When email came out in the '80's it was the first time for so many people that typed office correspondence was not produced by a professional typist.
Expectations were not that high from that point, then one day the internet came along and way more non-typists started typing, plus students got their hands on cellphones and started silently texting each other at high speed when they couldn't talk during class.
The whole time, things like Microsoft Word by the early '90's were fully capable of quite good layout and formatting. Pretty much regarded as formalities intended for professional use though, plus Word cost money and nobody could expect plain text to compare so why bother starting to seriously capitalize and punctuate now?
Plus on low-resolution monitors, it was sometimes more difficult to read any of the word-processor renditions until you printed them, so plain text it was, non-professionally typed for everything but the most formal true documents.
Anything other than lower-case has always been forced.
I guess the short answer would be, "Sir, this is an internet."
I agree, control is so important whether or not technology is involved.
>You own 90–100% of it, take the lead, and avoid butting heads and blame games as co-founders. You’re now accountable and responsible since it was your idea, your vision, and your commitment, but you enjoy full autonomy–a gift unlike any other in real life, TBH.
This has always been a fairly good starting point to negotiate from.
For a "non-technical" business, the technical business partner is about like a hired mechanic who picks up the loose ends when they appear, in a business that is not primarily technology-based. Kind of like with used car sales.
If it's going to be a technology business of course it's the other way around, the technology is best owned and operated by a technical leader who has way more skill at running a technology business than the most advanced MBA, and from there carefully chooses a non-technical partner who can pick up the loose everyday business ends for not much equity or decision-making responsibility.
Getting this backwards looks like an even more prominent cause of complete failure than many other things.
Nothing to be ashamed of if you end up pushing back the release date of your feature film :)
I had ideas not completely unlike this so long ago, but one big difference can be summed up in one of your parameters.
>Directories are walked, binaries are skipped . . . and each file is read from its beginning to its end because a document has an order.
For me it was binaries being walked because text and anything approaching a language model was so much further out-of-reach having such limited computer power.
Before they had personal computers I always figured the established computer experts were going to get their mainframes to do AI a lot sooner than it turned out.
That was a non-starter though, not many people could afford huge amounts of hardware in a centralized datacenter where you don't have unlimited access. How was the next level of progress supposed to occur if you didn't fully own the electronics?
It was pretty impressive when it required a forklift to move the CPU, but kind of forbidding too.
PCs took over fast for that very reason and rapidly became more powerful until they were quite capable of incredible amounts of automation well over 20 years ago for so many things.
The whole time since the mainframe days the thing that has held true for AI in automation, is that it has to take the same powerful, sophisticated PC hardware that already works so well without AI, and bring that to the next level in logical progression.
No dependency on remote data, remote storage, network or internet at all. Otherwise why bother?
As long as AI can not make the same stand-alone hardware outperform what it's already capable of beforehand, there's quite a bit more work to do.
An idealized automation workflow on a new PC without AI:
Insert blank SSD > Install OS > Install automation app > Program app > Run automaton
Same stand-alone hardware, with AI:
Insert blank SSD > Install OS > Install AI app > Train app > Run automaton
If AI can't make the same hardware run smarter, it's not as intelligent as it could be, is it?
The joke's on them and they probably don't even know it.
Remember that Disney owns the ABC TV broadcast network.
With this move, the regular TV news that has been streaming from abcnews.com and local affiliates for years has finally become inaccessible from all my Windows 11 PCs. This is using clean Windows with Edge only, no 3rd party apps or ad blockers, not relying on anything but good old Windows & Edge to handle security & privacy as well as they can.
Pre-recorded clips still play but not live news any more from ABC News or local station websites.
The same old PCs that played abcnews just fine until recently, and still play everything else at all resolutions.
The live internet streams were regular TV news with regular TV ads as always on their regular websites. No broadcast sports or entertainment programs were included, on the web those time slots were replaced by things like public interest programs from ABC studios. Including the same number of ads as the scheduled in-house news programs.
This hurts the advertisers more than anybody, Disney has now abruptly cut off countless web users who have always been just fine with the traditional 24/7 ads on the ad-supported news, apparently so Disney+ fans can be made more comfortable with any ads being eased in to paid premium programming. Just because they are on the same internet, that's a lot of collateral damage.
