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by eesmith 1y ago
Definitely not the latter as the paper mentions "The digits are faintly visible in this photograph, because the camera’s color response differs from a human’s."
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by eesmith 1y ago
I remember watching a video some years back where the researcher thought he had developed such a test. As I recall (it's been many years; likely over a decade since I saw it) he tested it with a woman who was believed to have tetrachro
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by eesmith 1y ago
Are you doing one of those 'a lie requires intention, and we can't know their internal state of mind, so we can't know if something is a lie unless they tell us' things? Do you consider misrepresentation a lie? If there&
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by eesmith 1y ago
I did not find that quote in the linked-to interview. The closest is at https://youtu.be/bM9bYOBuKF4?t=148 "That's the statement of the hypothesis, but it's a model, it's not completely true, no models a
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by eesmith 1y ago
Sure, but all we know is that these "13 have a master’s degree (and are currently enroled in Ph.D. studies)". We only know they have at least "2 years of experience in chemistry after their first university-level course in ch
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by eesmith 1y ago
I think you are reading "carriage" too specifically, when I suspect it's meant as a wider term for any horse-drawn wheeled vehicle. Your [0] says "Chariot burials about 2500 BC present the most direct hard evidence of ho
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by eesmith 1y ago
As I wrote, the main point of the paper was not the specific model evaluation, but the development of a benchmark which can be used to test new models. Good benchmark development is hard work. The paper goes into the details of how it was c
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by eesmith 1y ago
The article quotes a researcher: “Most field systems have been either lost or destroyed due to intensive land use across most of North America, through farming, including pastures and the cutting down of trees for urban development,” My wat
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by eesmith 1y ago
How so? To me it looks like the paper was submitted last year but the peer reviewers identified issues with the paper which required revision before the final acceptance in March. We can see the paper was updated since the 1 April 2024 vers
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by eesmith 1y ago
One place to start - we must all have the right to live off-line. This must apply broadly. There must be no need for an app for health care, parking, schools, transit, tolls, package delivery, hotels, restaurants, retirement, banking, and o
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by eesmith 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the writers at the Jacobin would say that the US is far from "democratic." If you don't need governance then of course it doesn't matter to you. Running your own services is not easy. Most people can
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes. The essay puts it this way: "Until such time as smartphones and social media can be democratically governed or nationalized — liberated from the imperative to profit off our attention indefinitely — a ban may be the most realistic
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by eesmith 1y ago
I and a friend visited California, ending in San Diego. We figured out we didn't need the rental car for the last few days, so we asked the hotel clerk how to get back from the car dropoff at the airport. "You could Uber ..."
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by eesmith 1y ago
The author both points that out, and links to his essay "How Disney Became One of the Largest Transit Agencies in North America' (What Does a Theme Park Operating the 10th Largest Transit Agency in the U.S. Say About Us?)" at
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes. The 1966 book "Computer dictionary and handbook" mentions many appropriate uses, like GECOS, the GEneral Comprehensive Operating System. https://archive.org/details/computerdictiona0000unse/page&#x2F
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by eesmith 1y ago
We develop a text-processing system, with patent applications as our stepping stone into electronic publishing program with full typesetting. The time-sharing core is extensible to other domains. We support the PDP series now, with long-ter
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by eesmith 1y ago
The best way to rein in traffic is to design roads for the speed you want. US roads are built to encourage speeding.
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by eesmith 1y ago
The only papers I could find in Google Scholar about this connection all come from India, and does not seem strongly connected. The study at https://journals.lww.com/jfmpc/fulltext/2025/04000/prevalenc...
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by eesmith 1y ago
Further info along the same lines at https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali... > If you think these [AI] crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith rem
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by eesmith 1y ago
My local library has both quiet areas and social areas, including meeting spaces. There are weekly social events for knitting, second-language practice, seniors, and more. High school kids go there to work on class projects together, just l
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by eesmith 1y ago
In the US? Absolutely. Private clubs have a broad ability to discriminate. For an example of gender discrimination at private golf clubs: https://www.golflink.com/lifestyle/no-women-past-rock-chicag... lists Old Elm, B
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by eesmith 1y ago
I'm having a hard time thinking of any non-Europeans who would be interested in going to the US for education when European schools were closer and better. I'm having a harder time wondering why Madison et al. would care. By &quot
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by eesmith 1y ago
Which shows the profitability of getting purchase data and lock-in.
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by eesmith 1y ago
Exactly! Colbert gave a commencement speech. (He even wondered if he was the one invited, or his eponymous character was the one invited.) Since others normally write his lines, do you grouse that you don't know who wrote Colbert'
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by eesmith 1y ago
Your exasperation about your lack of knowledge seems like something you could figure out and share, rather than complain about. If you don't like the article - which didn't cost you anything - find another article. Does Stephen Co
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by eesmith 1y ago
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/kermit-frog-commenc... > The speech — written and spoken by puppeteer Matt Vogel, who has performed Kermit since 2017 It's considered special because of the histori
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by eesmith 1y ago
Oh, I understand the history and nomenclature. I'm referring specifically to how blueflow quoted "going expat" as if that were a common phrase, albeit which I didn't recognize. It doesn't seem to be one people actua
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It seems very fair given how the Democrats follow Clinton's triangulation strategy to try to appeal to Republican voters through "red state"-lite legislation, on the assumption that Democrats would hold their nose and vote De
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I hadn't heard the phrase "going expat" before, so I was curious if the Lost Generation ex-pat American writers in Paris in the 1920s used it. Google n-grams hasn't seen the term. DDG hasn't either. Google has all o
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by eesmith 1y ago
It's about time. Andy Rooney complained about pennies back in the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-zcWgXu4hg . "A penny saved is a waste of time." In inflation-adjusted terms, a penny back then was wo

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