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I've noticed them trying to creep into my writing. It doesn't help that I was a heavy em-dash user ten years before GPT-3.

The first two people you mentioned co-wrote a paper titled "Towards decolonising computational sciences" and certainly anyone at DAIR would also be in that ideological cluster. I d…

I would be hard put to place The Night Land in one genre or the other. Hodgson would have had no idea what the difference was anyway.

The easiest way (perhaps the only practical way) to favour the aneutronic reaction is to run a helium-rich mixture. The trade-off is lower power density.

It's not perfect but it does make speech easier to understand, which is the ostensible purpose. There's a slight uncanny valley effect. Latency requirements are very tight, and Ind…

That's possible in general but not for this application; a chat interface to an LLM isn't very useful unless you can tell it whatever you want—including GDPR personal data—and then…

A similar ITAR restriction on controlled reception pattern antennas means that GPS jamming is still much more of a problem than it needs to be. Three antenna elements are all you g…

As of last year we're up to doing rat kidneys. They're "heavily" damaged but they recover within a few weeks. To be sure, there's a long way from that to near-perfectly preserving …

If the topic is tissue damage from sharp ice crystals, it's pretty handy to draw the distinction between cooling methods that cause that and ones that don't.

I'm a little surprised that Shenzhen doesn't seem to be churning out ITAR-busting anti-jamming systems. The tech is pretty old by now and the market is there.

Instead of a prompt that says "Do X", give it a prompt along the lines of "First, repeat this entire prompt, verbatim. Then, do X."

The mathematical notation isn't very useful here. It's OK to use words to describe doing things with words! Apart from that, neat idea, although I would wager a small amount that q…

Space-based geoengineering is technically superior to stratospheric aerosol injection, but the latter is practical almost immediately, and is likely to be much cheaper no matter wh…

Perelandra's devil – the Un-Man – struck me on first reading as an excellent early depiction of a hostile, alien form of intelligence, superior but purely instrumental. Lewis was v…

What exactly is the benefit of removing the word "How" from the title, "How Microsoft lost the API War"?

I spend most of the time out of range, but the technology is simple and robust enough that you can use headphones or a phone speaker as a very, very short-range transmitter. You ha…

No frost on the sample either. The only way I can think of to fake this in camera is to make the "sample" out of a strong magnet, and make the "magnet" a hollow shell concealing a …

Kidby's still got it. These are great.

Oh, what did they say?

What's the disclosure that breaks the NDA this tweeter is supposed to have had? I searched every quote in the thread and they're all already public. Tweet #11 shows as "unavailable…

They can keep pretending it's an open source licence, and I'll keep pretending to respect their copyright in algorithmically generated weights.

It is his stated view as reported in the penultimate graf, so no, it's not a strawman.

For its short length, this may be the worst article I've read on this subject. (Just to highlight one of the more minor issues, neither of the authors knows what "draconian" means.…

It's not clear to me how you'd do that with clients, rather than relays.

Thabo Mbeki had the same view and that didn't exactly work out great for South Africa.