World Views

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view ... at-matters
"Glaucoma + nutrition: why what you eat matters"

"A study published in JAMA Ophthalmology found that adults who ate a bar of dark chocolate
could see better about two hours later, possibly due to enhanced blood flow caused by antioxidants
called flavanols in the chocolate."

Apparently, not any bar of chocolate (probably 60%+ cacao, less sugar, and just a portion of the bar).
However, the chocolate's flavanols seem the benefit ... and different flavanols are found in many natural foods!
Also, the benefit specifies increased blood flow as curative (makes sense since kidneys remove water from blood).

Interestingly, another article mentioned that increased insulin is not necessarily healthy
(blood sugar score may be good but more insulin may have been required to reduce blood sugar).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://time.com/6299476/summer-uptick-covid-19-us/
"What to Know About the U.S. Summer Uptick in COVID-19 Cases"

Bottom line (according to various reports online) ...
The next wave of Covid is already well spread (worldwide),
waiting for the media to report the reality.

Go to other sites for more news & discussion.

Rod

[Amigoo]

More AI research ...

Re: https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/featu ... age-models
"12 of the best large language models"

"Just three days into its public release in November 2022, Galactica was Meta's LLM designed specifically for scientists. It was trained on a collection of academic material -- 48 million papers, lecture notes, textbooks and websites."

"Phi-1 is a transformer-based language model from Microsoft. At just 1.3 billion parameters, Phi-1 was trained for four days on a collection of textbook-quality data."

Good evidence that language models are created from huge arbitrary collections of data, with apparent assumption that the volume of data will compensate for inaccuracies, data conflicts, etc. However, AI training typically includes much human feedback on that AI output to further improve data quality. A weak link in this methodology is that data is constantly being updated (directly or by association) and the most current data may not have been incorporated into the language model (with subsequent refinement by feedback).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... ignon.html
"Charley's Steak House in Florida has introduced an addition
to its new vegan-friendly menu - a sumptuous filet mignon worth $69"

"created using fermented soy and wheat, coconut oil, beet juice, fortified iron, and B1."

Actually, that "cost $69" may be more accurate, since "worth" is subjective ...
and probably unrealistic with a cost so close to that of a real filet mignon.

And the ingredients may send health-minded vegans to those natural foods -
not to lab-created combinations that imitate animal products.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.brighteon.com/
(search for: "Why Does Everyone Who Develops Free Unlimited Energy End Up Mysteriously Dead?")

Apparently, the only free energy that will ever exist (or detailed plans for)
will have been distributed widely before the inventor(s) is disappeared.
Even then, possession of such energy (or plans) will be a risk.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.newstarget.com/2023-08-03-c ... tores.html
"CVS to slash 5,000 jobs, close 900 stores as vaccines kill off repeat customers"

1. "fewer people alive these days due to Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) 'vaccines' "

2. "shoplifting is off the charts and that perhaps this is the real reason
why CVS is closing hundreds of its stores over the next few years."

The first reason is not as believable as the second reason
and second reason lets management explain to employees:
"Your job walked out the door during CVS' frequent
"Free Merchandise!" promotions (since shoplifting
was not stopped when in progress).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... sters.html
"Dad reveals he lost half a million dollars, his home and WIFE after falling victim to scam"

"He fell for a heartless scam known as 'pig butchering' - whereby victims are effectively 'fattened up' with a fake relationship -
whether romantic or friendly - before being 'butchered' by fraudulent investment advice.

"The con tends to be long-winded and sees the scammer engage in a months-long courtship to build up trust.
Crooks will often allow victims to withdraw money easily from the investment app in the beginning -
but once they have invested heavily they will lose this option."

What a sweet treat lure (potential romance + super financial gain)
... and some "investors" are more vulnerable to real sweet treats first!
(two-for-one quality ice cream comes to mind).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... ranch.html

"Scientists believe they may have identified a new species of human after finding an ancient skull
that belonged to a child who lived up to 300,000 years ago. The fossilised remains, which included
a jaw, skull, and leg bones, were discovered in Hualongdong, China in 2019."

( lóng dòng refers to a natural cavern in limestone )

Rod

[Amigoo]

Apparently, not a culinary penchant,
but could be with all the non-stick pans now available ...

Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality

"Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders,
or regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people might refer to themselves
as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors
in their romantic or sexual attraction to others."

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyclqo_AV2M
Possible theme song for this "whatever" attraction?

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://religionnews.com/2023/04/14/bin ... -chatbots/
"Bing has a testimony of the Book of Mormon! And other adventures with AI chatbots."

"The technical explanation for this is that Bing is simply amalgamating countless data points and going with 'majority rule' here, parroting the formula for a testimony that can be found just about everywhere online. And that when Bing says they read (believable!) and pray (not quite believable), that’s because Bing is just regurgitating all those human beings who have tried to express their LDS faith in just such language. And that the Church of Jesus Christ has been really, really successful in its ongoing attempts to make sure that faithful voices are crowding out any others when people try to search for information, because those seem to be the only voices Bing is hearing."

