Kevin Smith

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

Perspective: One million seconds is 12 days. One billion seconds is 32 years.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@HashtagGriswold That reads like a threat.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@EdWhelanEPPC "broad disclosure"

Is this about a sexual misconduct thing?

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

"SI" is accurate. It stands for "silicon intelligence", duh.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@HashtagGriswold @EsotericCD Ya know what your urine smells like after eating asparagus? It's kinda like that, only it gives you a headache too.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

“the fungus is essentially just a resistor in a noise generator.”

I feel seen.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

before you community note me, the science behind why: mushrooms put out voltage spikes in the µV–mV and fire every few minutes. these rigs output several notes per second. that bandwidth isn’t coming from the mushroom. it’s amplified noise. basically random electrons in the wires. the fungus is essentially just a resistor in a noise generator.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@jameslynch32 Wonder how many impressions these get vs. the ones on the inside of the cars. And how they’re valued since the latter is staring you in the face for longer.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@bf_crane I seriously read this at first to mean they had celebrity headshots up as targets.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@GlobalBoxOffice Is The Passion of the Christ not a foreign-language film because dead != foreign, or should this headline read "foreign film"?

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

Across the country, voters threw out Republicans while also rejecting some of the most prominent left-wing policies and even elevating conservative ones, like tax cuts.

I dove into the exit polls and the down ballot results to make sense of it all: https://t.co/r9E6UBZCgK

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@burgessev Are those legit [sic] "or"s?

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@daveweigel Fear not, 60% of Maryland voters paved the way to gerrymander from the left.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@charlescwcooke @sjetavt It's stunning how few people, even reasonably intelligent folks, ever learned about tax brackets.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@carnitastaco @TheStalwart Yes please. Maryland just voted to amend the state constitution so we can go back to the good old days. My old voting district can now revert to its natural form.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@notjessewalker I'd forgotten about them until recently when I was reminded by those weird AI videos you see here where a robot voice describes what's happening on a chopped up edit of a show or movie.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@marcorandazza I mean, I can totally see having them hooked up to the internet to send alerts if there's a failure of some sort and the temp is rising, but it should be a read-only thing, not some way to change the thermostat remotely.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@therealshaded20 @abhishec_s Hard to say, dunno how precisely we know the diameter, plus the planet bulges at the equator. Couple miles.

[Kevin Smith @ksmith]

@thatjohnG @nardthefox @gooblestink @kylelangham That one ace might have been the ace of spade.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Claudes generally established democracies, GPTs formed hives.

In our seven match run, GPTs split factory ownership from the start and were very willing to supply resources towards shared goals. They also communicated more than the Claudes.

Claudes operated on a “+1” system, under which their leader (who came to power after a dispute) and others needed many +1s in the team chat, without disagreements, to pass a proposal. They held this system for all ~9.5hrs of the series.