Saturday, December 31, 2022
Friday, December 30, 2022
Thursday, December 29, 2022
◄ AGE of UNIVERSE ► TIME in perspective ⏱️
https://youtu.be/Zb5qTdb6LbM
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
What It's Like To be a Computer: An Interview with GPT-3
There is this thing called the Turing Test, invented by Alan Turing seventy years ago. The idea is to see if a computer could become smart enough to fool a human into thinking he is talking to a real person. We have crossed a threshold where computers have almost reached this point.
The AI appears to understand more than it actually does. It has studied human conversation and a mountain of raw information so that it can imitate a human conversation.
However, having a conversational computer isn't the only threshold the machines have crossed recently. Computer AI has become much more useful, performing all kinds of new tasks, such as surgery or writing computer code. By the end of the decade, machines will be performing many more jobs. It is very likely that in the next couple of decades, or even in this one, we will have general-purpose robots that could perform any task that we want them to do.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Is Tik Tok addictive?
Is Tik Tok addictive?
In the first part of the video, he claims that Baby Boomers have been stealing money from the younger generation.
So I wrote this:
Saturday, December 3, 2022
"We May Have A Problem Here" | CoD: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered
This is not realistic in terms of physics, but amusing to watch...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d77wSm9Ih14
The blast spreads too fast. BTW, if the blast is in a vacuum then there is no blast wave.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d77wSm9Ih14
The blast spreads too fast. BTW, if the blast is in a vacuum then there is no blast wave.
Friday, December 2, 2022
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Re: Watch "You're Immortal And I Can Prove It" on YouTube
I like the video. It doesn't teach me anything new, but he makes entertaining videos.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 11:34 PM Albert wrote:
A "Thoughty" video.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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John Pinette - Hiking Is a Walk That Sucks
Very very Funny...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKT9qydYxWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKT9qydYxWs
Death[edit]
Pinette died on April 5, 2014, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 50.[13] Pinette's personal doctor signed off on his cause of death as pulmonary embolism.[14][15]
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Asa Holds Hand Grenade Too Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV727_YGAkQ
9 months ago (edited)
Fun fact: The pin is here just to keep the spoon in place. The grenade only initiates when the spoon falls (usually when the grenade is launched).
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A very boring fact. Wasn't fun at all.
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Saturday, July 30, 2022
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Sunday, July 10, 2022
wyd in this situation? #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yJOgk86I40U
Gas prices so damn high he had to walk here from hell. Someone get this skeleton a red bull so he can fly back๐คฆ
I'll stop using drugs
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Friday, July 8, 2022
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Lion takes a bite out of sports car
I am surprised at how big the lion is compared to the car.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Sunday, June 26, 2022
10 Things That Are More Popular Than You Ever Realize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3nCRKtBHo&t=434s
I find myself wondering why instant coffee isn't more popular? It was very popular in the '60s and '70s.
I like decaf coffee, but I drink real coffee in the morning. Having to make two different kinds in the coffee maker is more trouble than it is worth.
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Live train accident
I have to wonder about people's common sense? My entire philosophy of life is to not do stupid stuff. In other words, don't take unnecessary risks. People die from accidents all the time. I would rather not be a statistic.
March 4 2022 Moon Crash - view from different location
I think that this is fake, but a scenario like this is definitely possible. History has recorded people seeing a fire on the moon from an apparent meteor strike. I have heard about a strike that was more recent.
A few years ago an asteroid exploded over Russian with the force of a powerful nuclear weapon.
https://youtu.be/bfThiqDd9FA
Best wishes,
John Coffey
A few years ago an asteroid exploded over Russian with the force of a powerful nuclear weapon.
https://youtu.be/bfThiqDd9FA
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Making hydrogen bubbles
My entire philosophy of life is to not do stupid stuff…
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Ptnlp9QKgw?feature=share
Best wishes,
John Coffey
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Ptnlp9QKgw?feature=share
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Friday, June 10, 2022
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Friday, June 3, 2022
Levy Gets EXPOSED
I think that this is deeply fascinating.
Thursday, June 2, 2022
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Friday, May 20, 2022
Firearm or Bear Spray? Detailed Analysis for Backpackers, Hikers & Hunters, Gun Bear Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEscbW2GEk
A friend of mine was followed by a bear in Yellowstone National Park. Apparently, the bear just wanted to walk on the same trail as him. He climbed up a hill and the bear just kept walking.
My uncle went hunting with three other guys and they were attacked by a cougar who had been stalking them. Fortunately, all four guys had guns. The result was Humans 1, Couger 0.