So, AI responses alone are not so valuable unless we know
how those responses were influenced by users' prompts ...
and what AI platform was the Guru Of Determination.

The new WYSIWYG (What You Say Is What You Get)
... then share with others as AI brilliance.


About "data annotation", human instruction for AI on how to think about words and their associations, and a heads-up
about new AI-related jobs for humans: data annotator, machine learning monitor (human ground truth data becomes monitor):

Re: https://toloka.ai/blog/what-does-a-data-annotator-do/
"The role of a data annotator in machine learning (ML)"

"Data annotation is the process of labeling elements of data (images, videos, text, or any other format) by adding contextual information which ML models can learn from. It helps ML models understand what exactly is important about each piece of data ... Data comes in many different forms – from images and videos to text and audio files – but in almost all cases, this data has to be processed to render itself usable. What it means is that this data has to be organized and made 'clear' to whomever is using it, or as we say, it has to be 'labeled' ... the data annotator turns 'raw data' into 'labeled data'."

"each and every machine learning model requires adequately labeled data at multiple points in its life cycle. And normally not just some high-quality training data – lots of it! Such ground truth data is used to train an ML model initially, as well as to monitor that it continues to produce accurate results over time."


Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.cnn.com/travel/viral-icon-o ... index.html
"photo of the world’s largest cruise ship is polarizing opinion"

"Royal Caribbean is notable for exceeding 100% capacity on their ships.
And part of that is they give people something to want to come on board for,
and spend lots of money once they’re there"

Like packing all of the popular attractions of a city into a huge ship
(and congestion is just typical of most cities). Who can tell? ...
today, a ship city - tomorrow, a city ship (then in outer space).

LOL1: Technology is getting so good that a virtual ship,
experienced on land (even in a desert) could happen

LOL2: For non-crusiers, just watching a promotional video
might be all the ship they can handle (and still pay for it).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Makes a good headline but the reality is more complex ...

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ed-K2.html
"Left to die at the top of the world as fellow climbers walk around him"

"The reality is they had tried to save him and this is below the great serace bottle neck, where it’s impossible to cross without rope so it’s a very difficult situation. Many climbers and sherpas told him to go back as he had very poor equipment and was not well equipped and also there was very bad weather during the summit window but he did not listen and then he fell down."

'It was very difficult to bring the body down. They have to summit the mountain. There’s only a little chance for them. Bulgarian climber Silvia Azdreeva, who was on the trip when Hassan died, said in a Facebook post that climbing K2 is not for the faint-hearted: 'On K2 there is no one to save you that fast, you'll have to wait for days if something happens to you'."

Re: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/moun ... index.html
"Back in Base Camp, we heard that people thought no one had helped him but we had. We had done our best"

Rod

[Amigoo]

Cool 'n airy Wisdom

The only thing guaranteed about life on earth
is that it will end. Whatever happens between
is icing on the cake. Bon Appétit

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hawaii ... index.html
"Deadly Maui fire is 85% contained, county says"

Despite controversy about what started some of these wildfires,
modern hot-air ovens help explain why the fires were so destructive!

Imagine that, in addition to the hot air, glowing embers were also
spread far and wide amongst dry, flammable neighborhoods
that had little warning of the rapidly moving fire tsunami
(not to mention limited main roads).


Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -toll.html
"Maui footage shows how locals tried to escape burning ash and encroaching flames by hugging shoreline"

Despite uncertainty how the fires started, strong winds with flaming embers -
even over the water - help explain how the fire was so destructive so fast


Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/16/microsoft- ... reasoning/
"Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning"

"There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense.
'These behaviors are not always consistent,' Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said.

Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology who is part of the A.I. research group at the University of California, Berkeley,
said that systems like GPT-4 were no doubt powerful, but it was not clear that the text generated by these systems was the result
of something like human reasoning or common sense. 'When we see a complicated system or machine, we anthropomorphize it' "

AI has a long way to go before it can reason like a human,
but it's getting better at mimicking human reasoning. However,
mimicked reasoning may be sufficient for some applications.

Nevertheless, until AI reasons like a human, we need stay mindful
that what quacks like a duck is still not a duck (even if it tastes
like a duck with our new perspective sauces).

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://evil-eye.shop/tree-of-life.html

These images (and many more on the internet) suggest how AI (e.g., Midjourney) can be guided
via user prompts to create a new representation of the Tree of Life. Apparently, the thousands of images
(and portions thereof) in AI's repository become the artistic building blocks for new creations. Interestingly,
the Egyptian Tree of Life seems more representative of the real Tree in the Garden of Eden.

Somehow, "11 Things to Know ..." seems familiar.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... e-you.html
"Scientists say all men fit into three categories (of masculinity)"

"Neo-traditionalist men largely follow traditional gender roles, while egalitarian men seek a more equal partnership ...
Meanwhile, progressive men have regular conversations with their partner to adjust who does what."

