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> all it should take is a system of valves, That would work, but it's not how to works apparently. According to this veritasium video, it's because of "negative pressure" aka tensi…

> Blame the consumers. The consumer is not a single person, and until we (the consumers) all coordinate, our individual incentive is to not pay (Classical prisoner dilemma). So "vo…

> There's no "True" to an LLM, just how probable tokens are given previous context. It may be enough: tool assisted LLMs already know when to use tools such as calculators or quest…

Surely reading/writing are useful skills that most people did not have before school was mandatory.

> in "pixels wide" the word "wide" acts as a square root operator on the area and means "pixels^(-2)" Did you meant "pixels^(1/2)"? I'm not sure what kind of units pixels^(-2) woul…

So many things in the IT world started as non-professional things by non-professional engineers. If you're a professional who lives off one of these things you should be glad that …

Most disciplines in CS have done that one way or another.

It is probably good news, but to be fair land use and GHG emissions are not the same thing, especially given that fertilizers are involved.

It is very impressive, and better than anything I've seen before but think something is bit off with the swell. If I had to explain I would say that high frequency waves don't trav…

> but then set up a website where that button keeps jumping away from your mouse for 20 minutes, while it's showing you uplifting messages why in fact, you should continue with the…

> over an 4.75-inch gap

> every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you. T…

I don't know. If the case is not discussed in court, we will never know. This is why we should not blindly follow a will out of respect of the dead person , because there may be ev…

> In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will. We trust judges when they decide to send people to prison for decades, so I don't see why we shouldn't…

I agree and I don't think it is specific to the world of entrepreneurs and/or social science experiments. If your target variable depends on a large number of correlated variables …

- The satellite will accomplish this [precision] by having the usual main Earth-measuring techniques co-located on board [satelite navigation, interferometry, laser ..] When used t…

Soon we will be hearing of the global flattening.

The title is rather ambiguous: evidence that RTO mandates do not increase firm performance is not evidence that returning to office is useless. > we do not find significant changes…

> Implementing them in large industrial (or open source) code bases in a maintainable way -- and then actually maintaining that code -- is a different skillset, a different set of …

Oh, indeed it is mentioned, i overlooked this part. > It even mentions Jupiter's moons later It is not a coincidence, I reused the example to illustrate my point.