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FDA link: https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...

It is worth investing a little more on nuclear in the interest of energy security. It isn't always a race to the bottom.

A diverse and robust energy grid is composed of various generation sources that differ in capacity factors, environmental impact, stability, availability, etc.

The official openai-cookbook (https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook) used to have an explicit, but buried, call out that instruction-following models like `text-davinci-003` were "Less diverse; less creative; sometimes harder to steer tone, style, etc." as opposed to base completion models like `davinci`.

It stood out to me because it seemed to be an internal admission that this training narrowed the potential of the models.

Required a bit of digging but I found the old file in the history, the relevant text is in the comparison table at the bottom: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/c651bfdda64ac...

The referenced paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...) specifically states that it continues after the solution is changed to plain water.

> Two-headed worms made this way reveal a permanent revision of the target morphology: subsequent rounds of regeneration in plain water, long after the reagent is gone from the tissue, continue to make two-headed worms.

Great work. It would be nice to see the interactions wrap to make a more seamless experience. The particles themselves do seem to wrap around the edges, but the forces do not.

Try asking

"What is the first sentence of Moby Dick?"

And then

"What is the second sentence of Moby Dick?"

And see what happens.

This is great to see. Years ago I created a basic simulation using the same principles of pheromone gradients, one for the nest and one for food. https://youtu.be/VsHc91IhzdI

It a fascinating example of emergent behavior from simple rules.

I've been wanting to find time to revisit the concept and produce an updated version, your simulation seems to include everything I wanted to do and more.

This title is misleading, the article has a different (updated?) title when you click through.

The upcoming steam release may help it be more accessible, you could retry then if you still have any interest.

An analogy would be this: it would be like flying in a plane designed by an engineer that calculated coincidentally correct values but arrived at them using completely incorrect methods and calculations.

The output happened to be right but the method to get there was fundamentally wrong and would be faulty if used in other scenarios.

Getting the right answer for the wrong reasons is still wrong in a way, the process to arrive at the conclusion is important.

You appear to not realize that it is a tongue-in-cheek organization.

I'm tired of this false statement being peddled.

The FBI, CIA, and republican-led Senate Committee on Intelligence have all produced extensive volumes of documentation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

If you're referring specifically to accusations of collusion between Trump and Russia, the core accusation was that he and his administration were playing the role of the useful idiot, being plied and influenced by Russia to the detriment of American interests.

The idea that he was intentionally working with Russia in a direct manner may has always been a misleading straw man.

As someone who has been working primarily with JS since the "First Age" of this article, I can say that from my perspective things have improved by orders of magnitude.

New language features are obvious improvements. The paradigm shift from imperative UI management like jQuery to declarative UI management like React has eliminated entire categories of concerns.

Almost everything you see mentioned in the "Second Age" might be easy to take for granted if you've recently arrived, but they have not always been there. While they are not perfect, to say things haven't improved is shortsighted. From the high-level view we are making major strides.

It's an iterative process, where some things win out, new ideas and "flavors of the month" gain footing or wither and die. jQuery for example had competition from mootools, prototype.js, and others, but jQuery established dominance for a variety of reasons. It won mind-share by being the best implementation to solve a class of problems the community was tackling at the time.

I know I would be interested in it. I love things like this. A program borne of curiosity and exploration speaks to the inherent beauty of programming, being able to have an idea and bring it to life in code.

Given that you've created this, hosting it on github would be trivial for you.

Meanwhile their shelves are flooded with homeopathic "remedies" that appear legitimate. These items deceive consumers that have been raised to assume items stocked in a pharmacy have actual medical benefits.

People offload their trust to an authority, a pharmacy, to stock actual medicine. Just like when they go to a grocery store they expect to buy actual food and not sawdust shaped and packaged as food.

Try looking for cold or flu medicine, or earache drops at CVS. You will find the tiny print "homeopathic" on nearly every item being presented on the shelf. All of them are mimics that have all of the trappings of medicine (official looking labels, colors, words) but none of the results.

I think this is an ethical failure that is worse than the sale of tobacco, because it not only dupes people looking for proven medical solutions to say, their child's earache that bring home a vial of water instead, it also continues to lend credence to the industry of swindlers and snake oil.

No option to disable auto-playing trailers was also my primary reason for cancelling.

There is just enough content to make it worth the basic subscription, but such user-hostile design choices are like nails on a chalkboard.

How about mandatory jail time for anyone removing personal items during an emergency evacuation.

About 40,000 people died last year in the US. That's over 100 people dead every single day. Millions are injured on a scale from minor bruising to permanent disability every year. It's the number one cause of accidental death if you ignore overdoses. This is not a low rate.

What's the consensus view of homeopathy scholars on the efficacy of homeopathic "medicine"?

A group of people with an agenda writing volumes of tautological speculation doesn't make it credible.

Competitive advantage for an airport? Airports are chosen based on geographical location, not service. Most people live near one major international airport. There isn't some large market of with airports springing up all of the time, they are dictated by regulatory barriers and are natural monopolies.

Passport control doesn't benefit travelers, it hinders them. It benefits the security of the nation, which is precisely the purpose of the general tax fund.

I don't have any valuable commentary on the IPO, but I will say that as a completely unaffiliated consumer I've been consistently impressed with Anker's quality and specifically seek out their products.