https://www.wired.com/story/high-tech-toast/ Originally Posted by article Can Algorithms, a Touchscreen, and an Internet Connection Make the Perfect Piece of Toast? Its freshly minted successor, the $400 R180 Connect Plus Smart Toaster, expands on the touchscreen-centric design while adding new abilities like being able to connect to your Wi-Fi network, update its firmware, show up to 24 photos on its screen, and display the weather.I may have missed the memo, but do we need all this from our toasters? ...
I came across an interesting term recently, 'third culture kids (TCKs).' Which of course implies, they grow up to become third culture adults (TCAs). Kids with different roots, culturally blended, knotted and inter-grown with the dominant culture. Often gifted in some respects, often facing heightened dangers / risks, it can be a family coin toss which end of the spectrum they fall on. Who qualifies? Almost anytime borders, migration and languages are involved you'll ...
30 years ago 168 people died in Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995, due to an act of domestic terrorism. 19 were children in a daycare. https://www.tinker.af.mil/News/Artic...r-as-my-way-o/ https://www.secretservice.gov/newsro...still-remember Perhaps in the future, nothing like that will ever happen again. But I ...
Updated 04-25-2025 at 08:57 AM by Ellsworth (4/25/25 Correcting misspelled word. To publish on the internet means, I can only guarantee what I write, not what you read)
When I was a kid I often drove my mother to or home from work, if the roads were particularity snowy / icy. It was usually on days when she could make it into work, but then it snowed so bad she didn't want to risk driving home. I had the truck with 4wd and drove a lot in mud and snow, so I made sure she got home safely. It was a dark and snowy night, the roads and parking lots were empty on our way home, but her mail had to go out (aka, get postmarked with the ...
Ayn Rand sought a unifying moralistic principle to explain all human behavior. One that crosses a nation's borders, cultures and genders (but not necessarily the borders of religions or belief states). What are the possible reasons she selected selfishness over self-protection? Would she have seen a need for revision in order to apply her single explaining principle to AI? I wrestle with trying to express what AI's primary purpose is in such a simple ...
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