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We have been using Zeni for many years now. I went with the Optometrist offering this time because it's the first time I have had vision insurance since the 1980s.

We have very dangerous idiots running our country.

@kluurs said in What are you listening to now?:

Mark - agree - a very fine performance.

Did you notice the crushed corners of the book? It was delivered that way. I sent photos of it to DECCA and they are replacing it no questions asked. They didn't even ask for me to return this one. I will wait to see if they include a pre-paid return address label before I gift this one to my audiophile buddy.

Yes! Upper Midwest ftw!

I mean just look at all that fresh water! We are also relatively immune from natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, even, for the most part, tornadoes even though one occasionally gets through. Awesome climate in the spring and fall. Summer is usually awesome with a week or two of high temps. Winter, well, it is a quiet time, spent mostly indoors, doing things like practicing and getting better at your musical instruments, and snuggling up next to a fire with your sweetheart. What could be better than that!

Yunchan Lim The Goldberg Variations Live at Carnegie Hall. I ordered this not realizing that it would come in what is essentially a hardcover 46 page book full of wonderful photos, quotes, and multilingual write-ups about this young pianist.

It's a double LP that is expertly mastered with a very good, silent, dark background free of surface noise. Meticulously produced. A little static on rare occasions, but that is easily rectified and is mostly due to the dry nature of this season.

I must say that he does an excellent performance of the Goldberg Variations.

I have heard just about every recording ever made of the Goldberg Variations and this one definitely stands out as one of the best I have heard.

Sweet find!

Thanks again! The knee is progressing nicely. Still swollen and shrinking slower than I thought it would. I have full range of motion and even broke/shattered the record of the PT facility for bend and hypertension angles.

Music and Art are two endeavors where I draw the line with AI.

Looking forward to your take on it.

12.3 grams ftw!

Thanks!

I'm a Beatles song.

I have to VPN into Canada to watch it. Not sure I can watch the entire 1.5 hours tonight. I have to get up and drive to Pennsylvania in the morning.

I have not yet. I will get to it.

@renauda I agree 100%!

My former teacher studied along side of Martha in Italy under Michelangeli. He considered Martha a good friend and spent quite a bit of time with her and her family. That fact still gives me chills when I think about it. That I was so fortunate to have studied with him.

Martha at any age, but at 84 is so freaking amazing.

They could have just kept quiet and you probably never would have caught it. WTF man! Leaving money on the table like that! Lol

@89th said in The impact of AI on jobs:

@mark said in The impact of AI on jobs:

My daughter is a little upset that I used AI to create the splash screen. She's an artist who is a current student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is going for her BA. I told her to design a new splash screen and I will happily replace the one AI generated.

What an impacted industry. I started out in graphic design, logos, websites, etc. My BIL used to design custom images for screenprinted shirts. He was telling me the other week that these days people can just ask AI for whatever image they want and it automatically can be ordered on a shirt. Even for me, I used to create custom graphics (such as for a website or presentation or even an cloud architecture diagram) and now I just ask Gemini and it's fine 95% of the time. The key is to find how to navigate a world when AI-assisted technology is all around.

Absolutely. Do something with AI instead of just bitching about it. Find a niche within the AI universe to make a living.

@Doctor-Phibes said in The impact of AI on jobs:

@Mik said in The impact of AI on jobs:

Learn to code using AI...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-brain-founder-andrew-ng-says-everyone-should-still-learn-to-code-but-not-the-old-way/ar-AA1QbYnq

The people giving out this kind advice always seem to assume that everybody can do this stuff, as well as having the technology access and motivation.

See my "An app I wrote using AI" thread. lol.

I saw this coming two plus years ago. An associate of mine has been producing production ready code for well over a year now using AI.

I think good app development and IT skills are still essential to getting the AI to help you create a production level app. You still have to have knowledge of how to create an app. What makes an app easy to use, accurate, safe, etc. As good as my little Android app is currently, I still want to put in more options like expiration dates of the current prescription, to make it safer, possibly HIPPA compliant since it deals with medical records, etc. For some of those features I need to add encryption to the database, maybe make it use biometrics for logging in, MFA, etc.

My daughter is a little upset that I used AI to create the splash screen. She's an artist who is a current student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is going for her BA. I told her to design a new splash screen and I will happily replace the one AI generated.

I see a day when AI Prompting for <insert your profession here> classes will be offered if they aren't already. I haven't looked in to that. Maybe it's a viable business opportunity.

@axtremus I started it in ChatGPT Thinking. The initial prompt provides a project to pull into Android Studio. It was far from complete at that stage. Over the next few days I had the AI inside Android studio do the rest of the work. Several sessions of prompts actually. I would test, report things I didn't like, errors, things not functioning as expected, etc. After what I estimate to be about 8-10 total hours of working in studio I had a polished and fully functioning app. I did have to do some manual manipulation of the code along the way. I am considering putting it out on the app store but I am also worried about legal and liability issues. I was thinking of a subscription fee of $1/month or $10 / year if paid annually. Get myself 10,000-100,000 subscribers, and retire. lol

On the History Report screen you can Re-Sync the schedule if you make modifications, add new medications, etc. You can also export the history report to a pdf or csv file. Notifications are fully functional etc.