Decided to look into harvesting walnuts from a tree in our yard, free food! I think our tree is one of the black walnut varieties, but I'm not yet sure which one.
An all-time favorite. I'm always surprised when people I recommend it to don't "get it". I've given away several copies. When my son read it, I asked what he thought. "Dad," he says "I think that anyone who even considers calling themselves Christian owes it to themselves to read this book".
I agree.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Interesting. I can't help but feel that there's an underlying message of "freedom means you're free to do what I tell you that you can do."
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"In the same way, human intervention in ecological networks has produced insect scourges of agricultural crops and bacterial infections that drugs cannot stop. Individuals in a population differ from each other in susceptibility. Using the same resources links them to each other by competition – what one individual eats is a loss for another. A pesticide or antibiotic assault kills all but the most resistant individuals, selecting for resistance over susceptibility. The resistant ones suddenly have the resources to grow rapidly in number. New methods are being devised to maintain both susceptible and resistant individuals in the networks of cancer cells, pathogens or agricultural pests, so that they continue to compete with each other. Integrated pest-management and ‘adaptive chemotherapy’, for example, both work to kill only some, not all, of the sensitive pests or cancer cells. They leave the rest to help suppress the resistant ones. These new forms of control take into account the local interactions that regulate networks of pests or cells."
Realistic image synthesis models are potentially dangerous for reasons already mentioned, such as the creation of propaganda or misinformation, tampering with history, accelerating political division, enabling character attacks and impersonation, and destroying the legal value of photo or video evidence. In the AI-powered future, how will we know if any remotely produced piece of media came from an actual camera, or if we are actually communicating with a real human? On these questions, Mostaque is broadly hopeful. "There will be new verification systems in place, and open releases like this will shift the public debate and development of these tools," he said.
"In fact, with the Chronicling America initiative from the Library of Congress expanding to include media from all 50 United States, Washington, DC, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, it’s easier than ever to engage with a massive, searchable database of archived newspapers from around the country. The program currently offers free online access to a staggering 19.9 million pages of newspapers published in the US between 1777 and 1963."
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" Killing Floor" by Lee Child. The first Reacher novel. Not the Howlling Wolf song.
LOL
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-dismissing-warnings-from-his-mother-tucker-carlsons-face-is-now-stuck-that-way
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Decided to look into harvesting walnuts from a tree in our yard, free food! I think our tree is one of the black walnut varieties, but I'm not yet sure which one.
https://www.thespruce.com/walnut-tree-species-3269725
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
"Caribbean Rim" by Randy Wayne White. Another Doc Ford novel. Reminds me of when I lived on St.Croix in the early 70's.
How AI could accidentally extinguish humankind
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/artificial-intelligence-worst-case-scenario-extinction/
Yeah they made a movie about it once called Terminator.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
An all-time favorite. I'm always surprised when people I recommend it to don't "get it". I've given away several copies. When my son read it, I asked what he thought. "Dad," he says "I think that anyone who even considers calling themselves Christian owes it to themselves to read this book".
I agree.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
https://aeon.co/essays/why-ken-burns-got-the-prohibition-story-so-very-very-wrong
Interesting. I can't help but feel that there's an underlying message of "freedom means you're free to do what I tell you that you can do."
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
“Dream Town” by David Baldacci.
“Clive Cussler’s Dark Vector” by Graham Brown Very similar style.
https://iflscience.com/eight-year-olds-observation-leads-to-major-discovery-about-ant-wasp-collaboration-65180
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/The_Ants_Chapter_14#Ants_disperse_plants:_myrmecochory
https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-botany-and-colonialism-touched-off-by-a-moss-bed
worth taking the time to read:
https://aeon.co/essays/the-most-important-connection-in-any-network-is-the-local
"In the same way, human intervention in ecological networks has produced insect scourges of agricultural crops and bacterial infections that drugs cannot stop. Individuals in a population differ from each other in susceptibility. Using the same resources links them to each other by competition – what one individual eats is a loss for another. A pesticide or antibiotic assault kills all but the most resistant individuals, selecting for resistance over susceptibility. The resistant ones suddenly have the resources to grow rapidly in number. New methods are being devised to maintain both susceptible and resistant individuals in the networks of cancer cells, pathogens or agricultural pests, so that they continue to compete with each other. Integrated pest-management and ‘adaptive chemotherapy’, for example, both work to kill only some, not all, of the sensitive pests or cancer cells. They leave the rest to help suppress the resistant ones. These new forms of control take into account the local interactions that regulate networks of pests or cells."
Inspired by last night's conversation on the vHerf, I am diving into this one.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/with-stable-diffusion-you-may-never-believe-what-you-see-online-again/
Realistic image synthesis models are potentially dangerous for reasons already mentioned, such as the creation of propaganda or misinformation, tampering with history, accelerating political division, enabling character attacks and impersonation, and destroying the legal value of photo or video evidence. In the AI-powered future, how will we know if any remotely produced piece of media came from an actual camera, or if we are actually communicating with a real human? On these questions, Mostaque is broadly hopeful. "There will be new verification systems in place, and open releases like this will shift the public debate and development of these tools," he said.
Yeah, but the AI will be making those verifications.
https://babylonbee.com/news/accountant-at-party-realizes-too-late-that-person-asking-him-about-his-work-was-just-being-polite
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Well crap this isn’t the How’s your weather thread
“Black Dog” by Stuart Woods.
“22 Seconds” by James Patterson & Max Paetro.
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientific-facts-history-full-revolutions.html
The Forum, 🙄
"Easy Prey" by John Sandford. Working my way through the local library's selection of Sandford
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
"In fact, with the Chronicling America initiative from the Library of Congress expanding to include media from all 50 United States, Washington, DC, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, it’s easier than ever to engage with a massive, searchable database of archived newspapers from around the country. The program currently offers free online access to a staggering 19.9 million pages of newspapers published in the US between 1777 and 1963."
“Wild Card” by Stuart Woods.
An excellent series.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
“A Safe House” by Stuart Woods.