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I don't think Australia has the power to do that. The world is full of unhealthy things that we prohibit from children. It's a popular idea, with most people in favour of a ban for kids.

It's actually an attempt to block social media for children. There's no ulterior motives. It will have the consequence of deanonymisation but it's not an attempt to achieve that.

The greatest misconception about exercise is this "if you're tired your best course of action would be to abstain from the thing that will make you more tired" train of thought. Exercise doesn't always work like this. Yes you'll have bad days, but you'll find yourself more energised most of the time and mentally more at peace. Thinking it will make you more tired can often be just a preconception.

It's like that classic sedentary worker ailment of the sore back. Many people take this as a sign to rest more, but these types of issues are often caused by weak musculature and the best thing to do is start resistance training. Obviously not a blanket solution, but one that definitely seems overlooked.

I think most naysayers are threatened by the inevitable decimation of our value. Supply and demand laws are going to annihilate this profession

One thought experiment I always find myself having is that if this is the case, does it make any difference if the network is physically larger? Not necessarily more complex, just the distances signals have to travel is bigger, say planet sized instead of brain sized. Would this system be conscious but just with a slower tick rate? Faster time perception?

D3 is great if you want to dynamically visualise data in your webpage. Maybe a bit niche but I wouldn't write it off this cheaply. I say this regardless of your js prowess - it is quite accessible.

Great read - the lengths the attacker went to to not only hide it but also build the trust to be able to pull this off is incredible. So calculated. One can only imagine they felt a great deal of panic and despair as the security community lit up the issue, regardless of a near zero chance of repercussions. Very clever - those involved in catching this are, quietly, heroes

I was somewhat interested in the story and then suddenly it became a we-work ad before it had any real wisdom to share? What on earth was that?

I'm not sure I fully agree that we should just sit by and let them be robbed, but the point you make about the government doing nothing is an interesting one as it would be great marketing against a disruptive currency.

So we have to put everyone who dares to imagine down about it? I see value in sharing a wild idea purely for the inspiration it may give others to think about things from a unique perspective. A lot of great science started as a strange idea.

While its probably totally wrong, I think your tone and general attitude to people throwing around imaginative and creative ideas is extremely unproductive and frankly rude. If you want to stifle creative discussions, this is exactly how you'd do it. I found the post to be very stimulating regardless of its validity. And it's not like they're trying to spread it as gospel. There was a lot of disclaimer.

Whats to say if you gave an LLM a pre prompt conditioning for things like: Be curious, Explore the domain you exist in, Learn about your environment like your life depends on it, You are a social creature so when you find out information you like to share it, Being a social creature, the most practical tool for sharing ideas is language (these notions among many others are similar pre-conditions for humans behaviour, largely I imagine for survival, but in our case initially informed by emotion rather than language)

And then just feed it endless continuous video of the world from a persons perspective (ie, not just random jumps around scenes) How is that any different to the way humans developed our own theories and understanding on the universe we found ourselves in? Obviously a video feed isn't quite the same as having a myriad of senses like we have for interfacing with the world. But theres no reason to say newtons laws need touch or smell to be figured out (maybe that is a bad example for not requiring touch, being about mass and force, but you get the point). Learning language and understanding of the world from scratch might depend on having physcial interaction with the world, sure, but thats again just different sets of input training data that a multimodal model can make connections between if there were pressure to do so.

Then you simply prompt the LLM to define the laws it has observed in a way that can use language to transmit the idea. In the human equivalent, a "prompt" doesn't need to be (but can be) a direct question being asked. It could just be our urge to share ideas, an emotion perhaps that moves us to action. I don't want to go too far on this thought as it is pure speculation without serious scientific backing, but for the sake of the thought experiment with all this in mind you could even say that brains are much like an LLM that is in a constant state of training & updating, but also being "prompted" from our environment and biological feedback loops being fed in. I don't feel like this idea is even that controversial or remotely original.

