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Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Today, Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 at 21:00 UTC (5pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will also be published when available. Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community is welcome to observe and participate--you are hereby invited to the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Psychologist Steven Jay Lann and colleagues debunk common myths about hypnosis:

Both Freeman and upstart wrote in with:After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff:

dbe writes:This article [Paywalled-Subscribers Only] describes how GPT tools can be used for some tasks but will reduce the quality of workers output in others in a phenomenon dubbed "falling asleep behind the wheel".Tasks where GPT assisted consultants did better: creative business idealization and selling concepts.Participants were required to complete 18 tasks, or as many as they could within the given time frame, across four broad domains: creativity (e.g. "propose at least 10 ideas for a new shoe targeting an underserved market or sport"); analytical thinking (e.g. "segment the footwear industry market based on users"); writing proficiency (e.g. "draft a press release marketing copy for your product"); and persuasiveness (e.g. "pen an inspirational memo to employees detailing why your product would outshine competitors").Tasks where relying too much on GPT tools reduced the output quality (but was faster): tasks where data analysis was required to draw the right conclusionFor this task, participants had to use interviews with company insiders and financial data from a spreadsheet to pinpoint which of a hypothetical company's brands held the most potential for growth.So I guess as long as your work is not pushing fluff content, being skilled can still give you an edge.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/comcast-should-stop-advertising-slower-speeds-as-10g-industry-group-says/

canopic jug writes:ScienceAlert has a summary of a report on a new phase of superionic ice as developed in the lab.

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hubie writes:New study finds that large group size and mating systems where males have multiple mates drove evolution of deeper male voices in primates, including humans:

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upstart writes:Discoveries at Kalambo Falls, Zambia offer insights into ancient human technology:

upstart writes:Europe is subsidizing the launch of Internet satellites for Jeff Bezos:

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taylorvich writes:https://gizmodo.com/neanderthals-hunted-cave-lions-skeleton-spear-1850921295

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owl writes:https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/06/a-reagan-judge-the-first-amendment-and-the-eternal-war-against-pornography/

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upstart writes:Early analyses reveal carbon and water in ancient asteroid parachuted down to Earth:

owl writes:https://crystalverse.com/pyramid-salt-crystals/

hubie writes:Illusions are in the eye, not the mind:

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upstart writes:Besides the well-known tastes of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, recent research proposes that the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic taste:

PiMuNu writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66964510I thought this was an interesting, albeit extreme, example of how the data that phone software harvests can be used for evil purposes. In this case it's a loan software that harvests contact data.

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A submitter with no name writes:While there are a number of small robot lawn mowers on the market, I think they mostly mow randomly inside a fenced off area (the fence may be a buried wire with an AC carrier signal?) Designed for mowing one residential lawn, and not using any sort of optimal mowing path.Now Honda is demoing a battery powered zero-turn mower that can be trained by a human mowing a big lawn once. Multiple mowing jobs can be stored in memory for future playback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptN-qrEGqX0 Clearly designed for landscape contractors and other commercial mowing services.They claim various AI features, but from the looks of it, this is limited to safety--stopping if the machine senses people and/or new objects in the stored mowing path. From the YT text:

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hubie writes:Researchers Find Hidden Micro-Stressors in Routine Driving:

upstart writes:NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission launches this week: Here's what you need to know:

hubie writes:https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.021032

upstart writes:An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person:

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Unity CEO John Riccitiello is Retiring, Effective Immediatelyupstart writes:Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat:

looorg writes:ATARI releasing a "new" game for the 2600 console. 46 years in development, there wasn't just active development, have got to be some kind of record in and by itself.Sold in the classic box and cartridge form. Clearly targeting the collector-market since it's just 500 copies. I'm not sure you'll get your $60 worth tho. It doesn't look very good or appear to be overly interesting as a game. It's not Pitfall.Perhaps this isn't a surprise, or should come as one. After all it seems the game market today is in large just remaking the same titles over and over again, remaking and "updating" previous titles etc. In that sense starting to release games for long dead consoles is perhaps not that far fetched.https://www.engadget.com/atari-is-releasing-a-new-cartridge-for-its-46-year-old-2600-console-183922523.htmlOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Result confirms time-dilation expectations of Einstein's general relativity:

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upstart writes:The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs:

upstart writes:Records reportedly belong to millions of users who opted in to a relative-search feature:

hubie writes:People with dementia still have the ability to learn new things despite their illness:

hubie writes:'Very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news:

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 at 21:00 UTC (5pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete. Please note the new day and time.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will also be published when available. Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community, as always, is welcome to observe and participate, and is, as always, invited to the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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hubie writes:In eye-tracking study, half of participants look only at date:

upstart writes:Paleontologists find first molecular evidence of ginger pigment molecules in fossil frogs:

looorg writes:What is a photography anyway?"World's first AI art award ignites debate about what is photography."The artists won the world's first artificial intelligence art award at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale with a life-like image of sisters cuddling an octopus, which was created using computer prompts, instead of a camera."Many people say my pictures make them uncomfortable ... When I explain that AI creates them as a kind of collage... many laugh, others are distressed and find them disgusting... "https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/world-s-first-ai-art-award-ignites-debate-about-what-is-photography-20231004-p5e9td.htmlOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers:

upstart writes:Tom Hanks has warned an advert that appears to be fronted by him is in fact an artificial intelligence (AI) fake:

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