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I love what Kipling wrote, but the man was amazingly sexist and racist.

But if you force some modern sensibilities on the poem that Kipling would have gotten violent over, “If” is pretty great.

But, what could possibly go wrong by putting an LLM and a password manager in the same package? I mean, it’s like the CEO isn’t getting their bonus just because some users get their private data horrible compromised.

As long as you don’t go over the max, it works.

You’d browse through them like a rolodex. The disks can tilt forward in the box to make that easier.

But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!

When somebody publishes a bullshit paper that is eventually withdrawn, every subsequent paper citing the fraudulent work can also be withdrawn as being unreliable.

It depends on how foundational it is, of course. If you could swap it for a dozen other papers, nobody cares. If you’re continuing the work from a retracted paper, you’re fucked (but then, you probably would have noticed some errors pretty soon anyway).

I have a friend who basically ran a series of experiments based on a paper that was complete bullshit. And like any good biochemist, he figured he was screwing up, or the equipment was faulty, or the substrate was more cursed than usual. Lucky for him, after weeks of smashing into a brick wall of failure, he started asking other people, who also kept failing and then they figured it out.

It’s only when you are capable of finding the answer for yourself that you realise the AI is usually wrong.

Exactly. Explaining that LLMs don’t give the right answer, they give an answer that appears correct to the average person. Sometimes, for trivial stuff, a thing that appears correct is correct. For complex matters, you need to ask yourself “if I asked my aunt to Google this, would I use that answer for my company?”.

If the answer is yes, then by all means, use LLMs for your work.

The AI could replace their entire company, including C-level. Is that the goal?

To which the C-level, in their bloated ignorance, will answer that they can’t possibly be replaced, because their job is hard and nuanced and requires insight, unlike those coders who just type stuff all day or those engineers who just draw things and do maths more slowly than LLMs do.

It’s only a surprise to idiots.

Well, not all the time anyway. How many humans were buried with hats on?

Its really only relevant if you live on radon producing rock, like granite.

2 pCi/L

Wut? That’s such a weird combination of units for an American system.

Terms like “sense” and “tell” are a bit misleading. It’s very much a chemical/mechanical interaction that’s automatic. Rather like soap bubbles “sensing” when they’ve reached the surface of the water.

Plants contain a protein called phototropin, which is activated by light. When it’s activated, it changes the shape and alignment of the “skeleton” of the cell, making it more cube-shaped as opposed to long and skinny.

That means the light side of a plant gets shorter, while the dark side remains long. The dark side also grows slightly faster, on a count of having more cells there (you can fit more skinny cells side-by-side than wide cells), and so the plant angles and grows toward the light.

And yes. The colour matters. Phototropin reacts best to blue light, and leaves absorb mostly red and blue light (which is why they’re green). It basically ignores the green light filtered through leaves.

But that only kills those larva. Not the ones in all the ponds nearby.

I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

I’m in a completely different field, but there’s nothing more awesome than seeing your work get used in real life situations that actually match up with your goals.

And people showing a genuine interest is a close second.

It’s not “kind of true”, they mark scent with urine. And they’ll mark all their cage mates too, and that includes their human.

But yes, rats are tiny and don’t pee on you and your house much, that’s true. They also absolutely have bladders (what a weird myth that is) and almost always potty train themselves to do most of their urinating in certain spots when not marking scent.

Are you being intentionally obtuse? There’s a big fucking difference between “someone must have dropped it” and “someone threw it at people”.

If you found a pocket knife, would you be as offended?

This is not only an arrowhead, but one with two folding/swinging razor blades as fins.

Ok but my razor also has two razorblades. That doesn’t make it super dangerous.

you can’t really find it acceptable for anyone to throw these sort of things at a Mardi Gras parade can you?

You said it was found on the ground, are you now saying it was seen being thrown at someone?

It’s a loose arrowhead. When it’s not attached to a shaft and set on a bow, it’s about as dangerous as any short, pointy bit of metal.

zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.

Zebra’s don’t like anyone, and they’re not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.

Also, live-service games endeavour to stay relevant forever.

For, say, God of War, you’ll eventually be done with it. You’ve played all the things, you put the box on the shelve and move on to another game. But for these forever-games, you can play them forever.

And that means that if you want to launch a game in that market, you can’t rely on getting players who just put down God of War and want something roughly similar. You need to not only be better than Fortnite, but you need to be sufficiently better than people will abandon years of investement into Fortnite to go play your game.

The barrier to entry is HUGE, and it’s made much worse by the idea that the new game might dissapear, meaning you wasted months (or, occasionally, days, lol).