mcswell

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by mcswell 9mo ago
OP here. I've fallen many times, but never sprained my ankle. Usually if I have an injury from a fall at all, it's that I've skinned my knee or the palms of my hands (you can wear fingerless leather gloves if you're wo
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I'll take that excuse for slow runs! But seriously, I don't run in training for speed, I run for fun and for fitness. And the uphills on the trails certainly help with that.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Anecdote for any runners reading this: I'm a 75 year old runner. (Some young runners might say I run at a jogger's pace, I just tell them to keep off my lawn.) A couple decades ago, I stopped running on concrete or asphalt, and t
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Good, but what does it mean for tissue samples to function normally ? Function as what?
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I was going to say that too, thanks for beating me to it!
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I switched to Linux from Win11 a few months ago, because of all the CoPilot junk. Not sure what the native vs. HTML UIs is all about, though. Are the HTML UIs slower, or is it a question of developers' time?
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I think you missed the point. The point was that doing lots of lighter lifts or doing a few heavy lifts, you get the same improvement. While it's possible this wouldn't be true for non-newbies, it seems unlikely.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
That's true for Thunderbird too, isn't it?
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by mcswell 10mo ago
BOM is normally used with UTF-16, not with UTF-8 (both of which, along with UTF-32, are encodings of Unicode). I've worked with lots of minority languages in academic situations, but I've never run into anything that couldn't
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I think the movie you're referring to is World without Sun (1964), and the scene (which I too remember) takes place in the "Starfish House", at about ten meters depth. They were breathing ordinary air continuously pumped dow
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Back in the 1960s, when I was a tween- or teen-ager, I read every copy of Analog Science Fiction/ Science Fact I could put my hands on. You can now read lots of those stories on-line (like at https://www.freesfonline.net&#x
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Back in the day, I read the Berenstein Bears more times than I wished (my wish would have been zero times), to my kids who are probably about the same age as you. It was such a relief when I could start reading them the Narnia Chronicles,
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by mcswell 10mo ago
gnabgib points out that this same article has been posted for comment here three other times since it was written. That said, afaict no one has commented any of these times on what I'm about to say, so hopefully this will be new. I&#x
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Obviously this doesn't answer your question, but there are scifi stories about alien civilizations that arise on planets without heavy metals. Usually the plot revolves around their not getting past the stone age.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I have very limited experience with LLMs, and no recent experience teaching. But every time I hear about the problem of students using LLMs, I have two thoughts: 1) When they get out of school, no one can stop them from using LLMs. So pre
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I've seen this in a few places, but it's rare because of all the energy (heat loss and energy required to drive the circulation) that gets used up when the water is recirculating but nobody is using it--which is most of the time.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
"'where is the consciousness' in such a system": One could ask the same of humans: where is the consciousness? The modern answer is (somewhere) in the brain, and I admit that's likely true. But we have no proof--
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Since mainframes, you say. Well, sonny, when I first learned programming on a mainframe, we had punch cards and fan-fold printouts. Nothing beats that, eh?
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by mcswell 10mo ago
"Make America Little Again" --Donald J. Trump
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Nobody is forced to fund broadcasting, now that Trump has taken away NPR and PBS funding. That has nothing to do with spectrum: nada, zilch, nichts, rien, ma'yuk...
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by mcswell 10mo ago
It's not always the case, but often verifying an answer is far easier than coming up with the answer in the first place. That's precisely the principle behind the RSA algorithm for cryptography.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
I don't see the relevance of that argument (which other responders to your post have pointed out as Searle's Chinese Room argument). The pen and paper are of course not doing any thinking, but then the pen isn't doing any wr
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Straw man. The person who you're responding to talked about "equivalent statements " (emphasis added), whereas you appear to be talking about equivalent objects (AIs vs. brains), and pointing out the obvious flaw in this
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by mcswell 10mo ago
That's a really good question. I don't have an answer, or even the beginning of an answer, but I would hazard a guess that there is a feedback loop. So listening to yourself talk (or even better, putting your thoughts down i
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by mcswell 10mo ago
FWIW, that's soft of the way a lot of physics books (not textbooks) approach the subject: Einstein/ Heisenberg/ Bohr/ Pauli/ Feynman/ Oppenheimer was this kind of person, oh, and by the way he came up with this
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by mcswell 10mo ago
"overlap in infants' brains of the areas involved in tool use and hierarchical syntax"---you didn't see that in the Quanta article, right? I went back and looked, but can't find it mentioned anywhere.
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by mcswell 10mo ago
There's a lot more to language learning than being a "sponge". Virtually all the grammar we learn is productive/ creative--that is, we apply it to new words, and say things we never heard anyone say before. And the gra
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Written French does have all that inflectional morphology you talk about, but spoken French has much less--a lot of the inflectional suffixes are just not pronounced on most verbs (with the exception of a few, like être and aller--but at le
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by mcswell 10mo ago
"You would be ripped apart by tides falling straight into black hole." I'm aware of that--Larry Niven "Neutron Star". (The Puppeteers reportedly wouldn't have understood, though.) That still doesn't exp
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by mcswell 10mo ago
Yeap. The one-word description is "censorship."

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