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I’m not a violent person, but my first reaction to that video has been a wish to have a shotgun and turn the upper half of that mole into instant organic fertilizer… guess that even a unrepenting urbanite like me can’t resist the call of my ancestors’ farmer genes! 
But now i’m off to bed and moles are cute little animals. Unless they’ve stolen your greens, when they become a gory mess of shredded meat and shatered little bones. Nighties lovelies!
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Time to stop computering and go sleeping. Nighties lovelies!
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How about this newly discovered dormant black hole just 2000 light years away that had been orbiting our Milky Way for upwards of 8 Billion years?
Read about this on the news today.
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Random pet peeve: reading books like The Expanse series of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, they mention that humans grown in lower gravity would have longer limbs and higher skulls and would be taller since gavity isn’t pulling down them… but my pet peeve is, if gravity won’t slow down the vertical growth of your legs, it also won’t pull your arms and speed up their growth. Thus people grown in lower gravities maybe would have longer legs and backbones, but also would suffer from shorter arms by lack of enough gravity pulling their hands away from their shoulders. Thus the outcome wouldn’t be as cool as KSR’s bird-like Martians, and in the Espanse universe there would be running jokes about Inners keeping Belters “at arm’s length”…
(That, if gravity does impact bone development at all: our genes don’t follow a “construction plan” with a “target limb length”, it’s more a matter of “growth influences vs nogrowth influences until nogrowth nullifies growth”).
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Hmmm how come we could be taller in the morning first getting up then when we go to bed at night?
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Animals could grow more massive is what can be seen with aquatic mammals. Their overall size could be bigger, not just height. With musculature its also important that the muscles have certain strength, and they will have to keep their connections to bones in certain places. If there would be advantage to shortet limbs when there would be more strength associated with them, then maybe those people would survive instead of those wih less strength and longer libs. Evolution works by elimination too, lets say brittle construction would be more susceptible to breaking bones in falls or fights, and those would make in turn internal bleeding and cause someone to die because of blood clots. A lot of statistics and accidens, and a lot of survivors, and a lot of dead people. And we dont even know if they would have offspring before being dead from radiation or food poisoning.
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New one.
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And that’s why his name is Bruised Lee
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The new Trailer for Dead Pool 3 sort of looks like the costume is AI generated as the bright colours don’t show shadows compared with the environment of the scene shown.
/Also on the bone sizes of perhaps living in the higher atmosphere, my guess there would be less oxygen and more C02 which is what caused the dinosaurs to grow to the sizes they were. Millions of years ago there was higher CO2 levels.
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So today it’s thursday and tomorrow it’s friday… that’s mostly good news… nighties lovelies!
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Word of the day: Prestige
Hayley picture of the day:
Timezone.
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Speaking of Terminators…I have once seen a Tauren warrior in a battleground in World of Warcraft named “Taurminator”. Such a clever play on words.
AI do the creative jobs, but what about the mundane jobs like ironing clothes and the other chores? Aren’t we supposed to have time from physical chores with help from AI to pursue our creative endeavours? 
Timezone.
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Here’s the thing, the current non-intleligent-at-all AIs are faking “creativity” by numbercrunching their way into generating stuff that imitates things we do with our brains… but the daily chroes require a massive set of skills which is well beyond the capabilities of our machines, plus, any machine even partially capable of performing daily chores is a lot more expensive than any person doing the same job. Which is the elephant in the room for Boston Dynamics and their impressive but essentially too expensive and barely usable humanoid robots. Part of the problem is that what we make with our body, doesn’t means that our body is the right tool for it. Usable robots have the minimal but appropiate hardware to perform their tasks -you don’t need legs to assemble a door into a car. Don’t even need eyes if the door is always the same shape and orientation, starts from the same place, and ends in the same location.
We are very away from SF robots and SF AIs. And as far a AI is concerned, we are not even moving in the right direction.
And now after bashing some of the things which would be cool if they were real but are just useless trash in reality, i’m off to bed. Nighties lovelies!
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Maybe they’re(AI) reading the pattern of the universe. You know, making connections from all those numbers. A human brain cannot make a connection with its severely limited brain, but A.I. has billions and billions of parameters of processing power thanks to developments in the chip world.
Also this:
What Will Smith said has become a reality. A robot can now write a symphony AND paint a masterpiece on a canvas.
Timezone.
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Was reading an interesting piece from a publisher, describing how they generally know when a book is heavily generated by AI as it has the over use of words such a ‘delve’ in it.
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