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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

*AFTER*? What else will the public have to beta test as we finally understand that it's humans *alongside* machines, just like every tool in history.

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Bring back orange backlights! www.calmtech.institute/post/the-pro...

Ghost 🥰

The color of a glacier.

2000 Sony WM-EX615

Even better, though, in a warm orange.

1985 Nissan 300ZX

The allure of a counterfeit nostalgia.

I was at an airplane museum last month, and I asked some pilots which they preferred. They said, "Well, if you're in a plane hundreds of miles away from refueling and you are on your own in a war like we were, analog makes the most sense, but if you're driving a glorified bus, touchscreen is fine".

4 March 2026 in Tokyo.

Event in Japan! www.axismag.jp/posts/2026/0...

Ken Nordine Narrates RCA Victor's "Sounds in Space" Living Stereo Demo Record (1958) YouTube video by Redacted

Ken Nordine Narrates RCA Victor's "Sounds in Space" Living Stereo Demo Record (1958) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDo...

This seems like a livejournal for sure.

I was trying to find out just how much information the mind gathers before it focuses attention, and I wanted more and more gradations of information on that. And it led me to this!

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Tl;dr Preattentive Processing is amazing!

To test the generality of our results, we varied two important display parameters—display duration and feature difference—and found boundary conditions for each. Implications of our results for application to real-world data and tasks are discussed.

Furthermore, random variation in one of these features resulted in no interference when subjects estimated the percentage of the other.

Our experiments tested displays that were designed to visualize data from salmon migration simulations. The results showed that rapid and accurate estimation was indeed possible using either hue or orientation.

In our present study, we investigated two known preattentive features (hue and orientation) in the context of a new task (numerical estimation) in order to see whether preattentive estimation was possible.

We beleive that studies from preattentive vision should be used to assist in the design of visualization tools, especially those for which high-speed target detection, boundary identification, and region detection are important.

Preattentive processing refers to an initial organization of the visual field based on cognitive operations believed to be rapid, automatic, and spatially parallel. Examples of visual features that can be detected in this way include hue, intensity, orientation, size, and motion.

High-speed visual estimation using preattentive processing | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction A new method is presented for performing rapid and accurate numerical estimation. The method is derived from an area of human cognitive psychology called preattentive processing. Preattentive processi...

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A new method is presented for performing rapid and accurate numerical estimation.