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2023lctgmeetingchats [2023.09.11 17:48] Steve Isenberg2023lctgmeetingchats [2024.01.10 08:43] (current) Steve Isenberg
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 These are a record of the chats that were passed during meetings in 2023.  They have been edited to a small extent.\\  These are a record of the chats that were passed during meetings in 2023.  They have been edited to a small extent.\\ 
 To find chats for a given day, for example July 19, 2023, search for datecode 20230719 (2023, month 07, day 19). To find chats for a given day, for example July 19, 2023, search for datecode 20230719 (2023, month 07, day 19).
 +
 +====20231220====
 +===Potpourri===
 +Videos on Feynman and Computing Pi
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 +<code>
 +08:31:54 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Syncthing.
 +08:32:01 From tedpk to Everyone:
 + Adam Adamandy Kochanski’s approximations of ´ π:
 + reconstruction of the algorithm ∗
 + Henryk Fuks´
 + Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
 + Brock University
 + St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
 + Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1, Canada
 + Email: hfuks@brocku.ca
 + Abstract
 + In his 1685 paper “Observationes cyclometricae” published in Acta Eruditorum, Adam
 + Adamandy Kochanski presented an approximate ruler-and-compass construction for rectifi- ´
 + cation of the circle. It is not generally known that the first part of this paper included an
 + interesting sequence of rational approximations of π. Kochanski gave only a partial explana- ´
 + tion of the algorithm used to produce these approximations, while promising to publish details
 + at a later time, which has never happened. We reconstruct the complete algorithm and discuss
 + some of its properties. We also argue that Kochanski was very close to discovery of continued ´
 + fractions and convergents of π.
 +08:37:26 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Note:  Adam is NOT Ted’s older brother. ;)
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231213====
 +===Planning meeting===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +08:21:25 From tedpk to Everyone:
 + Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong  6,065,075 views  Feb 15, 2017
 + According to our best theories of physics, the fundamental building blocks of matter are not particles, but continuous fluid-like substances known as 'quantum fields'. David Tong explains what we know about these fields, and how they fit into our understanding of the Universe. 
 +
 + David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University, specialising in quantum field theory.https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg?si=N0-udysPRZ4ZS4jT
 +08:25:09 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Brian Greene “World Science Festival”
 +08:27:59 From tedpk to Everyone:
 + BBC The Entire Universe 2016
 + 7 years ago
 + Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy and musical extravaganza.
 +
 + Aired December 26th 2016 BBC2. . https://dai.ly/x579m0o
 +08:38:53 From John Rudy to Everyone:
 + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmNph6atAoGfqLoCL_duAg
 +08:41:31 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Newton and Pi on “Veritasium” (18 minutes) ~ https://youtu.be/gMlf1ELvRzc
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231206====
 +===Hockney-Falco Thesis on the history of art===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +07:32:58 From Don Cooke to Everyone:
 + There's camera obscura and camera lucida. My favorite employee, Peter Moeykens, has written an excellent iPhone app called "Camera Lucida". Alas, I'm an Android type and can't use it. (The "half-silvered mirror" device Harry's talking about is a camera lucida, not a camera obscura)
 +07:36:31 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
 + Camera Lucida AR for Android  https://camera-lucida-ar.en.softonic.com/android
 +07:41:00 From Don Cooke to Everyone:
 + I got a wonderful tour of Warsaw by a Polish friend who worked for a "cousin" company. He showed me the "Old Town" that had been so badly trashed by Hitler that during restoration they had to revert to paintings by Canaletto, who painted city portraits all over Europe in the 1700s, probably using a camera obscura.
 +08:23:17 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
 + Wall paintings from the Roman period showed three-dimensionality.
 +08:23:53 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
 + I saw this in paintings recovered from Pompeii.
 +08:23:53 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
 + Mechanical devices have been used to create realistic art for centuries, maybe millennia. Perspective in particular was created using guides and other tools. And there were guide tools to help artists keep a steady hand when drawing lines.
 +08:28:18 From Don Cooke to Everyone:
 + OMG, this has been fun! I have several tabs open to pursue. Thank you!
 +08:32:48 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Harry, do you have anything to say (now or in a future Potpourri) about M.C. Escher and/or Teller (of Penn and Teller)?
