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If this were on Mad Men: "You don't need a hamburger... you need McDonald's".

Maybe it was exterminated?

Ha, my previous comment was before your new edit mentioning Sora. There is a good reason why the accompanying research report to the Sora demo isn't titled "Awesome Generative Vide…

Yeah, I've been thinking about similar concepts in a different context. Fascinating. Regarding the role of time, the idea of a purely conserved quantity is that it is conserved und…

Could it be something like "failure is the mother of success"? (失败乃成功之母) I am no expert, I was curious myself and went down an internet-sleuthing rabbit-hole. Apparently this is a …

Yes, Mercury was very prominent a couple of weeks ago. Of course it's always close to the Sun, so perhaps your horizon viewing conditions have obscured it (I have to walk so that t…

"AI is 'Machine Learning' for journalists" Unfortunately I can't recall where I first heard this great quip.

Ohhh, that's where this came from! I directed a short film in the late 90s and we used this as an 'event' at a party (minus the floating part). We removed the glass from a light bu…

Codex has the capacity to write decent Python code. A large part of getting great results from it is writing clear, well separated, prompts. Also taking it off streaming mode, to g…

What a great video. I appreciate the care and effort that went into this. If you are interested in growing some oyster mushrooms, you can pick up a self-contained growing kit for ~…

Python's NumPy library deliberately emulates much of the functionality of Matlab's core (similarly, fundamental plotting with matplotlib follow similar design cues). As a lapsed lo…

Thanks for that! This is right up my alley. The signal separation makes sense, as the three pick-ups each provide a different sound, but none emulate the live experience quite so w…

Thank you for this. I am currently bread-boarding two guitar pedals for myself, and there is great discussion on modulargrid.net on filtering. > You can occasionally see guitarists…

On the contrary, I personally think the suggestion is a useful thought exercise. There are a lot of interviews in Guitar magazine on the total rig used by particular guitarists. Fo…

I like the suggestion of the analogy in general. But a metaphor I'd use is a feedback system with a very long delay and very low decay constant. So definitely cyclic from that pers…

Thank you for pointing this out; this accords with my recollection, but you clearly stated a fundamental issue with the approach in its current state. I thought of the idea as more…

Oh cool! Thank you. I am always looking for decent sci-fi recommendations.

The 'Amplituhedron': https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2007.pdf The idea is to focus on the amplitude of scattering interactions from the momentum-space twistor perspective, rather than p…

> I would go even further: Natalie Wolchover only interviewed string theorists and quantum field theorists. They all assume that gravity in some way or another will just be yet ano…

Very much! We periodically update our understanding. For example, we only knew basic details about the strong nuclear force from the 1910s, and the empirical ingredients for the we…

For some context: the article only interviews quantum gravity researchers, so it has that particular slant. They are concerned with coming up with different strategies to mitigate …

The general style guide is to "write it how you say it": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Indefinite_a... https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/…

I too have a great fondness for Noether's First Theorem! However, just a slight technical correction: the theorem only goes one way. A conservation law alone doesn't necessarily im…