ARPA was military.

"From 1958 to 1965, ARPA’s emphasis centered on major national issues, including space, ballistic missile defense, and nuclear test detection.[21] During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the military space programs to the individual services.[22]

This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on Project Defender (ballistic missile defense), Project Vela (nuclear test detection), and Project Agile (counterinsurgency R&D programs), and to begin work on computer processing, behavioral sciences, and materials sciences. The DEFENDER and AGILE programs formed the foundation of DARPA sensor, surveillance, and directed energy R&D, particularly in the study of radar, infrared sensing, and x-ray/gamma ray detection."

ARPA was renamed to DARPA in 1972.

"DARPA supported the evolution of the ARPANET (the first wide-area packet switching network), "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

There was no Internet in 1972. It was ARPANET which was run by DARPA. The D was added to reaffirm that ARPA was the department of defense, not civilian research.

information-sharing between geographically dispersed research facilities

Research facilities doing DOD research.

I’m not sure why it would matter that you worked for them in the early 90s.

The president of the company got Vint and Bob on board because he was their military liason at Darpa.

The project I worked on was partially funded by Darpa. We reported weekly updates to a Lt Colonel.

The Internet was originally by the military and for the military and only later handed off to universities.

Fanfic.

They predict “reliable agent” by 2026. I think they’ve already failed. AI is still unreliable tool. It’s a very useful tool but there is no signs of any change to being reliable. Particularly odd is their claim that a new and better AI will come out from the work of the old unreliable AI. This is unlikely given that it has already been shown that AI trained on other AI degrades, not improves.

They were under the DoD, but they filled a role closer to the NSF today.

DARPA was defense projects funded by the military for the military. NSF predates DARPA by 8 years. DARPA did not fill a role closer to the NSF today.

It was after ARPANET was created for the military that it was expanded into general university use by NSF into NSFNet in 1986.

(I worked for Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in the early 90’s.)

Not op but in my case I’ve seen huge differences between USB cards and high quality cards. 20 years ago I used to use bt878 capture cards. A few years ago I bought a Viewcast Osprey on eBay.

In particular I use a svhs tape player with built in time base corrector. The reason for svhs is because the hardware supports actual svhs output. Vhs tapes are store with luminous and chroma as separate signals. With regular composite output, that data is mixed into one signal. This causes interference patterns like dot crawl and color fringing.

The other big advantage over USB dongles is all the ones I’ve seen don’t let you capture the raw data- it’s pre compressed with lossy like mjpeg or mpeg which is another huge quality drop because you’ll usually want to post process the video with avisynth before compressing it to mpeg4.

My target is for the captured video to look just as good as it originally did on a VHS player on a crt. So the interlaced to progressive conversion is always tricky. I don’t personally do it but one trick to keep resolution is to capture at 60fps and play each 30i field doubled. That way no detail is lost in the source and it uses your eyes to motion blur the fields together.

If a TV cost $60k, I’d bust out a wrench to fix it. It’s usually a blown capacitor that costs pennies to fix.

The bot must be upvoting itself because yet again it listed a bunch of random abbreviations that aren’t in the thread at all.

Someone claimed it’s not ai slop but a bot with GitHub code but that code doesn’t produce this result.

I have no idea what you are using to browse Lemmy because the only notification I get is a number next to my profile icon in web browser or Thunder. And that’s often delayed by several days so I frequently look through my own old posts to find replies because don’t get reliable notifications.

People don’t have a choice. Their pensions will be forced to buy SpaceX at inflated IPO prices because Musk controls Nasdaq.

At least Denmark isn’t corrupt.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/

In 1930’s Britain, the average lifespan of an Englishman was 60. Hobbits had an average lifespan of 100. So a 51 year old Bilbo was the same as a 30 year old Englishman.

I have that habit. Then I get really angry replies where people accuses me of stealth editing posts.

Missed the last one Stick Stick

It was on YouTube like 6 years ago. I did it 4 years ago and they’ve been running great.

You need to get a lifepo4 that has a lead acid drop in BMS.

Lifepo4 charges at 14.2. So it’s not only safe, but it means the lifepo4 is undercharged which dramatically increases its lifespan at the cost of runtime.

I’ve done it successfully for two Tripplite 1500va and two APC 750va UPS’s. They’ve been running for over 4 years now.

I bought a lifepo4 that specifically said it had a lead acid drop in replacement BMS (battery management system).

The only problem I have had was when I had a two day power outage. After running to complete drain ( and they lasted over 2x longer than my older lead acid), the Trupplites wouldn’t charge up after power was restored. I had to pull the batteries and charge them outside the ups to get everything working again.

Under normal use they have worked great.

Lifepo4 works fantastic as a drop in because the peak charge of lead acid is only 80% charge of lifepo4. This means that while you don’t get full capacity out of the lifepo4, it never fully charges which dramatically increases the lifepo4 lifespan.

Isn’t it a huge delay to swap out to a different ~30b model every few minutes depending on the use case?

What local model are you using?

You are both correct That certainly was considered AI.

Notice my use of past tense as well as Zeoic use of past tense. I said chess was AI as you stated. Zeoic denied that chess was ever AI.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Artificial_Intelligence

" the term ‘artificial intelligence’ was coined by John McCarthy in the proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference [4] . In its beginning, Computer Chess was called the Drosophila of Artificial Intelligence. "

Expert Systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system "In artificial intelligence (AI), an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert.[1] "

Chatbots in AI:

https://liacademy.co.uk/the-story-of-eliza-the-ai-that-fooled-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goostman

Lisp is a language USED for AI research, that doesn’t make it AI itself. “Lisp was an AI language.”

I didn’t say Lisp was AI. I said it was a language used for AI.