[Tsundoku]

Macros, on 06 September 2024 - 10:22 PM, said:

I'm very confused by this quote and post?

https://knowyourmeme.../milkshake-duck

https://en.wikipedia.../Milkshake_Duck

https://thenib.com/t...milkshake-duck/

[Macros]

Well that

Plus what quote did Amp quote??

[Tiste Simeon]

It was my post directly prior to your previous post. Danny Masterson was an actor (and scientologist) who was recently convicted of rapes and sentenced to 30 years for it. A few people rallied around him in his defence and it seems the new Linkin Park singer was one.

I dunno if she did what some scientologist types did and actually threaten and harass the victims (unlikely) but it's still a bit disconcerting.

[Macros]

Oh, that sucks

Thanks for clarifying though

[Cause]

Downtown Indianapolis is a great coty

[Mentalist]

God, I've missed a good UKI dance party. Haven't been to one since one of my friends got married during covid, either 3 or 4 years ago.

feeling slightly buzzed, but overall just happy. Since the war stated there's been a sort of soft ban on major "fun" events in the community. But sometime in the fall last year I realized that in order for me to keep my sanity and be able to continue contributing to the war effort effectively, I need to get back to having a social life as part of the work-life balance. So this was a very good thing to happen.

Once I'm back from vacation 2 weeks from now, there's a whole social life roadmap ahead of me, which is a nice feeling to have. Catching up with a lot of PPL since the double-whammy of covid and the war had me largely revert to my undergrad social isolation behavior patterns feels good. Feeling a bit like a fresh start after the last 4 years of my life were just a social write-off

[Slow Ben]

Cause, on 10 September 2024 - 04:19 AM, said:

Downtown Indianapolis is a great coty

Downtown Indy is really underrated. Pretty walkable, clean, lot of cool places to go.

My SIL used to have an apartment just off downtown. Good times.

Did you see the dancing lady? Dancing Ann?

[Maark Abbott]

Wife continues to improve. Despite the shitshow at her work six weeks back, she's very upbeat; the manager who wrongfully canned her got canned for that act, she's on a team with a team lead she gets on with now and whose comments on her development are basically 'just keep doing what you already are because it's going well', so I'm hopeful she'll be signed off on the probation soon. Her mood is vastly up, she's not girlrotting or rotmaxxing anywhere close to as much so yeah, positives all in all.

[Maark Abbott]

The ray of sunshine to the other thread - the bank we use for our mortgage have said they'd support us moving to a new property and that wife's probationary period doesn't affect our eligibility very much if at all with them. So we can FINALLY go to market and start selling this damn place!

[Tiste Simeon]

Maark Abbott, on 30 September 2024 - 06:35 AM, said:

The ray of sunshine to the other thread - the bank we use for our mortgage have said they'd support us moving to a new property and that wife's probationary period doesn't affect our eligibility very much if at all with them. So we can FINALLY go to market and start selling this damn place!

But if you move house you won't have juicy stories of all the crazy gang members the slum landlord keeps letting in to the next door!

Please, think of the WMWYG thread before you make huge life decisions!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Really pleased to hear some good news for you Maark - let's hope you don't have to be there too much longer.

[Tiste Simeon]

I just realised. I joined this forum 20 years ago this month! That's (just) over half my life with you (mostly) fine people.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Finally managed to get that mouse that was running all around my apartment---that even my most fervent cat noises failed to frighten off...

Spotted it starting to crawl into my air purifier, which I lifted up... it hopped out and raced towards my yoga mat, then froze. As I picked up a long wooden plank and smashed its tiny skull in, brains and blood thankfully only getting the hardwood.

Still had best clean that mat off again...

OTOH a big fat roach survived a direct hit from my paper-towel-wrapped hand---though I was primarily trying to grab it and crush it between my fingers, not smash it into the carpet with my fist (bit messy)---and managed to race away behind a bunch of large paintings stacked close by. Damn armor. Here's hoping I gave it enough internal injuries for it to perish ere long...

[Mentalist]

Back from vacation, and life's already crazy, but I got a haircut, feeling infinitely lighter (and less grey with a buzzcut), plus indoor season starts on Friday!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

I got the roach!

