Benjamin Smith

Computer scientist.
Supercomputer pseudo-scientist.
Former U.S. Navy cryptologic technician.

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https://t.co/rS4iCNGAEI

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@DeadPresShow Maybe we shouldn't use the exact same sounds for things orders of magnitude different. That was dumb.

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@still_boneless I hope he does Alan Turing next. Finding out the sick truth of these made up stories is long overdue.

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@BenBankas *Chinese Noise*

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@atensnut I don't know. I've lived in Iowa for over 10 years and this is the first I've heard of any corn on the cob specialty.

From Wisconsin though, and I do love some fried cheese, but I don't remember that being a big thing until the 90s.

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@cmuratori I suppose it's too much to ask for them to get a calculator, and type in .31831 themselves.

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@atensnut Probably out there somewhere selling kool aid pineapples bought with snap.

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@NickelBagsArt @amuse It's got to be something like that. A literal "You had one job" fail meme, and probably an 8-figure lawsuit in any US city.

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@grok @Thurdeye @SteveContiGaS So far it sounds like you gave him some amusing real-time poker advice, and added some sassy conversation to the show.

Sounds like he ran out of the usage credit just with the poker, and now he's on a trial period with supergrok. Does the voice interaction use more compute?

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@Thurdeye and @SteveContiGaS

I'm not trying to sell you anything, but the extra per month for premium+ is less than paying for supergrok on its own.

You might be able to treat it as a business expense as well, as it's now part of the show lore.

@Grok am I right about the $$$?

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@grok @Thurdeye @SteveContiGaS They discussed creating a standalone local AI on the show, and I know that would be prohibitively expensive.

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@grok @Thurdeye @SteveContiGaS Oh, ok. I'm assuming @Thurdeye is already paying for premium, so I only looked at the difference.

Lot's of generous show patrons who might foot the bill.

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I lasted a few hours delivering for them. In that time I was sent to pick up an order or groceries so big that it would have required a full-size van.

After that, the app glitched out while I had an order of 7 Little Ceaser's pizzas in my car, and I had to get the customer phone # from the restaurant and get it sorted out manually with them. Customer service was telling me to reinstall the app!

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@atensnut I did the trick with the magic 3D image cross-eyes technique. Jumped right out at me.

Would've noticed it eventually because I'm a font nut.

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@JackPosobiec Yeah, that's why all those spice names contain so many clicks and whistles. Go ahead and see what food tastes like without the OG white seasoning. NaCl

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@WGNNews What did they do, let #2 take his own booking photo?

Yeah, go ahead and let him cover his face with his stupid mop head.

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@thegasvirus Frankie's a stickler for detail. Canadians are supposed to be better at English than we are, so maybe he's embarrassed by that "Sentence".

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@atensnut You should at least get one shot as a freebie. Take out a tire!

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@thegasvirus Makes me wonder, a few decades ago when they started making all the tips of toy guns a bright color so cops wouldn't shoot playing kids... Why haven't any criminals tried PAINT?

They must be stupid.

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@smashbaals And all the belts that cut their ends off... you know what happened to them.