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 [New Inspection] Has any other homeowner received one of these? Are they just for condos? Do single family stilt houses need an inspection? Is the mandatory inspection real and necessary in Monroe County? |
| Enemas are a lot of crap! |
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| [Hospital Caution] I am unconvinced that medical records are an appropriate place to use AI. “Whisper”, an AI transcription tool used in hospitals, has trouble with “hallucinations,” aka making things up. A study found eight in 10 transcripts had fakery, including meds like “hyperactivated antibiotics.” If you saw a doctor or were in the hospital lately, sign into your portal and check the notes for any nonsense. |
 [Misplaced Prejudice] I never saw Aunt Jemima as a representation of slavery either. To me, she was simply a great cook who specialized in pancakes. I say bring back the original picture of Aunt Jemima. |
| [Survival Tip] If you get lost in the woods start talking about politics and someone will show up to argue with you. |
 Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds. Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare.Known as the “infinite monkey theorem”, the thought-experiment has long been used to explain the principles of probability and randomness, but it’s just bs. Link |
| [Dim View of Politicing] Why does some adult idiot, holding a sign with some fool’s name on it, smiling like an imbecile and waving frantically, think those actions are going to change my mind concerning my next 4 years of life? All this is being done as I fly up US1 at 44.9 mph and barely see the clown! |
 Historical society finally identifies 100-year-old mystery machine. Clothes wringer? Meat tenderizer? Biscuit beater? The jury was out on the oddity. Link |
| List of wealthiest families. Are you on it? Me neither! Link |
 [Point Nemo] The most remote place on Earth. It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed only a few decades ago, is a location in the South Pacific with the coordinates 48°52.5291ʹS 123°23.5116ʹW: the “oceanic point of inaccessibility,” to use the formal name. It doesn’t get many visitors. But one morning last year, I met several people who had just come from there. Link |
| [Marking AI-generated Text] Google is now watermarking its ai-generated text, but the DeepMind technology isn’t yet a practical solution for everyone. (Amazon already identifies it’s AI-generated product reviews.) Link |
 [More Rain] Tropical Storm Rafael could hit Cuba as Cat 2 hurricane. Squalls possible for Florida Keys. Link |
| [World’s Oldest Tree] DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about its evolutionary history. By sequencing hundreds of samples from the tree, researchers confirmed that Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, verifying previous suggestions that it is among the oldest organisms on Earth. Link |
 [Fen Raft Spider] Giant spiders that can grow to size of human hand thriving in the UK. Collaboration between RSPB and Chester zoo leads to best mating season on record for the semi-aquatic fen raft spider. The fen raft spider is a harmless arachnid that plays a vital role in aquatic ecosystems, but 15 years ago was on the brink of extinction because of habitat loss. Chester zoo worked with the RSPB to raise hundreds of baby spiders, keeping them separate in test tubes so that they did not eat one another. Link |
| Vogue is an RIAA-certified triple-platinum hit, selling over six million copies since its 1991 release on the “I’m Breathless” album by pop mega-star Madonna. Vogue also possibly resurrected disco from its commercial death in the late 70s and helped bring house music into the mainstream.
Vogue‘s incredible soundscape is entirely artificial. It was not recorded by an array of microphones placed around a band. There was no band. There was no dance floor. There was QSound. QSound is essentially a filtering algorithm. It manipulates timing, amplitude, and frequency response to produce a binaural image. Systems like QSound rely on the fact that a sound arriving from one side of the listener will reach one ear before the other and that when it reaches the furthest ear, it is lower in amplitude and spectrally altered due to obstruction by the head. |
 [Old School Under Sea Cable] Facebook is building a subsea cable that will encompass the world. This semi-secret cable reflects META’s desire for network resiliency given the four month Red Sea down time that AAE-1 and other subsea cables suffered during the first half of 2024. It appears willing to suffer a latency penalty to avoid the Red Sea as well as Egypt’s expensive digital toll roads. While Egypt’s terrestrial routes for submarine cables are good, they are overpriced and elevate market wavelength pricing. The design also demonstrates India’s growing importance. China is off limits to Google, Facebook, and the other American Digital Titans. This makes India and Africa the two key high growth markets for the content providers. I suspect META will use the ride down the West African Coast to fill in digital coverage gaps or deploy branching units like Google’s Equiano in case these smaller African states decide to join these subsea fiber optic highways. Link |
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 [Joan de Arc] Miracles and portents sprang up to aid the Maid’s cause. In Poitou, France knights in blazing armor were seen riding down the sky by those effected by mass hysteria and hallucinating. |
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| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 11/5/24 at 9:30 am. |