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Jimmy, is the "woman won the Nobel Prize" you mentioned in the Intelligencer interview Donna Strickland, or were you thinking of someone else? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:50, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I believe that's who I had in mind. She won the Nobel Prize and we didn't have an article on her beforehand. I'd love a second or third opinion and examination of the questions: Should we have had an article about her already? And was sex/gender in any way an issue regarding why we didn't? It's an important question.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 12:29, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it was the "recently" that made me a bit uncertain. Talk:Donna_Strickland/Archive_1#A_selected_timeline_of_the_edit_history_of_this_article and Talk:Donna_Strickland/Archive_1#Notability and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Archive_50#Donna_Strickland might be of interest. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, recently. I'm old, and the pandemic also messed with my sense of time. :) Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't feel alone... BusterD (talk) 15:17, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're not old. When you do approach "old" remember Clint Eastwood's advice, "Never let the old man in". With adequate Vitamin C and water intake, as well as walking daily and a few other major things, you'll be surprised how young "old" is when you get there. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:20, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was only joking really. But the truth is, time is moving faster for me than it used to. Per Time perception, "Psychologists have found that the subjective perception of the passing of time tends to speed up with increasing age in humans. This often causes people to increasingly underestimate a given interval of time as they age.". I find that to be true!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 16:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(TPS) Jimbo is *gasp*...aging? The horror! ☩ ^{(Babysharkboss2)} 16:17, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, given your age, this could also be caused by exposure to freezing or pyrexia; which I should know causes that because, when I was ill months ago, I heard things at a lower semi-tone pitch (95% of the normal pitch, I can confidently attest). Now, response about what I noted above? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 16:28, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize but I'm not realy sure what you're asking me. I see a couple of comments up above from you but I'm not sure which one you're referring to. The one about checkuser says "How would he handle it?" and I don't know what "it" refers to. Input on ArbCom procedures, is there anything specific that you'd like my views on? There's one "@Jimbo?" and I definitely don't know what the question is on that one.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 22:29, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize if you are confused or whatever.

Let me explain in this order: First, I gave you a warm WikiTurkey, than I suggested 2 films; asked how you would handle using checkuser on all newcomers and IPs; asked for any input from you (comments you may have) about KevinL's 4 motions for improving Arbitrator workflows (which include Correspondence clerks, WMF staff support, Coordinating arbitrators and grants for corresponding clerks); wondered if you are aware of the duck test; also wondered if you have something to say about a wannabe military ruler in South Korea; and I simply hoped you would respond in kind. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 23:47, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, ok. Let's tick through them. Thanks for the WikiTurkey, and I think my kids will drag me to the Moana soon enough whether I like it or not, so I hope it's good. I definitely don't support checkuser on all newcomers and IPs although I understand the temptation and I have reflected on whether there's something clever we could do to continue to both protect privacy but also discourage sockpuppeting. (Example: an automated system warns a user: "A user who appeared from a technical perspective to be very similar to you, also edited similar articles in a similar way, and got banned for it. You may want to reconsider." That might be a bad idea, but it flicked across my mind.). I have no opinion about the 4 motions for improving Arbitrator workflows, but would be interested to hear if anyone thinks they are of grave constitutional import, and I'm definitely opposed to martial law in South Korea.@ Jimbo Wales (talk) 23:53, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's actually one other thing I recently noticed, and it's the latest DeepMind model that generates gameplay-like videos in full 3D. And worse, it's interactive (and blurry)! Although, as you said in that interview: It would be very hard for an AI run by a person even to just come and pretend to be a Wikipedian and get away with it. Not that this relates specifically towards what Genie 2 has on offer, but do think about it for a few moments. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 13:00, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AND one more thing; Chris Vallance, BBC: Google unveils "mind-boggling" quantum computing chip (link), codename Willow. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 15:03, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]