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I used Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to fight a speeding ticket. I was apparently in the wrong (I distinctly remember looking at the HUD and seeing I was at the speed limit) because their video evidence (which I am shocked they even had) showed me 20 over. I used all three to make sure I was doing everything as correctly as possible.

While I didn't have it entirely dismissed, two things came out of it that I found interesting:

1. The County Attorney told me he hadn't had anyone fight a speeding ticket in many years. Most of the people in court that day with me (virtually) were DWI-related.

2. I ended up with nothing after a year if I do not have another moving violation. Perfect outcome for me.

The three tools, primarily Claude in my case, walked me through everything; they prepped all documents; told me how and when to send it; processed all replies; and even walked me through how to prep and talk during meeting with the CA prior to the judge and then the judge herself. It was lovely.

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I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of AI-assisted court cases happening soon.

You didn't include the key piece of information as to why he was charged:

The sergeant said that on the same day, he looked up the county’s agreement with Flock, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Camden County Sheriff Tony Helms, and at the time, it was still in effect.

According to court documents, the sergeant talked to Camden County Prosecuting Attorney Richelle Grosvenor, who told Skelton not to take the cameras down.

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Does creatine make you smarter?

I don’t know. Maybe a little.

Seemingly benign and/or entirely work-related messages can turn out to be career-ending when weaponized by the company.

https://archive.is/2L3sU

More information:

Target Data Collected

According to procurement records initially reviewed by 404 Media, the system allows continuous monitoring of the following personal data points: [1]

Names and addresses

Social Security numbers

Ethnicities

Geolocation information

Social media activity [1]

https://www.change.org/p/demand-thomson-reuters-cancel-its-1...

I don't understand the draw of video anything at all; I never have. I can read information 100x faster than a video can provide and I just cannot possibly understand why anyone would want to sit through a 45 minute YouTube video that would have taken 1.5 pages of text.

That said, I'm not at all opposed to OTHERS getting the information in the delivery method they prefer. Great; good for you. But! I don't want to see written word be entirely replaced by video. And, before you ask: no; a transcript of the script is not what I want either.

ESOPs have minted many a paper millionaire. I work for one and it’s a retirement vehicle that’s been often, but not always, outperforming the S&P in our case.

We get ESOP shares as well as 401K match; double the retirement.

The researchers found that intermittent exposure to high carbon dioxide levels caused the brain’s blood vessels to pump as they do during deep sleep, driving the glymphatic system.

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But an around an hour after the intervention ended, the amyloid and tau-clearing benefits had returned to baseline. Further studies need to explore whether this has an impact on Alzheimer’s disease risk or progression in the long-term, and how often you’d need to do it, says Vincent Tay at Changi General Hospital in Singapore.

Further studies need to explore whether this has an impact on Alzheimer’s disease risk or progression in the long-term, and how often you’d need to do it, says Vincent Tay at Changi General Hospital in Singapore.

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I decided to try it out and see if it could optimize my Rust program.

Kimi K3 had 2 recommendations, and I decided to have it pursue the SWAR optimization—SIMD Within a Register. With SWAR, a single 64-bit value is treated as 8 eight-bit values—so we can handle 8 u8 values (single-byte) at once.

Kimi K3 took about 15 minutes for the task, and it completed it perfectly. I found the optimization sped up the program by 2%.

It cost about $1 for the tokens on OpenRouter.

I had been explaining it to others as 'My Iron Man suit' before reading the exoskeleton essay, months later. So, you are definitely correct.

https://archive.ph/UbeXA

I didn’t say they were related. I said he’s doing insane shit to himself because he has the money to do so. But it’s that he recommends others do the same and that’s stupid.

He’s unfathomably rich and unfathomably stupid; doing insane shit to his body and actively recommending others do the same and that’s why he’s being mocked.

“Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.

68% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel...

Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox.

That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.

They sit alongside a mangrove-studded wetland and an ocean larger than an Olympic swimming pool..

I’m tired of the colloquial use of “Olympic sized swimming pool,” as a size as they’re rarely correct. FINA, or whatever they’ve rebranded themselves as, defines an Olympic-sized pool at 50m x 25m or 1250 square meters.

Biosphere 2’s ocean was 35m x 20m (700).

I gave Claude a video provided by a county attorney for a speeding ticket I got. It was spot on in its analysis, even though I don’t like what the video showed.

What does it mean that Claude can’t view video; it did it just fine. Or do you mean tool less?

Since this is already expired: https://archive.is/0xyRg

Autism is a spectrum and yours appears to not be a severe disability; whereas, those who do have family members where the autism is debilitating, they may have a much different view on reversing those traits.

