Not a Note 286 - We, da peeps.
Hey, we survived the 4th. Amazing. Did some of the closet arsonists blow themselves up? One can only hope. I guess some people just feel compelled to make lots of noise.
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And speaking of shooting one’s mouth off, I have some validation of my “pretty sure” assertion from my earlier AI post:
Letter 177 - If it looks like a duck, and it sounds ...
Clearly Elias Yoder puts the AI in FAIL because I fAIled to immediately realize that the guy smiling at us directly below was actually not as Amish as he claims in the video. In fact, contrary to what’s shown in the YouTube thumbnail his name isn’t Elias Yoder. He isn’t even a he. He’s an it. An AI.
AI assured us all that the way to choose a top quality watermelon was to look for a deeply yellow colored spot on the melon, a sign that it had ripened in the field. BUT I thought I noticed that my second melon lost its spot while sitting in my kitchen. And so, I repeated the experiment but this time paid close attention so as to be sure. The melon on Thursday:
For sure, a deep yellow spot. And what did it look like Sunday morning after sitting on my counter? This:
So BOOM! Take THAT, AI! As usual, you can’t rely on its insights. The full story is … you can’t tell in the store that a yellow spotted melon is better than a green one from the same bin unless you know for sure they were both just picked. Just as avocados and tomatoes ripen in your kitchen, so too do melons work to get that nice uniform green on their outsides.
AI knows what its doing? I wouldn’t bet on it.
And speaking of other long shots …
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