#Testing innovation

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[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[shanklin]

It’s the most honest job Stan’s ever had.

Sure, the company he’s working for is downright diabolical, scamming their customers in all aspects of life, but that’s not Stan’s problem.

As Le Ville Corp’s most successful customer service agent in the Oregon area his only job is to follow the company guidelines, sell as many bad deals as possible and never ever let anyone back out of a contract. 

Morality aside, nothing the company does is actually illegal, so at the end of the day Stan gets to collect his almost-minimum-wage-sized paycheck and go home in the knowledge, that no pigs will come knocking on his door anytime soon.

Life is good. Or at least as good as it gets where Stan is concerned. Last month he even got a raise for selling every bad product the company had to offer to one poor kind sucker. 

From household appliances to car insurance, magazine subscriptions and even their extremely shitty telephone and electricity contracts - the McGucket guy brought it all.

Thanks to him, Stan could upgrade from his car to an almost black mold free one room appartment with a community bathroom one block over.

Stan was finally moving up in the world and then his phone rings. He recognises the number. It’s his good friend Fiddle-not-gonna-say-the-rest McGucket.

Stan grins and cracks his knuckles. It’s about time McGucket figured out he’s gotten scammed. Time to make the poor guy’s life a living hell. No one is getting out of a contract on his watch.

“Thank you for calling Le Ville Corp. For us you are more than just a customer. You are family! This is Piers. How can I help you today?”

The moment Stan starts his greeting, he is bombarded with noise disturbances from the other side.

Ah, the good old Le Ville Corp telephone network working as intended. Maybe Stan can convince the guy to upgrade to a slightly less egregious version. 

Wait, what did he say?

His name is Dr. Stammered Lynes? Weird, but okay. Still better than Fiddle-nope-not-saying-it Hardon McGucket.

As it turns out, Stan finally met the mysterious roommate whose money McGucket has been using to pay for all of their products. Stan didn’t think the guy had it in him to ditch his roommate after the scam got discovered. Good for him!

Now, how to best screw Dr. Lynes here over.

***

An hour and a half of data security safety questions and a new phone contract later the doc hangs up to Stan’s cheery and corporate mandated farewell:

“And don’t forget we here at Le Ville Corp consider you our forever family, because you will stay with us forever!”

***

Stanford Pines just had the worst month of his life [not counting the weeks after the science fair that he refuses to think about].

The portal test was a disaster, his partner left, his muse refuses to explain himself and on top of all of that his new fridge won’t open, because this week’s subscription fee hasn’t been paid yet.

What the f-FIDDLEFORD!

[adafruit]

Metro RP2350 is wrappin' up testing ✨🐢

This week we got our Metro RP2350 boards

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/11/11/metro-rp2350-now-with-bigger-better-rp2350b/

back and after fixing the pin direction and rerouting

the whole thing, it came up and pretty much works perfectly! Just one component needed a swap - we were able to test all GPIO, analog inputs, MicroSD slot, PSRAM, LEDs & NeoPixel, user button, I2C/SPI/UART, aaand power supplies. The 5V supply is great, we got a nice clean 5V out at 2A+ from 12V DC in. The last thing to check is the HSTX port, which gives us DVI access, and it works, thanks to this festive turtle demo!

We're aiming to get this into the shop before the end of the year, wouldn't that be smashing?

[snoopyist]

i have to have the worst luck because im pretty sure my earring fell and bounced up into a tiny opening between the cabinet and moulding which are of course grouted to the wall

[sarcophagid]

the seductive allure of making stupid shit on mspaint instead of working on my millions of serious drawings

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^2 types of older brother

nnxv exists in a superposition of being breast bosom friends and also having a completely fake relationship based on lies and a unhealthy addiction to the entertainment derived from playing desperate and vulnerable people. when you observe them they will be doing the latter. but when you aren't they display lover-hater duality and form an interference pattern

[loganremade]

good to know that most of us in class are sick of standardized tests

[croc-odette]

Maybe I’ve come to love 90s Star Trek so much recently because seeing humans who forget money and banks even used to be a thing is soooooo satisfying it’s like a warm bath

[orbit-consultancy]

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[techdriveplay]

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[lances-wormhole]

My drawing tablet is working again :D

[acommonrose]

Okay, I'm seeing this go around, and unless I am really misunderstanding how the terms "analytical AI" and "generative AI" are used here (and that's possible, the word "generative" means several different things in the field of AI), this is just... a massive oversimplification of both of these things.

Now don't get me wrong, I have very little use for ChatGPT and its like, but the only difference between generative AI and analytical AI is that analytical AI outputs single predictions (is this email spam, does this person have cancer, what will tomorrow's temperature be) and generative AI outputs things like text, images, audio, and video. Both of these have good uses! Both of these have horrible uses! The various horribly racially biased models that have been made to predict criminal behavior are all analytical AI. The models behind stuff like screen readers and machine translation are all generative AI. It's not about "is the underlying type of model inherently bad" (most aren't!), it's about "is this application of the model something that is bad" (many are!).

Also the energy usage argument is also just... wrong there? All neural net based AI has a longer (and therefore more energy intensive) training process and then can be run on new "test" examples relatively quickly/efficiently. Current "generative" models do tend to be trained on larger datasets, which will make the training process longer and more inefficient), but this is less generative vs. analytical and more to do with models that are trained to be "everything machines" (which is a real issue!) vs. models trained for a specific purpose.

[adafruit]

Testing Sparkle Motion - Fuse for Views ⚡🎆

We're rounding the corner with testing our Sparkle Motion

WLED-compatible board. This time, we're doing the fuse test. we got a lot of requests to include a 5A fuse onboard. Of course, we need to verify that it works as expected. With a chonky 12V 25A power supply and my trusty electronic load, we dial up one amp at a time… note that all PTC fuses have a 'hold' of 5A and a higher trip current of ~2x that, so we actually open at 10A. Once it heats up a bit, that trip current can drop a bit, but it will always be over 5A and under 10A. Good test equipment makes this job nice and easy. The board is complete - time to book it up, just in time for the New Year.

[octantastudio]

Introducing our upcoming game "Aquarius Age".

Did you know that we have all recently moved from the so-called age of Pisces, associated with religiosity, to the age of Aquarius? Wars of faith and crusades are a thing of the past, now people can choose unity and meet a new time of high technology, decentralized control and the triumph of reason.

During this development phase, you can participate in our anonymous testing system. A couple of interesting links are in post below.

[dronescapesvideos]

AVIATION ODDITIES | Aircraft Innovation And Research Pioneers | Episode 2