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This'd make a nice lyric. If only "Harvard" rhymed with "discovered".

I wonder if Gretchen saying that in the movie was a nod to Merry Prankster Fetchin' Gretchen the slime queen.

I'm 63. Cats seem a lot more friendly and open to human interaction now than when I was a kid. I wonder what they were like 200 years ago. Especially barn cats, with half wild lifestyles.

Some cats now have floppy ears -- I first saw that in the late 90s. Floppy ears is a sign of domestication in dogs and foxes.

Foothill College Observatory, Los Altos Hills, is open to the public Fri & Sat: https://foothill.edu/astronomy/observatory.html

They also have occasional events and lectures. It hasn't changed much since I was a docent in 1976.

Is this how we finally get full self-driving? Maybe have enough compute in the car to take care of mundane cruising and emergency braking, checking with a centralized/shared expert-driver AI in exceptional circumstances. Maybe the expert-driver AI contacts an even-more-expert AI in even-more-exceptional circumstances. Etc. AIs all the way up.

Imagine the implications.

> The average is slightly less.

The Riddle of the Sphinx begs to differ.

... or the movie Alien? Altho that's also a kind of pregnancy.

More specifically, sole-searching beachgoers.

They mean big-endian NaN, taking only the first 3 bytes. No alpha channel.

https://encycolorpedia.com/76b900 says Nvidia green #76b900.

Altho there's a couple ways to define an atomic radius, molybdenum's and silicon's empirically measured covalent atomic radii are 145 and 110 picometers respectively [1]. So 50pm is a very small bump indeed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius

Duplicate is here: https://archive.ph/qhXyD

It's safer that you don't know. Because of all the alien tech they brought back.

And the moon's too hot anyway. Even at the end of its long night. Even at -130C it'd still be too hot for JWST.

Or put a relay in a halo orbit at earth-moon L2. Or at the earth-moon L4 and L5 orbits, which would cover a good portion of the moon's far side.

In conference/zoom calls I'd like a slider to express my boredom-to-fascination level. And I'd like the average value prominently displayed, to discourage droning -- the scourge of meetings.

I'm talking about status/discussion/brainstorm meetings. Not presentations, altho maybe they could also use some kind of feedback mechanism.

> It's literally a scaled up Eliza

It's literally a Chinese Room. (Unless you speak Mandarin?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

The motives are different this time. Those in the know are deliberately downplaying and misdirecting to stave off panic and political meddling. So far it seems to be working. The people I know who aren't following closely don't seem to realize how we may be on the brink of something very big. And these are very smart and technical people.

I do wonder if the intelligence agencies are already deeply involved. If OpenAI is working with them training no-guardrails AIs.

I also wonder if the CCP/PLA is pushing Baidu's AI efforts, or if Baidu is working on its own and trying to avoid official attention.

Commented just prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155529

The responses are interesting.

> Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available.

Will input-images also be tokenized? Multi-modal input is an area of research, but an image could be converted into a text description (?) before being inserted into the input stream.

Who rates the ratings agencies?

Seriously. How can I compare Fitch, S&P and Moody's? Is there any way an outsider can disrupt their triopoly?

Test taking will change. In the future I could see the student engaging in a conversation with an AI and the AI producing an evaluation. This conversation may be focused on a single subject, or more likely range over many fields and ideas. And may stretch out over months. Eventually teaching and scoring could also be integrated as the AI becomes a life-long tutor.

Even in a future where human testing/learning is no longer relevant, AIs may be tutoring and raising other baby AIs, preparing them to join the community.

Edit: This just appeared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155684

Best to keep your hoard of guns/ammo/gold hidden and secret.

Future super-AIs may cite this as justification for their actions.

In this ever expanding universe in which we live in, it seems there is stuff at the distance edge of our light cone, red-shifting past our causality horizon as it slips away from us at greater than the speed of light. For them our reality has already ended, and for us, theirs. The same for those who fall past a black hole horizon. We see their experience of our time as slowing and ending. As they see us.

So ... not with a bang but a whimper?

Do you? Does your username have deterministic implications? Or aspirational?

Terminal velocities[1] for a horizontal human at the surface of some round rocks:

  Earth 120mph
  Venus 15mph
  Mars  928mph
  Titan 21mph

Presumably you could do a little better spread-eagled with baggy clothes.

Titan has the advantage that humans and pigs could fly without motorized assistance. It's like paradise.

But I suspect cats and squirrels (and dandelions?) are gonna have some hard falls on Mars.

1 Terminal velocities from https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4wkd99/what_is_...

I once consumed a couple of grams of NU-Salt (potassium chloride) in an effort to lower blood pressure. Indeed it works. Also lowers heart rate. And makes your face numb. Use it lightly on food otherwise everything taste metallic.

This wasn't a very wise experiment -- I don't recommend it. Injected, KCl can kill you (and is used for executions). I don't know the fatal oral dose, but it's so orally unpleasant you'd probably be vomiting before getting there.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-... seems to say that in 2019 there were about 5900 undergrads and 5000 administrators and managers at Yale. Not quite parity.

But https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts shows somewhat different numbers.

But what do you do with a zombie process? I haven't found the lyrics that tell me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Sailor