I have several friends in arranged marriages. What they all mention is the importance of shared new experiences. Going to a movie, restaurant, hike, or a trip together. Over time, this creates things they talk about as they get to know each other.

Most of the marriages I’ve seen work, the man also worked against the expected stereotypes. For example, helping with cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing.

Would be fine with towards the sun.

Penmanship.

TIL. Mind blown.

“Yup, that’s me on the OSHA poster.”

Book 3. Section VI.

The power company AI will generate the regulatory reports. The regulatory commission’s AI will summarize and score them for faster turnaround. Only 30% chance of hallucination making it through each cycle.

After a few iterations, they will get fully approved to deploy the giant hamster wheel with Bluetooth, powered by Nuclear-flavored RedBull.

This is proper expectation management.

Companies leaking their v2 plans effectively shut down sales of v1. And if there’s a long time gap to shipping v2, their revenue gets hammered. If a startup, can go out of business. Have seen it happen lots of times.

Humans shopping online allows the seller to offer discounts, upsell services, create serendipity (“How about a lip gloss 50% to go with those shoes?”), and build brand loyalty. Or if you’re a techie, how about 50% off an SD-card with the purchase of a gadget?

This is why retailers create these expensive e-commerce websites instead of just dumping their wares into E-Bay or Amazon. They also do things like web heatmaps and other types of analytics to optimize the UI/UX.

Having an AI agent do the shopping means they lose all that. It’s any wonder they’re going to fight AI shopping agents. Be prepared for a lot more complex captchas when roaming around the web.

Early animal dentistry.

Blowing other people’s runny noses, with your mind.

Crocs on Bikes

We used to read both versions in high school French class. There was much more slang in French. Many of these were replaced by silly puns in English.

Even the names: Getafix the druid was originally Panoramix. Dogmatix the dog was Idéfix (this is actually a pretty good translation, keeping the core idea of single-mindedness, plus it has Dog in it).

The chief and bard names are the worse. Abraracourcix is a reference to someone prone to violence in French, which is why he keeps getting angry and red-faced. There’s a whole plotline about him having to go to a spa so he can lose weight and relax. Not sure why they renamed him to Vitalstatistix in English.

And the noisy bard goes from Assurancetourix (comprehensive insurance joke) to an unsubtle Cacofonix. But to answer your question, most of the bad puns were added in the English translation.

FWIW, they did a reverse butcher job with Harry Potter books. The French versions literally translated the British expressions word-for-word to the point they made no sense.

How are these any better than Gogoros with 110 mile range and battery swap network?

Pretty cool.

I’ve been noodling on what else you can run inside a GPU shader. Problem was data persistence. This is a pretty interesting approach.

Wonder what kind of performance you get running something like this on a bare, high-end GPU (outside the VRChat/Unity scaffolding).

… to have and to hold, … in sickness and in health …

If you sit up while reading, no problem. It just rests on your collarbone. If slightly inclined and on a pillow, it presses against the neck. But it’s not uncomfortable.

I haven’t fallen asleep with one yet. Entirely possible it can destroy the vertebrae, lead to full paralysis, and incontinence. I’d be sure to keep the receipt.

Only 6 takers on the KS with a long way to reach funding level. My guess is they’ll have to relaunch while focusing on end-user benefits and software instead of hardware specs.

The Qualcomm IPQ9574 is a pretty high-end WiFi 7 platform. If someone already has a decent router, it’s a bit of a waste. The main processor is the Rockchip RK3588 module which already has dual NPUs. Adding another AI coprocessor means the system drivers have to be tweaked properly to use the right coprocessor. That’s why I think it’s important to see how they’ve implemented the software.

The RK3588 is a couple years old. Rockchip already announced the RK3688 but my past experience with them was they first released mobile versions and it took a while (1-2 years) before they made dev boards and server BSPs available. The 3688 also has a much better, faster NPU w 20 TOPs – not as beefy as the Metis with 214 TOPs – but OK for basic local inference.

All the communication slots are good for remote office or High Availability – a bit wasted IMO for home use, unless you need LoRaWAN, satellite, or multiple 5G lines.

If you badly want to use a 3588, BananaPi makes a pro board at a fraction of the price. Otherwise, for basic home server use, an old Intel laptop or headless desktop, reflashed with Debian or Ubuntu will do.

Again, I really like the hardware mix they have. It’s great for a small office or a research lab, but IMO a bit overkill for home use.