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For the energy transition , making renewables , RELIABLE ( at large scale) for a country is the very challenging part.
Would include mobile phones and watches - they both transmit "... RF Energy ....."
In fact lots circuits transmit RF energy - computers do it un intentionally ... just saying
This article immediately triggered recollections of my Palm III I had - in around 1996 There was a submarine / depth charge game that I found addictive. Last time I powered it up, a few years ago the LCD screen was not working.
The real issue would be the quality of the proposed solution - whatever the tools or system used to produce the proposed code change. It seems that the code has been examined and the quality bar has passed satisfactorily. ( My interest in this is that I was a test analysist for 20 years for mainly corporate software . I did not do code reviews )
partly because there is a shortage in Australia of people with such skills.
It seems there needs to be more doctors to help reduce the insane workload.
Must be lots burn out suffered ? by Drs?
I recall, One bit sound was detailed extensively in Byte Magazine starting in mid 70s. A square wave that has its frequency varied.
A google of the words " Generating speech with a square wave wave , Byte magazine " picks up lots links about this technique.
Fourier transform show a square wave consists of odd sine wave harmonics.
[A more advanced technique (more than one bit) would use microprocessor interrups to generate several sqare waves, output them with more than one IO pin and combine them with a resister network]
This mention of one bit sound made me remember the Lis’ner 1000 project of Steve Ciarca , cira 1984 , WHICH WAS speech recognition system of about 30 words. It used a GI SP1000 chip
I never had a Commododore , but I had several other computers starting from around 1979.
From that era , from arount 1975 forward there where often SEVERAL NEW different computers released each year.
That include SBC Single board computer that was sold as the board , often without a power eupply or case
and S100 systems
and DIY hobbyiest build systems
I still have most of books and magazines from that era, most of my computers , got lost, I still have a few.
Its not clear to me if the driver died while car was moving? and the car stopped somehow as a result of this?
If so I wonder if car activates blinker - hazard lights and tries to move to the edge of the road ( to the slower lan? ) to try avoid accidents ?
Apparently ...“.....If you set up a social media account as a young boy in Australia today, it takes an average of 23 minutes for you to be fed misogynistic, violent misogynistic content online ..."
Posted by
asdefghyk on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:17AM
from the news24.com.au dept.
OK that action allows them to do the transformation.
But how about the importing into the AI tool?
Does this "transformation" somehow override the authors complaints of AI taking their book and not compensating the authors for its mass usage in the AI tool.
Posted by
asdefghyk on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:54PM
from the news.com.au dept.
The Facebook owner has agreed to cough up billions after claims it set out to turn kids into addicts – but only if TikTok and YouTube match it.
I wonder what would happen if Annas archive announced
In response to the 340M fine, ....
"We have set up a LLM and are deleting all our books ? "
when I read title .
"Annas archive owes $340 million absolutely first thing that came to mind is
" How much do all these Ai companies owe for their unauthorised use of books and other media?"
Posted by
asdefghyk on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:57PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.
Like a spider, the Ice Dart can land on and latch onto steep, slippery surfaces such as icebergs and glaciers
Posted by
asdefghyk on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:49AM
from the computer.org dept.
A paragrap from the linked articale
Z80 was the choice of a microprocessor for then home computers such as Radio Shack TRS-80, SORD M23P, M5, Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum, KayPro II, and many other manufacturers.3 It was capable of running the CP/M operating system in most Z80-based PCs. Z80 had a reasonable share in the PC market until Intel revealed its 16-bit microprocessor in the mid-1980s. Z80 was very popular as a microprocessor not only in PC applications, but also in industrial embedded applications, and some of the big manufacturers have Z80 core inside their ASIC chips still today or use enhanced versions of Z80 in consumer electronic devices.4–7 Zilog still manufactures ez80, an enhanced version of the original Z80, which is still being used by Texas Instruments in its TI-84 and TI-84 Plus calculators.7 It is among the few silicon chips that made a remarkable impact on the electronic device industry.8 To this day, Zilog produces a range of Z80-based microprocessors and intelligent peripheral controllers, and they are available from reputed electronics component suppliers.2,9,10 This microprocessor is one of the longest living microprocessors of all time.
I always though in order to be able use these gadgets, The user should be required to submit themselves to its use on themselves.
That includes stun guns and these hand shock gadgets.
RE "...Instead, they enforce the copyright and force AI companies to shred books they want to ingest...."
Why are AI companies forced to shred books?
Sorry link is paywalled
A short part of the articale.
The computer science lecturer who used artificial intelligence to beat Macquarie University in an industrial relations stoush has a grim summary of the future of the legal profession: carnage.
Greg Baker caused a stir when he used AI agents to run a successful case against the real lawyers representing the university in the Fair Work Commission.
Greg Baker spends his time contemplating the future of work.
In what is the first known instance of a self-represented litigant successfully using AI – certainly in Australia – Baker won the right to have his casual teaching role converted to a permanent part-time position. ......
In the articale,
He predicts that while judges will still be needed, there will not be not much role for lawyers
Posted by
asdefghyk on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:55AM
from the afr.com dept.
NO , because you do not know pollution is in the waste water.
What poisens ( hopefully none ) are in wastewater .....
Posted by
asdefghyk on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:28PM
from the abc.net.au dept.
A story I find interesting for intellectual curiosity reason.
10 to one ratio of opposers.
Fought by the 6RAR's D Company in a rubber plantation called Long Tan, the battle was one of the most significant engagements involving during the war.
Posted by
asdefghyk on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:19PM
from the abc.net.au dept.
Posted by
asdefghyk on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:51AM
from the ia.acs.org.au dept.