Startup investors are clueless. They worked at a corp that did well, so they think they're brilliant.
Most cannot separate bull vs. genius. To them, every pitch is: "we cured cancer, but need $10 mil and 1 yr to prove it... then it'll be worth $100B!"
Every single pitch.
Flow batteries may be the future of power grids. The charging electrodes are central, but power is stored in fluid that flows away into ordinary storage tanks. So, unlike fixed capacity lithium batteries, to make a battery bigger just add tanks.
2004: Created spotti Gmail acct
2016: Created spotti Discord acct
2024: Created spotti VRchat acct
About time...
A London DNA sequencing corp vanished into Russia. This is why protected health info (PHI) must be under control of consumers/patients, such as w/ blockchain keys. Policies change, corps move. You can change credit cards, but not yet your DNA/biometrics.
"AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in rhythm and beauty [which] contributed to their identification as human-authored" -- Nature.
This is more about an opaqueness of some poetry to people, but AI poems were more crowd pleasing.
As AI-generated text continues to evolve, distinguishing it from human-authored content has become increasingly difficult. This study examined whether non-expert readers could reliably differentiate between AI-generated poems and those written by well-known human poets. We conducted two experiments with non-expert poetry readers and found that participants performed below chance levels in identifying AI-generated poems (46.6% accuracy, χ2(1, N = 16,340) = 75.13, p < 0.0001). Notably, participants were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems (χ2(2, N = 16,340) = 247.04, p < 0.0001). We found that AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in qualities such as rhythm and beauty, and that this contributed to their mistaken identification as human-authored. Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.
Co-inventor of the school backpack, Murray McCory (along with partner Jan, founded JanSport) remembered in @nytimes obit. Also invented the pop-up aluminum frame tent. They were so popular at U of Wash then nationwidenthe company sold within 5 years.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/murray-mccory-dead.html
