So microplastics are indeed harmless!
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Too bad common discourse is too distracted to consider nanoplastics…
By the time the public tires of microplastics debates, they’ll be in no mood to relitigate nanoplastics
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Too bad common discourse is too distracted to consider nanoplastics…
By the time the public tires of microplastics debates, they’ll be in no mood to relitigate nanoplastics
Only half kidding…
Using just 16GB RAM for a task is practically resource-constrained programming these days…
Just non-disassembled function or unidentified struct would ruin your plans…
In what world is using a signed value to index a normal array a good idea?
Makes for horrible footguns like:
history[counter % SIZE] = …
(One cursed day counter rolls over, becomes negative, and an out-of-bounds write occurs)
Everything went South as soon as we broke the abstraction of arrays and treated them as pointers.
Commenters here are pretty much arguing which way to hold scissors while running instead of realizing that one shouldn’t do that in the first place…
One class of doctors thinks roughly 250 is enough for a middle aged guy - anything over shouldn’t be medically treated. Of course, the “men’s clinics” don’t rest until it’s over 1000...
With the standard range so wide (even after age adjustment), why isn’t it measured annually, like the CBC and others?
Sure, it’s easy to point at obesity, but statistical ranges completely fail the individual.
I get the whole “speak the native language” but seems like the appealing countries speak a language most of the world doesn’t care about.
The number of countries with English as the main/official language that are desirable and open to immigrants seems really small.
Yeah, LLMs aren’t designed for this kind of thing but it was really confident in its assertion… it picked the example too!
An evil person could present a normal install script for other browsers and randomly present a malicious one for curl clients.
At least with the downloaded file, that is the thing you get.
In the place of hard math, models, proofs, quantitative analysis of past approaches, etc. there is simply an “Architecture” section with much navel gazing. The paper topic is not a formal analysis but merely a description of a thing that was made.
Ironically, the least important part of an engineering research paper is the part describing the thing actually built/simulated. That is merely validation of the theory.
Only reasonable conclusion is that he is worshiped as a deity …
After all, He is never gonna give up…
Unfortunately that’s not how it works…
Long ago, WordPerfect’s grammar checker showed me my writing flaws and helped me improve.
Pasting a poorly written report and getting a dramatically restructured report wouldn’t be as instructive, even if the final result looked “better”.
Imagine if we had declared that Math for FIR filter design in Signal Processing was too difficult, so we’d just test random FIR coefficients until something good came out.
That sounds pretty horrible but at least the frequency response of the resulting filter would be known. We’d at least understand the behavior of the final product.
With LLMs, we don’t even know what we’re getting out of it.
(And no, I don’t see anything wrong with adaptive filters and such. Their behavior can still be quantified)
Sure would suck to have 25Gbps internet if mainly used to fetch files from the other side of the pond…
Are politicians really so beholden to an anonymous donor that makes a single $50k donation? Or even a single $500k one?
Or is it the real knowledge that said known regular donors will continue indefinitely as long as things go their way (and indefinitely support the opposition otherwise) …?
The pessimistic part of me wonders if a grassroots campaign that raised $10M would even be able drive any change with it.
Always thought extrusions were expensive. At least had found a company custom cutting them but the price was something like 20x what you got.
Graphical programming like LabVIEW looks very appealing. The product demo practically sells itself. Sure, it fits well for a very narrow class of use cases. But even fairly simple things in a textual language quickly become an unwieldy mess. (Try factoring an integer in it…)
There are formal models for distributed systems often solve the “easy” problems that didn’t need solving while making various practical concerns harder/impossible such as timeouts or node failure.
Of course, there are also a number of cases where western “supplements” were caught containing actual prescription medicine, not just natural precursors or such. Same idea…
There was also a standalone Java based SSH client that worked from browsers. (Of course now with WebSockets and modern JavaScript capabilities, no need to have the a “real” SSH client on the user’s actual system…)
Unfortunately, not sure there is enough drive for mainstream applications to be developed in for this proposed “web native” interface. Practically speaking, there would probably have to be a way to run them as native GUI apps without the browser or for a text terminal.
Unfortunately, the three environments have relatively little in common aside from the trivial parts… Operating efficiently in all quickly becomes nontrivial…
It would be ludicrous to assert that YouTube video viewing compresses the learning time, allowing one to become an Olympic coach in a sport without ever having played it.
Yet, it the article claims that humans can merely define intent and supervise the AI’s output - the same humans that used the AI to avoid the tedium and time commitment required to obtain mastery from actual work.
Perhaps I’m sorely mistaken. All those coworkers who went up the management chain after 2-3 years experience are the foremost technical experts in their field. They merely press a single button like George Jetson and the AI will figure out all the details!
For >10 years prior I had a fairly flat salary at two separate employers. Yearly raise of about 2%.
Now salary is up about 50% from almost 10 years ago and home value almost doubled during the same timeframe.
I know I’m not that lucky in life… I don’t live in a HCOL area. I don’t work in an industry that is on fire. Nobody actually gets huge raises for performance.
Sure, the stock market has seen enormous gains over the past 10-15 years. Even the major indices have maintained gains that would traditionally be unimaginable.
That can’t be real growth - it’s the recipe for inflation.
If half the country owned $1000 of NVIDIA 20 years ago, would we be richer? No, inflation would follow and the other half would be poorer…
X itself always bothers me. Xeyes is cute until one considers the practical implications…
Might there have been a point in time (long ago) where the “wave photon” and the “particle photon” seemed like possibly different things?
The whole website feels like a weird hallucination…
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