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I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by margalabargala »

saaaaaam wrote: post #56
throw1234567891 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says right there it’s a seashell hard as a rock. Guess why, Sherlock.

No it doesn’t. It says “ I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell”.

To be clear, you are looking at the photographs in the linked article, and asserting that you think it's not a fossil?

It's visibly very clearly a fossilized sea shell. You are being a useless pedant about the author's choice of verbiage.

Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by throw1234567891 »

saaaaaam wrote: post #56
throw1234567891 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says right there it’s a seashell hard as a rock. Guess why, Sherlock.

No it doesn’t. It says “ I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell”.

Well, it's your words against his. You're not much of an expert by your own account in other comments. It's irrelevant if it's from a correct geological period, it's a rock hard seashell. Go and read up the definition of "fossil".

Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by andix »

thrownthatway wrote: post #55
andix wrote: post #54

St. Stephens cathedral in Vienna was built with sandstone that contains seashells. It's hundreds of kilometers away from the shore, but ~15 million years ago the area where it stands now was a seabed. The stones are not from the exact location where it was built, but from close by. The quarry where the stones came from hundreds of years ago is still active, and you can find tons of fossils there. It's practically imp…

Was the land lower, the seas higher, or some combination, way back when?

I'm not sure, I would guess both.

Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

orf wrote: post #17
tomstuart wrote: post #12

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Among a strong field, this is the single most depressing comment I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Several grim components but it’s the “I don’t understand why” which seals the deal.

Why? Calling a reasonable thing grim without any follow-up isn’t the hallmark of a good comment either.

It is not remotely reasonable to ask "but why didn't he feed it to ChatGPT?". It is pretty silly to assume that ChatGPT should always be consulted.

Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by charcircuit »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #64
orf wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Calling a reasonable thing grim without any follow-up isn’t the hallmark of a good comment either.

It is not remotely reasonable to ask "but why didn't he feed it to ChatGPT?". It is pretty silly to assume that ChatGPT should always be consulted.

It's a good starting place. As an analogy imagine someone wanted to look up the definition of a word. If someone wanted to know the definition and they went out and crawled the entire internet, built an LLM, and then asked it for the definition you would wonder why they didn't check an existing dictionary first. I wouldn't consider it silly at all to always check a dictionary or existing LLM first when you want to know the definition of a word.

Wanting to know the definition of a word is not an original problem. Similarly wanting to know what's in an image is not a new problem either.

Re: I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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Post by charcircuit »

saaaaaam wrote: post #22
charcircuit wrote: post #2

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Who says the whole analysis isn’t AI inspired?

No one. I'm pointing out there are existing AI models that can do this that the author could have tried before investing all the work to build his own.
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