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by jhbadger 3y ago
True, but there was a good 20 year period or so when even non-technical people were familiar with it from using their own computers.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yes, but there are things that aren't so obsolete about using a computer that many young people don't know anymore and which are really still needed. I'm not the only person who has noticed that teaching the current generatio
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by jhbadger 3y ago
A lot of people (including Cory) have decided that because the initial overoptimistic estimates a decade ago that predicted true (as in no steering wheel, not as in just helping you stay in your lane and avoid collisions) self driving cars
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Well, the various models on sites like civitai are definitely not created by institutions -- especially not the many, many NSFW ones. Yes, you can argue that they are relying on existing models from StableAI and the like, but even if those
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Even if the subsidies that drive increasingly sophisticated models evaporate, we'll still have the existing models we can run on commodity hardware. Exactly. So much discussion in the media and elsewhere about generative AI assume
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by jhbadger 3y ago
The malaria parasite Plasmodium has an organelle called the apicoplast which is biologically very similar to the chloroplast of plants (and is believed to share an evolutionary history with it). So it makes sense biologically that an anti
967.
by jhbadger 3y ago
Not really. If I write a series of stories about Herlock Solmes and his friend Dr. Wohn Jatson and everything maps up one-to-one with the Sherlock stories, it's pretty clear I copied them even if I changed the names. Or to give a real
968.
by jhbadger 3y ago
> "I don't play with my food" I don't get that quip. Is the joker implying that they see horses as food animals? (Yes, I know that some places like France do sometimes eat horse, but it isn't common in English-sp
969.
by jhbadger 3y ago
There certainly are these dodgy journals out there, but be somewhat skeptical of why the journal Science, which has fought tooth and nail against making its papers open access, is publishing this -- they want to imply that open access journ
970.
by jhbadger 3y ago
The problem with Nanopore (which I've used for some projects) is that the per-base accuracy is still quite low. This can be helped to a degree by either high coverage (basically sequencing the same area over and over again with the hop
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And in the 1980s there was Little Smalltalk, which ran on UNIX systems normally accessed via terminals, so it was also file-based without a GUI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Smalltalk
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And the (non-Dick) movie sequel 2049 makes it even closer given how it is revealed that (some) replicants, just like some of Čapek’s robots, can become pregnant and give birth just like humans, allowing them to continue without humans manu
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yeah, most automatons were just novelities -- dolls that played music or drew a picture (just according to their mechanical "programming") rather than something that actually did useful work, let alone flexible work.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Although it isn't so clean-cut with non-humans using instinct and humans needing learning. Many animals meed to learn how to hunt from their mothers, for example, and many birds don't know their songs instinctively but need to be
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by jhbadger 3y ago
As the article mentions, "-stat", and "-matic" are two other suffixes that were used to convey high-tech in the mid 20th century. Another one was "-rama" (presumably derived from the Cinerama panoramic technolo
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by jhbadger 3y ago
During the time I had a Pilot and even for a few years afterwards, I would find myself writing Graffiti glyphs on paper as mentally that's how letters were written!
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Not in the technical meaning, no. But the general public thinks anything "cyber-" has to do with the Internet
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by jhbadger 3y ago
This museum also has a physical side that travels from place to place opening for a couple of months and then moving on. I saw it last summer in Washington DC where it was installed in the upper floor of a dying shopping mall, appropriately
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by jhbadger 3y ago
But that's not how science publication works (and I say this as a scientist). When someone makes a creative work they may (or may not) want to get paid for it, and copyright helps in this regard. Scientists don't get paid for thei
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And R releases are named after (often obscure) quotes from the comic strip Peanuts (current release "Eggshell Igloo")
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by jhbadger 3y ago
People still compete in foot races even though cars can go faster. People still play chess and Go even though computers can beat them.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I'm sure ATW knows a lot of APL, but APL itself was created by Ken Iverson when ATW was just a small child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Basically it is an APL-like language that is used (or was, I think it has moved on to a successor language called q now) in the proprietary kdb+ system used by some financial companies. Even if you aren't into finance it is a fun langu
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Basically the ASA (and ACS, and lots of other scientific societies) make money selling journal subscriptions and are against open access in general, because they see (to be fair, probably correctly) that not many institutions would subscrib
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by jhbadger 3y ago
However, Wirth himself realized the problems of Pascal and his later languages are basically improved versions of Pascal -- Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. But these languages didn't even really displace Pascal itself let alone C -- but
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by jhbadger 3y ago
English-language literature maybe. But for example it was quite common until recent decades for upper-class French men (even politicians) to have mistresses quite openly and a lot of French literature deals with this.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Childe wasn't even Queen Victoria's only stalker! There was also the case of Edward Jones (whose obsession even led him to sneak into her bedroom to steal a pair of her underwear) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jhbadger 3y ago
My favorite Hopper painting (and comparatively little known as compared to things like "Nighthawks") is "House by the Railroad" (1925) -- a vaguely menacing Victorian style house which apparently inspired Norman Bates&#x
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Back in the day, there were station wagons for this exact use case, Larger than a sedan, but not the ridiculous tank-like SUVs of today.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
There was also a 2016 movie made of it, but it mostly focused on one event from the book -- the 1980 Titan II missile explosion in Arkansas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(film)

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