 +08:47:54 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + James Burke ~ Connections on PBS
 +08:48:27 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
 + Also, “The Day the Universe Changed.”
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231108====
 +===Update on Chip Manufacturing===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +10:28:27 From Judy & Mike Alexander To Everyone:
 + FYI - Silicon Photonics, mentioned earlier, was invented locally, at the AF Research Lab group Hanscom AFB (RIP), by Richard Soref
 +10:48:28 From George Gamota To Everyone:
 + how does industry support universities to provide the skilled workers?
 +11:17:41 From tedpk To Everyone:
 + Hiding stuff is hard -- but still more reliable than "Open source" for the most critical technology
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231101====
 +===ChatGPT, part 3: How LLMs (Large Language Models) work===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +09:57:05 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + You also can’t share Covid, Flu, or Bad Breath.
 +10:07:14 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Professor Dumbledore:  “Before I begin, I’d like to say a few words: Nitwit.  Blubber. Oddment.  Tweak.”
 +10:23:36 From Carl Lazarus To Everyone:
 + Why 12,288 dimensions?  Why not more, why not fewer?
 +10:25:53 From tedpk To Everyone:
 + The same concepts are being used all of the time by gmail -- but it never learns about "my style" -- a fundamental limitation on by design?
 +10:26:42 From Mark Edelman To Everyone:
 + I wonder why the numbers in the vector have so many digits in them. Does this “precision” increase with training?
 +10:32:58 From Carl Lazarus To Everyone:
 + # of dimensions = 3*2**12   was that just a choice of how much they could handle with some amount of computing power?
 +10:46:09 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + In Otter Speech-to-Text, sometimes Otter will go back and change an earlier word.  But GPT locks in a word once chosen, never going back to alter an earlier word.  Would that practice ever become an advance in these narrative language models?
 +10:48:28 From Carl Lazarus To Everyone:
 + "The sky is blue" Blue is a good choice after "The sky is" but "is" by itself doesn't particularly map to "blue" So the whole of the sentence so far determines the probabilities for the next word, correct?  How long a sequence is considered?
 +10:55:02 From Carl Lazarus To Everyone:
 + So far, this explains how ChatGPT can construct a reasonably sentence or even paragraph based on word relationships.  But how does it take into account the prompt you gave it?
 +11:20:10 From tedpk To Everyone:
 + It is obvious that the human brain doesn't work in this manner -- we have lots of neurons -- but only a "relative few" are operating at one time [total power consumption is muc too low to work like GPT
 +11:24:36 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + «Bidirectional»
 +11:30:30 From John Howard To Everyone:
 + How are the indexes of the various vectors computed?  They need to align to compute dot products.
 +11:55:40 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Propagation of Misconceptions.
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231025====
 +===ChatGPT Part 2: Just how smart is ChatGPT?===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +09:52:41 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + “How Smart is ChatGPT” ~ Red flags:  1) Anachronisms; 2) Internally inconsistent perspectives.
 +09:59:27 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + • HF: “Prompt Engineering”
 +10:00:48 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + • Socrates: “Prompt Engineering the name of the game” (even with humans).
 +10:03:23 From Carl Lazarus To Everyone:
 + There was a recent news item about some method of "poisoning" images so chatbots would be badly disrupted if they scanned them.  Does anyone know more about this?
 +10:07:06 From Conor O'Mahony To Everyone:
 + A new tool called Nightshade makes subtle changes to the pixels of an image—changes that are invisible to the human eye but trick machine-learning models into thinking the image depicts something different from what it actually does. When artists apply it to their work and those images are then hoovered up as training data, these “poisoned pixels” make their way into the AI model’s data set, and cause the model to malfunction. Images of dogs become cats, hats become toasters, cars become cows. The results are really impressive, and there is currently no known defense.
 + https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/
 +10:08:11 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Visual artists frequently construct synthetic images which are “unworldly” to arrest the attention of the viewer.  Such “unworldly” visual images can also confuse a synthetic image analyzer.  Optical illusions are commonplace examples, but other-worldly scenes are a staple of the visual arts.
 +10:29:55 From Jerome Slate To Everyone:
 + Question on Digital Rights. How will ChatGPT access proprietary (digital) information, i.e., a copywritten digital textbook? Could ChatGPT "buy" one copy and then use that to answer queries without infringing on the copyright because it is using its own "words".
