Loving author of Acuitas the symbolic AI and other robots-in-progress. SFF fiction writer, video game appreciator. Day job: FPGA/radio engineer at Blue Origin. Any nonsense I say is entirely my own and does not reflect the opinions of my employer.
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Last Notes npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) My bigger gripe with "disappearing scrollbars" is that they can make it very hard to scroll if you are not using either a touchscreen or a mouse with a scroll wheel. If you have to actually click the scrollbar with your cursor then good luck finding it ... npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Carrot harvest round 2! I got a full five pounds this time. They couldn't get long because the bed wasn't very deep, so some of them decided to get *wide* ahahaha #gardening #plants npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) My very first carrots! This is 1/2 to 2/3 of the crop - I thinned them out and left the others to grow larger. Yes, the best of them are short - my bed isn't all that deep. I got a little over a pound, and froze the greens too. #gardening npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Happy potatoes! They can't go live outside yet, because I am due for snow tonight. #gardening #plants npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Someone is happy it's Christmas pack-and-ship season npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) I have some small adjustments to make before I release the model, but I'm pretty happy with how this display case came out! #3dPrinting npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Wild week for story publication attempts. "Integrity" was rejected after being on a top 10% short list, with compliments and no critical feedback. Bummer. But another zine wanted to do a rewrite of a different story - got that back yesterday and I'm okay with it! So may be on the cusp of a second sale. npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) "Hey, lady ... did you know the bird feeder is empty? Yeah, somebody climbed the sumac and spilled all the seeds on the ground. Got any more in there? The BIRDS are gonna go hungry." npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) I work with those for my day job! npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Wow: did not know this was in my back yard: https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/not-the-final-frontier-but-colorado-air-and-space-port-snags-faa-designation/ npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) September's Acuitas diary is all about the conversation engine, which is getting some much-needed development: npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Harvested early this year because the vines died in the heat. Only 6.6 pounds, which is a little disappointing. But it's something. #gardening #growYourOwn npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) Unfortunately no. Work keeps informing me about the launches *after* they happen. npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) The second pair of satellites in the "Worldview Legion" group (which I worked on, in a very small way) went up this morning. Word is they're functional and sending telemetry. https://upi.com/Science_News/2024/08/15/SpaceX-Maxar-WorldView-satellite-constellation/6901723731253/ npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) The wild sunflowers seem to be very much appreciated by the native pollinators, such as these two striped sweat bees. I was able to get a good photo because it was a cold morning ... I bet they spent the night in the flower. npub1uq9ntjyf58vrpw0fnqxhdzmryeu5d4scacw6d36t3nan87tf8gjs5lgayg WriterOfMinds (she) In this month's AI ideology blog, I finally get to the fun stuff: existential risk! Just why do some people think AI might want to wipe us out?
