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I guess the obvious next move is for someone to make a browser plug-in that uses AI to detect AI-generated content and flag or screen it out. How else can we survive the tsunami of crap coming at us?
https://mastodon.energy/@hrheingold@mastodon.social/112016…

These retrocomputing-before-it-was cool Direct-to-TV Commodore 64’s from 2004 are so amazing. Made by the legendary Jeri Ellsworth. https://shopgoodwill.com/item/195005189

2004 Mammoth Toys-commodore 64/ 30 Games In One Joystick-in Plastic Packaging | ShopGoodwill.com

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Huzzah, @… is on the scene!

Remember like three years ago when crypto bros were trying to sell us this big story about how they were going to be friendly demand response players who could accelerate the energy transition by balancing load with supply? (I didn't bite.) Then how it turned out they were running 24x7 and keeping coal plants running that would have otherwise retired? And then how the DOE started tracking their energy consumption? Well, now the crypto bros are blocking DOE.

Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use
Bitcoin miners in the US notched a legal victory against the Department of Energy’s attempt to quantify how much electricity they use.

Damn! My left hip is painful. The prosthesis, the one with the short pin, was done in 2004, so it has done very well.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14147 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Existence of Algebraic Natural Proofs
The framework of algebraically natural proofs was independently introduced in the works of Forbes, Shpilka and Volk (2018), and Grochow, Kumar, Saks and Saraf (2017), to study the efficacy of commonly used techniques for proving lower bounds in algebraic complexity. We use the known connections between algebraic hardness and pseudorandomness to shed some more light on the question relating to this framework, as follows. 1. The subclass of $\mathsf{VP}$ that contains polynomial families with bou…

One thing that drives me crazy about Gmail is the way it displays email addresses like Nelson Minar (nelson@monkey.org). This is not correct. It should be Nelson Minar <nelson@monkey.org>. I first reported this bug before Gmail launched to the public in 2004. Now a whole generation has grown up learning The Wrong Thing.

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Damn! My left hip is painful. The prosthesis, the one with the short pin, was done in 2004, so it has done very well.