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Not really, because the capabilities this announcement advertises is exactly three capability some people want to defend against (and others want). It might be more on par with a f…

Should the leader board be cleared of the folks with 10,000 landings in 1 second? It looks like the true leader right now is 90 landings in 7:29.

Very fun. Got a few minutes in. Is there a strategy for avoiding hitting the planes driving slowly across the runway for takeoff? It seems very hard to also pay attention to them w…

Yes, that one worked fine for me as well.

Many people don't realize that regular spaghetti actually is pretty high in protein. All that gluten.

Why would AI say that, when nearly every piece of training data is ever been fed would use milliseconds? I think much more likely that this is how the author thinks of it. 3 hundre…

I think the objection about AI-generated cards, or decks found online, is that the context of the card creation is lost. What made you write the card? How did you find the answer/t…

The AI in the article isn't an LLM.

> Hacker culture sees programming as a conversation with a machine as it runs. I wrote about this a fair bit as a party of my master's thesis, about tinkering as being a "conversat…

I can't imagine how much amazing and important literature you'd miss if you were snobby enough to think that you could only read things in their original language. I'm so glad I ge…

I was confused when I first read it as well, but the implication is that the higher reward-seeking risk tolerance can actually be more rational than the well-studied loss-aversion …

> The important catch > The favicon doesn't actually contain the whole website itself. This is the kind of thing that is extremely idiomatic LLM speak. There's nothing particularly…

A large percent of espresso in the US is drunk iced. Iced Americanos, iced lattes, iced shaken espressos. If you don't need to heat the water before cooling it down it would be an …

> For the espresso samples, participants could not reliably tell the traditional and ultrasonic versions apart. There were no significant differences in aroma, flavour, bitterness …

Nah. I have a Roku 3 stick and a brand-new $700 projector with Google TV. The Roku 3 is light-years ahead in terms of speed and UI ergonomics over the Google machine. And both are …

I'm a teacher. Our kids are using Chromebooks, and we want them to do research projects, but we don't want them using AI. Unfortunately with Google, it's impossible not to get AI a…

I feel like unresponsive controls must have been a platform or hardware issue. On my (...Dell with Windows 3.1?) the controls were perfectly responsive, and they absolutely had to …

The tutorial made it seem a little too much like there is only one speed that would keep us in orbit. Any slower and we'd crash, any faster and we'd leave. In fact, though, if you'…

Everything you're saying is right, but I'm not seeing what's wrong with step 14. Did they edit it? > Earth turns once every 23 h 56 min (one sidereal day) about an axis tilted 23.4…

Huh, perfectly snappy on my Firefox on Android.

> wtaf? Do you really think this is the reality? Of course. American varsity soccer players play ~5 times a week for four months a year, August through November. February through A…

Basketball is the only sport in the US that has a similar level of hundreds of hours a year of unstructured play, so it makes sense that the US is great at it. Hockey, who is the U…

So leaving aside whether 5-6 times is "a few," the bigger issue is the length of the season. Varsity soccer season in the US is usually just four months, August-November. Spring se…

I don't think the article really tried to answer the question, though maybe that wasn't its intent and the author was genuinely asking. I think an answer would need to look at the …

Same order of magnitude.