Personally I'd settle for a future without annoying propriety control panels. I can see the value of Config as Code for reproduciblity, consistency and ease of use.
I don't see myself giving up on dashboards any time soon, though I'd rather cook my own from standard ELKish data than use a bunch of different services with their own. But I think that's pretty normal these days.
Interesting. I remember in the 90s there was a lot of talk about introducing a "Bit Tax" as a way for governments to raise revenue from the newly-mainstream Internet. There was also debate about an email tax.
The wikipedia piece has some more background on how these options never happened, but they'd have surely shaped the development of the Internet and maybe led to less-bloated websites.
It took me a long time to realise that milk was sugary. I'd grown up worrying about the fat content of milk, but all milk, whether full fat or skimmed, has like 5g of sugar per 100ml, a pretty similar sugar content to Gatorade.
We know milk has lactose but we don't usually think of lactose as a sugar like we do with sucrose or fructose.
I may be wrong but I think many milks add sucrose.
The other thing is if you don’t buy organic milk then your milk is also loaded with the antibiotics that we give to dairy cows which attaches to the fat in the milk. So a good rule is if you go organic get whole milk (because it is a good source of fat) but if you buy regular milk get skim (to avoid some of the antibiotics).
Nothing prevents dairy farmers from treating cows producing "organic" labeled milk, but just like "normal" milk, they are removed from sending milk into the food chain.
That’s the law...but in practice the farmers (like athletes trying to pass drugs tests) cheat. So here is an article about the FDA catching antibiotics in both meat and dairy products, and the farmers were successful before they were caught because they began using antibiotics and other drugs the FDA tests don’t scan for because they aren’t supposed to be used in animals at all.
Well in one instance the FDA caught farmers put milk with antibiotic and other drug residue into the stream of commerce, so it’s not an arguement so much as facts.
But yes, you could spend your time arguing organic farmers load up their dairy and meat cows with antibiotics and put it in the stream of commerce without any evidence of the same, if that’s what gets you going.
I’ve noticed that many products in the US now have an “added sugars” section under the sugars section in the nutritional labels. It always seems to be 0g in all of the milk bottles and cartons I’ve seen, but I’m pretty particular on my milk so I might not have seen the average kind that most people get.
The FDA allows manufactuers to round down for values less than .5g, it's why something like a dry rub for BBQ will have some sugar in it but the nutrition facts will say 0g sugar per serving.
I haven't seen this personally, but people should know how modern milk is made. First all the parts are separated (milk proteins, fat, lactose) then reconstituted in different proportions for each type of milk. I've noticed that low fat milk generally has the same caloric content as high fat milk, they just add in more lactose in place of the missing fat (I presume to ensure the milk doesn't taste gross and watery).
Lactose is a disaccharide made up of one glucose and one galactose (which lactase splits up). The galactose IMO is actually worse for you because like fructose, it's transported and phosphorylated in the liver whereas glucose can be metabolized anywhere in your body.
This captures two of my childhood computing obsessions. I spent so long messing around with Polyray and generating raytraced pictures for convering into Magic Eye stereograms. I also had some Windows 3.1 fractal generator program, where you could mess around with the formulas and zoom in (slowly) and make them cycle colours.
Looking forward to playing this a lot. I particuarly like the clever use of fractal mathematics to make accurate collision detection physics. Though it helps that he's using a sphere as the user-controlled object.
I thought you were talking about the raytracer I was obsessed with as a kid, POVRay, but indeed there is also a project called polyray.
I spent many a weekend rendering hundreds of .tga files and throwing them into .flc files since that was the only way I knew how to make "videos". I mostly did renderings of planets turning with texture maps, trying to get something similar to what I saw in Star Control 2, and I told myself I was making them for my own video game, but I never got past fiddling around with povray. Anyway it looks like polyray has a lot of the same facilities. I wonder how I was unaware of it for the couple years I played with povray?
I remember staying up all night waiting for my first renders to complete on my brand new amazingly fast 80286 with 80287 math coprocessor. It was amazing.
For some time now I've wanted to modify my ray tracer to do realtime RDS (random dot stereograms). Just another item on my bucket list that I might never get around to. I suspect doing high frame rates and animation may keep your eyes adjusted very well, but that intuition might be wrong.
you should checkout Tom Beddard, a master in the area, that has partnered with the founder of MetaCreations. A little googling will show you some cool stuff.
Another trend towards lower-power and lower-fidelity in AI-driven computer recognition systems. Last week, IBM announced it was developing better 8-bit AI hardware as an alternative to 16- and 32-bit systems, speeding computations and reducing hardware demands.
I guess once the human aspect is removed, the sensor and processing systems can be tailored for the computer aspect of recognition tasks, which isn't necessarily as powerful or high-definition as we expect.
That's the scary part though. A lot of the examples out there are meant to see when something is out of the ordinary and then be interpreted by people.
Fascinating. I wonder how the principles here could be adapted to tech? I'm thinking specifically of IoT-type setups with low-powered on-device processing that are mesh networked, without needing a cloud-type backend as a 'brain'?
I'm thinking of numerical optimization that uses algorithms inspired by nature but very different from the current crop of neural networks, while still taking advantage of GPUs, gradient descent etc.
