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Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim(nature.com)
106 points by qnleigh 2y ago|220 comments
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Nature magazine had a good article on this, which is a quicker read https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00847-0
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by qnleigh 2y ago
It's slowing down mostly because of drag induced by tides, which involve the sun and the moon. The total system including the earth, moon, sun and everything else does conserve angular momentum. But this paper seems to imply that Earth
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Hopefully it's obvious, but cutting yourself out of your remaining social connections is not good advice. I don't understand what this is supposed to gain you, but it's obviously not worth it, for you or your kids. Also sound
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What big things to work on in computing besides AI and quantum?
1 points by qnleigh 2y ago|2 comments
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by qnleigh 2y ago
> my current job has a very strong “up or out” mentality that I’m starting to push up against. And most other places I’ve worked at or talk about with friends seem to have similar attitudes toward career progression Hmm, is this why must
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Well the fired staff presumably have a higher stress level now that they're unemployed...
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Other issues aside, how does this get around the constitutional right to free speech? There must be some court ruling that lets speech affect the visa process.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Poverty exists because people choose to drink beer instead of investing their wealth in the stock market? That's really the only explanation you can think of? If only all those people living paycheck to paycheck works just have the sen
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by qnleigh 2y ago
This article also throws out a bunch of trends and then attributes them to Ozempic with no evidence. > America's largest mall operator, Simon Property Group, is converting anchor stores into medical centers and wellness spaces. Mayb
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Have you tried? I honestly don't know how good it would be. On one hand it seems to be pretty good at breaking down and explaining things at a very basic level; the other day I noticed a thinking model write almost a full page of analy
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I hope we can all strive to be more empathetic and emotionally supportive than ChatGPT. I see the benefits; it's private and non-judgemental and always available when you need it. But people can be those things too, if we try. This is
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by qnleigh 2y ago
It depends a lot on the paper. I've been using a TTS app to read papers for years. Papers that are really equation dense, convey they key ideas in figures or get too detailed aren't listenable. But sometimes review articles or pap
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Sounds good. Do any of these have iOS or Android apps?
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by qnleigh 2y ago
It's not like that in the physics department though. By all means look at the numbers, but they were quite reasonable last I checked.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Yes definitely not. But I think this could be a legitimately good use case if it were implementable. Filtering based on keywords will throw away papers of interest, while a recommendation algorithm wouldn't give you much control over c
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by qnleigh 2y ago
This is legitimately useful! How does it track what a user has already viewed? Is it just showing articles from the current day in order? If I get to a day I've viewed previously, will it start showing me articles that I've alread
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Yes I strongly agree with this. I also want to read the original abstracts.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I would like to think that there is more to quality than status... I feel like this attitude backfires by discouraging people from talking about things they thought were good in certain ways for fear of being dismissed as a snob.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
This is surely a healthier take than the article's, but isn't there more to work than selfishly pursuing what's best for ourselves? If we pursued our careers because we find the products interesting and their objectives valua
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I read the Bhagavad Gita a few years ago, and this quote is much of the core lesson that I took away from it. It's one of the most impactful texts I have ever read. I would take 'duty' in this context to refer not to your obl
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by qnleigh 2y ago
1%
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by qnleigh 2y ago
That's interesting. I suppose it could even be possible to test his theories. Just applied the exact same training methodology to smaller models or slightly easier problems and study what happens.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Sure one word is more precise than the other, but in the context of this question that's beside the point. If one makes the claim 'it's not reasoning, it's just X,' the burden of proof is that X is district from rea
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by qnleigh 2y ago
The creators of the dataset have said themselves that it does not imply AGI > it is important to note that ARC-AGI is not an acid test for AGI – as we've repeated dozens of times this year. It's a research tool designed to focu
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Yes to electric cars and grid scale storage. To the Hyperloop, there is a case to be made that he mostly promoted that to kill public transportation projects, which he tends to oppose. https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I should have said 'big deal, for better or for worse.' Regardless of whether one thinks it's a good thing, this was a major discovery that turned out to affect a lot of things.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Do you remember when people discovered that LLMs had emergent coding ability? That turned out to be a pretty big deal...
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I've wondered this too, I really hope someone with more knowledge can comment. My impression is that people worked on this kind of thing for years before they started seeing a 'signal' i.e. that they actually got RL working t
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I think it's really hard to pin down what reasoning is and measure it precisely. How on earth would you do this?

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