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Too much watching

Quote from: Eric Blank on May 15, 2024, 08:27:56 pm

Im willing to bet Air-to-air AI fighters would be easier to program than air-to-ground. Fewer things you have to program the AI to correctly identify. If it can reliably tell the difference between the aircraft you and your allies are using and those of enemies and non-combatants, then militaries might even give it the OK to fire at will at any target it identifies as an enemy aircraft.

Then the enemy tries to mess with AI and things become messy.

Look at a simple example. Chess engines. They beat humans easily... But what if we change the rules slightly? Human players will adapt instantly and successfully apply all their experience from regular chess. The chess engine needs to be retrained\reprogrammed.

Theoretically, for chess-like games where there is a clear goal and a turn-based gameplay, you could make an "universal engine" via neural network, it's just that it's going to be very inefficient.

A. SPACE DRAGON

He's never been the same since he joined the overwatch...

Where is Barney?

Or if you have a phobia to fear. Nothing to fear but fear itself.  We must move Forward, Not backwards, Upwards, not forward and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Where was Barney??

B. SPACE DRAGON
2 Shots of Wóda (Fiery)
Shot of Wet Jet (Fiery, sweet)
Shot of Lamp (Fiery)
Dash of Sucrosol (V.sweet)
87c

You drone the bar.


It took eighteen minutes for the ship to arrive and another three for the pilot to arrive.

And what a pilot it is.

He is, by your honest estimation, at least seven feet tall. His milky-grey head skin is marred with wrinkles, boils and sickly growths. His left eye is missing and and was not replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic, which is quite surprising. His space suit is more like some sort of armor - rivets and screws visibly sticking out of its surface, and you have a feeling that some of these are actually piercing him through and into the bone.

Perhaps the armor doubles as a support cage for his body.

As he walks closer to the bar, you realize that his boots are not boots - his feet have been replaced with talon-like appendages, fully synthetic. They resemble bird's talon, given the angle of separation between the digit and some sort of hi-heel at the back. His right arm has just a power glove, but the left hand is covered in the same sort of power armor as his torso and legs.

When he sits down at the counter, you notice few white, sickly hairs growing at top of his head, and more importantly, a hexagonal implant embedded in his neck, wires disappearing into his armor, and one plugged to a socket at the right side of his neck.

Even when seated, this hulking giant of a man is still taller than you.

"HELLO BARKEEP." The hexagonal voice-box speaks for the man in a raspy, synthetic tone.

"Hello there, what can I get you?" He smiles softly.

"SOMETHING SWEET. THE STRONGER THE BETTER. AND KEEP IT UNDER HUNDRED CREDITS PLEASE." He needs to pause and take few deep breaths through his nostrils, which flare wider than any other human's. It seems that synthetic communication tires him easily.

Something sweet and strong, huh?

Sweet and fiery perhaps? Very sweet??

A) Offer him a shot of...
*A) Grenadiere
*B) Sucrosol
*C) Wet Jet
*D) Pontifex
*E) Dee-Tee
B) (Insert the name of a drink mix that you know and that might fulfill these requirements)
C) "Sorry, but you could be a little more specific?"

I'd stopped buying it for the exact same reasons as you, but it's really nice to have the option to prep my own for cheap when 90% of my vacations are a week or two of hiking and kayaking in bumfuck nowhere. IMO this is the way to go if you're going to eat it at all. Good-quality lean grass-fed ground beef isn't the worst thing in the world as long as it's not loaded up with preservatives, HFCS, and salt. (You can also do it with ground turkey but it feels like it's harder to find good quality there. You can theoretically do salmon jerky as well but the stench is unbearable.)

Going off of US average prices, a 1lb pack of good ground beef is ~$6-7. You get ~1/3 of the starting weight in jerky, or ~5oz and a bit. If you're talking store-bought jerky made with high-quality ingredients, you're potentially looking at $4-6/oz (if not more), and a lot of that weight is filler in some brands. Homemade is closer to ~$1.50/oz. That pound of chuck can give you two weeks worth of relatively healthy high-protein snacks for the price of a coffee or cocktail. That's without even getting into being able to guarantee no nitrates are in it, knowing exactly the condition of the spices used, being able to do custom flavor profiles instead of "salty", "salty with fake BBQ smoke", or "salty with one red pepper flake per bag"... I have this one I make with garlic powder, red pepper, local honey, and Worcestershire sauce that's killer.