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It’s actually a very reasonable approximation within a certain regime: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057 There’s a reason people without training in sciences sometimes have the intui…

Can you expand on this? I was only ever taught the "turn around" explanation.

Overall energy usage, from the perspective that energy usage is the primary immediate harm of AI. This is a thesis, not an opinion.

What would regulation look like if it was based on energy usage rather than capabilities? A guardrail on mass deployment that is not linked to specific model size or aspects of mod…

Good, the ad was really disturbing. An ad is just an ad and not the biggest deal in the scheme of things but that was really unpleasant to watch. For me, it was the visual of needl…

> “only creating 3 comics a week” As if this is not an absolutely breathtaking creative accomplishment, especially so consistently and after so many years! I agree with another com…

Or better regulation. Treating refined sugar as the addictive substance it is, and keeping those products in a separate part of the store rather than at the checkout line. Removing…

It's interesting that this analysis implies intentionality on behalf of TikTok, and does not allow for the case that its users genuinely enjoy the service and therefore do not want…

It was profoundly different. This is all a matter of public record of course, Ars Technica had a very good write up on it at the time it happened. HFS+ was the legacy file system, …

For all the reasons that this might not take off, what a thrill that people are trying something new--and it looks really nicely designed too. I think this is easy to dismiss at fi…

I am really glad arXiv is getting more funding. It is an essential resource. For me personally, it’ll be really interesting to see if the frontend changes. No doubt there are some …

Scientists already have well-defined terminology for many of the crystal structures described, the LK-99 is just a shorthand for this synthesis product (and a convenient one at tha…

> calling Nature (Nature!) an "online sensational clickbait magazine" Not far from the truth, talking as someone who is in the field. Unlike Science, which is published by AAAS, a …

I think it's important for discussions about this to distinguish between how things are and how things should be . How things are is that grad student labor is critical to the runn…

For people who've been around longer, is it wise to take a new job with a company that's undergoing layoffs?

What is the distinction between adaptation and evolution here?

This is not entirely new; microwave synthesis has been used in lab settings for a while, even with off-the-shelf consumer microwaves.

Bystander impression from other comments I've read on DuckDuckGo posts recently: they have good intentions but behind-the-scenes are a bit less rigorous on privacy than would be id…

1. Your mind is also part of the world. Changing your perceptions is changing part of the world. 2. All human minds are only capable of perceiving a small fraction of the total inf…

Regardless of exposure, you have to consider wavelength. There are some things JWST can see that are completely invisible to Hubble, or, similarly, there are objects that are opaqu…

This infographic does a nice job showing which are from the struts and which from the mirrors: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7... Of course, the JWST w…

In fairness, some of the criticism isn't armchair: some of us work in science, may know what good science communication can look like, and can then be fairly critical of what is a …

While you’re not wrong, in the sense that this wouldn’t hold up as a piece of journalism, anyone who’s been in academia will read it differently: this is an emotional, honest accou…

TikTok has a very good algorithm for suggesting content for users, and this can end up with different users being exposed to radically different subsets of content offered through …

> I'm in my mid-40s: there's nothing deep or mysterious to "get" about TikTok. It's short-form video snips/vignettes, mainly of people showing off for their friends, trying to cash…