Chris Carlson @ccarlson71@qoto.org

I'm sorry everyone but we need to take back whatever we all said about Apple not doing machine learning right.

iOS 17's Photos app can now identify *and* explain laundry symbols in pictures and this is amazing. No more need for apps that do this; just swipe up on a photo.

Many non-artists don't seem to realise that just sitting staring into space is an integral part of the creative process.

#art

This should be the default e-commerce experience.

While the media is pushing its new horserace, "a historic number of Americans don't want a Trump-Biden rematch" I'm grounded in reality. It's gonna be Biden. It'll probably be Trump. That's the reality we're in. Deal with it. If you don't want fascism, if you want women and minorities to have equal freedom and value to cis christian white men, then you vote the Biden-Harris ticket. Get over it. Have a seat. Have a beer. This is the hand you're dealt. Think about your grandkids and grow up.

When you realize your final legacy to the world is copy and paste, and are OK with that 🥸

The older I get, the less likely I’d be shocked if a random body part just fell off one day…

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Changed my stance on AI art, post as much of it as you can in the places they train the AIs

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

Questions. #JobInterview #funny #ComicStrip

As someone with Stage 4 cancer, I was really struck by this quote at the beginning of Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies:"

"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." -- Susan Sontag

Might I suggest that Twitter refugees include their generalized location in bios? The process of reestablishing a network will result in making new connections and you may not always know someone's location.

More importantly, this place is far less American-centric than Twitter, and having to ID as American (if you are) might remind you that the US is not the entire world.

#Introduction Retired #liberal #knit #weave #read #mask #atx Austin's great (my son & DiL are here), but I'd rather live in England or even DC Really, really bad at learning to use Mastodon, but it's good to know I'm not alone

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal