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Re:Prism on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:59PM (#46787574)
This is effectively standard across the board.
Re:Prism on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:58PM (#46787558)
Pay to review is common in Econ and Finance.
Re:Toward a Passwordless Future on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:56PM (#43305440)
they should have an activation factor that, e.g. bio or pin.
Re:Toward a Passwordless Future on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:55PM (#43305435)
I don't want to use passkeys until I can chose and verify that they are device bound.
Re:CMU, Princeton join forces to use AI for Nuclear Fusion on Thursday November 07, 2024 @06:01PM (#42082086)
Likely due to using an LLM as part of the writing process.
Not inherently. Just unexplained (and many think, with good reasons, unexplainable) by current physics.
Re:A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @02:29PM (#40515158)
woah, what kind of sorcery is this?!
> how fast you can calculate , forecast, and trade on that information has.

How you can calculate fast, forecast, and trade on that information has

There. Fixed it for you. ;)

I don't see any reference to acyclic as a requirement.
Re:How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video] on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:25AM (#38913272)
To deal with that I often watch at 2x and scroll aggressively.
Re:Using Make – writing less Makefile on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:29PM (#38776264)
Lost me at "making past from scratch".
Yeah, I, too, practice my bball skills watching Curry's highlights ;)

Jokes aside, it's a fun channel. Makes me feel like I know what's going on in those games.

Re:ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:23PM (#38669527)
And for our next trick ... ... pattering to drive transistor switching rather than just transistor etching!
Re:ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:20PM (#38669517)
(relative) size (still) matters!
Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:52PM (#38620583)
Very approximately, (1) developing AGI is dangerous, (2) we might be very close to it (think several years rather than several decades).

TBH It surprises me how controversial (1) is. The crux really is (2) ...

Re:God Help Us, Let's Try to Understand AI Monosemanticity on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:06PM (#38439824)
I did a little spelunking some time ago reacting to the same urge. Tropical geometry appears to be where the math talk is at.

Just dropping the reference here, I don't grok the literature.

Re:Mathematician Roger Penrose's Beautiful Journal on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:59PM (#38266915)
This, and more ..

... all the way out to the digital frontier of professional wacom tablets and 4 feet wide plotters. A fun hobby for some.

Re:Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @12:44PM (#38180101)
> We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.

So they made some? Spent time/energy for science of course ...

Top comment.

My adjacent refrain is "Science is not the same as people trying to do science".

IMHO this conflates model with reality. GR is a model.
Is there any indication from OpenAI people that there are low hanging fruits to be picked in this direction?
Re:Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:50AM (#35435619)
> Or in this case, interfere with themselves across two alternate times they could take on the same path.

This is gold.

Re:Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:46AM (#35352729)
I am guessing it is because that was "real" money, and what remains is "generously" marked to market.
An open source, very well documented piece of software that run on many different operative systems used for gate keeping?
I have met several people telling weaker versions of that or similar claims. I believe them. A more accessible example is to intuit fairly early what computational irreducibility is. Typically one doesn't develop the language to be precise about these ideas until much later. That Wolfram had the correct language available at that age doesn't strike me as unlikely.
Personally, I find it just takes the willingness to actively separate his exposition of the concepts (whether novel or not) from his self-evaluation.

It helps me to keep in mind his own admission of being quite egocentric (something like: "After all I am part of the club of those that named their company after themselves").

I also find myself intuitively in the camp of your alternative theory.

Nevertheless I have an off the cuff comment to your question: Dune genetic memory is outside the bounds of our most basic understanding of inheritance because we do not know of any obvious mechanism to encode those memories into gamets in "one shot" (from direct experience to immediate offspring). Compare this with a very long arc over which a gazelle is born with brain initialized so carefully that it can learn to walk instantly, effectively having something that really looks like "genetic memory" of how to walk.

My confused ramblings aside, this to me suggests that it is at least plausible that such commonality among apes and homo exists. Now, providing evidence for it is quite a different ball game ...

Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:10PM (#34535933)
Tricky. In an environment where it takes time to collect information about competitiveness, updating of expectation is slow (and costly, because it is hard to be rational about this), there is a lot of randomness, and one's own competitiveness might be typically decreasing ... the slope of the expectation update might be not steep enough.
Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:53PM (#34535574)
Anecdotally, I have found this to depend on cultural norms. Southern European cultures appear quite a bit more touchy-feely than North American ones.

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