I have a cat with a heart condition who sleeps in the middle of the floor with his eyes open. He is all black too so you can't see if he's breathing. It's gotten me just so many times.
Another cat doesn't eat directly from the bowl, instead she sits next to the bowl and spears food on her claws and licks it off like it's a fork.
The gate here is really cool, I remember from my optical classes all the different ways to encode bits on a photon over fiber, I am curious which properties are more and less suitable for this application.
If I want to know when I'm going to die, I'll ask an actuary like we did in the old days.
Because they want to use antiporn laws to restrict books and other media with LGBTQ content.
When the 8 bit quants hit, you could probably lease a 128GB system on runpod.
Yeah, I mean the AI being shoveled at us by techbros. Actual ML stuff is currently and will continue to be useful for all sorts on not-sexy but vital research and production tasks. I do task automation for my job and I use things like transcription models and OCR, my company uses smart sorting using rapid image recognition and other really cool uses for computers to do things that humans are bad at. It's things like LLMs that just aren't there - yet. I have seen very early research on AI that is trained to actually understand language and learns by context, it's years away, but eventually we might see AI that really can do what the current AI companies are claiming.
Back in the 90s in college I took a Technology course, which discussed how technology has historically developed, why some things are adopted and other seemingly good ideas don't make it.
One of the things that is required for a technology to succeed is public acceptance. That is why AI is doomed.
It's just a plausible mechanism for immortality since it exists in nature and it lets you be young again. It would be nice not to have all the random pains and aches that come with age and get a reset on physical youth when needed.
It's more like biotic reversal so no time travel, just suddenly de-aging until just before biological puberty in a similar fashion as turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish. Ideally, memory and personality remain intact. Afterwards, aging begins again normally so it's effective biological immortality.
Hmm. Can I revert to preadolescence like an immortal jellyfish?
I don't relish the idea of doing puberty again, but it'd probably be easier the second time.
Having spent time with people in this exact situation. I'd probably live my life like I normally do, because that increasingly fleeting sense of normalcy would mean everything. Sure, I'd spend more time with my loved ones and make arrangements and such, but I wouldn't quit my job.
Yeah, I've read the whisker fatigue thing, I've read that it's probably not true also, but my cat bowls are wide anyway. The cat is just nuts. Like in general. Like she may actually have mental illness. The colony I got her from has produced a lot of cats with congenital issues. I have one with a vsd and another with testicular agenesis (which is apparently extremely rare).