Simulating airdrag and turbulence the compute-intensive way: simulating all of the air inside the pinball machine! You've got a few tens of liters of gaseous molecules to keep track of, should be enough to slow down most computers I would guess!
But I would be very surprised if any pinball software actually does that!
No one does it yet! Someone should import OpenFOAM into Unreal and make this happen. I want my pinball experience to require a dedicated server to help it.
This attack happened a few days before Halloween 2023 (pumpkins), with a large drop in the number of devices connected to the Internet – like how an eclipse suddenly brings a period of darkness, maybe?
This is just my interpretation, I also found it cryptic.
Whether MS deserves credit or not, he's a very senior SW engineer at Microsoft so this should at least provide some reassurance that the company has technical leaders who are looking out for these sorts of security risks...
> TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.
Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There's been some speculation that this reversal in safety was tied to the rise of smartphones and a corresponding increase of distracted driving.
Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.
Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any increase in opaque errors. I can tell what someone meant if I see "elephent in the room", but not "element in the room" (not an actual example, autocorrect would likely get that one right).
Your caveat is not the norm though, as everyone is putting a lot of faith in them. So, that's part of the problem. I've talked with people that aren't developers, but they are otherwise smart individuals that have absolutely not considered that the info is not correct. The readers here are a bit too close to the subject, and sometimes I think it is easy to forget that the vast majority of the population do not truly understand what is happening.
Nah, I don’t think anything has the potential to build critical thinking like LLMs en masse. I only worry that they will get better. It’s when they are 99.9% correct we should worry.
People put too much faith in conspiracy theories they find on YT, TikTok, FB, Twitter, etc. What you're claiming is already not the norm. People already put too much faith into all kinds of things.
This seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place of "browser" would have made that sentence more accessible to the "rest of the population" you're describing.
