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Can you give an example? I've actually been pretty happy with how the latest ChatGPT answers senior-undergrad level physics questions.

So a 40% drop in sex/nudity since 2000 in movies. I'd be curious to see the breakdown by type of movies. The demise of the teen sex comedy couldn't come fast enough for me. Ditto t…

I am learning a lot about radar :) This radar is using 1 MJ, 3 millisecond pulses at ~3-30 MHz (not ~5 ns pulses at ~3 GHz), so peak power is a far cry from the 2e15 W in the artic…

Replying to myself here, but three things: 1) the receiver arrays are about 50x 6m diameter (3m radius) antennas ( https://www.seti.org/projects/ata/ ) So that helps about 7x. 2) T…

Huh - very interesting! Now I am going to have to calculate this for myself! Seems that (r_d/(theta_e z))^2 P t_p ~ 100 hv (~100 photons at 3 GHz; a single 3GHz photon is about 2e-…

>Earth's television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable at distances up to 0.3 light-years, less than 1/10 the distance to the nearest star. This is what I always thought…

I highly recommend Whitaker's "The New Quantum Age" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-quantum-age-... for (what I think is) the fascinating history of Bell's Theorem …

>He also famously rejected quantum mechanics due to his philosophical beliefs, which many consider a slight stain on his legacy. The stain comes from the distortion of what others …

Depends on the application - each battery technology has a trade-off between energy density, cost, lifetime, safety, scalability, etc. Sodium may have a place in grid storage, alth…

The article gives the technical reasons that answer the headline question (e.g. potential for better energy density) I am surprised they didn't point out the literal "killer app" -…

>It sounds like you believe that DNA contamination in the manufacturing process >would leave the body rapidly and they are saying that it sits around in >exosomes for much longer b…

Just going to lay this here: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2016/06/13/profit-ibm IBM went seven decades without layoffs. Yes, part of that was the unique situation of post WWII…

This is a good summary of why it is so hard to make a wrist-watch device to monitor glucose (without the little needles of the current commercial, accurate, continuous monitoring d…

Brandolini's law is strong in this one. Let me pick one thing: their main (we-found-alien-life-level) claim that they detected vaccine-derived mRNA and non-functional fragments of …

Lest anyone take this seriously - the above link is a case study of a single person who appears to have had Covid and other health issues for years. The authors in NO WAY establish…

This is a molecular dynamics (with a specific TIP4 water model) and AI. I would characterize this paper (and basically most MD/AI simulation) as "guided hypothesis generation". I a…

That's a quote from Corey Doctorow, not Sarah Wynn-Williams. I read her book. She was pretty careful to use your language (i.e., that it was offered, but not implemented, and was C…

For me, the most intuitive explanation is that: Force = change in momentum with time Energy = Force x distance Now consider how much energy can be dissipated by a tiny change in mo…

>All I do is read books, paint, fix-up the house, tend to the garden, play boardgames, and generally do things that require me to be present when at home with my wife and child, ra…

As "cool" as this vehicle is, I have a hard time seeing it make much progress in the market beyond a novelty. It's basically a covered 3-wheel motorcycle, and that rear wheel is go…

"The digital commons of 2026 is defined by its grifters. So it's not purely tech's fault that its now seen as a sort of avenue for getting rich quick and amorally" I am not so sure…

To quote good old Chester Karass ( https://www.amazon.com/Business-Life-Dont-Deserve-Negotiate/... ): you get what you negotiate. In an ideal world, people are compensated accordin…

Of course - at founding, if $20M goes into the company at $1 per share, and the CEO gets a 10% equity stake (usually subject to restrictions), then the CEO has $2M on paper (or wil…

He was talking about an equity stake in a start-up. Although on paper it is worth $2M, it is (probably) not liquid (i.e, the shares can't be traded easily, maybe at all.) The vast …

That is the drawback - sometimes important calls come from someone not in my contacts (like an emergency where someone borrowed a phone, or a contractor trying to call you.) Still,…