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Those are a lot of leaps to make about my motivations!

Something solid ahead To clarify: I mean that, generally speaking, the presence of 'cloudy' water would presumably signify that the seafloor was close. In the open ocean, maybe a s…

Wouldn't the cloudiness itself be a signal? Presumably it's essentially clear of suspended particles, most of the time.

>> Are light, radar, and sonar still not enough to detect obstacles that big? > Radar is useless underwater, light would also be useless for spotting anything in time to react at s…

I suppose it's a bit of a scotsman argument, but the turing test is to see whether an observer can correctly guess whether the interlocutor is _human_, so by definition the test wo…

This is what I got on ChatGPT today. I assume it used GPT4: Prompt ChatGPT Actual Match 397,356 * 930,547 369,685,207,932 369,758,433,732 FALSE 36,330 * 26,951 979,458,630 979,129,…

The problem seems to be with defining good tests for intelligence. FWIW, because GPT4 answers have a detectable pattern, they should presumably fail the Turing test. At some level,…

Since LLMs can't do arithmetic, one has to think there's more going on, at least in the arithmetic part of the brain, than is going on in LLMs.

And a roommate of Richard Stallman at one point, AFAIR. the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it Indeed. His idea of attaching provenance to source of infor…

From the given link: As of April 2023, the average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Cleveland, OH is $1,136. This is a 7% decrease compared to the previous year.

Luckily, this[1] is also reading zero at the moment. [1] https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Very cool. Reminds me of the retroreflectors on GLONASS.

They've got 0.3m on World View 3, more than enough for what was shown in the gif Edit: you're probably right, actually.. the silver square on the lower section of landsat 8 is ~1.5…

The distance to the earth might have been coincidentally the same as the distance to the other satellite. LEO isn't that far up, the one that took the photo was only ~600km AGL.

I'd just like to throw in a plug for what I think is the best-looking satellite: GOCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State... It's a gravity survey satelli…

I always feel a little dirty when I click on twitter links these days.

works for me at the time of writing edit: not logged in (usually am not)

We can't say we weren't warned

If you had that you could (and I think this is GGP's point) have settings in the browser similar to phone privacy settings: allow cookies for (login || place || shopping cart || et…

'electricite du magnetisme' would be a nice quadruple-entendre in French 1) electricity of magnetism => electrical side of the electromagnetic force leads to 2) electricity from ma…

The fact that context matters so much makes it hard to avoid concluding that such relationships are not friendships in any sense of the word, they're just pleasantries to make the …

It's useful as an excuse for the OS to be continuously connected to the internet, which elides nicely into connecting to the internet for search results when you type something in …

Hot take, but: the same issue is present in math, with the aggressive deprioritization of rote learning of arithmetic. People need a foundation upon which to build higher concepts;…