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That's perfect, I will use that term from now on whenever somebody proposes any kind of automation and will see how often somebody will try to correct me.

From the title, I expected this to be about electric guitars :-(

I didn't know this was a sport. I'm GitHub user 43053 :-)

Interesting. At Burger King in Germany, there's no such difference, last time I checked.

Could you share some of "what you now know bout them"? Was there some issue in customer support, or getting spare parts? Is it about the new products that have since come out? I'm …

This is to signal non-AI slop?

SageMath is much broader than SymPy, by integrating a lot of third-party niche tools that have been developed for decades, often as C libraries. Unfortunately, SageMath is not dire…

There's also the argument that human intuition can and should be trained, rather than just dismissing it, in particular when it comes to mathematics. See, for example, the book "Ma…

Carcassonne is also really nice with children. You can start them on just the "puzzle" aspect on attaching matching tiles, without scoring. Our oldest child is now capable of the b…

I really like "Root" (for the asymmetry) and "Arcs" (for the openness), although they are quite "heavy" in terms of rules and interactions.

In particular, the core disagreement seems to be about whether the automorphisms of C should keep R (as a subset) fixed, or not. The easy solution here would be to just have two di…

And we know how reliable normies are with the backup of their personal data...

"I want to make cypherpunk friends, but none of them are on Facebook!"

Not only his secretary, also some psychiatrists wanted Eliza as a tool to scale up their work clinically.

True, especially on difficult problems. Open-source can be good enough for many practical applications, though. In my opinion, the gap in performance is less important, but the com…

To add to the above: The high-performance commercial solvers typically offer a free (as in beer) licence for academics (students and researchers), so this subgroup has a smaller in…

In what world is a biography of Gauss audience-pleasing? (I enjoyed it a lot back then).

OK, maybe I was misunderstanding something. It was also not at the sea, but more water between agricultural plots, so maybe just for drainage?

My Dutch boss explained to me that the willow branches harvested there are used to reinforce the dykes nearby.

I later looked up the resources on Wikipedia which also listed Canada as having significant mining capacity. So maybe that argument is not strong either.

To add: Not that it's wrong to work for a lobbying organization while having vested interests because of one's employer, but transparency goes a long way here.

I see, thanks for providing some evidence :-) I followed RePlant before, when they talked about "future of food" topics, and knew that most involved persons were really early-stage…

So, following your argument, we should at least continue to run existing infrastructure? I wonder why these debates only focus on problems such as waste, catastrophic risk or inves…