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by mannykannot 4mo ago
Anyone claiming those developments enabled the expression of something previously inexpressible would have been mistaken.
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by mannykannot 4mo ago
If only Keats or Plath had emoji!
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by mannykannot 4mo ago
And in the next paragraph: "However, there are niche applications where the much higher costs of computing in space could be justified. Examples include ... active collision avoidance in the increasingly crowded low Earth orbit."
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by mannykannot 4mo ago
It seems that in most ports they are required to hold and treat it (and, perhaps to a lesser extent, in inshore waters.) Fouling the places they take their customers to is ultimately bad for business.
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by mannykannot 4mo ago
A two meter cubed volume would be sufficient to hold that much. I would guess that cruise ships store more urine than that, though presumably not separated from everything else humans dump into toilets. With the qualification 'in orbit
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
I have something I want to remove rust from, so I have been thinking about sand blasting. Thus, this thought popped into my head: how spectacular would it be to use aluminum powder? (To be clear, I am not going to try this.) My wife’s react
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
I would guess you need something rigid and dense to generate enough pressure, though I don’t know if that rules out your suggestion. It does not have to be a ball.
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
The claim made in your first sentence is actually a reason to be concerned.
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
The claim that disasters happen to older plants is not refuted by the observation that lessons learned are applied to the whole fleet. One might object that there is selection bias in the original claim, due to the slowdown in construction
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
Yes - a point supported the Vera benchmark: https://github.com/aallan/vera-bench
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
This will serve as an interesting empirical test, then: will LLMs do better with Vera than with Go or other languages? The testing so far seems inconclusive ( https://github.com/aallan/vera-bench ), but the authors make
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
Full disclosure: I didn't figure this out myself, I got it from Ms. Vale's review. I agree that the term "welfare trap" is a loaded one. This looks to me to be a case of refusing to look through the telescope in case the
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
On the other hand, an accurate digital simulation of a mechanical calculator really does calculate. The "a simulation is not the real thing" objection breaks down when the function is information processing, on account of informat
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
There's interesting commentary on this paper from Maggie Vale here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194580145 One of her points is that there are various pesky consequences for AI companies if AI becomes to
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by mannykannot 5mo ago
I would guess that Ada Lovelace was completely written out of the story in 1930.
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by mannykannot 6mo ago
I cannot, of course, speak about this particular incident, but a person inclined to skip procedures expressly implemented to avoid the problem which occurred, or who ignores clear warnings that a problem is developing, is a liability, not a
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by mannykannot 6mo ago
I reckon that’s right (though maybe its mostly instinct rather than explicit worry), and I imagine there’s also the risk of being kicked out by a larger species looking for a nesting site.
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
The controller was not guilty of malfeasance, but clearing the trucks onto the runway with an airliner on short final was a mistake, no matter whatever else one could say about it.
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
"...routinely considered feasible..." What we are seeing here is the normalization of deviance.
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Death of a Strawman: The Epistemology of a Language Model(mvaleadvocate.substack.com)
2 points by mannykannot 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
People who use tools badly inflict bad results on other people, quite often far more so than they do so on themselves.
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
I find that physical activity promotes sound sleep.
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Photons that are not there influence superconductivity(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mannykannot 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
With the consequence that disambiguation may be needed.
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by mannykannot 7mo ago
It might have been contingency planning: you don't need a weatherman...
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by mannykannot 8mo ago
When applied to insightful writing, that is much more likely to dull the point rather than preserve or sharpen it.
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by mannykannot 8mo ago
Imagination will give you something to think about, but it alone will not tell you which thoughts are correct.
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by mannykannot 8mo ago
I guess you probably don’t live in Texas, then!
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by mannykannot 8mo ago
I would guess that the interior of leaves are quite conductive and that this accounts for most of the attenuation and scattering. Update: this comment on the original posting of this article suggests so: https://news.ycombinator.
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by mannykannot 8mo ago
You might find these points helpful: 1) when an airliner lands, the undercarriage legs, which are telescopic sprung and damped struts, spread the vertical deceleration over a finite period (I cannot say how long it lasts, but I would say of

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