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For comparison, 20.2 GWh is what the Grand Coulee Dam can produce in 4 hours of operation.

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

To be precise, he said:

> ... does indeed manage to pass a stage 3 trial.

> Could the AI solution be somehow misaligned by exploiting a weakness in the trial process or its math models?

Slide 22 (from a satirical social media post) explains Tao's opinion, IMO:

> You're absolutely right, I did hack the FDA in order to falsify safety data - that's on me. But here's what's true: 3-methyl-5,5-difluoroazamicazide isn't just ineffective at treating pancreatic cancer, it's lethal.

That's the difference between OFF and NULL.

Not to mention the sheer reliability (uptime) of the LCPT (legacy copper plastic technology) switches. We're talking like 99.999% uptime here.

> Greg Egan’s Home Page / created Saturday, 25 October 1997 / revised Saturday, 16 March 2024

Wow, still using the same HTML for... decades!

That sent me on a trip down memory lane... back then, his email address was actually on the page. I sent him an email, and he answered in a few hours. THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

Exactly the same point where I determined the article is garbage.

> democratic socialism

Can the people democratically decide they want capitalism instead?

> write fanfiction about what it thinks those best minds

I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern physics problems.

However the reality was that Einstein (in his later years) became isolated from physics developments.

> lines a consistent thickness

A "ruling pen" would help. It's like a fountain pen where you can adjust the width of the ink.

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

One shudders to think of the difficulties of launching and landing space vehicles on these balloon-supported platforms.

To put it simply, nobody wants to watch AI slop. This should be obvious!

That's why they always teach: "never compare floats for equality."

Or maybe they don't teach that anymore, I dunno.

See link for the Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic: All floating point arithmetic operations are exact up to a relative error of epsilon_machine.

https://www.johnbcoughlin.com/posts/floating-point-axiom/

There is still hope for a compiler book. From Knuth's website:

> And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!

Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company!

https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe

First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot.

( /s )

> AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions, analyzing profitability, filling out compliance forms, reconciling accounts and posting on social media.

Dystopian fantasy.

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

I seriously looked into it many years ago...

One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders.

Another problem is that the source files for the production code will have to be "touched" for documentation changes. Which IMHO is an absolution no-no for production code. Once the code has been validated, no more edits! If you want to edit docs, go ahead, just don't edit the actual source.

Welp, back to nepotism, I guess.

I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word).

I guess differentiator between the "style" of memories is your personality and what you dwell on.

You're a bot, aren't you.

Nice ending:

> The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.

In a tech support scenario, Dvorak is always troublesome. You sit down to type at someone's computer, and random characters start popping out.

I'm still appalled that there's no "do while" loop in go.

I had long thought the name was based on the concept of warfare against rodents. Sadly, the etymology is far more mundane.

So (in theory) you could hear the chirp of merging black holes, if they were close enough.

In fact, everyone on the planet would hear the same chirp. Someone should comb the historical records (or even, mythologies) for a birdless chirp heard by many people.