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Oh this sounds like Macgyvering. The Real Life section in the TV tropes article on it has some interesting examples and lists some other cultural takes on it: desenrascanço, débrou…

Renewables are indeed vital. At the same time, it feels counterproductive that every discussion on nuclear or renewables ends up casting things as an either or proposition. Nuclear…

I've never met a coherent definition of symbolic AI so I'll just focus on what it contained: some type of search or inference algorithm (iterative deepening, depth first search bei…

Portia spiders do demonstrate trial and error learning, quoting the abstract of [1]: > All species from the jumping spider genus Portia appear to be predators that specialize at pr…

Sociality is not the only (and probably not an initial) driver of the evolution of intelligence in animals. Ecological and particularly foraging competency in less predictable envi…

This is the best kind of correct but it's an interesting phrasing since Fredkin is a kind of Quantum supremacy skeptic (hotkey-find Classicatopia in: https://windowsontheory.org/20…

An in-between option that is relatively simple and a rather fast (though not as fast as the automata) optimization to levenstein distance and based on Tries is: http://stevehanov.c…

That makes sense but my argument is since further material (some examples which I listed) assumes and builds upon the standard approach, you'll likely be better off taking that pat…

By standard approach I mean the typical material covered for someone studying vector calculus properly. This will be stuff like differential forms and the basics of tensors, manifo…

spekcular is correct. One could draw the following graph very roughly capturing how these concepts developed: Grassman’s exterior algebra -> Differential forms Cartan’s Exterior De…

I've played many of the author's games and consider them to have better stories than most. I’d have to reach for the likes of Planescape or Disco Elysium to find something I’d cons…

I don't think it's a stupid question, just oddly phrased (more on that later). I think there are two stable interpretations. "When did grass evolve" or "when were grass lawns inven…

Certain dolphins have larger prefrontal cortices with more neurons, are highly intelligent with the ability to predict and long term memory yet seem to lack what we think is a uniq…

That's not accurate. By the 1960s and 70s, the scientific consensus [1] not only strongly believed smoking was a causal factor in lung cancer but also knew it contained radioactive…

> No exploding coal plant will render a whole region unlivable for >30 years Unlivable for humans. The exclusion zone around Chernobyl became a de facto wild-life sanctuary. To the…

The code on the right is an explanation or implementation you could jump into. The replacement for use would be the function name, such as `summation` or `product`. A computer lang…

Here is a 1984 article on Eurisko: https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/eurisko-computer-mind-it... From the article we learn Eurisko is more of an example of human machine symbiosi…

I have a fair amount of experience in both F# and Ocaml and don't think the lack of modules harms F#. The trick I had to learn was to think of F# as its own language and not try to…

Take entomologists, bird watchers or those who identify mushrooms. In each, there are instances that are fiendishly difficult to tell apart. If you ask an expert for advice, they'l…

The trick is that even a tiny difference in ability can lead to a large difference in results as the number of decision steps involved in a task increase. The expert wastes less ti…

It looks like training is on CPU too: https://github.com/nodchip/Stockfish/blob/master/src/nnue/ev... .

Transformers, which are currently waging a successful campaign to conquer all Deep Learning, are largely stacked feed-forward networks, matrix multiplies and maps. Some ideas to ma…

Perhaps Freedoms vs Freebies?

Anthropomorphizing evolution a little, I'd bet the department that works on crafting serious intelligence into bees and jumping spider into milliwatt (or perhaps order 10² μW) brai…

A quibble is that when I see kg, mass, I expect that it should be measured the same whether on Earth or on the moon. The answer should be in Newtons. Our query to Wolfram Alpha sho…