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You may check these videos by Oleg Kuvaev. 100% generated using AI. Everything: text, music, characters, voices, editing -- all done via prompts, using multiple engines (I think he…

What brought me to read this article was a confusion: how can two locations related to air traffic be 3600 nanometers apart? Was it two points within some chip, or something? Only …

In reality HIV does have to deal with pressures described by Duesberg, but the virus found a workaround: extremely long "incubation period". As you probably know, it can stay dorma…

You have a point... I once gave a 10-dollar bill to a young man serving at the cashier at a store, and he gave me 14 dollars back as a change. I pointed out that this made no sense…

I understand that, but the article we are discussing points out that LLMs are so good on many tasks, and so good at passing tests, that many people will be tricked into blindly "ta…

Hmm, looks to me like just trading some words for others. Do bacteria have ideas? Does the navigating system in your car? How do you know? We need to be at least somewhat pedantic,…

To make any progress on this question at all, we need first to come up with some definition of internal monologue. Even if we may need to modify it later, there has to be a startin…

Well, I remember Richard Feynman came up with an interesting experiment. He found he could not count objects when he read aloud some text at the same time. He had to name the numbe…

> "why we simply can't take their word for it"? As someone who was involved in spiritual practice of "stopping internal dialogue" for years, I can tell you that one learns that tha…

This is a cool one, but I know of other such "failures". For example, try to ask (better in Russian), how many letters "а" are there in Russian word "банан". It seems all models an…

Sorry, by your logic an ISSN would be a good key for a database of scientific journals. It's exactly what ISSN is invented for! Right? Right? Been there, done that. Journals that c…

I guess support for XML would be tricky, because XML is just way more complex format than the ones already supported. It is still essentially a tree, but with additional structure.…

Maybe I am entering that age, but in more and more areas of human endeavor I start to see the same signs, that seem to tell "this house of cards is about to collapse". Maybe this i…

Same here

Comparing to the following, chargers might not be the biggest issue... > Sometimes the kludgy system erroneously showed cars as missing, resulting in hundreds of innocent Hertz cus…

Maybe it's my lack of experience, but I find it much easier to wrap my head around threads than async/await. Yes, with threads there is more "infrastructure" required, but it's str…

Reminds me of N. David Mermin's famous saying that perhaps the greatest contribution of String theorists to science was creation of arXiv :-)

For me the essential part of comprehending new information is my own thinking on what I'm getting. When reading a book, I stop frequently to think, it's quite natural for me. Often…

When reading a book, I don't do anything special, but I frequently stop and think about what I've just read. It's not something I do by a command, either: it's just that a good boo…

An anecdotal fact: the bananas I was buying at a market in Thailand when I visited the country tasted so much different (and for me, better) than the bananas I buy in an American s…

Enable development that does not rely on a central repository. For some people/projects it's important, although these days it's a minority.

Thank for the links! I've looked at them, and while they gave me more and interesting information on Pijul, they did not explain how you can work without multiple channels in a rea…

I think the most common use for git branches is topic branches. Independent lines of development you are not ready to share with your team, or your team with the rest of the compan…

"Internet makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber". (Mark Solonin, a Russian historian). Taking into account that such blunt statements always hide a lot of nuances, this…

What you said gave me an idea of how to really make AI useful at work! :-) Every quarter HR requires that we write our "perspective" for the next quarter; what we are going to do a…