Katie Anderson

I'm kat#3944 on discord. I only really use one server right now and don't tend to DM, so it's no twitter replacement, but it's a way to find me when this site falls apart.

@smithtjosh @soy_sauce97 Not a single one of these "AI applications" for emissions reductions are well suited for the LLM models being used to justify the buildout. These are all tasks that traditional ML is well-suited for. Imagine if they focused on this AND didn't build huge data centers.

@soy_sauce97 I think this particular objection is shortsighted. Serious estimates suggest AI will be a net reduction for emissions.

To offset the emissions from this plant alone, Utah would have to eliminate every single vehicle, stop heating every home, and shut down every coal and gas plant. That's just to keep the same level of greenhouse gas emissions we have now.

@aragon1500 @SamtheNightOwl The weird thing is that the giant bag further down the aisle is 6 bucks and has three times as much but everybody keeps buying the boxes.

@SamtheNightOwl Yeah fr cereal is crazy expensive now. Like why is golden Grahams like 5 bucks for a box thats barely 4 bowls

weird gender issues aside, very bold choice to try and get into the cereal game when americans have been consuming much less cereal than even just 10~15 years ago due to high prices, among other things. also on their website, this "man cereal" is $70 for 3 boxes. lmao

@beetlemoses @SpiritAirlines If the pilot isn't getting paid then they're not gonna fly the plane.

@SpiritAirlines I’m on one of your planes somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean and they just cut the engine off

@RedRoseTeaUS Although looking at the copy writing on this feed I suspect whoever normally posts here has been replaced with a computer.

@RedRoseTeaUS I just bought a 100ct box for the first time in a very long time and was excited to find my figurine. It was incredibly disappointing to find that they're online only. I paid $2.50 at the grocery store, your site charges $5.99 for the same product, plus $5 shipping!

Cancel plans. It’s a tea and blanket kind of day. ☕ (cozy day, rainy mood, tea ritual, comfort tea, relaxing day, home vibes, tea break, cozy lifestyle, unwind routine, tea lovers)

@cursedconnector @is_OwenLewis That long spiel reads like it's actually just sampling at eight points of the spectrum. It then "reconstructs" the rest with a neural network so they can get funding by saying AI. Useful for some things, but not replacing the big tools.

@is_OwenLewis Very cool. Will be interesting to weigh it up against existing, similar commercial approaches like the osram parts currently offered. Sounds like it has better IR coverage. ams-osram.com/products/senso…

This is how we get tricorders. Engineers just shrank a full lab grade spectrometer down to the size of a grain of sand. The result is a tiny spectrometer on a chip that could fit into smartphones, wearables, or medical devices. Traditional spectrometers rely on bulky prisms, gratings, and long optical paths to split and measure light wavelengths. The new device flips that approach: it uses just 16 specially tuned silicon photodetectors on a 0.4 mm² chip. Photon trapping surface nanostructures extend silicon’s sensitivity deep into the near- infrared (up to 1100 nm). A compact neural network then computationally reconstructs the full spectrum from the overlapping signals, delivering ~8 nm resolution with strong noise resistance. The result is a high performance, real time hyperspectral sensor that works in electrically noisy environments and needs no moving parts or large optics. Potential applications include portable disease diagnostics, real time food quality checks, pollution detection, environmental monitoring, and anywhere cheap, compact spectral analysis is needed. AI and clever silicon engineering just turned one of the most important lab instruments into something you could lose on your fingertip. Progress (and pocket-sized science) marches on. 🔬📱🚀 📸 Integrated Nanodevices & Nanosystems Research Lab at UC Davis Source: scitechdaily.com/scientists-shr…

@cursedconnector @infinitytec3 Burglars running around the house testing with one of these would be funnier

@infinitytec3 This thing gets defeated by another ($9.99) thing, though. I wonder if any burglars ever went around with metal detectors looking for hidden safes, etc. Would be quick enough to actually seem like a sensible approach.

@cursedconnector does this count?

@billboard @BINI_ph I feel like whoever makes the decision to spend your advertising money here should know that Twitter is running an unrelated unskippable ad before the video in the ad you ran with this promoted post.

Representing the Philippines 🇵🇭 @BINI_ph talks through the "overwhelmingly exciting" experience of performing at Coachella with Billboard News.

@Swess_shop Yeah I imagine a lot of people in Vietnam would be confused about why he's wearing that hat.

My dad has a new cap. He wears it everywhere lately. I asked why he likes it so much. He just smiles, “250 years… means a lot.”

@_rickyrants_ @NASAEarth @LinhHoang1805 @johnkrausphotos You can literally test this yourself. Look up the exposure and lens details. It's in the EXIF data on NASA's site. Borrow a similar camera and take a photo on a clear full moon night with equivalent settings and you will get plenty of color and detail.

