This is untrue, do the math on tap water compared to food. It's such a small contribution.
>Using an average calcium concentration in public water supplies of 26 mg/liter and a maximum of 145 mg/liter (Durfor and Becker, 1964) and assuming that the average adult drinks 2 liters of this water daily, then the drinking water could contribute an average of 52 mg/day and a maximum of 290 mg/day. On an average basis this would represent 5% to 10% of the usual daily intake or approximately 6.5% of the adult RDA.
>Therefore, typical drinking water in the United States, Canada, or Europe provides approximately 3% to 7% of the RDA for magnesium intake by a healthy human.
I actually had a Vevor water distiller (still have it, actually) and drank almost exclusively distilled water for ~10months, ending June 2023.
I feel better going back on tap water, fewer stomach issues. I don't have a proper theory that can explain why this is the case, but it's certainly the case.
Your body is not an abstraction. There will be parts of your body that will come in contact with acidic distilled water before it diffuses. But even in aggregate there were some studies showing increase in muscle cramps and heart disease in people drinking distilled water.
I can second that. Had the Gemini. Never used it much because everything was awkward about it, from the lack of software/firmware to the keyboard until two years later the battery expanded and was bending the case. Not only refused planetcomputers to replace it for free, the only option they gave me was paying £125.00 and sending it in. I've asked if they can send me a replacement battery so I can do it myself but they refused, pointing out safety issues with mailing a battery - while asking me to send the Gemini with the swollen battery to them.
The real problem is vast majority of society has long forgotten and doesn't want to remember the final horror of fascism "othering" minorities, anti-diversity, etc. and that's why it appears in politics.
No, it was widely know. I'm sure you didn't intent this but this 'excuse' is the talking point of neonazis here in Germany to deflect guilt and relativize what happened.
It might output a much more detailed image than a human-drawn sketch which could be less useful or more damaging than the vague sketch.
Imagine that a police officer is looking for someone matching the image but doesn't know that it's hallucinated from a vague description, they could let the real suspect go or incorrectly arrest someone who happens to look like the AI generated image but otherwise doesn't have any reason to be a suspect.
Police are already greatly overestimating the accuracy of their own facial recognition tools because they don't realize the limits of the technology, and this would just be worse.
Accountability for what? I recall Procedure already requires approval of the final sketch by the witness. Witnesses could always make mistakes, but that's true even in the current process. Or is your argument sketches should never be used?
In fairness, with the ubiquity of cameras, sketches are much less required...
Our hypothetical AI won't make any decisions. It just makes sketches as described and approved by witnesses. The relevant racism here is the one any witnesses may have, that's true even with a human police sketch artist.
"as described" according to what? There is simply no way to create image from words without something closely resembling decisions. Maybe "it" won't "make" those decisions, but they will be made somewhere.
Yea, somebody will have to evaluate whether the image matches the word, and that is currently done by the witnesses themselves. How is it worse than the current state?
In the racism-as-individual-intentional-malice framework sure. But I'm a consequentialist on this one. If it causes disparate & unjust outcomes mediated by perceived race then describing it as racist makes sense. No intent necessary.
No one is arguing that the AI has some sort of intentional racism and inherent real intelligence - they aren't trying to anthropomorphize it.
The argument is that the output is racially discriminatory for a variety of reasons and it's easier to just say "it's racist" than "Many of the datasets that AI is trained on under- or over-represent many ethnic groups" and then dive into the details there.
Call it playing devil's advocate here but given all the scam around "SomethingGPT" I find it reasonable to assume they try to trademark it mainly to prevent this.
Thank you very much for the input! We have zero revenue yet but reaching out to our first potential customers. Creating a e.g German UG is an option, but I've heard[1] converting this into a C-Corp or anything a US VC would want to invest in is very painful as well.
Quite possibly.
I’d say it’s just how I like it 80% of the time, and amazing 10% and terrible 10% of the time.
My go to is Yirgachefe.
Every so often I buy beans to see what I’m missing and I’m usually very underwhelmed. It’s time I did this again.
New Zealand is lucky as the importers don’t bring in much crap coffee and so the average is good. A large bulk is brought in by just a couple of companies and all seem to have high standards.
The key to home roasting for me is freshness. I like coffee a couple of days after it’s roasted. I can control this and struggled when I was buying beans.
Both of these things are surprisingly difficult to do properly, with enough consistency and control. I believe temperature profile can noticeably affect the roast, and being able to consistently hit a profile (and thus experiment and improve) is really difficult with something like a heat gun.
I did the heat gun thing for a while, and the air popper thing for a while, and even modified the air popper to be able to control fan speed and heating element separately. I got good results but hit a wall and needed more control. I started building an Arduino-controlled air popper to be able to get more consistent results, then decided brewing top-quality coffee coffee was challenging enough when roast quality was delegated to experts. Since then, I've been buying from local roasters.
