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I have absolutely no doubt that the next LLM/ML startup will be able to confidently, rapidly, productively and correctly fill in the missing data. Onward science!

> It might be a new scientific revolution to have computer-driven discovery. And ... it might not.

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The comparison with France right is interesting. They are shutting down nuclear reactors because the drought means they don't have enough water to cool the reactors. Base load, eh?…

Nope. That doesn't offer per-line .. or does it ?

to make the list closer to complete, magit in emacs allows this (Ctrl-space on the line, done).

The per-line staging in magit is a frequent tool I use. I can be in the middle of bunch of other changes, change 1 line for a different reason that would otherwise be "mid-hunk", a…

"Chords" is definitely the wrong word to use if you mean "voice leading and counterpoint" or more generally, western tonal music theory. And yes, that theory is highly localized in…

This just isn't true. Try listening to any deep ambient, and you'll be hearing (a) instruments with filter cutoffs in use (b) chords (c) no percussion (d) no lead. Again, Roach's "…

This is really not true. Firstly, "western electronic music" covers an enormous range, from still, wall-of-sound ambient to four-on-the-floor EDM to music that sounds like any othe…

I personally consider this to be a better intro, albeit in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag This is a more recent paper (2019) that I think is better constru…

That's a great line from the professor. Really great. Also, other traditions focus on melody over harmony (e.g. Carnatic and Hindustani), although they have to consider harmony as …

You made a very specific claim that more risk == lower price. That isn't true as a general rule, though it may be true much of the time.

> Summer vs winter, add a couple extra My 6.7kW system produces 2.5 what we need in the summer, and 0.5 of what we need in the winter (even though its output here in New Mexico is …

Much too simple. Most "risks" have an upside and a downside. In this case, for example, the solar PV system may be working better or worse than the (potential) buyer initially come…

> You're ignoring that adding non-copyrightable code to a collection of copyrightable code makes the collection copyrightable. That is true for public domain code. It is not true (…

What aspect of copyright law do we not understand?

I have no particular problem with this decision/policy on the part of Codeberg. I do have an issue with their "tainted code" project that labels various FLOSS projects as "AI taint…

> It seems unlikely to me that the PTO would declare that a software project that heavily utilized an AI-based advanced autocomplete would make it not copyrightable. Why would they…

Not sure why you'd expect anything except a list like to be of "any value". It's like, say, talk.politics.theory back in the Usenet days. For a while it was fun, and then it wasn't…

> Apparently it's just due to Linux not having a native passkey implementation. Excuse me? The infrastructure for "an apps is trying to login with a private/public key pair, and ri…

The other Naomi, Naomi Klein, wrote an entire book that uses Wolf's "transformation" as a structural scaffold to explore the rise of the new right/MAGA etc. etc. It's called "Doppe…

For the DAW tool, just run Blender on top of JACK/Pipewire and use Ardour to get sample-accurate synchronization between the two, and all the features of both, without compromise.

> > And right now already, the web has sort of stagnated, people's idea of it has really focused down to the stuff the technicians have given This comment has not aged well at all.…

> I am pretty sure it will become industry standard at some point. I remember people saying this in 2004. Blender is widely used in "the industry" (whatever that industry is). What…