In this video you can see that cats can use their tail as a gyroscope to orient themselves while in free fall without any form of propulsion, so it’s more of an active manoeuvering system than just ballast.
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Do they say that, though?
10·12 days agoA few days ago, me to Google home:
“Hey Google, turn on the light”
“Sorry, I can’t control powered devices.”
“Hey Google, turn on the light”
“Turning on the light.”
I had a similar experience getting it to summarize my maps info, it would alternate between correct answers and claiming it had no access to the data.
That would be fantastic in Baby Steps. To be able to wipe out the last few minutes of failure.
Last weekend I made zero progress, but I did it much faster than the weekend before.
43·12 days agoAlmost all billboards in the Silicon Valley area are for AI and related services, it really does look like selling shovels to shovel sellers.
AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. “smartest”) models.
The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.
You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it’s not too demanding (“smarter” models are bigger data files, so won’t fit in the memory of a small device).
Today, for instance, I had a phone call from “Spectrum Internet support” and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said “possible scam” on screen.
The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.
https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en
For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device
This reminded me to check on what happened to IKEA Monkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(monkey)
Turns out he went live on a farm!
I almost thought to myself “I can’t be bothered to watch a YouTube short”, but then I thought “I can’t be bothered to press Back to get out of it, either”.
I am so glad that I didn’t miss that, it gets better and better.
It’s still Friday in parts of last week.
I had a captcha a few days ago that was something like “click on all the pictures that go with this” with a picture of a saucepan and the grid was food items and other things.
I pointed my phone at it and asked Gemini and almost instantly it said “the potato in the top left and the carrots look the middle of the bottom row”.
21·20 days agoThe python code is free, but you have to pay for the indenting.
4·25 days agoThis is maybe related, too
Bits of California, Nevada and Utah all squished together.
Whereas Horizon Forbidden West packs all of these into a patch of North America a few miles across (except that the cities are abandoned). The DLC adds a volcanic section.
Edit: the end-credits is a fly-through of much of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjufECOeHk
Is no one going to post the Technology Connections video???
Okay, then
Also https://youtu.be/RpoXFk-ixZc
And maybe channeling electro boom: https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI
Giving the benefit of the doubt, that effect on the text looks very like the “super zoom” ai upscaling that Pixel phones do.
I just stood about 25ft away from a sharpie and it deblurred the “fine point” text into “FOVE PODIT”.
“Why are they taking my tacos for a ride in the hills?” - me, about once a week.
Q as in queso.
Edit: having seen C, I retract my suggestion. Queue is better.
When you look at the world, you’re actually perceiving the pattern of lights and shadows that pass through your iris onto the inside of your cave-like eyeball.