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I'm intrigued by the redirect to facebook.com/sorry.php. Are there any other .php url paths on facebook.com?

It's because the first vowel in 'about' is an unstressed schwa. It sounds unnatural in English to stress or lengthen a schwa. (The only exception I can think of is 'evennn'. e.g. B…

Is anyone else using XState on the backend? At work we have an interactive guided process/wizard that is currently implemented with an unwieldy low-code engine. I've been replacing…

Matter does not exist. It is simply an abstraction to describe the relative progress of time. Every way we measure "matter" involves the progress of time: microscope, telescope, ru…

We now know that exoplanets and the conditions for life abound in the universe. Where the conditions for life abound, the null hypothesis ought to be that life abounds. In discussi…

After training my physics simulator on thousands of hours of video footage of trees moving in the wind, arborists tell me the trees are much more realistic (they are getting worrie…

ChatGPT-style AI should be called AC - Artificial Communication. It is trained on an extremely limited selection of utterances - most of our thinking is never written down. But no …

My thoughts on the incident, organised as a series of nested propositions. 0. The Nord Stream pipeline incident was not an accident. 1. The pipeline was sabotaged by a state actor.…

Thanks for standing by your principles on this one dang. I was hoping there would be some discussion of the SONAR buoy remote detonation story - is it plausible (from a technical p…

Some random folk practices I've come across: * Blocking, stacking and pulling creep camps in DOTA. Unintended behaviours that became core game mechanics. * Comments in the tag sect…

Very interesting, thanks!

What would it take to get image synthesis and img2img for generating SVG graphics?

How does the vocabulary generation work?

Show the results and how you will achieve them at a business level of detail. e.g. "I will change parameters A, B and C of widget X" -> "I will optimise widget X to achieve higher …

The goalposts should be to create something useful, not trying to reach some nebulous criterion of "true intelligence". Submarine engineers don't labour over the question of whethe…

There's nothing indeterminate about the algorithm though. It's a fixed set of instructions fed into a Turing compatible machine like any other program.

An algorithm with an indeterminate output is still an algorithm.

This program, like everything that has been called "AI", is following an algorithm. It's an impressive algorithm but not fundamentally different from my dishwasher. In the Enlighte…

You still have to get from "unions are bad" to "union discussion should be censored".

Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Chomsky and Berwick if you're interested in some of the deeper questions in linguistics. It's a bit heavy but aimed at a general technical au…

I wish all that grant money was spent on trying to cure the underlying diseases.