Linux and a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500:
plug in scanner
scan using GNOME's "Document Scanner"
Linux and a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 just pressing the button:
plug in scanner
install scanbd and add some basic config
a simple shell script to convert the incoming .png files into a pdf
Result: I've blitzed through a whole pile of paperwork very, very quickly.
nostr:npub198t8kgwqas59rvmnghzcdn6krzhxhpkyt2mt53e4g9sdnj74sszss5hasj OK, try a different one. In the bash case, someone sits down and writes code to perform a task. In the AI case, it's a training - there's no definition, the training process has inferred the mapping.
nostr:npub1zsmqwsekvkxtykld4hty6wf37608m60vt2lxrt0kktgrqsk5m6yswfwvua Is that what the definition says?
nostr:npub198t8kgwqas59rvmnghzcdn6krzhxhpkyt2mt53e4g9sdnj74sszss5hasj But you have no complete definition of the tests in the AI case; the fact you don't know the relationship between pixel input and 'it's a person' is why it's inferred isn't it?
nostr:npub1zsmqwsekvkxtykld4hty6wf37608m60vt2lxrt0kktgrqsk5m6yswfwvua It might be - I honestly don't know how I'd distinguish things based on that definition though.
Perhaps a lot of weight rests on "infers" here.
My bash script is not "inferring" anything: it is simply repeating something given to it.
But - using the example in the paper - is a system with camera taking action based on a pixel really "inferring" that that pixel represents a person, or just that it has been programmed to take a particular action if data pass certain tests?
An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.
Clear?
Doesn't that make:
#!/bin/bash
echo "$1"
an "AI system"?
OECD definition of "AI"
An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.
Clear?
Doesn't that make:
!#/bin/bash
echo "$1"
an "AI system"?
OECD definition of "AI"
nostr:npub1mww8j7zpv7p2flja23d8t66mq2vw24aluvhcdczcd409pxfr59zsnf6s2s Less "hot take" and more "a bit of a joke"! :)
nostr:npub12a80hlyrvzq0mqnln08qkez4vw899zpc50a0gww782gq6tzxfzlqmf9q4k Personally, I prefer dogs.
Lots of talk today about post-quantum cryptography, and securing your systems against quantum computer attacks.
I'm going to use AI.
And perhaps the metaverse.
nostr:npub12a80hlyrvzq0mqnln08qkez4vw899zpc50a0gww782gq6tzxfzlqmf9q4k That's neat - I hadn't heard about that.
Probably a few years too late, but better late than never :)
I wonder, in the light of the detailed list of infringements found by the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of use of Microsoft 365 by the European Commission, whether any organisation using Microsoft 365 complies with the EU GDPR?!
How many orgs have just signed up with Microsoft?
nostr:npub180epa8vg93kteuffcuwvvyndwdcmet8054cujl0azq0vkvh0xjpqyzpn95 It is fascinating how different people work!
I'm the opposite: unless it is a crisis, I much prefer scheduled calls, and I don't tend to answer calls from numbers I don't recognise.
I'm sorry that it took me so long to write this; it would have been helpful had I written this, and the follow-up post on the security requirements, a couple of months ago.
But, I'm afraid, life got in the way.
New blog post: New rules for people making, importing, or distributing Internet-connected or connectable products (Part 2)
This is a (long overdue) follow-up post, about the imminent new rules in the UK for IoT and other connectable/connected products.
It looks at the different types of actor - manufacturers, importers, and distributors - and their obligations.
Next time, I'll look at the security requirements themselves.
New blog post: New rules for people making, importing, or distributing Internet-connected or connectable products (Part 2)
This is a (long overdue) follow-up post, about the imminent new rules in the UK for IoT and other connectable/connected products.
It looks at the different types of actor - manufacturers, importers, and distributors - and their obligations.
Next time, I'll look at the security requirements themselves.
The Watchy looks fun, but it looks more like a dev toy at the moment.
Price is about right though :)
If - if - my PineTime is dead/dying, I wonder what a replacement might look like.
Are there any other daily-use, privacy-friendly smartwatches, with calendar notifications, incoming call notifications, a week or more battery life, which work well with both Linux-first devices and Android?
Does anyone have one that they rate?
(Reflashing something is fine, if reasonably straightforward.)
I looks like the touchscreen on my PineTime watch has stopped working :(
I could wait to see what happens when the battery drains, but that is over a week away...
Hopefully it will have recovered itself in the morning!
(I've reflashed the firmware, to no avail.)
Sandra is spending the day with friends, so I have pretty much a whole day to myself.
How exciting.