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ludicrousdispla··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
>> AI is truly a once in a civilization event.

Aren't we on our 3rd or 4th iteration of AI at this point?

ludicrousdispla··on What is going on with ceiling fans
I bet a matrix of cpu fans mounted to the ceiling would work rather well, rgb lighting is optional.
ludicrousdispla··on Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
maybe he'd just consider it a hyperbolic statement
ludicrousdispla··on Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted
maybe they tried to undo the change, but were not able to
ludicrousdispla··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
For Spain it would probably be Catalan Independence, for France any mention of air conditioning technologies, and for Italy it's pineapple on pizza.
ludicrousdispla··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Play a game long enough and the main challenge becomes inventory management. I look forward to the IVAR update.
ludicrousdispla··on Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)
The second and third attempts are much less difficult.
ludicrousdispla··on Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)
how do I submit a 'contribution'
ludicrousdispla··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Unfortunately, the current leadership in AI and tech more generally seems unconcerned with reputational risks.
ludicrousdispla··on I refused to train the AI that could replace me
But they wrote the article on principle, and that has a greater impact.
ludicrousdispla··on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
I took my first statistics class as an evening course, before going to graduate school, and 90% of the work involved doing hand calculations, avg., variance, std. dev., z-scores, t-tests, etc. And I think that gave me a strong grasp of those fundamentals.

If you could do something similar for bayesian statistics I think that would be useful, but not necessarily popular.

ludicrousdispla··on Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
While reading your comment it occurred to me that virtually all reporting on (or talking about) science involves applying it to an unsuitable context. Schrödinger's cat is probably the most prolific example of this.
ludicrousdispla··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
You should add some RGB backlighting to it.
ludicrousdispla··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
The one criticism I can offer on IKEA furniture is that some of it doesn't move well, specifically the particle board stuff which will fall apart at the joints if it's not carefully handled.

Having said that, I also tend to not buy the particle board stuff.

I'd prefer it if IKEA offered more options (dimensionally) on their durable furnishings.

ludicrousdispla··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.
ludicrousdispla··on Bug Blindness
I think at least half of the software developers out there simply don't test their code in the final product (or at all). And why would they when their revision is being reviewed in a pull request?
ludicrousdispla··on The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
As the model keeps improving, to the extent it has some utility, it will decrease in value.
ludicrousdispla··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
No, it is nothing like retinal fatigue, which is what they are referencing in that sentence.

The later section on "What Do Most Visualizers See?" is a better description, although the level of detail is highly dependent on effort, and lack of distraction.

And I'd argue that detail is not particularly important as the visualization is just there to represent conceptual things.

ludicrousdispla··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
A good analogy for the difference between seeing and visualizing... speaking a statement is to thinking a statement as seeing a thing is to visualizing the thing.
ludicrousdispla··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
I find this scene from a popular TV show captures it well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjfQ6soLSAU&t=12s

ludicrousdispla··on Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
that sounds exactly like "a jury of peers is standing up for individuals against corporate/government overreach"
ludicrousdispla··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
they were an early sponsor of the research that yielded relational databases, so I guess we can thank them for Oracle as well
ludicrousdispla··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
no, and in fact they should be extremely easy to detect if they are substituting a token that is a least-probable synonym
ludicrousdispla··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Can you get water from your air conditioning unit, or is it just too dry there?
ludicrousdispla··on The Color of White Light
>> it might not match your experience outdoors

My wife and I had an interesting experience a while back where we walked outside our house mid-morning and everything was tinted an intense bizarro green. This was in New England just over two decades ago, and we think it was due to some extensive forest fires that had been burning in Canada and the airborne ash was somehow filtering specific wavelengths of sunlight.

ludicrousdispla··on Incentives are for losers
My experience tring to map game theory to people's choices in the workplace is that the action taken is typically opposite of the predicted, or optimal, 'game theoretic' action, and often with enormous benefit to that individual.
ludicrousdispla··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
>> it sometimes took forever to get your gas if the attendant was busy

Then the gas station owner could hire another attendant. Or your parent could pick a different gas station or a different time of day, free markets and all...

ludicrousdispla··on The Absurdity of Albert Camus
I've only read it once, which was last year, and I thought Meursalt's indifference to his life and those around him was then directed back on to him through the trial (which I didn't consider absurd at all.)

In that way he is more representative of the society that has placed him on trial than anyone else in it.

ludicrousdispla··on BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
>> Zero enshitification.

Lexus should put that on the cover of their product brochure.

ludicrousdispla··on I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
The 'named' reviewers typically pass on the review responsibilty to grad students or less-senior colleagues. This is currently a generally accepted and sanctioned/encouraged practice. A social scoring system would need to eliminate that for true accountability.
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