Background: Animal studies have shown that maternal low-fiber diets during pregnancy may impair brain development and function in offspring, but this has not been validated by epidemiological studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between maternal dietary fiber intake during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental...
So I was at a seaside arcade over the past week. Spent some time spamming the 2p slots machines and tickets are firing out of this thing. Go to exchange these at the kiosk and notice that you can get quite a few domestic appliances on the back shelf (13,000 tickets for a toaster, £5 of 2p slots got me 80 tickets)....
This Kiosk had lots of decent toys on the shelf (expensive tickets wise), kids being the target audience that made sense to me. The toaster, blender, kettle, bar heater etc stuck out as odd as I could not figure out the target audience.
I don’t remember them being cheap brands. They were the sort of things you could buy from a supermarket - branded.
OpenAI just admitted it can’t identify AI-generated text. That’s bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.::In January, OpenAI launched a system for identifying AI-generated text. This month, the company scrapped it.
Being detectable does not mean plagiarism. The way they did it was by using a fixed rule for generating high entropy words. These are words that can be replaced with a large number of different words without changing the meaning of the sentence. Given any original passage of text, it’s very unlikely for those words to all exactly follow the rule set by the generator, but a generated text will always have this rule followed, so they can be distinguished. Likewise, You can take any original passage and replace words in this fashion to increase the odds of it being detected as AI generated and the resulting text will still be original text.
putin and and other key russian criminals delivered to The Hague
That would be good start. Odd thing is, the russian people could do this. Stand up and overthrow your criminal government and work on that list I made. If russians would do such a bold move it would go a loooong way at repairing any standing they might hope to have with the rest of the world.
I have zero illusion or hope russians will dot this and that tells me all I need to know about that country and its people. Ball is their court and they stand idle.
"Today, PlayStation revealed that its PS5 has sold 40 million units. Microsoft doesn’t share hardware numbers typically, but court documents, math, and slides from an ID@Xbox in Brazil seem to suggest the Xbox Series X|S line-up is around 20-23 million units sold globally. That essentially puts the PS5 at a 2:1 advantage...
I don’t think it’s hardware. It’s a differentiator. Tell me why I (or whoever) should pick an Xbox over a PlayStation?
Microsoft tried to answer that question with Game Pass, seemingly going all in on that concept, paying or outright buying publishers to bring their games to Game Pass. Some people may love Game Pass, but most people I know either never subscribed to it or only tested it when it was like 1,-€ for a month or whatever.
What else differentiates it from the PS5 in a positive way? Sure, the Series X is a bit more powerful than the PS5, but it’s close enough that it basically results in slightly different behavior for games with dynamic resolution scaling, with the PS5 sometimes even pulling ahead oddly enough (probably a more mature SDK, not sure).
The controller is…well, a decent controller. It doesn’t do anything special like adaptive triggers, yet it costs almost the same as a DualSense, and if you count in the optional (!) battery pack, it’s quite a bit more expensive even.
Playing online costs just as much as on PS5 (why do you have to pay extra to play online in 2023, anyways?).
Of the few mentionable exclusive games, most are honestly just mediocre (also in terms of critical acclaim).
What’s left? Backwards compatibility for 360 games? Sure that’s nice, but surely not a system seller for most people, especially when they don’t already have a ton of 360 games.
I just don’t see many cases where someone would prefer the Xbox Series X to a PlayStation 5, without even taking into account what platform their friends are on.
If you want to win market share, deliver a better product. With better services. With better conditions. For lower prices.
That is how it works. Crying to the public about how unfair it is because Sony has such a large installed base already because of how Microsoft fucked up the Xbox One generation (at or even before launch) is NOT how it works.
I’m not. I’m playing on PC 95% of the time, and I play the Sony exclusives only in single player on my PS5 anyway.
What I’m saying is that this could be a differentiator for Microsoft that they just don’t seem to be interested in (it would obviously lose them a lot of revenue from existing customers at first). I feel like more people would get an Xbox for multiplatform games if they save over 50 bucks a year because they don’t have to pay for online play. Heck, I’d probably spring for a Series S for the odd round of Sea of Thieves and the likes on the big screen TV (I know, I could connect my PC, but it’s just very comfortable that way). But having to pay for online is a no-go for me, especially because it’s not my primary platform.
I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the folks that only play FIFA or the likes would get a Series S if it’s marketed correctly, and they didn’t have to pay for online play.
From the Wiki: According to former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing Tupac to star in his return to the “Star Wars” saga. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to Shakur’s untimely death the role ultimately went to Samuel L. Jackson. The character’s bald...
tbf, he was part of it. That was one of the weakest performances he’s ever phoned in. His Mace Windu barely feels like he even actually cares. Some of his line deliveries too, are kinda … odd?
