A Handmade Boat In Sterling Harbor, Long Island—the Antithesis of AI

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   July 18, 2024 at 5:46 pm

   I work with wood. No plans. Just an image in my head. Then figure out what I have to do, step by step, until that image is real. I built the wall to celling cabinets in the TV room. Bunk beds in the guestroom for the grandkids. My desk. The dressers in my bedroom. The full-sized storage bed I sleep on. My back fence. The patio cover. I didn’t need an AI to help me or tell me what to do.

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     July 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm

     Same, though now that I have scaled down to apartment-sized living, I no longer have a dedicated woodshop. I miss it terribly.

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2. Peter Goodman says:

   July 18, 2024 at 6:45 pm

   Someone has probably fed all your books and blog posts into an AI alghorym, you will live forever, Your enemies will never rid themselves of your insights and scathing criticism … generation upon generation will learn from you into time.

   Sort of the ultimate revenge

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   • dianeravitch says:

     July 18, 2024 at 7:13 pm

     Peter, that is an authors’ dream!!

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3. ArtsSmart says:

   July 18, 2024 at 7:15 pm

   I just watched an interesting discussion on Adam Conover’s youtube titled “The AI bubble is busting” Big tech is betting tens of billions of dollars on AI being the next big thing, but what if it isn’t? ChatGPT burns obscene amounts of cash daily with little return, Google’s AI dispenses useless and sometimes dangerous advice, and a recent study showed that tech companies will soon run out of new training data to improve their AI models. If AI is really so costly, unreliable, and limited, what happens to the industry that has bet so big on it? This week, Adam talks with journalist and influential tech critic Ed Zitron of wheresyoured.at to discuss the impending burst of the AI bubble, the hubris of Silicon Valley, and how we suffer under big tech’s “Rot Economy.”

   LAUSD just lost a fortune setting an AI platform that crashed. What a waste!

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4. Bob Shepherd says:

   July 18, 2024 at 7:28 pm

   THIS!!!! OMG. Who built her? She’s beautiful

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5. Peter Goodman says:

   July 18, 2024 at 8:06 pm

   AI will be replacing you in your classroom in a few years … innovation only moves in one direction, you!re on top of the wave or swept under it.

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6. Roy Turrentine says:

   July 18, 2024 at 8:33 pm

   what a beautiful craft. When we visited upstate New York and New England, we were constantly amazed at the wooden canoes and boats on all the lakes. We were admiring one on top of a car when it’s owners approached. Our praise was effusive, but it was our accent that attracted attention.”So you must be from southern New Hampshirite?” One of them asked in a curious but hospitable tone.

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7. leftcoastteacher718 says:

   July 18, 2024 at 10:08 pm

   Paper books, newspapers, magazines, pens, and pencils, markers and crayons, clay, and paint and brushes, all day, every day. It’s the process over the product; and in the end. the product usually comes out superior anyway. I’m happily onboard a and with a handmade boat.

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     July 18, 2024 at 10:40 pm

     xoxox

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8. Bob Shepherd says:

   July 18, 2024 at 10:40 pm

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9. Bob Shepherd says:

   July 18, 2024 at 10:56 pm

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10. Bob Shepherd says:

    July 19, 2024 at 2:36 am

    OK. This is too good not to share. CNN just ran this headline:

    Aerial video shows shark in water that officials say attacked several people

    Be careful when you go to the beach to avoid being attacked by water, folks.

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11. pabonner says:

    July 19, 2024 at 10:11 am

    The skill required to build that boat is just as important as reading code. This from a cantankerous boomer.

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    • Bob Shepherd says:

      July 19, 2024 at 10:16 am

      Agreed. I spent years learning how to build guitars. There is a LOT to know to get this right.

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      • pabonner says:

        July 19, 2024 at 10:31 am

        I’m impressed! I play, but leave the wood work to others.

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      • Bob Shepherd says:

        July 19, 2024 at 10:36 am

        So glad to hear that you play, Paul! What genres?

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      • pabonner says:

        July 19, 2024 at 10:54 am

        Mostly old school rock and folk. I have some familiarity up the neck, but mostly just play acoustic rhythm. I keep thinking about finding an instructor who can be patient with a 65 year old who has played for around forty five years with a lot of bad self taught habits. I can figure out things like “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” and Nick Drakes “Pink Moon” but I rarely work hard enough at it to truly master the work.

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      • Ira Shor says:

        July 19, 2024 at 3:50 pm

        Beautiful human creation….ira

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12. Duane E Swacker says:

    July 19, 2024 at 7:16 pm

    I still have one of two western cedar strip fiberglassed canoes that we made in Boy Scouts in 1967-8 (I was in 7th-8th grade). The stories that canoe would tell if it could talk would scorch some ears.

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