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And also ignorant about how those two eyes have binocular vision, adjustable positions, and can look in multiple mirrors for full spatial awareness.

There are good arguments but this isn’t one. Many humans (like me!) drive fine without binocular vision. And the cars have many cameras all around, with wide angle lenses that are watching everything all the time, when a human can only focus in one direction at a time.

I thought only the front view has binocular vision on the cars. The others are single, with no depth perception. How does it know how close objects are outside this forward cone?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378671275/figure/fi...


I’m guessing the fields of view overlap for any 2 adjacent cameras, so you can get parallax measurements from any angle.

So your eye does not have an adjustable position and you cannot use mirrors?

Both are easily compensated for by having many cameras.

Binocular vision is not only relevant for driving (well, maybe for the steering wheel, but that's not the point).

It gives us depth perception. And moving the eyes and/or head gives the depth perception over a wide field of view.

What I mean is that binocular vision just give us depth perception for a meter or so - about around where our hands can touch.

Moving the head/body goes a little further, but that was not my point.


Is this true? I'm looking at a tree outside and I get parallax when I close one eye and then the other. I thought the parallax is the basis for depth perception.

Is this true? I thought Musk and his DOGE team tapped into many government databases. There were many reports a year ago.

The Jamazon interface is really nice. I like how clicking on the order number takes you to the email. But I'm not going spend much time on there, after seeing his order for Lolita next to orders for kid toys.

https://jmail.world/jamazon


Along with the orders for kids school uniform skirts a bit later.. tough viewing in context.

Makes it unsettling when it then shows orders for books you've also read. Hard to swallow having anything in common with such a person.

I would have also assumed he got his clothes from much fancier places than Amazon, considering his wealth. Can't beat two day shipping I guess.

Altogether his Amazon orders are disturbing in places, but also somewhat humanizing, which is not what I expected.


>Makes it unsettling when it then shows orders for books you've also read.

>but also somewhat humanizing, which is not what I expected.

I am obviously not defending him or anything, but it always puzzles me how any of this confuses people. Whoever we may be, we are also humans, sharing common human traits and habits, and other people are just as real as we are. Every living moment, you unavoidably share at least some of the common beliefs, ideas, preferences, biases, habits, norms, values, goals, desires, fears, tastes, jokes, expectations, opinions and more with people you'd otherwise absolutely abhor.


It's very disconcerting to think that this "innocent" toy or clothing I see my children playing with as "tainted" by this monster. Suddenly he's not just some nebulous monster out there, but in some way the idea of him is here with my children, arousing protective instincts without anything in particular to direct that energy towards.

It also shows him as a human like other humans, which then makes me ponder is that person walking down the street also a monster? Could I become a monster like Epstein?

Such thoughts are very disconcerting


I really do wish more people in society would think about this - "The Banality of Evil" and all that. Maybe then we'd all be better at preventing the spread of this kind of evil.

Jamazon creator here - thank you!

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Interesting. The majority of items seems to be books.

I see that it gives three choices for saving the assets: single file, zip or folder. Is the zip version just zipping the folder?

I don't know, I've never tried it. I picked it because of the folder option which makes grepping for content easier and faster.

I'm curious if anyone knows of something like SponsorBlock or a UBlock list, that can flag tje onslaught of AI videos that are appearing. I find those crappy videos worse than the ads and the shorts.

I got an idea. We could use some kind of voting system where user can upvote or downvote YouTube videos, and it shows the rating when someone click on it.

It could be as simple as 2 buttons and a percentage bar right under the video, on the right, close to the dislike button that does nothing lol.


This is basically what Sponsorsblock does - it takes crowdsourced inputs to update the info for each video, then automatically skips the parts of the video that we want to avoid. "AIblock" could simply add some indicator of videos to ignore, or maybe just hide them from me.

I'm looking for something to transcribe .m4a recordings that I make for my genealogy efforts. Do you know of anything that can take a file as input?

Whisper.cpp will do it, and you can also use Parakeet v2, though I haven't tried running that one specifically.

If you're familiar with CLI you could use ffmpeg to extract audio then pipe the audio into whatever transcriber

I use ffmpeg a lot, but I'm curious if anyone can recommend a transcribe tool.

Reading between the lines, it seems like the FAA shutdown the airspace to make public the fact that the DoD wasn't cooperating with the FAA.

I was looking for your GitHub, but the link on the homepage is broken: https://github.com/modelrift

right, I need to fix this one

I was looking for those on the website. Maybe we could find some photos on Google Maps that already exist from these locations.


Has anyone confirmed if they still use only this original list? I would think the NY Times could change the word list however they choose.


They changed some words pretty much right after the acquisition. There was some controversy when they started doing "themed" words (like Christmas stuff in December) vs more "random" words. Some words were also removed for having negative vibes/political liability


They removed WENCH from the list of upcoming solutions fairly quickly, but forgot to add it back to the list of available words so you couldn't use it as a guess for a little while. It made it back to the list eventually.


I believe these lists are more like what is described in the blog post. Diction of words, filtered to 5 letter words, no plurals, etc. It most likely has 99%+ of the words, but maybe some they don't actually use in Wordle.


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