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There’s a recent paper on the formation of such a “kugelblitz”; it’s argued to be unfeasible. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02389

How about rthym or some variation?

Someone call @keithw. He put a tremendous amount of brainpower into getting the Unicode side of this puzzle "right" (or, as "right" as it is possible to be) when he wrote mosh. I'm…

If the analogy to warped spacetime was exact, then there would be a “scale factor” for every point depending on the local transit speed. Then it would be possible to do as this pag…

Does it still go rancid if it’s kept at boiling temperatures? I’m guessing that if it’s too hot for microbes, then you only have to deal with oxidation at the surface, which can ma…

AIUI, there is a technical criterion for an ambient EM field to imbue circuits within it with broken time-reversal symmetry. One example of a system that meets the criterion is a f…

:shocked_pikachu: Renegadry aside, for those who are more interested in the Information Theory perspective on this: Kolmogorov complexity is a good teaching tool, but hardly used i…

I think you’re putting the right spin on this.

I love the drama of how the abstract is written, but TBH I don't think this is a surprise. I believe it's well-known among color theorists that large perceptual distances are incon…

I don’t see how the author’s arguments about impossibility results pertaining to “distributed sub-symbolic architectures” apply any more strongly to LLMs or DNNs than they do to hu…

Book golems

Wiki says they're incorporated in Netherlands.

So many footguns in this proposal! From the misleadingly symmetric symbols >=, to the unintuitive behavior (for non-mathematicians) in the case of negative left argument, to the si…

I haven't studied antitrust policy in ages, but IIRC one aspect of this in the past has been to forbid the monopolist from peeking at their competitors' prices.

In re = “in the matter of”, a legal term != “re:”, regarding/reply

Yes; however, because of the extreme kinetic energy and momentum of the cosmic ray inputs to these collision events, the output neutrinos will be emitted in a tightly focused cone …

Speculating: perhaps the training data was labeled using top-of-file and top-of-repo copyright notices.

If the name is a reference to Ogden Nash's poem then I am very tickled: https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/engagement/poetry/poem-...

There are a number of red flags here. The author puts a lot of breathless energy into airing grievances and lodging accusations. I find I don't much care: I want to know whether th…

> ...massive amounts... The entire world production of neodymium was on the order of 80k ton/yr the last I checked (though that was quite a few years ago).

eHarmony's algo may be less extreme but they do this too.

Look up the OTCA metapixel.

I use it from time to time for work. It lacks some of Mathematica’s typographic flair (can’t ctrl-^ to get a superscript box or / to get a fraction) but IIRC has better undo suppor…