I can’t wait for hardware companies to let go of their designers prematurely in the pursuit of AI everything only for there to be a bug in a major board and no one available to troubleshoot thereby stranding customers with a broken board, no revision on the horizon, and no recourse.

No.

Maybe try “all static images are single frame animations.”

If exactly one of the bad options will come to pass anyway though, and you get to influence which one, why wouldn’t you opt for less bad?

So much for that then.

Prior to Nuremberg quite a lot of his ilk were also shot.

Isn’t his solution to every conflict basically:

• Announce he’s brokered a peace deal between the parties
• Then tell the parties to just stop fighting right now
• Then demand a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in stopping the war
• Then sulk when the fighting doesn’t stop because the underlying conflict is centuries old and he didn’t even bother to figure out what the fighting was over let alone talk to the parties in an attempt to negotiate beyond just tweeting at them
• Then Wonder why his Nobel hasn’t arrived in the mail yet

On a “respond to an individual query” level, yeah it’s not that much. But prior to response the data center had to be constructed, the entire web had to be scraped, the models trained, the servers continually ran regardless of load. There’s also way too many “hidden” queries across the web in general from companies trying to summarize every email or product.

All of that adds to the energy costs. This equivocation is meant to make people feel less bad about the energy impact of using AI, when so much of the cost is in building AI.

Furthermore, that’s the median value–the one that falls right in the middle of the quantity of queries. There’s a limit to how much less energy a query to the left of the median can use; there’s a significantly higher runway to the right of the median for excess energy use. This also only accounted for text queries; images and video generation efforts are gonna use a lot more.

There are zero downsides when mentally associating an energy hog with “1 second of use time of the device that is routinely used for minutes at a time.”

https://xkcd.com/1035/

Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.

Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.

Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.

Guns should also be left in the open for children to play with since we’re on the topic of easy things we can change to threaten the life of those that may not know better yet!

Why do you need to identify specific cats over merely the presence of movement or cats in general?

Probably not.

This kind of thing relies on the fact that the emitter and environments are static, impacting the propagation of the signals in a predictable way and that each person, having a unique physique, consistently interferes with that propagation in the same way. It’s a tool that reports “the interference in this room looks like the same interference observed in these past cases.”

Search and rescue is a very dynamic environment, with no opportunity to establish a local baseline, and with a high likelihood that the physiological signal you are looking for has been altered (such as by broken or severed limbs).

There are some other WiFi sniffing technologies that might be more useful for S&R such as movement detection, but I’m not sure if that will work as well when the broadcaster is outside the environment (as the more rubble between the emitter and the target the weaker your signal from reflections against the rubble).

Don’t think of this as being able to see through walls like with a futuristic camera, think of this as AI assisted anomaly detection in signal processing (which is exactly what the researchers are doing).

I’m generally pro research, but occasionally I come across a body of research and wish I could just shut down what they’re doing and rewind the clock to before that started.

There is no benefit of this for the common person. There is no end user need or product for being able to identify individuals based on their interactions with WiFi signals. The only people that benefit from this are large corporations and governments and that’s from them turning it on you.

Continued research will ease widespread surveillance and mass tracking. That’s not a good thing.

The hazards also override your turn signals so I now have no idea when you are going to attempt lane change.

As would I, hence I did. But the quote was from an Israeli official.

I think I might have read the comment I replied to wrong. It seems to me now they were choosing the second option of my original comment.

Oh? Is Israel finally letting Palestinians have free travel so that they actually can leave or is “leave in great numbers” a euphemism for the ongoing genocide?

Canadian election is today. Who they choose is who’s gonna have to handle or succumb to Trump.

Thank goodness John Henry has taught us Americans that machines will never beat humans, so we obviously know how this will end. /s

All those “standards and the tests” and “rules and regulations” designed so “you can’t sell your product in those countries” don’t seem to work very well given that you can still buy cars and chicken in Europe.

And just like that every American good costs significantly more.

If your family income is less than about $200,000, congratulations, your tax rate has at least doubled.