Semi-related: my father has complications from a motorcycle accident ~25y ago that crushed arteries in his leg coupled with diabetes (insulin / kept sugar at ~100 and his A1C was kept under 6.7 for ~15y). 6w ago had to have his toes removed due to dry gangrene; they eventually (2.5w ago) had to remove his leg below the knee because of the severe blood flow issues below the knee.

Between the toes and the below the knee amputation, there were no less than 15 different doctors and PAs / related personnel who COULD NOT COME TO A CONSENSUS. They would just tell my mother and I (PoA) the details; they refused to come up with a singular plan of action moving forward, leaving it up to us to make 'an informed decision,' something that's IMPOSSIBLE when you have to take up to 15 different opinions into consideration.

What exactly are we supposed to do as patients/family members when medical personnel cannot give reasonable paths forward and instead just throw a bunch of shit over the fence at you and tell you, "you decide what to do from here," regardless of how many VERY DIRECT conversations I had w/the 'care team' on doing better to provide a limited array of options and reasons/likelihood of 'positive outcomes'.

I'm used to dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders/SMEs in decision-making; it's my job to apply my extensive industry experience to present our clients with their options, ranked and reasoned. Doctors, in my experience and most recently with my father, clearly do NOT do that (I assume due to liability; but, no real idea, honestly). So; when dealing with LIFE CHANGING circumstances, what are we supposed to do except rely on what might be able to offer more analysis and option narrowing w/AI?

I certainly don't want to make the job of medical staff more difficult by putting out crazy theories I found on the interwebbernets through my own research, etc; but, when we're having to deal with uncertainty and insanity, what else can we do?

I have said this before, I will say this again: we've been using ML for pricing changes for different groups of users on ecommerce sites for literally decades.

Most simplistic example:

1. User arrives on site; we believe we haven't seen them before (their cookie is new and based on our ID graph, they may very well be) and they're behavior on site (e.g., how they navigate it; what they click on; how they scroll) is indicative of an entirely new user. For this user, we give a discount to try and capture the sale and keep them coming back with nurture activities (e-mail or retargeting).

2. User arrive on site; we KNOW they are a returning user (e.g., we have their cookie tied up to pre-existing rows in the ID graph; they came in from a retargeting ad; and/or their on-site behavior is indicative of a returning user). For this user, they get the 'normal pricing'.

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The only difference here is that the article claims they use AI and AI is scary.

I can’t speak to this particular sector; however, I have found academics to lag 5-7y behind the realities of the business world I operate in.

Business moves incredibly fast; academia, not so much.

Petty means they're excessively concerned with trivial matters, minor slights, or small grievances; the Trump Administration is FAR MORE than petty.

They're not simply petty; instead, they're vindictive, retaliatory, and vengeful.

1960 Olympics was the first where fly was added to the MR.

A highly skilled carpenter may be able to 'get work done' by banging nails in with a heavy-bottomed cocktail glass, doesn't mean it's not painful to do so when it is continuously breaking and leaving shards of glass all over the workshop for you to find every day for the rest of your life until you clean up the mess you made using the wrong tool for the job.

1. If you're not based in a country where SMS was included free, it was/is advantageous to use something delivered over the Internet, rather than carrier.

2. It allowed for sharing multimedia better.

3. It closed the divide between Android and iOS, giving a singular experience across the two systems.

4. Prior to RCS, it allowed for typing notifications, high resolution media, read receipts, etc whereas SMS did not offer these options.

5. There really isn't any additional benefit for most of these now; but, folks are already ingrained into the ecosystem.

I guess if it works for you, great; that’s why competition is a good thing.

Enjoy.

On vacation, for example, I'll read 1-2 books a day. I would say most books I read are in the 300-350p range; just because that's what most books are, it seems.

I read for pleasure; ~100 books a year on average. When I go anywhere, I am reading.

My daughter informed me that the mothers of her teammates were outright making fun of me for having my 'nose buried in a book,' before every event. I asked her if they were making fun of everyone else for having their nose buried in their phones; she laughed and said they probably were not.

Why is reading for fun something that's worthy of negative attention these days but scrolling social feeds is somehow socially acceptable? I just don't get it.

Of course kids aren't reading for pleasure; their parents likely aren't and there's societal pressure to NOT do it and instead use your phone to pass the time.

I realize I’m different than many leaders out there; I came up through the ranks and do everything the way I wished it had been rather than the way it was.

As such, I’m entirely open to any and all feedback from my team. I certainly wouldn’t be offended if you just asked; I’d do my best to accommodate it.

What’s the worst that can happen? They say no?

Unknowingly. Is that set at the org level? Because I never set it and never had it do that before.