The difference is that models of today are already trained on the corpus of human knowledge so they already know all of this instead of having to figure it out. But I don't really see an argument for why an LLM wouldn't be able to crystallise observed patterns into mathematical formulae if it had the appropriate influences that would encourage it to do so. Its just that we don't care to train them inefficiently. I imagine this will be tried in the near future though.

I don't feel deceived. The process is just different than I thought, but I also didn't even have a concrete idea of the process to start with.

Good exercise in not blindly accepting things, which is arguably more valuable than a cute Netflix homage

I literally was just having a foggy version of this exact same thought whilst reading the article. Especially

> "Researchers recently discovered that the proton sometimes includes a charm quark and charm antiquark, colossal particles that are each heavier than the proton itself."

You articulated my feeling better than I could. Surely this is something the researchers have accounted for and there's a good explanation (whether I can actually understand it is another story)

Curious as to why this isn't a direct link to the YouTube video

That's very funny, thanks for that one haha :)

I did this at university. It was our first comp sci class ever, we were given raspberry pi's. We had no coding experience or guidance, and were asked to create "something". All we had to work with was information on how to communicate with the pi using putty. Oddly, this assignment didn't require us to submit code, but simply demonstrate it working.

My group (3 of us) bought a moisture sensor to plug into the pi, and had the idea to make a "flood detection system" that would be housed under a bridge, and would send an email to relevant people when the bridge home from work is about to flood.

So for our demonstration, we had a guy in the back of the class with gmail open ready to send an email saying some variation of "flood warning". Our script was literally just printing lines with wait statements in between. Running the script, it prints to the screen "awaiting moisture", and after 3 seconds it will print "moisture detected". In that 3 seconds I dip the sensor into the glass of water. Then the script would wait a few more seconds before printing "sending email to xxx@yyy.com". We then opened up our email, our mate at the back of the room hit send, and an email appeared saying flood warning, and we would get full marks.

In the context of Australia, voting is mandatory if you're >=18yo.

We also have very unusual tax laws around owning a rental called negative gearing- if you're a landlord and your rental property earns less than it costs to run it, you can subtract the difference from your taxable income and pay less tax, as if having a tenant pay off most of your mortgage wasn't enough of a free lunch.

A political contest vowing to get rid of this nonsense was annihilated when we tried it one election cycle around a decade ago.

If I recall, they really hoped it would work without it because the idea is to launch off the surface of other planets that won't have a deluge system. Not sure if that additional context makes it seem any less crazy to think it isn't needed though.

I feel the chances for success are slim to none, but I'm surprised it has taken this long to see someone share this opinion. This is how I have felt for some time. I feel for the children born today.

and those are the very exceptions the parent allows for.

I actually believe it would - it would inspire generations to work towards something greater than even humanity. Whether that resulted in beauty or disaster is besides the point. It might bring some greater sense of unity amongst humans, and direct our efforts for millennia.

You could probably (depending on how much of the information you want is retrievable easily via fitbit's api) write a basic app that restructures that data and syncs daily to your database without having to studiously (=manually?) do it.

I wondered about Annihilation too.

I mean... I guess the climate did change, but it didn't seem like that had anything to do with anthropomorphic climate change, which is surely the implied idea of the category

how so?

A kiss ass is the above with no authenticity.

at that point it seems simpler to install heating

"Tried" is probably the keyword here. Everything you said is correct, but having alcohol is something that adults, not children, typically do. Whether or not more mature adults move to alcohol avoidance is a different thing. I think it definitely indicates a change in socialisation at the very least, and while labelling it an adult trait may be incorrect depending on who you ask, it is still relevant.

Does this mean that the notion of conservation of energy is actually preserved? Everywhere says its not except on local scales but this almost sounds like dark energy/the creation of more space is fuelled by light.

Noosa? Of all the nude beaches in the world, the single one I know about and have been to is (at least presumably) referenced.