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This is from the interview on Hot Ones (released August 5, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXma6K9mzo&t=816s > Sean Evans: > I think a scenario lots of viewers can relate t…

There is a mechanism for this, internationally usually named some variant of a Law Commission [0]. The idea is to look for laws that are technically in effect but can rarely or nev…

Divided we stand, United we fall.

The almost-wrong simplification is that a nonlinear medium changes the wavelength of the light that passes through it. If you can control the nonlinearity, you can control the wave…

> can we not expect writers to just keep it brief? In essentially every situation, you cannot expect readers to read.

I recall from my own visit that the electrical transformers are supposedly original. So, the National Museum of Computing justifies calling its Colossus a rebuild rather than a rep…

This is excellent. I wonder how deep the roots of pre-20th century computing systems go. Babbage, Lovelace and the Difference engine are well catalogued, and I have seen a Jaccard …

This seems untrue, especially for reddit? Using the 1/9/90 split [0] for creators/commenters/readers, it seems farfetched to suggest that reddit accounts (which benefits readers ma…

You are right. The grandparent post ironically uses word this in a cheapened, shallow way when they can use it freely in their own writing. You could argue this is the very sort of…

Tell that to the Pierce-Arrow company: makers of the first official cars for the white house, but they didn't survive cash flow problems from the great depression. Meanwhile, Ford …

You would think, but there are many "sea lochs" along the coast that are salt water inlets (lagoons?), and Loch Long is one of them. I think it's a grey area (and perhaps the West …

Yeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.

This seems to have an obvious counterexample? The name of the Streisand effect is from exactly the situation of a photo nobody cared about of Streisand's house from decades ago. Th…

Nazis, traditionally. Typing it out makes the comparison feel weak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ ...

Interesting to consider GPUs as the coal of the AI revolution. This is worth it for the mental image of heaping them into a boiler fire by the shovel load alone.

The common method for choosing the next output token for an LLM is sampling from a Boltzmann distribution. If you have seen the term "temperature" in the context of language models…

Yes, but then it needs to be stored, and the price effects might encourage even more production. Previously this has led to events like the devastating Wisconsin butter flood [0] (…

Arguably Crowdstrike's loss was due to a flaw in their product rather than PR. Disney's product (though not their core, I would argue) allegedly killed this poor woman - however it…

Clues must be related to the semantic meaning of the cards, so irrelevant clues are technically banned. So, a "sausage" strategy would be illegal on many boards.

Yes, I agree completely - I realised something was off in an espirit de l'escalier way not long after I posted. This is great news for my proposed box redesign!

This is an interesting view of how random number based security is compromised for economic practicalities (though the meanings of "security" and "compromised" might be overstretch…

The argument I can imagine is already around (like for many potential AI applications): even if you know the law, such as if you are a lawyer, you always get representation because…

3 throws per second is the rate of action required to perform juggling literally. The implication is that communicating between the miss that causes the fall and the event of dropp…

"Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous." So says Morgan Freeman's character Lucius Fox in 2008 in The Dark Knight[0]. The rest of the tech imagined in that scene is plausible today too, …

I think the parent comment was referring to something else. In the paper the tasks are only completed by GPT-4V. For a valid scientific investigation, there should be a control set…