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We have various methods of measuring individual intelligence (which are pretty sketchy imo). But do we have any way to measure or quantify the intelligence of the larger structures…

Generative AI is the average of all human knowledge

UI note in case the creators of this site are reading: having a right-click on the site logo open a special logo-download menu is probably the wrong choice. If I right click on you…

A whole new type of "vacuum tube"

That data center is in the Memphis suburbs, 5 miles from the airport, in the third largest city in the state. Wouldn't call it rural

That's still assuming that they're competing as consumer tools, rather than competing to discover the next miracle drug or trading algorithm or whatever. The idea is that there'd m…

Was "emptional" intentional, or a typo? Apparently it's a real word. > From emption + -al Adjective (obsolete, rare) Capable of being purchased

I think a lot of developers look at Typescript and come away thinking that a static type system is something you can retrofit onto any language. These devs ask why anyone would sti…

That seems like too much for a single person to do, but I can also see how having too many controllers all trying to coordinate amongst themselves could be bad. How do airports det…

This is the article I saw, but I agree it seems like its going much faster in the video https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/air-canada-crash-at...

Damn that's awful. I read elsewhere that the plane was only going 24mph when it hit the truck, and I didn't understand how the collision could have been that damaging, but I wasn't…

Surely all of behavior and consciousness are encoded in the connections between cells. I think the question you want to ask is how much those connections are determined by DNA.

Am I right in thinking that even if you had all of the connections and weights mapped out for a brain, the specifics of synaptic plasticity are still pretty poorly understood?

"William and Mary" -- Roald Dahl https://user.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~ucoluk/yazin/William_and_Mary...

It surprises me how many applications don't give you the option to see your password in plain text as you enter it. The messaging around password security is that we should be maki…

You say progress, I say enshittification. What this article says: *The median apartment rent in Austin has dropped X% over the past 5 years* What this article does not say: *Apartm…

Nah. Python gets it right; all high level languages should operate this way. Division by zero is a bug 90% of the time. Errors should never pass silently. Special cases aren't spec…

There are no non-confusing options, but some of those are still clearly worse than others. What should sorted([3, nan, 2, 4, 1]) give you in Python? A) [1, 2, 3, 4, nan] is an good…

Respectfully, I disagree. If NaNs were meant to represent unknown quantities, then they would return false for all comparisons. But NaN != NaN is true. Assuming that two unknowns a…

We've all heard the phrase "the sum of all human knowledge". I've been feeling more and more that generative AI represents the average of all human knowledge. Which has its place. …

This reminds me of conversations around plagiarism that come up when working with students: that question of "this other person expressed this idea better than I can, why can't I j…

Same. I vaguely remembered "fulmen" from Latin class but I didn't know there was a derived English word. > from Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare "hurl lightning, ligh…

You could put up a divider separating the drivers from the passengers... like in a taxi

I think you raise a valid point about the bias inherent in these models. I'm skeptical of the distinction that some people make between punching up vs down, and I don't think it's …