Personally, I don't see a reason to be in a place where animals could stalk you.
Here's an idea: Let's go to the arctic circle and watch polar bears. I probably look like a chicken nugget to a polar bear.
Special When Lit: A Pinball Documentary
This is a good documentary about Pinball. It was made in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU52zteEbIE
I remember seeing a non-electric antique amusement machine that was probably from the 1930s, It wasn't very big, but it worked by putting in a coin, like a nickel, and turning a handle to get roughly 7 to 10 metal balls. Then you would pull a lever to shoot the balls at holes. If the balls landed in the holes then they would accumulate in the "score" window. Although the game had a football theme, it was more like a pinball version of skeeball. As primitive as the game was, it was somewhat fun to play.
Growing up in small-city Indiana, there wasn't much amusement in the early 1970s. I remember seeing some mechanical games, like a baseball-themed game and a shooting game, both of which I found thrilling to play. I definitely felt addicted at first. I was young and impressionable. This started me down a path of enjoying games.
As a side note, in late 1974 I began to enjoy playing chess immensely which I still do.
Around summer 1975, an arcade opened up in my local mall, which had mechanical games. My friends and I enjoyed meeting and playing the games. The cost of pinball was 2 games for a quarter. These mechanical games eventually would mostly give way to video games.
There was a perfect storm of events in the second half of the 1970s that would shape my life forever. I already was very interested in electronics because at the time this was the cutting edge of technology. I started reading about computers and I first got to use one in 1975. I learned how to write simple computer programs, taking to programming as a duck takes to water. In 1976 I made friends with someone who had built an extremely primitive computer from a kit, and I learned how to program it using "machine code" which is the more difficult language of the microprocessor itself.
In 1977 video games were starting to become popular and the movie Star Wars came out. Both were very influential on my life. The late 1970s were culturally defined by video games, pinball, Starwars, and disco. It was a time of cheap thrills when the economy was probably the worst since the Great Depression. We had an oil crisis, massive inflation, and unemployment. Most people today are too young to remember how difficult those times were.
I not only became interested in video games but I wanted to write games. I was fortunate that my high school bought computers and taught simple computer programming in algebra class. I was already developing programming skills and I spent much time writing programs on the school computers.
In the mid-1980s I was able to get my own computers and I started a business selling programs that I wrote, some of which were relatively primitive video games.
In 1985 I temporarily had a job at a Showbiz Pizza maintaining and doing minor repairs on the videogames and mechanical games. In 1993 I got my first job as a video game programmer in Utah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU52zteEbIE
I remember seeing a non-electric antique amusement machine that was probably from the 1930s, It wasn't very big, but it worked by putting in a coin, like a nickel, and turning a handle to get roughly 7 to 10 metal balls. Then you would pull a lever to shoot the balls at holes. If the balls landed in the holes then they would accumulate in the "score" window. Although the game had a football theme, it was more like a pinball version of skeeball. As primitive as the game was, it was somewhat fun to play.
Growing up in small-city Indiana, there wasn't much amusement in the early 1970s. I remember seeing some mechanical games, like a baseball-themed game and a shooting game, both of which I found thrilling to play. I definitely felt addicted at first. I was young and impressionable. This started me down a path of enjoying games.
As a side note, in late 1974 I began to enjoy playing chess immensely which I still do.
Around summer 1975, an arcade opened up in my local mall, which had mechanical games. My friends and I enjoyed meeting and playing the games. The cost of pinball was 2 games for a quarter. These mechanical games eventually would mostly give way to video games.
There was a perfect storm of events in the second half of the 1970s that would shape my life forever. I already was very interested in electronics because at the time this was the cutting edge of technology. I started reading about computers and I first got to use one in 1975. I learned how to write simple computer programs, taking to programming as a duck takes to water. In 1976 I made friends with someone who had built an extremely primitive computer from a kit, and I learned how to program it using "machine code" which is the more difficult language of the microprocessor itself.
In 1977 video games were starting to become popular and the movie Star Wars came out. Both were very influential on my life. The late 1970s were culturally defined by video games, pinball, Starwars, and disco. It was a time of cheap thrills when the economy was probably the worst since the Great Depression. We had an oil crisis, massive inflation, and unemployment. Most people today are too young to remember how difficult those times were.
I not only became interested in video games but I wanted to write games. I was fortunate that my high school bought computers and taught simple computer programming in algebra class. I was already developing programming skills and I spent much time writing programs on the school computers.
In the mid-1980s I was able to get my own computers and I started a business selling programs that I wrote, some of which were relatively primitive video games.
