The standard for citations has been established a long time and there’s no good reason to change it.
Technically speaking it was low-G. None of Joachim Phoenix’s movies are strictly “zero-G”
Next time maybe they’ll shell out for The Clamp
We can pretty much assume whatever needs clamping’s less than 28” thick.
I’m not sure if you can preserve a book’s “lessons and ideas” in a compressed form, unless you know in advance which lessons and ideas you’re looking to preserve.
It’s not about which words get used, from this or that set. It’s about how the words felt when the author was choosing them, and how that’s reflected in how the reader feels reading them. And how when the AI chooses words, there’s nobody feeling them as they go down.
Yeah but she’s a person and not an AI so it was a conscious choice on her part all the way. When an AI digests literature, it does so unconsciously.
How does that help teen literacy?
We shouldn’t be pushing great literature on teens. They lack the life experience to even appreciate it. They mark it down as “read” and then it’s off their list for life. All we do by pushing crap teenagers don’t get and therefore don’t like on teens is to inoculate them from great fiction. Let them read whatever they like.
The timeless stuff doesn’t become apparent as such until one’s thirties anyway.
Even someone for whom English is an acquired language can appreciate literature. Being an English learner doesn’t make a person incapable of reading English literature.
My octogenarian father loves World of Tanks
They will disappear
🎵Everybody needs some nookie sometimes🎵
SpaceX has been paid on delivery of promised services, and their success rates are much higher. That’s the opposite of control; that’s the government stepping back from owning a company’s costs. Seems to work a lot better than the tight relationship Boeing and government have.
That is so fucked up. So a homeless person is forced into the shelter system, regardless of whether it’s of good or terrible quality.
It would appear you’ve not fed him enough. The poor thing is reduced to a single back leg.
Skateboarding on multilevel o'neill cylinders is gonna be sick
O’Neill cylinder is that big rotating cylinder space station format that uses the spin for artificial gravity.
At higher elevations the gravity will be lower. BMX bikes will be fun too. Make a big jump and you can go across the center and land on the other side, or go into a zero-gee part in the middle, which works out if you’re always inside a curve.
Sleep is when your brain's LLM retrains on the day's conversation
I’ve noticed ChatGPT gets less able to do precise reasoning or respond to instructions, the longer the conversation gets.
It felt exactly like working with a student who was getting tired and needed to rest.
Then I had above shower thought. Pretty cool right?
Every few months a new ChatGPT v4 is deployed. It’s got new training data, up through X date. They train up a new model on the new content in the world, including ChatGPT conversations from users who’ve opted into that (or didn’t opt out, can’t remember how it’s presented).
It’s like GPT is “sleeping”, to consolidate “the day’s” knowledge into long term memory. All the data in the current conversation is its short term memory. After handling a certain amount of complexity in one conversation, the coherence of responses breaks down, becomes more habitual and less responsive to nuance. It gets tired and can’t go much further.
McDonalds hasbrowns
I just stopped at McDonalds and ordered two orders of hash browns. I expected to get four “patties” of hash browns, but only got two. Each order has one big oval shaped chunk of hash browns.
I asked the guy about it, asked when it had changed, and he said it’s always been that way. I searched google images, and all the pictures show a single chunk to an order.
Does anyone else remember an order of hash browns being two separate pieces?
For me this changed in like the last week because the last time I got an order with two in it was a week or two ago.
Summary of threats facing humanity
I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.
GPT's output is also pasted into the comments.