I think all of that was him being directed to playing out a role as a Master Jedi. You have to remember before those movies the only actors that were able to really flesh out how a Jedi acts is Alec Guiness as obi wan and a puppet name Yoda. It was new territory. So you get this plain mannerism that is calm but absolute. Samuel was trying to convey that somehow and it just came out odd, probably partly because it was motherfukkin Samuel L Jackson doing it. Where as when Alec Guiness did it, the oddness just worked with the actor.
Oddly enough, without changing buying habits or consumer demand, I think the Amazon truck is a superior option.
Instead of thousands of individual trips to the store for small things, a single vehicle delivers everything
Instead of many hyper-local stores packed with things that may or may not eventually be sold, only things that have been purchased are shipped and transported
The trick, as you said, is to change consumer behavior and people balk at doing that, especially when it will cost more and income inequality hits harder than ever. Tax the rich, level the playing field, and the rest gets much easier.
Maine plans to use offshore wind for half its energy needs by 2040::Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load.
Maine is primarily hydro so half by wind is an odd goal for that state. Boosting wind production is good and theres lots of it there, but its not like theyre burning mostly coal or anything.
No open source clients means we just have to trust all that stuff about the apps/networks privacy. That’s an odd choice for an org who claim to be dedicated to privacy, so it’s a ‘thanks but no thanks’ from me.
I’m actually within about 5% ± on my Model S Plaid depending on the time of year and that’s hardly driving conservatively (maybe luck?). Oddly enough, my Model S has been more efficient than my Model 3 LR was, which I know makes no sense. But pretty much across the board for all the same drives, I use less kWh, it boggles my mind.
This is based on data from Tessie.
All that said, I realize the article says other manufacturers have more accurate fuel economies. I’m sorry, but no, my friend’s leaf is absolutely wrong by an extremely large margin, especially in winter, and has been since day one. It’s not even close.
What an odd title. WorldCoin never masked its biometric collection effort as “public art”. There was never any mention of art anywhere in the white paper or anything. Art has literally nothing to do with any of what WorldCoin is doing.
The concerns about WorldCoin are absolutely genuine and worthy of public discussion, but this particular title is just clickbait from an art publication trying to draw traffic about a trendy but unrelated AI and crypto topic.
One thing I will give the mods of Worldnews credit for. Right when Ukraine invasion started a whole mess of accounts with odd history (3 karma, 2 comments, 8 years old) started posting Kremlin propaganda. Every single one I reported was knocked off.
I have an HP g3 mini and a Dell Optiplex flying around, both similarly specced. The HP has an i5 6500t and 16gb DDR4 RAM, the Dell has 8gb DDR3l, so nothing too different....
The DS4 was too small for my hands, I always felt slightly cramped on it, even worse on the DS3, so the extra girth of the 5 helps me feel more comfortable. I Can see why it’s not universally loved though, for sure. It’s an odd controller overall, but it works well for me.m, especially the Edge.
LoglineCaptain Pike and his crew welcome a Klingon defector aboard the USS Enterprise, but his presence triggers the revelation of some shocking secrets....
About the bed: There seems to be an ongoing sub-plot about random systems on the ship glitching out. I’ve seen speculation they’re quietly setting up some kind of AI takeover issue later on. Note the odd shot the episode ends on, with the bed’s info screen flickering again.
Dish Network (DISH.O) said on Wednesday its unit Boost Infinite had partnered with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell postpaid wireless plans through the e-commerce platform in the United States....
In 200 odd years there’s been something like 1 case of a faithless elector. For all intents and purposes it’s a filtered general vote. The electors just carry out their district/state’s will.
Pointing out racial disparities is not racism. No matter how much you perform your outrage. Saying that only white people are fit to really be CEOs would be racist. Pointing out that oddly most CEOs are white is not racist. Oh and by the way just to scare you with a boogeyman, CRT!
Oh and you literally said that if a CEO put morals over profits that they would be a bad CEO and replaced. Basically implying that morals are incompatible with capitalism.
By the way I am anti-capitalism in large scope. And I’m also against whiny little concern trolls.
Look, I’ve been pretty clear from the start that I’m not a UFO guy, I don’t think that these are aliens, the odds are just too goddamn remote, but the fact is that it’s something, and whatever it is is worth investigating.
Optical illusions don’t just show up on radar, IR camera, visual light camera, and the human eye all at once.
Investigating the unknown is how we advance human science, and I believe that this is worth investigating. If it turns out to be nothing, then there’s no great loss, but even something not-at-all obscure like ball lightning, which despite being known about for CENTURIES, is still not fully understood, or even well documented.