If I was an advertiser I would be hitting the ceiling and demanding far lower ad fees from Disney than there was a couple weeks ago. Now that casual random internet viewers have been kicked off the news stream in countless numbers.
Then you wouldn't have to change the initials and could claim it was that way the whole time :)
Now the heretofore well-understood descriptor "Artificial Intelligence" has been distilled from all of the world's experts for quite some time.
You can't expect terminology alone to turn things around completely, there's got to be some equivalence for it to be a meaningful rebrand.
In the Trump vocabulary I think the closest thing that comes to mind as AI for most people would be "Fake Intelligence", which is right on-brand the way he talks, and rolls off the tongue easier than the runner-up "Hoax Intelligence."
Like anything else, FI would be understood to be convenient shorthand, every time you see Trump's face associated with "intelligence" of any kind it would naturally imply the full formal name; "Fake Intelligence of America."
The process of dying and rejuvenation would be somewhat analogous chemically.
In this case the electrode is metallic lead and the electrolyte is water containing sulfuric acid.
The electrode-electrolyte "interphase" is a solid coating based on lead sulfate, that forms on the lead plates after extended recharge cycles. This doesn't redissolve very well during use after a while when the electrolyte has become oversaturated with lead ions, and the electrodes have been "replated" so many times. Especially when recharged from near-death.
One antique way of restoration without disassembly was to agitate the battery using an industrial vibrator to loosen up the solids, then dump out the (highly toxic lead-containing) electrolyte to physically remove as much sludge as possible. Followed by repeated filling using distilled water, agitation, and dumping until the waste water looks OK. One final fill with DI water (which acts as a very weak electrolyte at this point) and a reverse charge until an amp or two has been reached for a bit, to deplate as much oxidized coating as possible into a virgin solvent.
More agitation, dumping, rinsing, and finally replace with fresh acid.
Desperate measures for desperate times, not too economical today unless similar wastewater is already being handled in a scale that dwarfs a single battery, and fresh acid is obtained surplus or purchased at bulk pricing as well.
This sounds more complicated than the existing processes to recycle the acid and the electrodes separately and make new batteries from the raw materials.
It would be much easier if lead acid batteries were designed to allow flushing them easily. The biggest problem is the fill holes are absolutely terrible access for flushing and cleaning.
If they were easier to reuse like that and it was done more often then disposal for that lead saturated acid would likely be more available.
Yep, a big similarity to remanufacturing lithium batteries may be having more physical than chemical renewal, where the recycling process focuses on dismantling old and rebuilding new from reclaimed materials.
Restoring the functioning of the original electrodes in situ is a bit of a different ordeal. But they're working on it :)
Well "Consumer Reports" already has its niche in product comparisons. As the name implies consumers are supposed to get the most out of their ratings.
How about "Producer Reports" where companies are evaluated on whether they actually produce anything of value first and foremost as a benchmark.
Completely separate from the financial data which is already well-covered elsewhere. Investors are already supposed to get the most out of the money angle.
But for any one product most people are neither consumers of the product nor investors in the company.
These are the vast majority who would benefit from better information on whether a company is worth having around, for everyone in general who is not an avid consumer nor investor.
That would probably be more helpful for "innocent bystanders" who want to better avoid being assimilated by forces they have no interest in but could end up quite costly anyway.
When email came out in the '80's it was the first time for so many people that typed office correspondence was not produced by a professional typist.
Expectations were not that high from that point, then one day the internet came along and way more non-typists started typing, plus students got their hands on cellphones and started silently texting each other at high speed when they couldn't talk during class.
The whole time, things like Microsoft Word by the early '90's were fully capable of quite good layout and formatting. Pretty much regarded as formalities intended for professional use though, plus Word cost money and nobody could expect plain text to compare so why bother starting to seriously capitalize and punctuate now?
Plus on low-resolution monitors, it was sometimes more difficult to read any of the word-processor renditions until you printed them, so plain text it was, non-professionally typed for everything but the most formal true documents.
Anything other than lower-case has always been forced.
I guess the short answer would be, "Sir, this is an internet."
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