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Perhaps you should find an author willing to take the other side of that bet. Make it the literary version of the Levy bet in chess.

A closer biological analogue to an LLM parameter would be a synapse. Estimates vary greatly on how many there are in the human brain, but they are generally on the order of ten to …

> “He warned Brightwell not to tell the bank what the money was for…” That should have been a red flag.

> If anything, video games were late compared to something like the music industry, where not owning your music has been the status quo for a while now! My perception is that the m…

> ...many programs used far less than that... Maybe because those programs were not doing anything as graphically intensive as this. Or perhaps this programs caches more. When OS 9…

That claim rests on their being the successor to another state (the Ottoman Empire) whose claim rests on the right of conquest. “Roman Emperor” was one of the titles of the Ottoman…

I find it surprising that logarithms and e (a.k.a. Napier’s constant), were developed and discovered only relatively recently in the history of mathematics despite how natural and …

No, just correct.

Your response is scarcely comprehensible. A supposed “preference” for something I had yet to discover? Indeed. Your second charge conflates two categories, so that the conclusion d…

> ...browsers older than 2008 can't connect… TLS 1.2, the standard, may be from 2008 but support for it in browsers did not start to appear until around 2013.

The formulaic and predictable style of that commentary only betrays a lack of effort and conveys no original insight. The disinterest, therefore, is unsurprising. Instead it invite…

If for no other reason than because this whole genre of commentary has become trite and moreover, is excessively tangential.

Yandex and TinEye satisfy all my reverse image search needs. Google Maps is the only Google service I use. There is simply no substitute for Street View and it is fantastically use…

> I mean honestly, how large is an English dictionary? 100 KiB? If it contains less than 50,000 words, perhaps, but most standard print dictionaries contain ~500,000 entries. The s…

> In many cases the risk is literally zero... I presume this is hyperbole and that what you mean is almost or very near zero.

> I don’t get how anyone thought that would work… The original reasoning can be found in medical texts from the mid to late 19th century when it was first discussed. My recollectio…

New fads seem to be springing up to replace the old ones. The latest is the removal of the lingual frenulum in infants, supposedly to ameliorate breastfeeding difficulties. Yet it …

In those days circumcision was the cure.

> Example: The average height (a trait with very high heritability) of Dutch men is... I would not give too much credence to the various figures often given for the average height …