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Hmmm….

β€˜The Assassin’s Teapot’ video didn’t show how it worked, beyond explaining the principle behind it.

I had a mission and I chose to accept it. Don’t judge; I have only a scientific interest.

This video explains all. It shows β€˜what goes on in the teapot’ and it’s really entertaining.

Don’t blame me if your viewing history looks dodgy ☺️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJL0XoNBaac&t=126s

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I replaced the lame video with the one you found. Thank you!

"But officer, I was just doing research for a newsletter I write..."

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…he captured an era so well…

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…big fan of rumble fish too…

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I may have seen that movie? SE Got me into reading…

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Aha!, I've always told my wife that I can tell when the shower has warmed up based on the change in tone of the water through the faucet. She thinks that's crazy.

Also, Tesla has achieved their #1 status without doing much, if any advertising.

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I’m sure Elon’s happy about the sales. Funny about the shower water thing.

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dang that NotebookLM tho. Just nuts; have to try it on my next post. I had an epiphany while I was starting to draft this weeks article - you can clearly trace the evolution of social media through communication modalities: Text (Twitter), Pictures (Instagram), Video (TikTok). Substack as a platform that came after of course has all 3 in spades. As I've written and watched AIs evolution - I've wondered - what is the new medium of AI? Sure it can generate text, pictures, video, but the thing that's groundbreaking is Language. It's speech. It's computers communicating with humans as peers - by speaking and listening just like we do most of the time.

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Yeah, Andrew, it has sure gone way past Auto Correct. I was blown away at how it turned the words into an intelligent discussion. It may get old fast though, if everyone starts using the NotebookLM for every article. It tends to use similar language and phrasing, but hey. It's like George Carlin talking about how amazing flying through the air at 30000 feet in a steel tube is...

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β€˜Similar (or same) language and phrasing’. Yes, it’s definitely happening. AI means, too, that errors and poor language use are also multiplying at the speed of …. something.

More work for editors (providing people care enough) πŸ˜•

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I didn't know about what happened to Rosa Parks. So sad!

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