“Necessity is the mom of invention,” or so the saying goes. We’ve by no means held to that, discovering that laziness is a way more highly effective artistic lubricant. And this story about somebody who automated their job with a script is among the finest examples of sloth-driven invention for the reason that TV distant was launched. If we take the story at face worth — and it’s the Web, so why wouldn’t we? — it is a little scary, because the nameless worker was answerable for curating digital proof submissions for a regulation agency. The job was to observe for brand spanking new recordsdata in a neighborhood folder, manually copy them to a cloud server, and confirm the file with a hash to show it hasn’t been tampered with and help the chain of custody. The OP says this was actually the one job to carry out, so we are able to’t actually blame them for automating it with a script as soon as COVID shutdowns and dealing from dwelling supplied the required cowl. However nonetheless — when your whole job may be executed by a Home windows batch file and a few PowerShell instructions whilst you play video video games, we’re going to exit on a limb and say you’re most likely underemployed.
Individuals have been bagging on the US House Power ever since its inception in 2019, which we expect is a bit of unhappy. It must be arduous being the latest army service, particularly because it branched off of the beforehand latest army service, and regardless of how essential its mission could also be, there’s nonetheless all the time going to be the double stigmas of being each the brand new child on the block and the one with a repute for digging science fiction. And now they’ve given the naysayers but extra to dunk on, with the revealing of the official US House Power service music. Each service department has a music — sure, even the Military, and no, not that one — and so they all sound appropriately martial. So does the House Power music, however apparently folks have an issue with it, which we actually don’t get in any respect — it sounds superb to us.
Once you’re a pedestrian making an attempt to cross a avenue in visitors, the most effective items of recommendation is to make eye contact with drivers. Ensuring an approaching driver sees you and processes the knowledge is barely potential by a severe look of their eyes, and it might be the one factor that stops you from turning into a hood decoration. However what occurs to that rule when vehicles now not have drivers? Straightforward — stick large motorized googly eyes on their entrance grills. Researchers on the College of Tokyo and Kyoto College did simply that, utilizing an autonomous golf cart with comically giant robotic eyes to gauge whether or not it helps cut back pedestrian accidents. The eyes swivel in the direction of a pedestrian to indicate that the automobile goes to yield the best of manner, or look away if the automobile is planning to blitz proper by way of the crosswalk. It appears to work, with pedestrians much less prone to try a crossing in the event that they don’t get eye contact from the automobile. Fascinating outcomes, however we severely doubt anybody goes to be slapping googly eyes on autonomous autos anytime quickly.
And eventually, we’ve grown fairly keen on all these AI-generated movies that base their photos on music lyrics. There have been a few Led Zeppelin songs executed by AI Midjourney lately that had been fascinating, however we actually like this comparability of three totally different AI takes on Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” The pictures had been executed by DALL-E 2, Steady Diffusion, and Midjourney, and the distinction in outcomes is outstanding — particularly given the nonsensical nature of the poem. DALL-E 2 appeared to have probably the most hassle with the poem, and tended to make use of extra photorealistic photos than the opposite two. Personally, we’d give Midjourney the sting right here for creativity and common coolness of the photographs, however all three had been most frabjous and fairly mimsy — not in the slightest degree slithy.