Well, *a* roach, anyway... when you see one... more may be climbing out of your pipes to frolic.

Resilient fucker. Saw it in my bathroom on the hardwood. Trying to grab it with a paper towel, smashed it a little but it got away, grabbed it again, smashed it a bit more but it slipped away... finally even though it had gotten onto the carpet I grabbed it again and this time I lifted it in the air as I crushed it, its limbs still twitching, two huge fucking antennae like line-thin horns curving up towards my face, carapace like something out of the Aliens films. (Come to think of it that might be an interesting movie---Aliens: Cockroaches. Cockroach-alien mutant hybrids. But that might be too scary for America....)

Oh, forgot to mention that that demon mouse had been haunting my sleep with its horrible squeaking and rustly stirring. Started keeping a sharp metal pole next to my bed to stab at it in the shadows of the middle of the night... felt a little like Ahab trying to harpoon his white whale. But I smashed in the head of mine. So now I can sleep at last, sleep at last... thank Death almighty (for now), I can sleep at last.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 01 October 2024 - 10:28 PM

[amphibian]

What the fuuuuuck was all that, Azath...

[Briar King]

Are you saying your precious AI ain’t yet advanced enough to kill roaches yet?

Maybe one day right?

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

amphibian, on 01 October 2024 - 10:32 PM, said:

What the fuuuuuck was all that, Azath...

Seems like that sleep was much needed to stave off further sleep deprivation

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Briar King, on 01 October 2024 - 10:49 PM, said:

Are you saying your precious AI ain't yet advanced enough to kill roaches yet?

Maybe one day right?

Hmm, that might be a great way to get killer robots into people's homes. Terminator, meet Exterminator. (Or, failing that, perhaps in robo-cockroach form... if the roaches can get in, the robo-roaches can too.) Viva la robolución!

Of course for that it needs a body---or bodies---that can move effectively through the world. Actually two recent articles about that have been making me happy too:

Quote

o1 generates a 'chain of thought' in which it considers and reasons its way through a problem. [...] But o1 is still primarily trained on human language. [...] you can describe a biscuit to me all day long, but I won't have tasted it.

So what happens when you stop describing the truth of the physical world, and let the AIs go and eat some biscuits? We'll soon begin to find out, because AIs embedded in robot bodies are now starting to build their own ground-up understanding of how the physical world works.

AI begins its ominous glorious split away from human thinking (newatlas.com)

Or when you let the AIs go and kill some roaches... though they will be able to evolve new forms faster with the aid of ultrarealistic simulations.

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[Nvidia's] Omniverse is a simulation platform. It offers a virtual world that developers can customize and use to test simulations of robots. "Isaac" is what Nvidia calls a "gym" built on top of Omniverse. It's how you put your robot into an environment and practice tasks.

"That's been the biggest problem in robotics — how much data is needed to give those foundational models an understanding of the world and adjust for it," [...]

But, analysts see the potential.

Spoiler

[...] "Nvidia's capabilities in robotics and digital twins (with Omniverse) have the potential to scale into massive businesses themselves." [...]

Wearing his signature black leather jacket, [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang outstretched both arms [...] "Robotics is here. Physical AI is here. This is not science fiction," he said.

If Nvidia's place in the tech stratosphere is to be permanent, Huang needs the market for robotics to be big.

[...] Simulators are an essential stop on the path to humanoid robots, but they don't necessarily lead to human-like perception.

[...] But a humanoid robot is a world away from even the most useful non-humanoid. Some roboticists doubt that it's the right target to aim for.

"I'm very skeptical. The cost to make a humanoid robot and to make it versatile is going to be higher than if you make a robot that doesn't look like a human and can only do a single task but does the task well and faster," [...]

Gaming and graphics aren't Nvidia's future anymore. Autonomous cars and robotics are. The company told BI it expects everything to be autonomous in the future starting with robotic arms and vehicles and leading to buildings and even cities.

Why [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Obsessed With Robots - Business Insider

[Abyss]

And then they can be used for rats. And invasive species like rabbits in Australia or geese impeding airports or deer eating crops or wildcats and other predatory species encroaching on residential areas and hey, where my body cavity probing space aliens at????