Am I the only one here who not only sees no problem but even wants to commend the IT folks at the meat processing plant? Can someone explain to me what the issue is for those who think differently?
Don’t tell them that on all websites all customers are registered under NUMBERS!!! And the first name, surname, and even PATRONYMIC, those dear to them, are just tagged along with the number. What are people thinking…
I found the coronavirus
Very interesting interview. A police officer in the USA. About how he joined the academy and beyond. In general, Goblin invites cool guests, as it turns out.
Our constant companions when we walk Yuki in the evening
Although it’s flawed and needs reprinting, it already looks ominous before processing
On YouTube, there are at least two channels that are a must-have for aspiring artists – Alexandra Ryzhkina and Oleg Toropygin. I have watched dozens of hours of their videos, and I haven’t seen anything close to the quality of their lectures on YouTube (If you happen to know any worthy ones, please recommend)
A very interesting lecture on Toulouse-Lautrec. It just flows, Tairov is brilliant
Today, I learned with interest about an attempt in 2004 to sell the painting “Landscape with a Stream” by Marinus Kukkuk at a Sotheby’s auction as a work by Shishkin. The fraudsters, allegedly from Russia, almost succeeded. They even slightly retouched it to make it look like a Shishkin.
Plus, now there is this insanity with NFT tokens, where some idiots buy links to files on the internet from others. Alongside the growing ability to manufacture custom realities—an array of these Deep Fakes, and the creation of virtual worlds hardly distinguishable from real ones, if not yet as of today, then quite soon… It makes one think –
I predict that very soon all new video content will have a digital signature, and video playback devices will be able to read it, all video recording devices will incorporate it into the video, and some time later, they will figure out how to integrate digital signatures into text. Into simple text. Imagine, you copy-paste just a piece of news into a form, and it tells you – yes, this is a fragment of text from, say, RBK or Bloomberg, and this information is “encoded” in the text itself, not somewhere on the internet where some Google-like entity, which RBK or Bloomberg told you about. It’s like stylometry, but in reverse. Naturally, it will work on texts of a sufficient size to hide this info, and AI has to be involved in their writing, albeit in tertiary roles, to determine how and where to dissolve metadata and accordingly modify the text.
Maybe, as a digital signature, Chinese characters attached to the text might be used, which can easily carry information about the “checksum” and the author. There are 74,605 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in Unicode, so literally a handful could prove to be a very simple and compact option for a digital signature. Currently, MD5 exists, but it is very sensitive to minor changes. For example, if it is made for the entire text, it will not show the authenticity of a fragment.
And all photo, audio, text information lacking such a fingerprint will be regarded as junk, as a possible forgery, as something suspicious, possibly stolen without permission. For instance, the use of deep fake, Photoshop version 2030 will simply be unnecessary, because such fabrications will be dismissed right from the start as unworthy.
An interesting video about using a microwave in the early years after its invention. Probably everyone knows the story of the microwave’s invention — Percy Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when he stood in front of an operating radar (idiot). After a series of experiments with popcorn and eggs, the first industrial model appeared in 1947, costing as much as a couple of cars.
So, Tom Scott dug up evidence that in the 50s, microwaves were used by scientists to defrost frozen hamsters. Cryonics experiments were conducted, and in the case of hamsters, it rarely, but effectively worked — from ice blocks, they turned into quite alive (but very dissatisfied, probably) little animals. Before the microwave, there were problems with how to quickly and evenly thaw a carcass. After all, if you simply heat it up, the inside will still be ice, while irreversible processes would start on the outside, so it must be thawed quickly. If the temperature is increased and one waits for the middle to thaw, the outside of the hamster might get severe burns. Thus, the microwave turned out to be the solution. Nearly all the hamsters survived the freeze down to zero with subsequent thawing by microwave. Here is a scientific article on this topic – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1365902/ Scientist James Lovelock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock), who is now 101, tells that one rat was frozen and thawed 10 times with intervals of several days.
