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Re:72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master's in AI on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:28AM (#34170388)
Learning something new and highly technical like machine learning seems a good way of spending time in one's 70s. Even he is not retired but a congressman. It encourages me think that I am not too old to learn machine learning.
Sorry I meant the theoretical physics engine operating the real world. For example if 1N of force is exerted on an atom having 1kg of mass, who is to calculate the resulting acceleration of the atom and update the value of the acceleration state variable of the atom? Atom itself or some kind of the universe OS? And wouldn’t it be necessary some kind of energy to calculate it?
How about the modern physics engine for the real world? How much energy would it need to calculate all the effects of collisions of the "little" elastic bodies with infinite precision? And how fast would it need to be to calculate them in such a short period of time?

It's amazing to think about all the objects in the universe which collide, always according to the laws of physics, not requiring any cost/resource/energy to such computing loads, and reliably without any uncaught exceptions.

Re:Tailwind Is a Leaky Abstraction on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:25AM (#33788687)
Tailwind acknowledges the limitation [1] and also provides gap utilities [2]:

  <div class="flex gap-x-2">
which translates to

  display: flex;
  column-gap: 0.5rem;
[1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/space#limitations

[2]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/gap

Edit: formatting

Same. I can't play any games for more than an hour.
Re:Before YouTube’s algorithm, there were ‘coolhunters’ on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:06AM (#32747899)
Amazon experienced a similar transition in early 2000s:

> The editorial division, which dated back to Amazon’s earliest days, was composed of writers and editors who added a human touch to the Amazon home page and to the individual product pages...An algorithm called Amabot brought about the downfall of editorial. Amabot replaced the personable, handcrafted sections of the site with automatically generated recommendations in a standardized layout. The system handily won a series of tests and demonstrated it could sell as many products as the human editors.

Source: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone