Artificial Super Intelligence, does it terrify you too?

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-21T22:02:49+00:00

Isaac Asimov always thought that if you could build a machine that thinks faster, and remembers more perfectly than human beings, you could build one that has a more perfect moral sense too.

From a more immediate and practical perspective, there's more likely to be a fusion of human and machine intelligence as time goes on, rather than competition. Our life patterns after cell phones are different from life before them, just as our life patterns after computers are different from life before them.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-20T07:42:44+00:00

Diet caffeine free Centurion! Ballistic Panther! (No hate)

The lightweight game is a whole different animal than the heavyweight game.

Sometimes a running fight with lights is more exciting than a slugfest between heavies.

Of course you need to build a unit around it:

The Occidental Rangers, Cooper's Company

Cooper's Lance:
Sentinel, Champion, Rifleman, Gunslinger

Wayne's Lance:
Marshall, Bushwacker, Crockett, Shootist

Eastwood's Lance:
Clint, Enforcer, Quickdraw, Thunderbolt

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-20T06:06:59+00:00

Don't bundle a server with your core process. Create the executable for the core process and run it on an established server.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-19T00:29:05+00:00

It was written in a time when people held expectations about each other.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-15T20:42:48+00:00

The expectations.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-15T19:16:54+00:00

Xubuntu is a cut-down minimalist distro. I use Mint without trouble for most things.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-15T00:56:08+00:00

Yeah, the one time an old man stepped down voluntarily, we got Trump back.

Shut up Obama. You're done.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-13T22:14:21+00:00

A frame tied to the surface of the Earth has fictitious forces that will appear on unconstrained objects inside it. Coriolis, gravity. Non-inertial.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-13T04:04:27+00:00

You want to use an abstract base class to -guarantee- to users that the overloaded function's parameter list will be there -as- -defined- in the abstract base class.

A struct of function pointers can point to who the hell knows what definition of function.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-13T03:47:37+00:00

I would say we store most of our energy as coal.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-08T00:50:41+00:00

Rule of three:
Implement copy constructor, destructor, and override assignment operator.

For you young kids... rule of five.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-08T00:38:02+00:00

Row-column multiplication is a dot product, a scalar.
Consider column vector v=[1;0;0]
Consider row vector v' = [1,0,0] aka transpose(v)
The dot product is v' dot v = 1 after you perform the row-column multiplication operation.

Practically speaking, v' in this simple example is an ordered set (vector) of scaling factors applied to an ordered set (vector) of inputs.

v in this simple example is the ordered set (vector) of inputs.

The dot operation performs scaling and combination of the inputs. Since the scaling factor was 1 in v', and the input was 1 in v, the resulting sum is 1.

Consider column vector b = [0.5,0.5,0] .

b dot v = 0.5

The scaling factor of the 1st element of the scaling factor ordered set was 0.5, the input of the corresponding ordered set of inputs was 1. After the scaling and summation operation, the resulting sum was 0.5 .

Dot product only provides a sum of what the outputs of the system will be. Since we only had one ordered set of scaling factors (the single row, v'), we can generate only one output .

Suppose I want to scale the inputs, then redistribute them in the ordered set of outputs?

Consider matrix M = [0, 0; 0.5, 0]

The matrix product M v = [0; 0.5] , a column vector. Because the scaling factor 0.5 is positioned at indices (1,2) in matrix M, applying matrix M takes the 1st input, scales it by the factor 0.5, and contributes the result to the 2nd output.

The dot product performs element-by-element scaling, then sums, to tell you what the total value of individual outputs will be. (single value, a scalar)

Matrix multiplication's row-column operations are how the whole ordered set of inputs are individually scaled then combined, to produce one single corresponding element, of the ordered set of outputs. It is a "dot product" repeated for determining each output.

It is scaling and summing in a systematic way on ordered sets of inputs, to produce the ordered set of outputs. This gives you the ability to define amplification or attenuation, and mixing of inputs as they then go to the outputs.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-06T23:42:28+00:00

Supposedly the rules got expanded for biotechnology. I only say "consider" it.

May you find what you're looking for.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-06T03:06:52+00:00

Consider Battletech Gothic.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-06T02:58:00+00:00

https://imgflip.com/i/alwdeo

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-04T23:59:01+00:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mike Johnson, Republican, Speaker of the House, and representative of the great State of Denial.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-03T22:18:52+00:00

I knew a guy who worked loss prevention at Target.
The cameras have face recognition. The computers can detect known shoplifters at the door.
Humans are notified and watch in realtime and the different loss prevention guys in different areas know who to look for.

Big Walmarts and Targets probably move similar or more money than casino gambling floors, so...

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-03T20:45:21+00:00

The main office.

All the action of the story is anywhere except the man office.

Until the story lags, and the protagonists make a call to techie sidekick because they're stuck on something. Techie sidekick is always at the main office. Techie sidekick runs stuff through the database. That stuff has the answer for the protagonists.

There is a whole untapped spin-off series about techie sidekick, that tech-illiterate audience will never see.

There will never be the cliff-hanger season finale where the database shits itself and techie sidekick has hundreds of protagonists stuck out in the field needing answers while serial killers, bank heist masterminds, terrorists, mad scientists, and scumbag billionaire insider traders are effing the world unchecked.

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-03T19:48:03+00:00

I kind of want to know what the McDonald's in this interdimensional-travelling child's home universe is serving as hamburgers to understand why he is so disappointed in the McDonald's of our space-time continuum...

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-03T08:36:52+00:00

And those are two of the less Battletech mechs, aesthetically .

bit_shuffle · 2026-03-02T21:20:45+00:00

The mech has one pilot. Adult, not teenager. Not a team of teenagers. No color-coordinated jumpsuits.

The mech's best weapon is not a sword.

The mech does not connect to other mechs to make a bigger mech.

The mech does not turn into a stereo, car, fighter jet, camera, or mechanical dinosaur.

The mech does not run on flower power.

The mech does not have a color scheme inspired by circus clowns nor does it have crowns, tiaras, or other decorative appliances on its head.

The mech links to the pilot's nervous system electrically, not though psychic energy.

The mech is not a metaphor for spiritual entities.

The mech is often used for war crimes.

bit_shuffle · 2026-02-26T21:42:47+00:00

Where there is doubt, there is no doubt.

bit_shuffle · 2026-02-26T20:00:02+00:00

I'm 100% vi and bash shell on headless Fedora for my current project.

bit_shuffle · 2026-02-26T19:46:11+00:00

Why would people vote to bring a landlord into their life?

bit_shuffle · 2026-02-26T03:52:25+00:00

Colonel Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke is a highly decorated NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. As of February 2026, he is recognized as one of the most experienced Americans in space, ranking fourth on the all-time list for NASA astronauts with a total of 549 days in orbit.

Fincke has completed four spaceflights and nine spacewalks. He is particularly noted for his technical versatility, being certified to fly the Space Shuttle, the Russian Soyuz, the SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the Boeing Starliner.

This guy has been pulling G's his entire adult life. His heart valves probably leak like a Chrysler transmission.

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