Notices by Bornach (bornach@fosstodon.org)

@terraboops @cargot_robbie
Imagine being one of the few yeast cells who predicted that outcome but were unable to convince the others and now cannot leave the petridish.
https://youtu.be/bMM7DN_tTdQ

Other yeast cells think eating the rest of sugar as quckly as possible will allow them to come up with a solution to the restrictive petridish or give them a way of leaving it altogether.

@aaribaud @lritter
He predicted LLMs

"Well, Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program’s task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion."
-- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11259355-well-gordon-s-great-insight-was-to-design-a-program-which

@cavedueller @dragonfrog @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az

This bird really gets around. Its distinctive wail is heard not just in movies set on nearly every continent on this planet, but also on some distant alien worlds
https://youtu.be/DVFBUIGfcJk

@trochee @forrestbrazeal
Just ask an AI to fill in the ALT Text for you. What could possibly go wrong?

@Raspberry_Pi
I've turned a discontinued #Pimoroni Speaker Phat into a #MiniDexed Phat in order to give a new lease of life to a slightly damaged Raspberry Pi 2 that I recovered from ewaste

#RaspberryPi #diysynth #FMsynth

@goatsarah @robcornelius

Perhaps it is because the self-driving AI's already know what objects are unambiguously traffic lights but still require human input to answer the philosophical questions of whether the iconic depiction of a traffic light painted on a sign counts as a traffic light

@dgar
It would have been a very short movie if they didn't miss anything
https://youtu.be/P9bDzHP6_Pk