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zhyla wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:48 pm

...Eventually we will need to pay a lot of people to not work.

I think we do a lot of that already.

I'd like to see the list of "guessed next words" DEVIN went through to do this:

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Picked up a cheap digital microscope and have been playing with it for a couple of days. Here's the best pic I've gotten so far of the HIC mule edge. Quite a bit of crud on it even though I just wiped it off. I think the ceramic might take a static charge easily. https://i.imgur.com/wrUVnqR.jpeg Thi...

Those are impressive Bess numbers from a factory edge! I made a point of not cutting anything before the Bess tests. If you cut up a cardboard box, the numbers are going to trend upwards. It is impressive though. When I first got the tester, I tried a lot of knives and was surprised by how dull the...

Well I was resisting buying another Para2, thought I'd pick up the Military2 version, but then I noticed there isn't a Military2 version in this year's line up. Caved. Good thing I did, this is a really nice Paramilitary 2. I'm not posting pictures because it's much nicer in hand than what you see i...

bleasure wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:08 pm

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3. Insist the company do your thinking for you, ...

Didn't want to quote the whole thing, but thanks for that well written commentary.

From the About Us section of their website, the last two paragraph: "If you haven't noticed by now, we are a company that is very serious about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We realize there is a lot of information now available on the web. But as big as we are getting,...

... When will the first AI get a patent? sal https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24072241/ai-patent-us-office-guidance "In 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that only “natural humans” can apply for patents after it denied a petition from researcher Stephen Thaler. Thaler ad...

2021 Remaster of Prince going big time.




had to post this one youtube comment:

@jimparson8968
1 year ago
My guitar watches this when I’m not home
29K likes
528 Replies

old guy, old song, not bad.
Think he might have whiffed on the last verse.

Art as two dimensional drawing/painting is often theorized to have died back around the turn of the 20th century. Lots of arguments. One that comes to mind is photography killing the need. Another is the whole intellectual (Marxist ?) boredom with a precious thing you put a frame around and hang on ...

Want to be a rock n roll star ?

What could go wrong ?

Anthropic's paper on sleeper agents.



You can download and read the Anthropic paper (pdf file) here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

This blacked out magnacut Para2 is pretty cool, but I think I'll wait for the Military2 version.
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EDIT: Yeah, yeah, sure.

Caved. Free shipping and no tax: sold.

"Now, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have added to the list of potentially modifiable risk factors with a new study reporting high levels of a common B vitamin called niacin in the body may contribute to cardiovascular disease." (too much of anything...) h...

I've got the M4 Ti Framelock Military, and two of the S90V Ti Framelocks.

Love to have some Framelock Military's in more steels.

Nick's 2024 preview review:

https://youtu.be/8zZfIXm5j1E

... - the guy that is going to test this for me is going to change the edge geometry in testing. We both think that.. geometry is going to make a huge difference in CATRA vs the 25+% carbide alloys at 68Rc. Sal, since I think you know that um. This tester kid Jason Ward and Dr Larrin Thomas absolut...

Things are changing fast.

https://youtu.be/1Xo7CmkrSVQ