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In a conventional aircraft you sit on the roll axis. In a blended wing body design you can have off-axis motion that can increase motion sickness. Rather than rolling with the long…

I’ve seen the connection between the Riemann zeta function and primes talked about but never an accessible explanation. Although I must say that the beginning was fairly easy to fo…

Citation needed.

The point is that stress makes some things stronger. Stress doesn’t make a tea cup stronger because a tea cup is fragile. Stress makes a body or organization stronger if its not to…

I mean that when you have a system like this and you don’t stress it, it becomes more likely to fail catastrophically. It’s like the Dodo bird. It evolved in the absence of predato…

“Does the job” means all of those things. Figure out what’s important, find a way to measure it (could be also be qualitative.) How does the AI generated code do? If you simply say…

Code is code. It either does the job or doesn't. If there is nothing that could convince you that AI generated code is trustworthy (for whatever definition of trust) then this is a…

These systems are antifragile. Just like what was exposed by the supply chain shock during covid. You optimize like crazy to squeeze every bit of efficiency (I know it's the milita…

Gemini was giving us ethnically diverse images of Nazis. Was that profit driven or political?

Irradiated doesn't even mean radioactive. It's like saying I don't want to be set on fire, so I won't eat cooked food. I think the author would have no problem with mushrooms from …

Maybe. I see the real issue as being that people are scared by change and politicians are taking advantage of the opportunity to get more power.

It's a response to the FUD that is water usage in data centers. Data centers don't use a meaningful amount of water when compared to just about any other industrial application, or…

Cray used Fluorinert, a chlorofluorocarbon. So not exactly a environmentally friendly solution.

I'll do my best to restate the problem. If AI does all the work, then we won't have people who can understand the math that AI's are creating. This is the real problem as I see it …

So what was the substance that I missed?

You are describing the Jagged Frontier. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/SSRN-id...

Nothing will ever be cheep enough. “599 is dangerously close to 1100”? It’s 1100 is nearly double! I bought the neo for my daughter to use in HS and it’s perfect. Fast, great build…

I don't know about the CFD, but I really enjoyed reading this blog back in my iOS days. Friday Q&A was especially good. He would take some part of Obj-C or Cocoa and build a simple…

Most of the arguments here feel like gate keeping and resistance to change. I didn't see any arguments that were directly about advancing the state of knowledge of math. “Current a…

No human baseline to compare it to. Without that you are missing an important check on the task being poorly constructed. More importantly there is an implied reference thats missi…

Water hogging? Show me the data. This is a lie that the socialist continue to peddle. It’s a very sticky idea completely resistant to facts. Data-centers use 48m gallons a day in t…

https://candid.org/blogs/key-facts-figures-and-trends-among-...

Because they don't have a fleet of millions of people labeling the data for them and paying for the privilege of doing so. Waymo has about 3700 vehicles. Tesla has millions. Waymo …

This is an adversarial process. Unions exist to fight employers. Unions spend about 23 billion a year in total. Only spending 1.5B to defend against 23B looks like a bargain.