 +10:32:39 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + “Digital Rights” raises the question of what does it mean to “Publish” something (e.g. make the content available to the general public).
 +10:45:19 From larry freier To Everyone:
 + can CHAT translate voice of 1 language to English
 +10:45:39 From Charles H Holbrow To Everyone:
 +        Can AI write AI software?
 + Can AI design exams such as LSATs and MCATs/
 +10:45:49 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + What is the role of Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit” or Joe Biden’s notion of “Malarkey” in assessing the validity of content culled from the Common Crawl, et al.
 +10:46:57 From tedpk To Everyone:
 + The logarithmic scaling with CPU ops implies that the systems will be running into major roadblocks due to inefficient usage of computer tech
 +11:03:55 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Are chatbots vulnerable or immune to nefarious “grooming”?
 +11:24:41 From Judy & Mike Alexander To Everyone:
 + If one were to ask whether a human or animal is sentient, one would take *physical* measurements.  One would not simply engage the human in wordplay.
 +11:34:21 From tedpk To Everyone:
 + Train the LLM on Bach and ask it to create -- see if it makes us a Beethoven's 9th
 +11:41:14 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Ray Kurzweil pioneered the synthetic compositions of “elevator music” in the style of half a dozen musical genres based on statistical models of each genre.  Some of the genres were Jazz, Latin Jazz, Baroque, Classical, and Country.
 +11:45:33 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Mozart and Bach (among others) developed  a statistical process called “Dice Music” in which musical motifs could be synthesized by rolling the dice and entering the values into a table that selected the next note in sequence.
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20231018====
 +===ChatGPT Part 1: Introducing ChatGPT===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +10:21:47 From Yvette Tenney To Everyone:
 + Please repeat questions from audience. They're not always clearly heard.
 +10:36:36 From Yvette Tenney To Everyone:
 + Can it create slides for the presentation?
 +10:49:27 From Drew King To Everyone:
 + The cost for 4.0 is $20/month!
 +10:50:06 From David Kahan To Everyone:
 + Question: What structural Analysis testing is available for standing trees to avoid city and town property damage during windy environments ?
 +10:53:26 From Drew King To Everyone:
 + Bing chat is 4.0 today, and it's free, and it's connected to new web data. 
 + My question: Why not just use MS Chat instead?
 +10:57:36 From Jerome Slate To Everyone:
 + Why can't CHAT just say " I can't find any information on the "Great LLama Invasion"?
 +11:06:13 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Open Source ChatGPT projects do share their code and modeling innovations, but not the commercial versions.
 +11:08:17 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Misinformation tends to be drowned out by correct and less biased information. Probabilities don't respect the "echo chamber effect" -- in theory, at least.
 +11:29:39 From larry freier To Everyone:
 + what does CHATGPT offer that googling an answer does?
 +11:30:21 From Jenny Richlin (she/her) To Everyone:
 + How is Bing chat different from ChatGPT?
 +11:32:51 From Bob Melanson To Everyone:
 + Has anyone done a comprehensive comparitive evaluation of the leading  generaive systems?
 +11:34:21 From Drew King To Everyone:
 + Here is an advanced copy of parameters.
 +11:42:06 From Yvette Tenney To Everyone:
 + What is "over fit"?
 +11:52:48 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Henry Louis Gates.
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20230920====
 +===Modulus Arithmetic===
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +11:08:32 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + This is basically “Clock” Arithmetic (where for our clocks, it’s Base 12).
 +11:17:01 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
 + The number 2^100 is equal to 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376. It has 30 digits in total.
 + (Thanks, ChatGPT)
 +11:24:43 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Why are there 24 hours in a day?  https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.htm#:~:text=Our%2024%2Dhour%20day%20comes,on%20the%20observations%20of%20stars.
 +11:25:38 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Our 24-hour day comes from the ancient Egyptians who divided day-time into 10 hours they measured with devices such as shadow clocks, and added a twilight hour at the beginning and another one at the end of the day-time, says [Dr. Nick] Lomb.
 +11:28:23 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Reflections on Chinese Numeration Systems: What Are Rod Numerals?  https://maa.org/book/export/html/3403381#:~:text=Reflections%20on%20Chinese%20Numeration%20Systems%3A%20What%20Are%20Rod%20Numerals%3F
 +11:30:39 From Judy & Mike Alexander To Everyone:
 + ChatGPT is dependent on what it can find through internet lookup.  So t can't do mathematics, unless it's found, specifically, on the internet.