In 1985 I temporarily had a job at a Showbiz Pizza maintaining and doing minor repairs on the videogames and mechanical games. In 1993 I got my first job as a video game programmer in Utah.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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Friday, May 6, 2022
Re: Watch "The Manslater: (Woman Language Translator)" on YouTube
This is too funny.
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:03 AM Albert wrote:
Just for laughs! I'd probably still be married if I had one of these. Meh, maybe not. Lol
Monday, May 2, 2022
3 AWFUL Habits That Make People Instantly Dislike You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFNr44I4UI
I think that this advice can be summed up as you should make other people feel involved and appreciated.
I saw another video that claimed that the way you gain confidence is to practice. This odd advice might not seem applicable to most things, but I think that it is. I would not be confident making a speech or in an awkward social situation, but I am pretty confident over a chessboard. However, if I had spent 47 years making speeches then I most likely would be reasonably competent at it.
8 Struggles of Being a Highly Intelligent Person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3KT7IERSw&t=266s
I strongly relate to #6, but also #2 through 5 and #7.
I'm not sure what qualifies as "highly intelligent", but I am highly analytical, maybe too analytical, and tend to understand some topics at a deeper level.
Cat and fire
https://youtu.be/ZjOUc7rKtPQ
I think that this is better without the sound/voiceover.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
I think that this is better without the sound/voiceover.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism
I sometimes get annoyed by this guy for his leftism. He presents some interesting thoughts here. I share his skepticism of Ayn Rand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kWjJPQXCyc
Capitalism is often used as a pejorative. I think that the correct term is a "free market", meaning that you are free to make choices. The opposite of a free market is different degrees of tyranny.
This notion of deregulation in 2008 is inaccurate. There were far more regulations in 2008 than in 2000. Part of that regulation was the Community Reinvestment Act, which was a real thing, requiring banks to lend to people who were not otherwise creditworthy. Since Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs) were buying up most of the loans, this removed risk from the loan market. Banks aren't normally in the business of making bad loans until the government gets involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kWjJPQXCyc
Capitalism is often used as a pejorative. I think that the correct term is a "free market", meaning that you are free to make choices. The opposite of a free market is different degrees of tyranny.
This notion of deregulation in 2008 is inaccurate. There were far more regulations in 2008 than in 2000. Part of that regulation was the Community Reinvestment Act, which was a real thing, requiring banks to lend to people who were not otherwise creditworthy. Since Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs) were buying up most of the loans, this removed risk from the loan market. Banks aren't normally in the business of making bad loans until the government gets involved.
Friday, April 29, 2022
Star Trek: Picard Review | "Hide and Seek"
This is one of the best critical put-downs I have ever heard...
Fact-Checking this Viral Bottle Trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbgvQNhFDTo
A couple of decades ago there was some research into using somnolescent bubbles to try to make nuclear fusion happen.
I always assumed that there was something to this, but apparently not.
Watch "The mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT on YouTube
I was confusing this video with a similarly titled video that I saw years ago that claimed that the mathematics of weight loss was just calories out versus calories in. Although technically true, weight loss is more complicated, with certain foods like sugar being worse than others. Sugar actually stimulates appetite. In addition, our gut flora send signals to our brain to stimulate our appetite for specific foods. Those bacteria get hungry, and different bacteria prefer different types of nutrients. Eating healthy foods adjusts your gut bacteria to that diet.
This is where probiotics might be helpful.
In addition, I just read about "obesogens", which at first sounded like a joke to me, which are chemicals in the environment that promote obesity. https://www.ehn.org/chemicals-in-everyday-products-are-spurring-obesity-warns-a-new-review-2657191067.html
In terms of the chemistry of metabolism, this video is scientifically interesting. However, it isn't really news that we lose mass as we breathe out carbon dioxide.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:07 AM Albert > wrote:
Hands down the best scientific explanation of weight loss. The bottomline: eat less and move more.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Cougar Laying On Daddy’s Shoulder as They Both Get Cozy on the Couch
https://youtube.com/shorts/IigfxkVfuSQ?feature=share
Wild animals should not be pets. It is dangerous.
Get a cat.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Wild animals should not be pets. It is dangerous.
Get a cat.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Thursday, April 21, 2022
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
Solving The Problem Of Human Perception | Jordan Peterson Lecture at The University of Cambridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgSnS-z4JU
Jordan Peterson went through at least 18 months of suffering because of illness, so he often gets emotional in his lectures when previously he was cool as a cucumber.