However, these categories seem to apply to other genders and their partners.
Interestingly, "who does what" does not necessarily refer to certain activities.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... blast.html
"Plum mining town where five died in mystery explosion sits on land 'riddled with issues' "

The huge fireball above the blast suggests a water tank explosion
(if the cause) ignited a huge volume of collecting gas, IMO.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... DUCER.html
"Dr. Rachel Levine praises Alaska gender-affirming care clinic
which wants word 'mother' replaced with phrase 'EGG PRODUCER' "

A giant step backward in societal advancement, considering that 'mother'
has long been inclusive of 'egg producer' as well as nurturing a conceived child
in her womb (and for months after the child's birth)

On the other hand, 'mother' (like 'father') is a title effectively earned
by doing those things for newborns that mothers and fathers - as partners -
have been doing for millennia.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... taurs.html

"Chief psychologist of California children's hospital claims kids can identify as 'gender minotaurs'
(creature with body of man and head of bull)"

"Head of bull" seems good explanation for modern perspectives of what can be claimed as a gender.
Is it possible that what has long been tolerated as a child's imaginary friend has now metamorphosed
into adults' imaginary whatever in this new millennium? The new friends of non-biologic gender?

Does this suggest lack of imaginary friend experience as a child
during which reality eventually fades that comforting illusion?

It's getting easier to believe that the patients are running the institution
and the institution is just imaginary, oft defined by mental seasons.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.brighteon.com/
(search for: "Northwest Territories Declared A State Of Emergency")

Rumors are claiming that these fires are intentionally set
to support the Climate Change agenda. Who can tell
IMO, the occurence of so many fires is suspicious!

Rod

[Sandy]

There is a lot of stuff out there on climate change, some riddled with agenda and misdirection.
Please consider the information and its real scientific value because this could be a life or death problem for those we love and life on this planet.

I would like to share a little bit of what I have found for consideration.

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-na ... te-change/

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/1 ... ate-change

If you really want to get the true scientific facts on climate change, a good place to begin is the science-driven university websites where scientists live and breath and push the boundaries of our knowledge with research.

https://www.harvard.edu/tackling-climate-change
https://climatechange.environment.harvard.edu/
https://pangea.stanford.edu/earthmatters/climate-change
https://earth.stanford.edu/research/climate-solutions
https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/environmen ... e-research
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/
https://globalchange.mit.edu/
https://climateaction.mit.edu/about
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/energy
https://news.utexas.edu/2018/05/01/the- ... ate-change
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/research/rese ... te-at-esi/
https://environment.princeton.edu/grand ... rch/energy
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1963
https://climate.sas.upenn.edu/
https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/policy ... ate-change
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/ ... nformation

and finally...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZC6da4mco

I hope this helps.

xxSandy

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/do ... 30_EN.html

"Citizens, farmers and numerous environmental organisations, both in Europe and on other continents,
show continued interest in long-lasting trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft. "

Also research the years-long controversy about "chemtrails",
allegedly climate related with still accumulating science
to suggest this is indeed not conspiracy theory

Living close to DFW airport gives daily opportunity
to view both jet contrails and sprayed chemtrails.


The truth is hard to find about climate issues,
despite all the experts claiming they know the truth:

Re: https://triumphtraining.com/blogs/blog/ ... s-excerpts

Pilots explain the difference between contrails and chemtrails,
"We're in great danger from the pollution that's coming down."

However, a quick internet search confirms that even today
chemtrails are being debunked as conspiracy theory.
LOL (or not) much of Covid/vaccine conspiracy'theory
is now being supported by medical experts.


Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://rumble.com/embed/v35g7c8/

"People that identify as an animal should be able to go to the vet."

Makes sense (for the vet) ...
How does the vet treat a human (without cat anatomy) as a cat?

Best guess: The mother needs to state
whether or not SHE believes her son is a cat.

If he's a cat, the vet will know what to do.
If not a cat (but taking her son to a vet),
the vet will still know what to do.

Rod

[Amigoo]

Re: https://www.foxnews.com/media/medical-s ... -roll-pops
"Children's hospital drector claims 'infinite' genders, trans kids can identify as 'Tootsie Roll pops' "

"Stop measuring gender dysphoria as a measure of pathology or psychological distress.
Start measuring gender identity as a measure of developmental status
and cognitive/emotional awareness"

"We're not in Kansas anymore!" ...

"Gender" is being redefined as identity not necessarily related to human anatomy
... or even "human being". And this is a good thing! ... since a new term(s)
permits "gender" to be reassociated with its centuries-long familiarity.

This new term requires another taxonomic classification (e.g., gendum)
to host all of the gender identities that could be discovered or invented:
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Gendum.

For now, add a letter for specific Gendum: GendumA, GendumB ...

Rod