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April 26

If I’ve a small Smalltalk program, how do I turn it into an image ?

Simple question : let’s say for example I’ve an Hello World to a text file, I know this isn’t very smalltalkish but how do I turn the code into an image I can run ? 2A01:E0A:ACF:90B0:0:0:A03F:E788 (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please clarify? I don't understand how you can "run" an image, but a screenshot will turn the code into an image. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:28, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of the meanings of image is "executable". ‑‑Lambiam 10:23, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In smalltalk, executables are Objects that contains the memory/state of their execution a smalltalk program always have it’s execution paused/resumed. 2A01:E0A:ACF:90B0:0:0:A03F:E788 (talk) 23:50, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is your OS? For example Dolphin Smalltalk claims it can produce standalone Windows executables. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 12:08, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My ᴏꜱ is windows. 2A01:E0A:ACF:90B0:0:0:A03F:E788 (talk) 23:49, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So Dolphin Smalltalk may be the solution. ‑‑Lambiam 09:39, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 27

How are old songs available in 4K resolution on YouTube?

How are music videos released or uploaded before YouTube's July 2010 announcement of 4K support, such as Justin Bieber's "Baby" (released Feb 2010) and Mariah Carey's "Honey" (uploaded Nov 2009), now available in 4K resolution on the platform? HarryOrange (talk) 17:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube has actually allowed them to go back and replace the original video with a new one. Normal users can't do that, but both Carey and Bieber use Vevo, so I have to assume YouTube has offered a special method of doing that just for them. Another example of this kind of reupload taking place was with Thriller, where it was replaced with a fully remastered version from the original film reels. The official Michael Jackson site links to the original music video when it announced this in 2023, but YouTube still says that video was uploaded in October 2009. So clearly in 2023 the original video file was switched out, but the views, comments, and upload date remained. Pinguinn 🐧 06:06, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

in addition to user:Pinguinns' response, some really old music videos were recorded on film, which can be of much higher quality than digital. mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:34, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 30

If Googlers don't have access to Google AI Studio, how do they test the product?

Here is the screenshot where Googler can't access their own product i.e Google AI Studio. HarryOrange (talk) 16:52, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's no way to know from that screenshot if the person is a "Googler". But even if they are, like any organisation Google is perfectly capable of giving some employees access but not others. For large organisation it's probably the norm only some employees receive access of early tests of secretive project and projects where you need to have certain skills to be able to test it and offer effective feedback. Nil Einne (talk) 05:42, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Google is a large organization, with around 90,000 engineers. Different divisions handle different things. Also, Googler admins probably use Google Workspace, and accounts on Workspace by default don't have access to most features.Of course this can be configured, though. Jay Cubby 05:09, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 8

What kind of database or AI is this?

I answer a lot of questions every day as a reference librarian. This morning, I had an idea of an AI like the many that are now popular except it doesn't know anything to begin with. It is empty. Then, an organization or group can tell it facts. It just knows how to store them like it stores up stuff it finds on the Internet right now. Then, users can ask it questions and it uses what it has been told to answer them. So, it is like ChatGPT, but it is trained only using facts that the users give it. Is that a real thing? Does it exist? What is it called? 68.187.174.155 (talk) 13:25, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Generative AI like ChatGPT are, essentially, overdriven text predictors. For reasons unknown, this text prediction can simulate a bit of intelligence, and can reproduce and synthesize facts from the text on which the AI is trained. Without a large-enough amount of text on which to train on, the AI would not work. I think it's impossible to find texts that are devoid of facts to produce your kind of AI. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:14, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An FAQ is essentially this. However, it is usually only appropriate for a limited subject.-Gadfium (talk) 19:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you tell someone, "The capital of France is Paris", and you ask them next, "What is the name of the capital of France?", you can only expect a correct answer if (a) your interlocutor understands English, and (b) also understands that the term "Paris" is a name. So before you deploy it, you need to train or program your AI to understand English, know a lot of stuff that is generally understood and considered to be elementary but is not at all self-evident, and apply both common sense and reasoning to infer facts from other facts. You would have an uneducated, tabula rasa version of an AGI. ‑‑Lambiam 00:54, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 10