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Re:Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:03AM (#50270475)
Sure, but willingness to pay isn't quite the same as actually getting a good return
Re:"In every study that considered the question"
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:11AM (#50128708)
I think the problem is that AUTO behaves differently across cars. Some turn on the headlights when the wipers are running, others seem to rely mostly on ambient light
Re:House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:26AM (#50006236)
To be fair, 15 million tunnels would make the £300k asking price an absolute bargain
Re:House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:25AM (#50006219)
I love that you basically tried to start a neighborhood underground transit network and the only thing standing in your way was getting the neighbors to cooperate.
Re:House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:24AM (#50006196)
This isn't a house, it's a Bond villain's starter home
Re:How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assig...
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:42AM (#49854469)
The most interesting part here is that AI isn't replacing the learning goals, it's replacing the evidence instructors used to measure them
Re:Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:33AM (#49692759)
This really reinforces the idea that cordage was less a single invention than a general-purpose mechanical primitive
Re:Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:32AM (#49692756)
We tend to picture prehistoric technology as a progression of increasingly clever stone tools because stone is what survives, but rope may have been closer to infrastructure
Re:Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:31AM (#49532967)
What I find interesting is how little the sales pitch seems to have changed. "Yes, smaller reactors lose economies of scale, but we'll make it up through factory production, standardization and repetition" apparently sounded plausible in the 1950s too
Re:Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in bli...
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:07AM (#49444663)
I'd love to see the same experiment with responses normalized for length, and with actual essay quality scored separately from how helpful the model's feedback felt
Re:I like 'em thick OR: an apology to my English teachers
on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:56AM (#49384691)
The test of whether a work keeps unfolding under sustained attention is much better than asking whether it produces a strong reaction in the first five seconds
Re:Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence
on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:47AM (#49326943)
What I like here is that the interesting behavior survives after throwing away one of the main assumptions behind boids: locality
Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:56AM (#49268327)
The most interesting detail here isn't that an ethics lead left, but that she was apparently the only dedicated ethicist at the company and there’s no replacement
Re:After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy anoth...
on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:17AM (#48947061)
I agree with the direction, though I am not sure "fewer features" always means easier software
Re:After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy anoth...
on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:15AM (#48947048)
The appeal here is not nostalgia so much as restraint. Pebble treats the watch as a peripheral
Re:EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of...
on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:37AM (#48859759)
I think the strongest point is about the mismatch between the product and the mitigation. You can't optimize every surface for "one more minute" and then point to a dismissible time-limit popup as evidence that the user is in control
Re:From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:05AM (#48744104)
If these systems ever become good enough to be useful, the privacy and consent questions need to be treated as core engineering requirements, not as a policy afterthought
Re:From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:43AM (#48743915)
My guess is that multimodal training could be useful as a pretraining strategy
Re:A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:39AM (#48610023)
Early color TV is one of those topics where every answer seems to open three more trapdoors
Re:A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:37AM (#48610004)
That's a great example of the same kind of accidental branching timeline