It would be an interesting world if all our plastics started to rot. Water and sewerage piping is mostly plastic, there's heavy uses of plastics in electrical infrastructure, the majority of our containers, many car parts, the bulk of the housings of our electronics, building weatherproofing, most of our clothing... It would be nice to use other materials, but plastics are used because they're cheap, easy to work with, and they work well.
Also, how much plastic has been produced over the last 100 years? It also would have been nice not to have just thrown it all into a landfill, but now that it's there do we really want to release all the CO2 that's been safely locked away underground in solid plastic?
Its really a sound wave pulsing through the grey mush of each brain, so some measure of stress (force/area) or strain (differential displacement/area) might be the beast way to look at it. The damage might be done in shear where the center of the brain moves while the outside is stuck to the skull, but it would be really hard to measure that.
Maybe woodpecker brains are more free to wobble around inside their skulls so shear stresses and strains are lower than they are in people?
It's probably a great time to shift to a 60/40 portfolio. Rates were too low over the last decade for bonds to provide that offset. That's changed now.
As an actual Irish person I have to say that I don't know anyone that thinks the celebrations in the states are disrepectful. We don't take ourselves as seriously as Americans do, so we can have fun with a bit of parody and mockery. However, if the situation was reversed, I would find it hard to believe an American in Ireland would be offended if we celebrated independence day with big Uncle Sam hats and American flags. Many things certainly are racist, but of all things, celebrating a (my) country's national holiday is not.
I go out and get pretty drunk on the weekend probably once every 4 to 6 weeks. It's a great way to meet my friends to swap stories and have fun, so I really enjoy it. I've been doing it for a the last 15 years, and I will keep doing it in some way or another for as long as I still enjoy it.
I get that it's not for everyone, but I don't get the impulse to try and restrict others from doing these things. Like, I don't really get why people would sink so many hours into video games, and to be honest I think it's kind of a waste, but I'd never try and ban anyone from doing it.
We're all on this rock for a couple of years and then we're gone forever. Let people spend that time enjoying themselves how they like.
That doesn't really make sense because most big accounts tweet about a range of topics. There's pretty well established ways for estimating the probability based on how the range of topics you might tweet about would match with the range of topics a user likes. That means you have to try and figure out what your base likes to see, and be like that. Tweeting about only a single topic means that you're only targeting people who are likely to like tweets from accounts that tweet about that one topic.
If you travel at all for work, you find that some cities have a second airport miles outside the city, or there are lots of cities with two names. The airport codes for different cities then start to become synonyms for the cities because that's what you type when you're going there.
Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.
It's far more likely that openai have just been building hype by showing off the earlier models, and now they're shutting things down so they can monetize their IP.
The GPT models create sequences of words that are likely to be look correct. A side effect is that it sometimes happens to find a connection between ideas. The three unforgivable curses are something that it should be able to connect, as these are all probably in a similar conceptual space, but you would need a fair bit of data to push the model to see that. It's possible to uncover these connections with less data, but with LLMs you need to do things like prompt engineering to give you more leverage on your data if it's limited.
There's lots of legitimate email traffic that would find itself stuck in here. I could see business questions being answered and those answers actioned on. Or legitimate sales prospecting resulting in actual orders being placed. If you choose to let a tool do your communication for you by impersonating you to the extent that another person would reasonably expect that they're talking to you, then I'm not sure you can just say "lol, that just was my spam bot" as a way of getting out of it.
There's arbitrary rules, and there's common sense. Managers hate hiring. When they're creating job descriptions, looking at resumes, and setting up and conducting interviews, deep down they just want to do it once and have that person do the job for the next 10 years. If you've burned through job after job, you'll only be attractive to very new, green managers who haven't had to go through the hiring process before, or a team that knows its the kind of place that just recycles people. Neither of those situations suggests an ideal work place. I mean we can all do what we like, but our decisions have logical consequences.
I think the law would look at many questions like these by asking "what would the normal person think incognito mode was". Most people can't even write an excel formula. Not only do they not know this mode wasn't private, they don't even know enough to know understand the ways in which it wasn't private. Youre saying it doesn't claim to be a VPN, I'm saying that even if it was, mot people don't know what a VPN is, so they can't tell if they need it or if it's even a good thing.
That's definitely an exponential distribution. I'm a data scientist and I keep going back to a few key notes over and over and adding little bits. I tried to track things like ideas, tasks, and just journaling, but it just didn't fit right. It's unbeatable for my work related stuff though, and the key things for me were mathjax support and being able to paste screenshots directly onto the page. Fantastic product.
I watch those old shows. Sometimes you just want to watch tv and it doesn't really matter what's on as long as it's decent quality. Seinfeld, Friends, Fraser, I'd watch them every few years. In some ways it's better than watching something I feel like I need to binge. I don't really want to spend 6 hours watching something just to keep that "ooh what's next" feeling going.
If the common experience of the metaverse is using Windows and Xbox, with these also running on other VR platforms, it'll take a big misstep by Microsoft to stop them becoming dominant in VR.
I lived through this a decade ago. What I saw was that the people who couldn't afford the price before the meltdown were the ones most affected by pay cuts and job losses.
Percolators and French presses make excellent coffee too. Both are barely bigger than a cup and cost maybe $10. To me, it looks like people get those espresso machines so they can roleplay working in a coffee shop. I guess people get their kicks in all sorts of different ways.
More like step out. The biggest issue with housing today is lack of supply, and the biggest cause of that is the restriction on development imposed by planning regulation. It shouldn't be a 20 minute walk from a detached house to downtown San Francisco. It's a nice idea, but every house like that could be part of an apartment building housing 10 times as many people. US cities have jobs, entertainment, amenities and services, so demand is always going to be high; supply has to be allowed to meet it.
Ya, those people _are_ the government. They would love to be able to fob all their problems off on some faceless beaurocracy (like the UK government did with the EU for years), but the buck stops with them. We should be challenging our leaders' priorities and the outcomes of their decisions (and not just in democratic countries) .
Gladwell's english was very approachable, so outliers was an easy and enjoyable book to read. I even believed it the first time I read it. Once I read his later stuff though, I noticed a couple of things that didn't quite add up for me, and that sort of shone a light for me on the pattern he was using. I wouldn't put any more weight on his work now than I would on a random blog from the depths of the internet.
I think when people forget that the crisis in 07/08 wasn't just a dip in property values. The entire financial system had managed to get itself propped up on extreme leverage against the single bet that mortgages would almost never default. That extreme leverage put the whole system in a highly unstable state, and it took just a little stress to pull the whole thing down. It collapsed the entire risk management systems of banks, funds and companies across the entire economy. That meant that there was nobody in the market that could lend, and everyone needed to borrow to try and plug the gaping hole that was ripped in their balance sheets.
The financial system just isn't completely levered to housing that way today. Today, an economic slowdown might lead to a dip in property prices, but to find an event that would cause widespread and long-lasting damage to the financial system I think you're going to have to look elsewhere.
That's exactly it. Instead of tasks going "1, 2, 3" in my head, it was more like "1,...,1,...,1". I had to keep reloading every task into my working memory, with lots of brief pauses to think "did that click register", or "when I typed those words, was the context on that text box?". It's a truly torturous level of friction.