Retired software developer, based in UK.
My real-world interests include
#science, #nature, #music, #photography, #art, #architecture, #history, #geology, #physics, #chemistry, #politics, #UkConstitution, #economics, #ModernMonetaryTheory, #MMT
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Starts next Wednesday:
MMTed invites you to enrol for the edX MOOC - Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century - is now open for enrolments.
It’s a free 4-week course and the course starts on February 15, 2023.
Further Details: https://edx.org/course/modern-monetary-theory-economics-for-the-21st-century
Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan
Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:
It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!
It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html
Reddit has been hacked.
Attackers gained access to:
* internal documents
* code
* some internal business systems.
Reddit believes, at the moment, that users' passwords and accounts are safe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/
Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/oops-how-google-bombed-while-doing
I will always remember today (my birthday no less), February 8, 2023, as the day in which a chatbot-induced hallucination cost Alphabet $100 billion. But I will also remember it as the week in which Microsoft introduced an ostensibly similar technology, with ostensibly similar problems, to an entirely different response.
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Via Kylie Robison of Fortune:
SCOOP: #Musk has emailed staff following #Twitter outage
“Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability & robustness, especially w the Super Bowl coming up. We should also pause on transitioning away from Sacramento, consolidating Atlanta & reducing GCP usage until at least next week.”
Suggests massive glitch might be related to consolidating data centers, reducing GCP usage, which could be a way to reduce costs
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