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It can also go the other way. It outputs a paragraph so full of telegraphic technobabble that it’s just unreadable, inventing new jargon every other sentence, using terminology inv…

This is a great related watch if you have some time to kill: https://youtu.be/KnUFH5GX_fI

I realized how awful of an OS modern android is when I bought an iPad. I later fully switched to iOS and never looked back. Point is, sometimes people just have different experienc…

This is intentional repetition. More specifically, anaphora [1]. You may not personally like it, but it is a rhetorical device used to emphasize a point. This one also comes with a…

Not at all. The model could (and sometimes should) burn all the money it wants, and then produce a single line of actual production code. Only some things, e.g. full rewrites, have…

This looks like a good benchmark. Time and time again I keep giving OpenAI models the chance to win me back, but Opus (and Fable especially) just writes more elegant code and is a …

My hope is that the flood of AI articles pushes the academic publication system to its highly-anticipated breaking point. The most absurd part is that everyone in academia knows th…

It doesn’t, no. The most successful platform actually uses superconducting devices as large as millimeters, you can literally see them with the naked eye. The issue with “just” pho…

You could make maybe ten transistors or so, but no more. That technique is quite literally pushing atoms one by one with a sharp needle. Not scalable, though maybe useful for some …

Swedes have an almost comical compulsion to stay in the sun. Growing up in a hot place you get the opposite instinct. Still, it’s known that your skin color is the main thing that …

I’ve found the UV index forecasts to generally be a good metric, so try looking at those for various locations. The main factor here is that the lower the sun is from the horizon, …

I feel like this is directly addressed in the article, right? I think you are coming from the same direction, but Rovelli goes a bit further and says "how can we affirm that there …

Look up the “China brain” idea. It’s basically the same. Could you explain why that wouldn’t be conscious a priori?

Can we start by defining consciousness as something that could be quantified physically, rather than a nebulous concept? With a common shared ground, we could at least define why w…

The point is that you don’t need to put a whole datacenter into a single satellite. You can put a single rack per satellite and have different racks communicate via antennas, laser…

The existence of starlink proves that this is false. Look at most current pitches, they don’t talk about GW-class monsters anymore. There’s absolutely nothing stopping a 20-30kW sa…

For context, this is paraphrasing a 1907 manuscript by Kenneth John Freeman [1], which itself was summarizing the complains that older generations would direct against the youth in…

I’m not a native speaker and you may find my writing simplistic if your standard vocabulary includes three expressions I’ve had to look up (I don’t mean this as an insult, I was ju…

I think these articles may benefit from a more thorough table of content at the beginning, or from some kind of abstract. If you briefly presented the whole list of topics in a sin…

lol. I did use a lot of short sentences, that’s my bad. But please read through [1] and compare my text onto it, it may enlighten you on how to actually spot llm writing. [1] https…

The issue with most of these articles is that they seem to demonize the technology, and systematically use demeaning language about all of its facets. This one raises a lot of impo…

Some more serious critique of things I noticed within 30 seconds: - Text isn't selectable on the page. - The tooltip in the "day 1" to "day 14" cards gets cut off by the border (I …

This is a pipe dream and I’m almost tempted to say a fever dream. The chemistry part seems somewhat sound, even though that’s outside of my field of expertise. But the entire reado…

Yes, this is a fair point. I agree that orbital mechanics is trivially easy compared to everything else. The chances of a math mistake in particular are null, these trajectories ha…

Yes, challenger. The O-ring failed, creating a gas exhaust that almost instantly destroyed the main propellant tank.