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Painting in such broad strokes, the German system also sounds like the ACA, but it's really not: the high level description really erases key differences. In Germany there is nothi…

How do you propose to use AI to grow fruit trees faster?

"I've opposed Wikipedia for twenty years. Now I'm banned for life." would also be a correct headline, and maybe a more honest one.

Well done! I had a somewhat similar experience twenty years ago in the informatics olympiads. I had no idea about the whole world of algorithms, complexity, etc. until a friend rec…

Btw a visa is a document allowing entry into a country, while VISA is a word mark used by Visa, inc. for their payment cards and network. I think you're referring to the travel doc…

The point GP is making, is that everyday mathematics is not done in Lean, but in a language that's more like JavaScript, where equals doesn't always mean equals, + and • mean whate…

Emojis, however, are a Japanese invention (related but different from emoticons). BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word em…

It seems TM SGNL also works when you're messaging with somebody using the genuine Signal app. They aren't gonna make a group chat with your archive bot to message you, and they mig…

NetHack does have ghost files (where you find the levels previous characters died on, including their ghost and their possibly-cursed loot). It's definitely not the same kind of pr…

Mercaptan is a group of compounds, more than one of which are used as gas odorants, so in some places, gas smells of rotten eggs, similar to H2S, while in others gas doesn't smell …

If the reason someone wanted to learn Arabic was because they thought they could learn one language to do all of those things, it's clear why they might just drop the idea when the…

Rust itself cannot cause tetanus but it can include unsafe blocks which can activate tetanus spores by FFI.

Excellent comment! As a historical tidbit I'll add that Romans did develop two ways to write larger numbers. 1. Writing a line (vinculum) over a numeral to multiply its value by 1,…

The berries (but not the seeds!) are apparently edible, and I have myself eaten one without noticing any ill effect. IIRC it was indeed the berries that were used in the Agatha Chr…

Moreover, in a later picture on the page you can see an example showing a -dóttir name in that field (I had wondered if perhaps it was only used for people who happened to have a "…

Just a technical nitpick: Hitler was appointed by President Hindenburg, not directly elected. However Hindenburg was directly elected and Hitler was leader of the party that receiv…

AFAIK it's typical for whitehouse.gov to be completely replaced with every new president

> Do you think that a LLM/"AI" can reliably No. LLMs definitely have uses where reliability is not a requirement, but that's one requirement which LLMs clearly never meet

The rule is non-free parking. The exception is Sundays.

In a few minutes of searching I couldn't find any report in English that doesn't have this error.

The OP seems to be at the end of a long chain of broken telephone. The 19 February 2020 press release from the institute doing the dig doesn't say anything about cars [1]. The 21 F…

Why go to the office when you can take a selfie with your phone and order your passport online?

Don't know about Britain but the US also allows passport renewals by mail, so they can't check the photo against your face but they presumably can check it against your previous pa…