It can be really good for text to speech and speech to text applications for disabled or people with learning disabilities.
However it gets really funny and weird when it tries to read advanced mathematics formulas.
I have also heard decent arguments for translation although in most cases it would still be better to learn the language or use a professional translator.
I wonder is this is before his strange planet series.
Aren't Odo's clothes just...Odo? Like he's not actually wearing anything. He just changes shape to make it appear like that.
Odo don't need a closet, just a bucket.
Seems like a terrible place to make bread...I mean is there even an oven?
I first I thought others a grow operation because of all the purple lighting.
I would also recommend reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff which was recently featured on Philosophy Tube
Edit: its important to realize that any government or entity might purchase the data this apparatus can collect.
Then there's Nikola Tesla sitting there with a bulb that has a 2700k color temp and a lot less moths.
It looks beautiful and it sounds like it could be affordable. This kind of thing really excites me.
However I have some questions about the design.
Those ceramic tiles look really cool. They seem to be burnished on the outside. He talks about the cure time being really quick but wouldn't you still have to fire them? Many kilns wouldn't fit something that large.
Another thought is that this seems like it would be terribly insulated. Like wouldn't the ceramic be conductive? I doubt the hemp fibers alone is enough of a thermal block. There might be insulation between 2 layers of tile but the ceramic frame itself seems like it would not be great. I wonder if it would be possible to use timber for the frame?
I also think realistically, you need at least one large flat wall for things like an electrical panel/sub panel and battery banks. In the current configuration, the small dome seems like this is less suitable for a home and more for storage or maybe a green house assuming it doesn't get too cold inside. Maybe it could be improved if it was semi subterranean or had a heat sink like a fish pond?
But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF... [collapses in a prophetic swoon as the audience erupts in thunderous applause]
Howard Beale, Network (1976)
Its called surveillance capitalism.
Microsoft is first and foremost a company that aims to profit on the data it can gather.
Need an imaginary map cross-post so we can see what the 1st water wars will look like.