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That and Frame of Mind (S06 E21) are my go-to episodes. On the surface, they have similar premises, but the resulting emotions are completely different. Both explore disorientation as fear, but one does it over half a lifetime, while the other is a few days.

Nice! Thanks for posting. How critical is the 1.28s chunking? Is that to ensure getting a full word? I'd think getting final-word latency down would be a goal. Does the 0.9s processing delay scale down with the sample size?

What was wrong with ML? How many terms do we need to churn? What happened to AGI? Is that SGI now?

> It's not deblurring, there's no post processing. It just selects where to autofocus, and commands the lens to focus to that point, that's all.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

I could imagine the EU would consider banning that for privacy reasons if it's raised by the right organization.

As an avid reader: thanks for helping with that!

If the point of a competition is to show a photographer's skill, it sounds like providing deblurring or similar by educated guess would help quite a bit to win?

I guess the key point is that use of features needs to be adopted slowly in competition so that it doesn't turn into a materials sport where it's just the most expensive equipment winning.

AI photo editing is surely a competition-worthy art of its own.

Edit: moot point; it's object recognition to find the auto-focus target, not applying digital refocusing.

I've considered embedding an HSM in my concrete floor, with a USB-cable sticking out to plug into the server. :)

Assuming someone either steals your entire server or nothing, it's either that, password at boot, or some remote unlock (KSM). I doubt a burglar is going to just steal your harddrive. But I doubt they'll think of opening the floor.

Can you quantify the "harder to hack han a server"? This seems like one of those risks that is superficially true, but in practice is low enough to not matter.

Where are your E2EE keys?

Same reason they sponsor Firefox; it helps keep anti-competition lawsuits at bay?

If you cannot accept that a hair was on a bed sheet and it was fixed promptly when reported, I cannot even imagine what your hotel bills look like. Every hotel room I've been to at $100-$2000 per night have had some issue I would consider beyond a hair on a bed sheet.

> The next 1929 is going to happen faster than the last one

For sure, and for reasons we can't imagine today.

I sometimes think about nuclear accidents. It seems very unlikely that we've already seen the worst accident that will ever be. Same goes for so many technologies less than 100 years old. Safety standards need to go up in parity with the scaling up to keep MTBF in check. Given what I've seen of human greed, I hold only partial hope that'll happen as energy demands increase. Hopefully batteries, wind, solar and regulatory oversight are enough.

That's more about being easily ignited. It still requires a spark or heat source (like an oven) to combust.