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Re:The Sciencewashing of Everyday Life on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:15PM (#46725822)
Re:"Conversing" with an Alaskan humpback whale on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:44PM (#38748532)
I linked directly to the paper but originally found it from reading this article:

https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-have-20-minute-convers...

which reminded me of my favorite Star Trek movie, the Voyage Home!

Voice assistants have reached the Unhelpful Valley stage.

When they were a novelty I recall the excitement of trying new commands and layering in context, after many failures I've been conditioned to now only attempt and expect success with generic queries.

Links to the publications:

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.075001

Design of an inertial fusion experiment exceeding the Lawson criterion for ignition A. L. Kritcher et al. Phys. Rev. E 106, 025201 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.025201

Experimental achievement and signatures of ignition at the National Ignition Facility A. B. Zylstra et al. Phys. Rev. E 106, 025202 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.025202

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