 +11:31:34 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
 + I asked ChatGPT what is the remainder of 2^100 divided by 100.  Its first answer: 41, second answer: 76, third answer: 1.
 +11:46:53 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + Acoustic Bikes: The New Name for Non-Electric Bikes? https://discerningcyclist.com/acoustic-bikes/
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
 +
 +====20230913====
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 +<code>
 +11:26:55 From John Rudy To Everyone:
 + who is the speaker?
 +11:27:45 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Sabine Hossenfelder
 +11:29:34 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Her YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
 +11:29:34 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
 + I think we have shown her videos before, or have them in the videos list.
 +11:29:43 From John Rudy To Everyone:
 + Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976) is a German professional YouTuber, theoretical physicist, science communicator, author, musician, and singer. She is the author of Lost in Math: How beauty leads physics astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and of Existential Physics: A scientist’s guide to life’s biggest questions.
 +11:30:04 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + She is one of the best presenters on YouTube and posts two videos a week.
 +11:30:50 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + And yes, she composes and performs song parodies, too.
 +11:31:52 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
 + We have some of her videos on the list: #20, can we tell if there’s a wormhole in the Milky Way; #28, is the universe really a hologram
 +11:33:11 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
 + https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts
 +11:39:43 From Barry Kort To Everyone:
 + Maybe say a word or two on Flow Batteries.
 +11:43:05 From Larry Wittig To Everyone:
 + Toyota has announce a solid-state battery that they claim will double the the range of lithium batteries. Scheduled for 2027.
 +11:53:30 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/flow-battery
 +
 + https://energy.mit.edu/news/flow-batteries-for-grid-scale-energy-storage/
 +11:53:55 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
 + (articles about Flow Batteries)
 +11:54:03 From John Rudy To Everyone:
 + lots of issues regarding mining of lithium
 +</code>
 +</WRAP>
 +[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
  
 ====20230906==== ====20230906====
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 <code> <code>
 10:29:58 From tedpk to Everyone: 10:29:58 From tedpk to Everyone:
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    Founder & Executive Director, Boston Dynamics AI Institute    Founder & Executive Director, Boston Dynamics AI Institute
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230830==== ====20230830====
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 <code> <code>
 11:05:54 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone: 11:05:54 From Steve Isenberg To Everyone:
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  Regarding Scientology, it is said that L. Ron Hubbard started the religion of Scientology as a joke.  Regarding Scientology, it is said that L. Ron Hubbard started the religion of Scientology as a joke.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230823==== ====20230823====
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 <code> <code>
 09:55:04 From Drew King To Everyone: 09:55:04 From Drew King To Everyone:
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  When I’m asleep in bed, I have very imaginative and creative dreams.  When I’m asleep in bed, I have very imaginative and creative dreams.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230816==== ====20230816====
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 <code> <code>
 10:15:30 From Bob Primak To Everyone: 10:15:30 From Bob Primak To Everyone:
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  Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets  Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230809==== ====20230809====
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 <code> <code>
 10:11:28 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone: 10:11:28 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
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  Rclone: https://rclone.org/  Rclone: https://rclone.org/
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230802==== ====20230802====
 +<WRAP prewrap>
 <code> <code>
 10:29:58 From Bob Primak to Everyone: 10:29:58 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
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  Inflection Pi has a very interesting personality.  Inflection Pi has a very interesting personality.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230726==== ====20230726====
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 <code> <code>
 10:09:29 From Carl Lazarus to Everyone: 10:09:29 From Carl Lazarus to Everyone:
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  The amount and "seriousness" of radioactive species in fusion are much smaller than in fission reactors.  In principle, much less of a waste problem than for fission reactors.  The amount and "seriousness" of radioactive species in fusion are much smaller than in fission reactors.  In principle, much less of a waste problem than for fission reactors.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230719==== ====20230719====
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 <code> <code>
 10:11:36 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone: 10:11:36 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
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  Ventoy  Ventoy
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 ====20230712==== ====20230712====
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 <code> <code>
 10:24:56 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone: 10:24:56 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
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  Reacted to "John Howard - You're..." with 👍🏼  Reacted to "John Howard - You're..." with 👍🏼
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 <code> <code>
 11:05:56 From Barry Kort to Everyone: 11:05:56 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
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  https://ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_the_astonishing_hidden_world_of_the_deep_ocean?language=en  https://ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_the_astonishing_hidden_world_of_the_deep_ocean?language=en
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 <code> <code>
 10:23:21 From Bob Primak to Everyone: 10:23:21 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
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  The brains overall of Neanderthals was larger than modern humans. But the frontal and prefrontal lobes are much larger in modern humans than in Neanderthals or Denisovans.  The brains overall of Neanderthals was larger than modern humans. But the frontal and prefrontal lobes are much larger in modern humans than in Neanderthals or Denisovans.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 10:14:55 From Bob Primak to Everyone: 10:14:55 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
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  Windows 11 Shake to Minimize was known as Aero Shake in Windows 10.  Windows 11 Shake to Minimize was known as Aero Shake in Windows 10.
