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I think that, more generally, intelligent people don't get arrested for crimes for several reasons. First, because they are smarter, they just don't get themselves into jams where …

The raw words written to the drive are actually re-encoded into slightly larger codewords with nice properties like not having too many zero or one bits in a row, and error detecti…

The game goes through several phase changes as you progress.

Any form that doesn't have loose fibrils, microparticles, or dust. I'd compare it to wood from walnut trees, which is perfectly safe to handle and use in dining tables, etc., but d…

I used to work for a company that sold factory automation technology, and had hundreds of manuals for all the products they sold. In the front matter of every manual was a disclaim…

The real story here is that Air Canada's lawyers argued, among other things, that the chatbot was a separate and independent legal entity from Air Canada and therefore Air Canada w…

For basically forever compilers and languages have been designed with a total ordering on operator precedences. The Yacc compiler generator tool maps operator precedence to integer…

Even if it's stable in a game theory sense, it depends on the political class being partitioned into exactly two parties. Otherwise the two biggest parties would have an incentive …

Fish + fire = sushi

Wow, cool. A paper that costs $20 to read. I'll be sure to hop on that.

That's quite an injection if it can cure six children at once.

I have an idea. Why don't we give new experimental AI systems their own off-grid nuclear power plants so they can't be switched off. There's no way that could go wrong.

Some are made from dissimilar metals. https://www.coin-database.com/series/japan-47-prefectures-co...

After 30 seconds of furious googling: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran

One big thing I remember is that it's illegal to have multiple array arguments reference overlapping storage, so storage regions can't alias. This means functions can be optimized …

Thank you. This is the first thing I've read about this story that is at all coherent.

Quantum or no, there is no shortcut around the 40.66 kJ/mol it takes to evaporate water.

What exactly is the distinction between water vapor and steam?

It takes [40.66 kJ/mol]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization ) to vaporize water. There are no shortcuts.

I can't wrap my head around this story. What does it mean in thermodynamic terms? Isn't there a fixed amount of energy per mass that it takes to convert liquid water into vapor? Wh…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

I can't believe that video games still have a "saving data. Please do not turn off your computer" like two-phase commit hasn't been a thing since 1987.

His method for computing entropy is not so good. His method works for an independent and unpredictable sequence of bytes, but the actual data is a bunch of signed 16-bit residuals …

If you can measure the front and back horizon accurately you can measure the left and right horizons too, and that will give you an accurate down vector. But I don't think it's pos…