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🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
#moon

Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might not have succeeded, allowing them to try again. A group from MIT's Space Enabled Research Group, part of its Media Lab, recently released a paper in Space Science Reviews that describes the design and testing results of a pair of passive sensors sent to the moon on the ill-fa…

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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Sam Amidon's Listen List
Kate Molleson with live recordings of works by Donghoon Shin and Ailis Ni Riain, plus Sam Amidon shares his latest listening.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kq69

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
Relax with a 30 minute soundscape of classical music including works by Faure, Handel, Chopin and Dvorak.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029xk0

"The world is heading to add 57 superhot days a year, but study indicates it could have been worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange

The world is heading to add 57 superhot days a year, but study indicates it could have been worse
The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, a study released Thursday found.

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#ClassicalMixtape
- Classical music for your journey
Half an hour of back-to-back classical music to help you unwind at the end of the day, with works by John Barry, Max Richter, Mel Bonis, and Grieg.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pgf1

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- American Roadtrip
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring works by US composers or performers inspired by Radio 3's American Roadtrip.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002p7kt

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Rachmaninov and Mahler at the 2023 BBC Proms
Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Plus Mahler's Titan Symphony and the world premiere of a new work by Grace Evangeline Mason.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mw4b