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I always feel like these frameworks rely on a semantic sleight of hand that sounds plausible on the surface, but when you drill down a bit they render words like 'simulation' 'reality' or 'truth' as either unintelligible or trite, depending on how you define them.

"Dating from between 5,800 and 5,300 BC, they lie nine meters underwater and were built at a time when sea levels were much lower than today.

Researchers believe they may have been fish traps built on the foreshore, or walls to protect against rising seas.

The study says the structures reflect "technical skills and social organization sufficient to extract, move and erect blocks weighing several tonnes, similar in mass to many Breton megaliths", large stone arrangements used as monuments or for ceremonial purposes.

This technical know-how would predate the first megalithic constructions by several centuries."

Trust has been plummeting for a while now. It seems likely AI video will exacerbate the problem, but I don't see it as a driver nearly as much as the increasing cultural divide in the west.

It has always been the case that you can trust an event occurred, but the story being fed around it was the point of failure with regard to trust. AI video just pushes that initial point of failure forward a step.

We've refined and relabeled the art of naming the demon that possess a person based on the characteristics of their symptoms. Then put a scientific sheen on the proscribed exorcisms and potions, without understanding the underlying issue. Modern day shamanism.

That is a bit hyperbolic (we clearly have real knowledge of the underlying neurological mechanisms), but closer to the truth than most people like to acknowledge.

The DSM was never meant to carry the burden we've placed upon it. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/you-arent-in-the-dsm

Intriguing comment, but your username does not inspire confidence.

For what it's worth, this sort of gaming works both ways.

Many medical administrations do everything they can to upcode in order to bill for more money.

The whole system is a mess.

Much like everyone hates Congress and thinks they're all a bunch of crooks...except for their Congressman

You are absolutely right. Another interesting example: The man who invented the lobotomy won a Nobel Prize for it.

What is the advantage of a Linux phone over something like LineageOS?

I'm running Hermes Mistral and the very first thing it did was start hallucinating.

I recently started an audio dream journal and want to keep it private. Set up whisper to transcribe the .wav file and dump it in an Obsidian folder.

The plan was to put a local llm step in to clean up the punctuation and paragraphs. I entered instructions to clean the transcript without changing or adding anything else.

Hermes responded by inventing an intereview with Sun Tzu about why he wrote the Art of War. When I stopped the process it apologized and advised it misunderstood when I talked about Sun Tzu. I never mentioned Sun Tzu or even provided a transcript. Just instructions.

We went around with this for a while before I could even get it to admit the mistake, and it refused to identify why it occurred in the first place.

Having to meticulously check for weird hallucinations will be far more time consuming than just doing the editing myself. This same logic applies to a lot of the areas I'd like to have a local llm for. Hopefully they'll get there soon.

Fair enough. I supposed it would be in the local headlines, but I frequently tune out from the news for long stretches of time.

In my little corner of heaven we get meth heads tying grappling chains to their trucks in order to yank down live power lines to sell for the copper.

I have no idea how none of them have died yet, as frequently as this seems to occur.

I strongly agree that free speech is crucial, but the first part of your statement is in direct opposition to the second.

People stating their perspectives and arguing against other's with complete disregard for civility (or being 'mean' as you said), makes it far more difficult for people to respect opposing viewpoints.

Ed Yong wrote an excellent book closely related to this topic titled An Immense World on the sensory lives of animals that we are still only beginning to understand.

"It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know. As a result, we tend "to frame animals' lives in terms of our senses rather than theirs."

Wait, you can get PRK more than once?

I had it done about fifteen years ago. My vision was perfect for a decade, but now I'm back in glasses.

PRK recovery was certainly uncomfortable, but I'd gladly do it again for another decade without glasses.

The last comment:

>The Politiken article has been corrected. They're dropping Microsoft Office but not Windows. They might in the future, that seems to be the general trend, but in this case the minister said they're dropping Microsoft services and interviewer misinterpreted that as including Windows.

It looks like they're just dropping Office 365 for Libre office. Not switching the entire operating system.

I had no idea how sloppy my thinking was until I started writing.

It's layers of abstraction all the way down the light cone.

The causality is always present, we just don't have the processing power to ensure with 100% certainty that all relevant factors are accounted for and all spurious factors dismissed.

I didn't realize how different the European patent system was from the US:

"In Europe? If an innovator even talks about their invention publicly before filing, they risk losing all patent rights forever. And if they want to file a patent? It’s €2,000–€6,000 upfront, no flexibility, no grace period, no second chances. [...] The single most important factor is where the invention is physically created. There are no workarounds besides physically moving to a different jurisdiction to innovate. This hard geographic rule forces innovators to make difficult choices, often leading them to leave Europe."

So is there a straightforward solution to keeping this out of our system and we just...don't?

"Where is this diethanolamine coming from? Well, it's not known to be a natural part of either human or bacterial biochemistry. Instead, it is an industrial contaminant, sadly, whose ability to be incorporated (at low levels) into animal and human lipids through the apparently-not-so-picky enzyme cardiolipin synthase has been confirmed for decades now."

The interactive graphic that tries to show entropy is subjective doesn't sit right for me.

They fail to properly define the macrostate of the system under consideration, then show two different observed entropies for two different macrostates (Colors for Alice and Shapes for Bob).

That doesn't show entropy is subjective, it shows that defining the system is subjective. The same two macrostates would still have the same entropy

At $35, it is much less expensive than I anticipated. Still interested in seeing third party reviews.

A couple years ago I got a phone camera lens kit in hopes of augmenting my cellphone photography and it was less than stellar.

This post made me feel defensive. Which is a good time to stop and reflect. Thanks for sharing the thoughtful advice

I have not read Peter Hamilton, but always looking for new good books. Thanks for the recommendation!

The Bobiverse Series by Dennis Taylor.

These books aren't anything that will change your life, but they're well written and a lot of fun.

Very fun to play around with. Thank you!

They conducted an experiment to mitigate the serious problem of physical atrophy in zero g conditions.

It looks like centrifugal artificial gravity as low as .33 g may be sufficient to prevent many of the issues (in mice).

That is a very cool gift.

While not exactly the same, I got my wife a framed print of the stars over our wedding day as an anniversary gift a few years after we were married. It may be a little niche, but I think there is a market for that kind of thing.

Looks like they are close to implementimg the ideas the ideas from this 2021 paper:

Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783...