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In the biomedical sciences, we typically use a tool called BigStitcher [0], which is bundled with ImageJ [1] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0501-0 [1] https://image…

Is it possible for the military to be too "strong"? Each warship, fighter jet, tank, and soldier costs time, money, and effort to produce and maintain. That a military is necessary…

While the game-ability of prediction markets is a major concern, I believe that the potential of prediction markets to further exacerbate inequalities may be a greater threat. It i…

Depends on what you consider winning. Consider that out of the 20% of internet users that have adblock today, only a fraction will be willing to turn to illicit means should Google…

What makes you think that Youtube will "lose"? From a technical perspective, they have been rather conservative in their efforts so far. It can get so much worse, they could bake a…

I love the idea of humanity expanding out into the cosmos, it feels like space exploration is "the Future." But I can't see how SpaceX's Mars colonization plan makes economic sense…

Fair enough, I guess it doesn't really matter if someone hacks a drawing/building game. But people love competitive games. I guess you can prevent most overt hacks through server-s…

This is so cool! Though, how do you ensure that people are playing fair? When I dabbled in web-based games a year ago, I noticed that it's pretty difficult to have a good anti-chea…

> this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care. Funnily enough, Google doesn't allow yt-downloader extensions on the Chrome web store. They will cite y…

Transferable objects have been part of the spec for a while now, making it possible to send data back and forth contexts with no copying. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/transfer…

Emergent phenomenon can also produce "laws of nature". For example, the laws of thermodynamics are explained by statistical mechanics.

When it comes to the question of when strong AI will come, I think our society's reaction to ChatGPT is more worrying than the technology itself. Namely, because of ChatGPT, we see…

I cant imagine that such policy will be popular because GPUs are useful for many important things besides AI.

> They can’t point to an existing system that poses existential risk, because it doesn’t exist. They can’t point to a clear architecture for such a system, because we don’t know ho…

In other words, companies raise prices because they can. Businesses being profit-maximizers are hardly anything new. What is novel about "greed"flation is that it introduces the no…

I think it will be helpful if it discusses internal fragmentation, where the payload is smaller than the allocated block. I observed that this was important in understanding the pu…

This one has subtitles and a parade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo

That is a great point. The laws of thermodynamics exist as a logical consequence to fundamental statistical principles. It is statistical mechanics that gives rise to entropy, not …

> Zero probability does not mean an event cannot occur! It means the probability measure gives the event (a set of outcomes) a measure zero. [0] [0] https://stats.stackexchange.com…

Indeed, the original claim treats mathematics as a modeling tool, not philosophy. Nevertheless, it is my belief that untestable hypotheses about True Reality (should it even exist)…

Please elaborate.

A probability of zero does not mean that the event is impossible. When we refer to probabilities we are talking about probability densities. Infinite precision is a useful modeling…

The number of possible states asymptotically approaches infinity, so we can model it as such. You can get a more "accurate" model using more math (with measure theory), but the ter…

The statement is mathematically correct [0]. [0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/142730/px-x-0-when...

With enough marbles, the discrete distribution behaves like a continuous distribution. The point probability of a continuous distribution is infinitely improbable -- in other words…