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Am I the only one who misread the title to say that DDG was now hiding AI-generated images in your search results?

As in, they’re sneaking them in?

I live in a place where clergy are legally required to report already. There’s still a regular stream of people who confess anyway and are then counseled to immediately report to the police as well, as clergy will be reporting within 24 hours.

Some people glaze over when told what the legal responsibilities are, and just go with what they were told from old movies, that confession is inviolate. Odd but true.

Maybe they’re from Alberta?

There’s also the fact that

1. It’s only really good at this if you want it to generate Python, PowerShell, bash, or C++ code. Try any other language and it quickly assumes you’re using outdated and often incompatible libraries or doesn’t really understand how the language functions.
2. at the end of it all, neither you nor the AI has learned anything new; you’ll have to put in the exact same amount of work the next time. If you do it yourself, then over time that 10% advantage goes away.

Now, these things could both change over time, but humans are much more efficient to train than current state of the art probability sieves we call GenAI.

Danny Westergard running Death Valley.

I have to say, that’s a run I’d love to do myself when I’m that age, but I don’t think I could afford the infrastructure it would need for me to survive it.

I already run 30km regularly, sometimes in temperatures as low as -13c and as hot as 30c. I’d probably try to do Death Valley mostly at night and deal with the cold.

That’s 218Km, so I’d probably have to run it evening and morning for a week to do it. That means surviving exposure during mid-day somehow (a nice AC tent to duck into to sleep?)

So with Trump and Musk, which is The Undertaker and which is Mankind?

Or are they BOTH The Undertaker and we’re all Mankind?

Summary of what you need to know to understand the experiment and the results is in the writeup:

Our knowledge of how heat and electricity interact within materials is rooted in the Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects, all identified during the 1800s.

The Thomson effect causes volumetric heating or cooling when an electric current and a temperature gradient flow in the same direction through a conductor.

Scientists have long theorized that a transverse version of this effect should exist when an electric current, temperature gradient, and magnetic field are applied in orthogonal directions in a conductor.

Remember that heat is just molecular motion/kinetic energy; it’s the relationship between the movement of molecules and electromagnetic radiation that’s being explored here, and there’s only so many ways motion and electron energy states can interact with each other.