My potato quality F-35 picture is from only a couple hundred feet with the planes are on approach for landing. My house shakes when they go overhead. By contrast the tictac video we have was filmed at something like five miles distance. Even advanced military cameras don’t get much resolution at that range, unless we’re talking about the ones on a Keyhole satellite or something, and those aren’t small enough to mount on a fighter jet. You really think some 2004 iphone is going to even see it at all, nevermind that flying a fighter plane doesn’t leave much time for in-flight photography, and that carrying a camera into the plane’s cockpit is an espionage violation.
LIke that’s a big part of what these hearings were about before Grusch derailed things with his XCOM “downed alien craft and corpses” nonsense. The two professional pilots were talking about having some official mechanism for collating the data all in one place so it can be looked at seriously and scientifically. We just channel the energy of the crazy UFO nutters to actually accomplish some real science here.
So what’s odd here is that this is tech devolving. X is a software services and technology company that pioneered a field. We are watching that fall apart in real time.
Technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum it is entwined in society. Business decisions are undoing years of a societies integration into daily lives. This is like witnessing the fall of Rome in fast forward. So oddly enough this is an live use case in the convergence of society and tech., which is technology.
I’ve only blocked all the trans ones that pop up cause I just am not interested in that frankly.
Other than that, I scroll past the odd post but they’re blurred so it’s really not an issue to me. I can click it if I want and I’m not in a place I shouldn’t be
Study of 76,207 Japanese women found that low fiber intake during pregnancy was associated with neurodevelopmental delay in their offspring at 3 years (www.frontiersin.org)
Background: Animal studies have shown that maternal low-fiber diets during pregnancy may impair brain development and function in offspring, but this has not been validated by epidemiological studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between maternal dietary fiber intake during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental...
comment page render bug (imgur.com)
comment page is semi transparent , closing it seems to be bugged as well because sometimes it stops opening it until i exit the app
What's the deal with winning toasters at arcades?
So I was at a seaside arcade over the past week. Spent some time spamming the 2p slots machines and tickets are firing out of this thing. Go to exchange these at the kiosk and notice that you can get quite a few domestic appliances on the back shelf (13,000 tickets for a toaster, £5 of 2p slots got me 80 tickets)....
OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models. (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI just admitted it can’t identify AI-generated text. That’s bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.::In January, OpenAI launched a system for identifying AI-generated text. This month, the company scrapped it.
Putin: Russia ready to discuss conflict with Ukraine, but Kyiv refuses (www.jpost.com)
Xbox's biggest crisis right now isn't games. It's hardware. (Opinion - Jez Corden) (www.windowscentral.com)
"Today, PlayStation revealed that its PS5 has sold 40 million units. Microsoft doesn’t share hardware numbers typically, but court documents, math, and slides from an ID@Xbox in Brazil seem to suggest the Xbox Series X|S line-up is around 20-23 million units sold globally. That essentially puts the PS5 at a 2:1 advantage...
TIL Tupac Shakur was considered for the role of Mace Windu in the Prequel Star Wars trilogy. (en.wikipedia.org)
From the Wiki: According to former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing Tupac to star in his return to the “Star Wars” saga. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to Shakur’s untimely death the role ultimately went to Samuel L. Jackson. The character’s bald...
This month is the planet's hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Disgraceful (lemmy.world)
Maine plans to use offshore wind for half its energy needs by 2040 (techxplore.com)
Maine plans to use offshore wind for half its energy needs by 2040::Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load.
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Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade (arstechnica.com)
Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade::undefined
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
McConnell has fallen multiple times this year, sources say | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Are those Pico PSUs worth it?
I have an HP g3 mini and a Dell Optiplex flying around, both similarly specced. The HP has an i5 6500t and 16gb DDR4 RAM, the Dell has 8gb DDR3l, so nothing too different....
PlayStation 5 sales surpass 40m worldwide (www.gamesindustry.biz)
“PlayStation 5 has now sold 40 million consoles worldwide, Sony has announced.”
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"
LoglineCaptain Pike and his crew welcome a Klingon defector aboard the USS Enterprise, but his presence triggers the revelation of some shocking secrets....
Dish Network partners with Amazon to offer wireless services (www.reuters.com)
Dish Network (DISH.O) said on Wednesday its unit Boost Infinite had partnered with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell postpaid wireless plans through the e-commerce platform in the United States....
Millions of American whites prefer a dictatorship (english.elpais.com)
UFOs Are a Common Sight, Former Military Official Tells Congress (Non Paywall in comments) (www.wsj.com)
Non Paywalledand… A replay of the hearing
can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?
So, how many lemmynsfw.com communities have you blocked?
I just reached 112 myself....