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 +</WRAP>
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 10:37:28 From tedpk to Everyone: 10:37:28 From tedpk to Everyone:
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  "test chambe" -- definitely MIT! (Boston accent)  "test chambe" -- definitely MIT! (Boston accent)
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 10:09:31 From Bob Melanson to Everyone: 10:09:31 From Bob Melanson to Everyone:
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  The confusion may have arisen from the fact that the Vatican was involved in the restoration of Notre Dame after it was damaged in a fire in 2019. The Vatican donated $10 million to the restoration effort, and Pope Francis sent a team of experts to help with the repairs. However, this does not mean that the Vatican now owns the cathedral. The Vatican's donation was simply a gesture of goodwill and support for the French people.  The confusion may have arisen from the fact that the Vatican was involved in the restoration of Notre Dame after it was damaged in a fire in 2019. The Vatican donated $10 million to the restoration effort, and Pope Francis sent a team of experts to help with the repairs. However, this does not mean that the Vatican now owns the cathedral. The Vatican's donation was simply a gesture of goodwill and support for the French people.
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 10:38:43 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone: 10:38:43 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
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  Yeah 🙂  Yeah 🙂
 </code> </code>
 +</WRAP>
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 10:22:33 From larry freier to Everyone: 10:22:33 From larry freier to Everyone:
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  I got scintillations during a very stressful passage of life, some 35 years ago.  I got scintillations during a very stressful passage of life, some 35 years ago.
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 +</WRAP>
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 10:31:40 From Barry Kort to Everyone: 10:31:40 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
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  https://nordvpn.com/meshnet  https://nordvpn.com/meshnet
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 10:05:04 From Ted Kochanski to Everyone: 10:05:04 From Ted Kochanski to Everyone:
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  If Steve's source is correct, 20 mins would be round-trip time at about half the longest possible Earth-Mars distance.  If Steve's source is correct, 20 mins would be round-trip time at about half the longest possible Earth-Mars distance.
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 10:22:33 From Bob Primak to Everyone: 10:22:33 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
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  What about "sacrificial drones"  What about "sacrificial drones"
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  Is the electron directionality seen in the Stern Gerlach experiment the same at the North Pole and the Equator?  Is the electron directionality seen in the Stern Gerlach experiment the same at the North Pole and the Equator?
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  how about gravitational waves and entanglement of photons?  how about gravitational waves and entanglement of photons?
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 11:26:14 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone: 11:26:14 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
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 10:21:01 From Jerome Slate to Everyone: 10:21:01 From Jerome Slate to Everyone:
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  https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/  https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/
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  Was his George’s father named Noah?  Was his George’s father named Noah?
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 10:08:03 From Barry Kort to Everyone: 10:08:03 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
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  Old expression: "A fool and his money are soon parted."      Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.  Old expression: "A fool and his money are soon parted."      Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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 10:27:32 From Jerome Slate to Everyone: 10:27:32 From Jerome Slate to Everyone:
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  can a "normal" image of the source be constructed from the rings?  can a "normal" image of the source be constructed from the rings?
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 07:19:37 From tedpk to Everyone: 07:19:37 From tedpk to Everyone:
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  Also, have you done anything with Rosalind Picard (Affective Computing) at the MIT Media Lab?  Also, have you done anything with Rosalind Picard (Affective Computing) at the MIT Media Lab?
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