@NASAEarth @LinhHoang1805 @johnkrausphotos

These images are literally night and day! The Artemis II crew took the left photo on their way to the Moon. It shows Earth at night, lit only by moonlight, using long exposure camera settings. The photo from Apollo 17 shows Earth’s surface during the day, lit by sunlight.

@carsonight @belle379 @zapatas_mom You can send them out to play at a playground. You don't need to be there with them. My kids all grew up with six parks they could walk to without crossing a major street and went unsupervised all the time. They had a wider variety of play options and met all sorts of friends.

@belle379 @zapatas_mom There is a world of difference between being able to send your children out to play and having to take them out to play. My children often went with me to a park, but they were not limited to that.

Americans… this is a good faith question. I’m not baiting or trolling. Why are you so scared of condos and walkable cities? Does not having to drive for your groceries freak you out? What about it makes you uncomfortable? Please be honest.

@gregeganSF This is one of my favorite astronomy photos that I've taken. Not much to look at, but a fascinating subject. Those two faint dots in the center are a lensed quasar. The light from one is 8.7 billion years old, and the other is about ten months older.

It’s astonishing that we can (sometimes) see the same supernova *billions* of light years away along multiple gravitationally-lensed paths that produce time differences on the human scale of 10 years or so. science.org/content/articl…

Multiple lensed images of supernovae help pin down the Hubble constant: “If SN Requiem reappears this year, it will lead to a higher value of the Hubble constant and validate the astronomers’ camp. If the supernova is not seen until next year, it will lead to a lower value…”

@D4RW1NEXE @NASA @Astro_Christina @astro_reid I'm sorry but are you claiming that the entire disc of earth is a circle because of a fisheye lens? This isn't a horizon photograph. It's the whole planet. What shape do you think it would be without this distortion? And you've got the camera and lens wrong.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Photo taken ~18,600 km from Earth. Wide angle lens creates fisheye distortion curved appearance is optical artifact, not necessarily true geometry. If shot on Nikon D5 + 14-24mm f/2.8G at 14mm with no post processing, expect barrel distortion at frame edges, horizon bowing outward, Earth appearing more curved than at longer focal lengths. At 24mm, distortion drops significantly the horizon flattens noticeably. Raw file would show chromatic aberration, vignetting, no color grading. Curvature is still visible at that altitude regardless of lens but 14mm exaggerates it.

This view just hits different 🌍 @Astro_Christina and @astro_reid take a moment to look back at Earth as they continue deep into space toward the Moon.

@MultimediaMage I worked for a company that made equipment that ruined one of those spheres due to operator error. Now there's a weirdly specific checkbox in the UI to prevent that mistake.

I wanna put some tungsten cubes in the head of a hammer and name it "Newton's Third Law"

@YourWaifu It was cheap with a big $4 combo menu but you could sit down and be served, was an amazing option when I was a broke college student. We went once a few years ago and it was just like you described. Never went back again.

I wont forget, I went to a steak and shake last year to see what changed, no more wait staff, no more atmosphere, the drink machine required a QR code to work, ordering was on a kiosk, and the fries made me feel sick. The faux 1950’s vibe was only a shell of what it once was.

@JenMsft @ion_hobbybox Break is also useful for breaking into code running under a debugger. Back in the MS BASIC days that button got a ton of use. No idea how well it is still supported since it's one of the first keys manufacturers remove.

@ion_hobbybox If you press the Windows key plus Pause it will open About in Settings so you can see information about your PC

Windowsパソコンのキーボードのキーで、Pause/Breakキーは起動時に流れる文字を一時停止出来る…しか使い所がなく、起動してしまうとほぼ使われないキーではある…ちなみにMacにはそういうのは無い

@CincinnatiZoo So to see the servals I should head to the bobcat cheetah encounter?? 🤔

Teddy the baby serval starts to explore outside! Eventually, Teddy will learn to have a role in our Bobcat Enterprises, Inc Cheetah Encounter just like the other servals, Jambo & Cleo.

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@MuseOfNeon My rectangular cat

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@darrellprograms @cursedconnector Good point, especially with the older appliances. Everything should be isolated from the chassis. I think I've seen enough awful modern designs (think aliexpress quality) that the thought of being about to plug a polarized device in backwards scares me.

@katie_panda @cursedconnector Why would the housing be grounded to one side of the plug if the plugs can plug in either way? I'm pretty sure this predates polarized plugs, and even modern appliances with polarized plugs aren't designed to treat the neutral as a ground.

Aaaaaaabsolutely not.