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At that level of specificity, you could just say that a meter is "about a yard".

I read and enjoyed that book out of a general interest in the history of ideas, but admit I am not able to judge the underlying mathematics. Is the "fiction" part only related to d…

I'm curious whether this type of goblin epidemic was seen in other language versions of ChatGPT. Did e.g. Japanese users see more yõkai turning up?

Why not the Sun?

The supplementary files in that paper—verbatim reproductions of the full texts of Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby—are pretty instructive. The research group highlighted all addit…

Nice concept but could use some more procedurally generated LLM content

>Trump's declaring that he'll be involved with deciding who WB-Discovery-HBO can be sold to. This needs to be developed into a The Apprentice-style show where aspirants truckle bef…

In the same essay ("Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," 1930) where he predicted the 15-hour workweek, Keynes wrote about how future generations would view the hoarding …

Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe…

Somehow we got an inverted version of the Monty Python "I'd like to buy an argument" skit

When kids say (as one does in this essay) that AI will do the writing for them in the future anyway, so there's no point in learning to write, they have a point. But there is a sec…

I just fell out a window and am on my way down! I sure hope I don't straddle that sawhorse when I land... Ow! My balls!!

>While these actions were not a breach of any regulation, SEBI said that the “intensity and sheer scale” of their intervention, and the rapid reversal of their trades “without any …

In the early days of the pandemic it was widely reported (erroneously) that tobacco smoking was protective against SARS-CoV-2. I don't know if OP was thinking along such lines, but…

I don't want to be pedantic or prescriptive, but it's "imminent" not "eminent." (The wrong word got introduced upstream in this thread and was taken up by multiple commenters.)

[Opt]+[-] is for en-dash (at least on macos). For an em-dash, it's [Shift]+[Opt]+[-].

I think the intended meaning is actually we give you better performance than the competition, which sells at double or more our low price of $595 (i.e., they compare the C64 favora…

Mission drift can sometimes go in a positive direction. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for example, functioned primarily as a tax evasion vehicle while Hughes was alive. Afte…

Oh wow - TIL! I wish I could edit or delete the above. Anyway thanks for correcting me.

Notably, Krebs just had his security clearance revoked by Trump & Co. 12 days ago for posing "risks". https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

"It has an impressive resume, being the most studied animal in the world, subject of more investigations than even the Drosophila melanogaster or common fruit fly that resides in t…

I never noticed this until scrolling through this image gallery, but the design of these ads consistently and prominently highlights the first letters of "More Doctors," which was …

Newton was public domain by Einstein's time.

Not OP, but I think the logic thread goes something like: Through taxes, we pay the government to exercise various protective functions, such as equipping the law enforcement and t…