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IN THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE,

THERE IS NO WAR, NO CRIME, NO POVERTY.

THERE IS ONLY THE ALGORITHM,

AND IT HAS A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FXV4WM7/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=optimal&qid=1597458016&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXmyc0xetTk

Today in 2003, 21 years ago: The band Linkin Park releases their second album Meteora

#OnThisDay

ACB is pleased to learn that one of our legislative imperatives, the Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act (H.R.1328), now has a Senate companion bill. Earlier this month, Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced S.3621, a bipartisan bill to improve the accessibility of medical devices. Click to read the press release:

https://www.hassan.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-hassan-and-braun-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-improve-accessibility-of-medical-devices

When I use generative "AI" it invariably contains mistakes. That's just reality at the moment.

So when I see company after company adding AI to every product in sight, I now assume that all of those products are "creating" flawed results, by design.

This is crazy. (Google search is, maybe not coincidentally, crappier than ever.)

We need a whole genre of products that don't contain AI. Maybe they, too, are irredeemably flawed, but at least we'll know the mistakes aren't a design decision.

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social