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  • Even if the toaster had to work against air close to liquidification temperature, let’s say around 82 K. Wouldn’t the insulation capability and relatively small heat capacity of air hinder the heat transport away from the toaster enough to make toasting still possible?

    Stone/ glass wool is called insulation wool for a reason.

    I mean we use convection by fan to mitigate that effect. Ventilation systems use inverters with large fans. Even computer chips are cooled with heat sinks which have small or not so small fans on top.

    I guess that’s why he mentioned if not windy in one sentence.









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    8 days ago

    Thanks.

    (Just a rant) What I like least about FOSS projects are the project names that are hard to remember and hard to pronounce—and which often give no clue as to the often useful project’s function.

    Krita? Kdenlive? Mwmbl? Come on. It looks like dev’s cat walked over the keyboard.






  • Thank you. That article gave me some insights.

    • AI firms fear AI generated content and train their models with books from before. The fact that AI waters down the source data quality, because AI generated data becomes part of the source data. It’s worrying, let’s see where it leads and how the AI effects can be mitigated.
    • Lawsuits seem to be an issue for anthropic and a driver for the scanning program too. Because illegal copies are problematic.
    • The books are destructively scanned and disposed afterwards.
    • In rare cases a 18th century book might be lost. But the ordered books seem to include anything and nothing. The term rare book seems to refer to the fact that a small amount of copies have been printed and only a few copies are available for sale (and the larger part is stored in libraries).
    • Booksellers are both worried and happy at the same time.

  • Without details it feels, like a fear, uncertainty, doubt strategy just for the clicks, to me. I’m missing crucial information for an informed decision. The article is not suitable for much more than igniting anger.

    LLM and AI companies rise a lot of valid criticism, besides its undeniable pros. I don’t like a witch hunt just because it is AI and someone tells me to be angry. I need more facts before I go fetch my pitchfork.

    I.e. I dont get why they destroy the books. Google Books did fine without unbinding/ destroying books. It would help to know what kind of books are processed. And what their process is.

    I don’t have information if the OCRed data is made available to the public. Which would be nice, since the article talks about data that is not yet digitally available.