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If gravity were lower we would have evolved differently, walking would have adapted too. On the other hand babies probably wouldn't be able to walk either. Being mobile, defenseles…

> IBM to launch an LLM in 2040. What about Watson? How did it generate language? My understanding is it output language well enough to match what LLMs do today.

>is there a chance we had pseudo gender science as well It wouldn't surprise me if there were a bad actor or two, but suggesting everything in the area is "bad" would.

>equal numbers of terms won by each party. Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy The point of democracy is not to deliver an equal…

More than half a dozen Boost libraries have made their way to the standard. Boost continues to exist because there is large overlap with the standards committee and they use it as …

Delayed ACK seems like the better default to me, whether it is telnet or web servers, network programming is almost always request response. Delaying the ACK so that part of that r…

I thought it was common sense to not believe in a thing if there is no evidence of a thing. The only way I am going to believe it was a lab leak is if credible evidence shows up. U…

Content providers pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. End users pay their ISP bill or they wouldn't be on the internet. ISPs unable to figure out how to run a p…

If he actually did any research how could he get it that wrong? Nothing about being built in America, just that the owner and charterer must be Americans, the actual operating crew…

>(I'm pretty sure they still made money on those who forgot to skip a month) It used to be opt in, not opt out to skip a month. IGN is basically trying to figure out how much they …

I work at an office that does 9 80. At first they tried the half one Friday, half the other, but switched to everyone in on the same Friday. Basically it annoyed and confused custo…

Has Andrei been keeping up with C++? Most of the time I hear about him recently is in context of him being a core D member.

According to the national debt's Wikipedia page 5.7 trillion is owned by the government. That ends up being about a forth of it.

Good thing the New York Times isn't in Europe.

It isn't but it kind of is. It is a 95% chance that you should reject the null hypothesis. For example if we flip a coin a 5 times and get heads every time that gives you a p value…

Given that P <= 0.05 is the usual standard, I would hazard that if it can't be reproduced at least 95% of the time then you miscalculated P.

What do the reviewers do? They don't try to reproduce it. So yeah make shit up, as long as it is plausible no one will notice. For example Yoshihiro Sato was recently (2016-2017 ti…

I didn't realize full size trucks had gotten over 60 feet long and 40 feet wide.

Everyone has heard of google, attacking them would cause back lash. Non technical people haven't heard of cloudflare so it is a softer target.

>The effect of this function will be DIFFERENT. Obviously the output will be different the input was different. The equivalent C code would have passed pointers. In that case the b…

Popularity to a certain extent is a prerequisite for viability. Given problem X, and given that language Y is the most suitable language to solve problem X, how likely are you to c…

Note: the article is from 2015. To get better developers need to increase their area (Breadth * Depth). Going deeper and deeper in one area may make you an expert on that topic, bu…