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Kepler Announcement on Dec. 14
NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data.
NASA and Google are both users of the D-Wave "quantum annealer", ostensibly for machine learning purposes.
Mycroft AI instaaaaaallled!!
Welp, i got MycroftAI installed (should i say, FINALLY installed).
Had to jump through hoops and stand on my head holding the rabbit ears sideways, but yeah....
There are a lot of skills that aren't fully working, but so far it has a lot of things i need, like knowing the date and time, lol, and being able to set a quick alarm ("Mycroft, set an alarm for noon""Mycroft, set an alarm for 30 minutes").
Changed it from "Hey Mycroft" to just "Mycroft" cause saying Hey Mycroft EVERY SINGLE TIME is just a pain.
I think i'll suggest an 'interactive mode' where you can say "Hey Mycroft go active" and then it will just try to answer everything thrown its way until told to go out of 'interactive mode' so you don't have to say Mycroft so often.
Right now, it is telling me what pi is to 1000 decimal points, lol. Fun times!
Playah gotta keep playin'!
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Was able to open smplayer with Mycroft, but it sees/hears palemoon as two separate words and kaffs, lol.
Was happy to see it open smplayer, and tomorrow plan on trying other programs.
Wonder what happens if I ask Mycroft to open Mycroft? Duelling AI?
Will have to see about changing its default error message to "I can't do that, Dave" ;)
Bye bye, Al Frankenstien! 👋
Forcible kisser Al Franken says he'll resign from our beautiful Senate! Just like inappropriate toucher John Conyers resigned from the House! Like I told them to. They're resigning, so we won't have to IMPEACH them. #MeToo
Porn Star May Have Been Cyberbullied Into Committing Suicide
What is August Ames Cause of Death? Porn Star Found Dead After Cyberbullying
Adult film star August Ames was found dead in her California home on Tuesday, according to BuzzFeed. The erotic actress, who appeared in over 270 films, was 23 years old.
The Canadian actress’s official cause of death has yet to be released by the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office due to pending family notifications. However, some members of the porn industry believe Ames, whose birth name was Mercedes Grabowski, may have taken her own life.
Just two days before Ames’s death, the porn star was a victim of cyberbullying after she posted a tweet on Sunday saying she refused to perform with a male actor who did gay pornography.
Shortly after Ames’s comments about working with "crossover performers"—porn stars who appear in gay and heterosexual scenes—she was bombarded with angry tweets accusing her of discriminating against the LGBTQ community and being anti-gay.
Ames defended her stance, writing that she was not homophobic, but decided not to shoot with men who have done gay porn for health reasons. “I’m not putting my body at risk, I don’t know what they do in their private lives,” she wrote.
A $300 Bil. Mistake in the Handwritten Tax Bill, shocking!
It appears that Senate Republicans managed to make a $289 billion or so mistake while furiously hand-scribbling edits onto the tax bill they passed in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The problem involves the corporate alternative minimum tax, which the GOP initially planned to repeal, but tossed back into their stew at the last second in order to raise some desperately needed revenue. The AMT is basically a parallel tax code meant to prevent companies from zeroing out their IRS bills. It doesn’t allow businesses to take as many tax breaks but, in theory, is also supposed to have a lower rate.
Except not under the Senate bill. When Mitch McConnell & co. revived the AMT, they absentmindedly left it at its current rate of 20 percent, the same as the new, lower rate of the corporate income tax that the bill included. As a result, many companies won’t be able to use tax breaks that were supposed to be preserved in the legislation, including the extremely popular credit for research and development costs. Corporate accountants started freaking out about this over the weekend, but the situation reached high farce when a group of lawyers from Davis Polk pointed out that, by leaving the AMT intact, Republicans had essentially undermined their bill’s most important changes to the international tax code.
Therese Dreaming
To my friends&supporters in/of/from Alabama!📅
Folks, it's just one week until the Senate election in Alabama. We need every vote in the Senate. So we need every voter OF Alabama to be IN Alabama. If you're registered to vote in Alabama, save the date. And get to Alabama, if you're not there already. So you can vote for our Republican, @MooreSenate. We need Republican Roy Moore to win. For our party, for Alabama, for America🇺🇸. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., JUDGES, 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer puppet, terrible on crime! Go get ’em, Roy! #MAGA #DrainTheSwamp
