the bottom has felt like the worsening of an infected wound.
I usually refer to marketing/advertising as the dark arts, half-jokingly. I'm not joking here. What MAGA's done with language is a literal curse.
...even though I don’t use Reddit, I know the reputation it has for being a center for wit and intellectual debate.
That was the satire flag for me.
“We have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear."
Anthropic publishes a lot of interesting research. Anthropic did not publish research showing that.
There are AI's that are ethically trained. There are AI's that run on local hardware. We'll eventually need AI ratings to distinguish use types, I suppose.
The loss of widely shared cultural touchstones in media has messed with my perception of time. But also, I'm getting old.
That almost inevitably will just be a new kind of greenwashing.
We have stereo smell to help with locating smells. There's also the nasal cycle. One nostril/sinus handles most of the airflow, then they swap (the sinuses are separate until they get to the throat). That way one can recover moisture, plus some smells are more easily detected with fast airflow and others with slow. So the nostrils functioning differently gives us a broader range of odor detection. What else? Umm, bilateral symmetry and redundancy is useful.
I get the sense that VLC doesn't really care if something is a valid video file, it's just gonna start playing and see what happens.
I can pretty confidently say that 4k is noticeable if you're sitting close to a big tv. I don't know that 8k would ever really be noticeable, unless the screen is strapped to your face, a la VR. For most cases, 1080p is fine, and there are other factors that start to matter way more than resolution after HD. Bit-rate, compression type, dynamic range, etc.
It's been 30 years since I read Madame Bovary. I don't remember much about it, other than it made me uncomfortable in a way that bothered me. I'll add it to my list of books to re-read.