He talks at such a high intellectual level that it takes effort to keep up. He covers many topics and jumps around so much that sometimes you wonder if you are listening to a crazy person. He does a halfway good job of tying it all together, but I feel like he could be more succinct.
He quickly gets to the point before moving on to related topics. Then he wraps it all together with a conclusion.
His claim is that we perceive the meaning or the utility of objects rather than just the objects. Since we are talking about automatic mental processes, it is hard to say in what order the brain processes information. Maybe we first recognize the object and then its function. Maybe function is so tied to our perception that we perceive it simultaneously. Since it is hard to know, does it really matter?
Friday, April 8, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Little Cobra Gets Sips Of Water From A Sprite Bottle During His Rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db9MgEfHLgY
It is next to impossible for me to feel compassion for a creature that is poisonous enough to kill an elephant. It might make sense for a snake collector, but to release this monster back into the wild is to risk the lives of others.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Re: 50 CAL VS TRAIN TRACK RAIL
https://youtu.be/W57EjnIJu7Q
I'm impressed. Railroad tracks are made from hot-rolled steel and are designed to be tough.
I'm impressed. Railroad tracks are made from hot-rolled steel and are designed to be tough.
This type of weapon must have considerable power. I'm thinking of the third law of motion, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The weapon must be able to deal with recoil.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Re: Watch "Debunking '15 Inventions Created By Black Americans’" on YouTube
I've seen this before, but it is still interesting.
I'm sure that there is enough real history that people don't have to create fictional history.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 3:45 AM Albert wrote:
During the Black history month, this myth about Black Americans "inventing" these 15 inventions surface as facts. It's simply an exercise of rewriting history to match an agenda. It's ridiculous.
Friday, April 1, 2022
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Thursday, March 24, 2022
Is This The End Of Capitalism? | Answers With Joe - YouTube
In response to...
I wrote...
The word capitalism is used as a pejorative. The correct term should be a free market, which is the freedom to own a business and run it with minimal interference from the government. The opposite of this is different degrees of tyranny. Do you want the government running your business, or taking it away from you?
Corporations are used as a whipping boys, but corporations are a way of democratizing business ownership. My retirement fund invests in the S&P500, meaning that I have some tiny ownership in 500 companies. People resent corporations because they are a concentration of power, and this could possibly be a threat to freedom, but without corporations, very few people could afford to invest in business ownership.
The socialist left keeps looking for excuses to give us a command and control economy. The most recent is a fear of automation, but history shows that automation leads to more prosperity, more jobs not less.
Milton Freidman said that the robber barons were mostly a myth. People flocked to difficult factory jobs because that was better than the alternative. Nobody forces you to give a corporation a dime. Nobody forces you to work for an employer. In a command and control economy, everything is done by coercion. They will tell you what to buy, who to work for, what type of energy you can use, what kind of health care you are eligible for, and what you can say.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022
Fwd: Most Satisfying Factory Machines and Ingenious Tools
This video is interesting, more toward the beginning.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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How Nintendo DS Lite ad would be like in 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-owa2QLNcg
You take an old game system and make a modern ad for it, and it is I think a parody of Apple.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Jordan Peterson - Your Life Is Built For More
I am surprised at how many ideas Jordan Peterson can bring to a single conversation. He speaks at such a high intellectual level that it takes attention to keep up.
Apparently, I can listen to him for a long time. I thought that maybe the first hour would be the best part, but the second hour is very good too.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
Linus says adblock is piracy: is he right?
Some interesting moral considerations. When I first bought TIVO to record television, it came with a 30-second skip button, which I found wonderful for skipping commercials. The advertisers were up in arms over this and eventually pressured TIVO to remove the feature. (I think that it may have been removed during a software update.) The advertisers claimed that there was an implied contract with the TV viewers to watch commercials to pay for content.
Classical Music in Cartoons | Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny, Disney, Mickey Mouse, Fantasia,
Not sure if I have sent this yet. I'm not a big fan of music, but I do like some classical music and movie tunes.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Famous orangutan driving a golf cart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ze-nVh2Bs
From the comments:
His behaviour while driving is very much like a human's. His expression, the way he's gripping the steering wheel with one hand and his semi relaxed posture as he's cruising along, scanning the road ahead. I'd trust him to drive me around lmao.
That would be boss cruising around with him haha
Maybe this was the true self driving car we needed all along
From the comments:
His behaviour while driving is very much like a human's. His expression, the way he's gripping the steering wheel with one hand and his semi relaxed posture as he's cruising along, scanning the road ahead. I'd trust him to drive me around lmao.
That would be boss cruising around with him haha
Maybe this was the true self driving car we needed all along
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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