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Regular...albeit astronomically large (unless we're granting idealizations like infinite context, etc.)

It's comforting, at least, that the electorate sends people who will keep important agencies like the EPA & FDA healthy and who will only appoint the best & brightest to run them.

Very cool. It eventually got stuck for me, too, towards the bottom. Stuck detection would be a next step.

Then you could plot the change in score for the current war, and overlay other plots that different wars took.

For context, here’s an old article about how he kept asking his advisors about actions against Venezuela throughout his first term. Old flames never die.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/trump-sugges...

I see what you're saying, but I think it's a misunderstanding. 1D here only means that there's some state where the active cells are confined to one row — but one row within the ordinary 2D GoL plane. I'm sure the next iteration leaps off the line immediately. Search for "Blinker" here to imagine how it could start spreading off the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

Why do you think it would not be possible?

I had a similar experience, signing up for the first time to give Gemini a test drive on my side project after a long time using ChatGPT. The latter has a native macOS client which "just works" integrating with Xcode buffers. I couldn't figure out how to integrate Gemini with Xcode quickly enough so I'm resorting to pasting back & forth from the browser. A few of the exchanges I've had "felt smarter" — but, on the whole, it feels like maybe it wasn't as well trained on Swift/SwiftUI as the OpenAI model. I haven't decided one way or another yet, but those are my initial impressions.

Once one does spend some time to become comfortable with the language, that feeling of messiness with unfamiliar syntax fades away. That's the case with any unfamiliar language, not just Rust.

Are you Donald? How can you be certain that nothing exists?

Sounds like you’re assuming that standards for charges/trial should also be used as standards for inquiry/investigation. That is not the case.

Trying to figure out if this observation was intended to frame it so that it's less|same|more scary. The effect is more, but it sounds like the intention was less.

With any other administration I would have granted you that leap in logic, but we already learned, three years ago, from Stephanie Grisham that he held off the books meetings specifically to circumvent record keeping laws. So I think a slightly higher standard of evidence is needed before we dismiss the possibility that he met with the pedo who likely had dirt on him.

Could you explain how “no confirmed meeting” implies “they never met”?

> News is not the place for bias

TBH, I think that journalists tying themselves into pretzels in an effort to remain unbiased does more damage than the presence of some bias. As a consumer of news, I want journalists to be biased, for example, towards the rule of law, the preservations of institutions, and checks & balances, and even norms.

Gives you popcorn lungs, but it is technically a replacement.

Plastics are largely a petroleum product, right? That particular resource extraction industry pretty much has a lock on public policy.

Does it need to be the same thing, though, before we consider actions the Precautionary Principle might point toward?

Yeah, I know that Upset Plots are a better choice for data visualization — as everyone is pointing out — but take a moment to appreciate this beautiful etude for what it is. This nicely executed. I love how this forced the author into some very difficult choices about how to create a large set of convincingly "mixed" colors — which is a very difficult problem even with just 4 overlapping base colors!

In some sense, they "lucked out" by dealing with a prime number of primary color sets, which helped them avoid having multiple pairs of colors that are directly across the wheel from each other.

Very nicely done. It's fun to play with, and inspiring to study.

Ovals, arguably roundish, can do 4 sets well in 2D.

To this day, whenever I see Machine Learning abbreviated, my heart skips a beat, then I become crestfallen as I realize I'm not about to read something about Meta Language.

Pop culture characters like Lt. Commander Data seem anachronistic now.

Trying now to analyze the limit of this principle as the bully approaches POTUS.

Nicely said. That’s right up there with Wilhoit’s Law for being a clarifying perspective.

I stopped hearing claims that it was about illegal immigration almost instantly after the debate where he claimed “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” It was eerie.

To be fair, though, through their eyes everything looks like a nail.

That means Steam will release a native Apple Silicon client circa 2028. Exciting!

They aren’t just making computers, though. Today’s CPU improvements go into tomorrow’s Vision Pro. Today’s improved E cores become tomorrow’s watch cores. Or something like that.

I’m not in that ecosystem, so I missed that. How did they phrase that?

Something tells me the corporations will get the last laugh, once web browsers stop showing you "the web" and only show you LLM hallucinations that superficially seem like the web.

Without a positive suggestion of who our allies should instead be, the question is incomplete. Surely you don’t think we should have none?