"Technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity." Inspiring words from Mustafa Suleyman our CEO of Microsoft AI .
Here's 4 different video demonstrations of Microsoft's new Copilot:
An AI companion for everyone - Microsoft
https://blogs.micro…
"Code is, ultimately, characters on a screen, and software engineers do nothing but hammer that code into shapes that spark Joy and Money. The fear and dread comes from a culture where people feel bad that they can't work quickly enough in the terrible codebase, where they feel judged for slowing down to hammer the code into better shapes that sadly aren't on the Jira board, and where management looks down on people who practice craftsmanship."
-- Ludicity
Old graphical editor prototype (2019/20) with various ways of managing multiple selections of graphical entities, incl. align/distribute, duplicate, invert, select/deselect region (box/convex hull). editor is generic. items could be files, shapes, mesh vertices, 2d/3d points, graph nodes, whatever...
Been re-animating this prototype and toying with integrating it into my personal note taking & media management tool to organize items into piles for batch-processing and to easier app…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: They couldn't. Which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
ORAC: Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
TRAVIS: Now, Kasabi, listen to this: was the homing beacon to transmit in a code pattern?
KASABI: Yes. It was pulse, three long, two short, recurring. [Servalan prepares a final dose of the drug. Travis moves to stop her, but Servalan slaps him off and administers it to Kasabi.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/188 B7B1
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: It had a sort of claw.
AVON: Designed to tear things apart. Space craft, for example.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/219 B7B4
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
SINOFAR: They have been recharged. I will see that your ship gets away.
BLAKE: Another reason why I didn't kill Travis: I would have enjoyed it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/466 B7B1
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: I don't give a damn about your power cells. There's a friend of mine out there.
[He turns and runs for the main entrance of the complex. Geela and Novara intercept him near the exit.] NOVARA/GEELA: [Simultaneously] We will help.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/455 B7B1
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: Come and sit down.
AVON: Thank you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/185 B7B4
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Whh, he's just one less to deal with, do we care why? [pause] But why leave him sitting there?
AVON: To delay discovery and give the murderer a chance to get away.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/286 B7B4