April 2023

The White Center Library Guild SPRING RUMMAGE SALE is set for two days Friday, April 21 and Sunday, April 23 from 11am-3pm in the meeting room at the library located at 1409 SW 107th Street

All ages welcome.

You'll find bargains on veggie starts, second hand books and gently used household items. Proceeds help support library programming.

Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities are available by request.
 

Information from Seattle Police Department

In response to a rise in vehicle thefts involving certain Kia and Hyundai models, SPD’s Crime Prevention Coordinators will be giving away steering wheel locks at each of its five precincts this month. The devices are available at no charge to people who live or work in the City of Seattle, with a focus on those who own or lease a Kia or Hyundai vehicle.

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By Patrick Robinson

The media has exploded with stories about artificial intelligence. Large language models and image generation systems can synthesize and output work that does indeed feel compelling and intriguing. But the emotion you might feel is not part of the machine’s code. That’s completely human and will almost certainly remain so for the forseeable future. Computers utilizing artificial intelligence can mimic emotions through a process called Sentiment Analysis by looking at natural language and through the application of an algorithm give weight to certain words, contexts, and sentence structures. Image and video processing can even analyze body language and facial expressions and wed them to emotional states then recreate those states through image generation or even robotics with recent advances mimicking humans.

But there’s no actual emotional expression in any of it.