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‘Predict’ still works if you think of it as ‘predict what a knowledgeable human would say in this context’.
Substitute ‘generate’ and the meaning is unchanged.
Genuine question: why does an N-th sequel with a well understood formula cost so much to make?
I get that it has a lot of design, art and animation assets that are very labor intensive. And they choose to spend a lot on marketing.
What else is expensive? That is a lot of money. Maybe a thousand person-years of funding?
Most people need a paycheck and Americans need health insurance.
Note that GP said ‘get into the industry’ and not ‘take it up as a hobby’.
Recently someone with an awful lot of fast RAM complained that he couldn’t get more of it, even with staggering amounts of money.
Any objective merit his efficiency argument had, the sentiment against him was overwhelming for complaining from such a privileged position.
Arecibo didn’t know it was a telescope. Every wire in the world is an antenna.
Neat, thanks. I should have thought of that.
It’s very odd that Braitenberg didn’t cite Walter’s precedent in ‘Vehicles’. He very likely knew about Walter, Ashby’s homeostat, etc, and used the cybernetics terminology in some of his work.
Fun historical note: the linked newsreel film was known about but unseen for a long time, then found by Owen Holland in the BBC Bristol archive around 1999. Either Owen or I sent it to Rod, to great enjoyment.
Film includes operator-moves-trashcan-with-foot, a staple of mobile robot clips ever since.
Thanks! And probably the earth relative velocity depends on the time of year :)
No, intelligence is a description of behavior, not stuff.
As a crisp example: a newly dead person is almost exactly the same stuff as an alive person, but has no intelligence at all. Not a little less, as the difference in stuff would
suggest.
For clarity, it’s still proportional to 1/r², but with a much larger multiplier than one.
> the spacecraft, in flight since 1977, is cruising at nearly 38,000 mph (61,000 kph) through the vacuum of space,
The page takes great pains to explain things, but omits a frame of reference for this speed. I’m guessing it’s sun-relative, but it could be relative to its take-off on Earth. Does anyone know?
Thatcher was a scientist, but no more an academic than most politicians.
She had a honors bachelors degree. An Oxford MA is awarded three years later on application, and is not an earned master’s degree.
Unusually for a politician, it was a science degree (chemistry), and she worked in a lab at school and after school briefly, but she got a law degree later, which is a typical politician thing.
If that bachelor’s degree was in humanities, like almost all elected officials, no one would refer to her as an academic.
In contrast, Merkel earned a PhD, and some of these newly elected Serbian reps are long-time professors.
The parent did not make either of these mistakes.
> It's not just predicting content but also the form/shape of the response
Nicely done.
You’re talking about low-income casual workers, not immigrants.
Lots of well paid immigrants here on HN.
A mental model of immigrants == poor people has unhealthy political impact.
Spectacular place. Look up pictures. It’s like a fairytale.
Race cars are called racing cars in UK English, and maybe other places in the Anglosphere.
It's been a while since Jobs' nice simple quad chart. I miss the elegance of that.
Call me old fashioned, but I think "this one is even better than the last one, and you already liked that one, so imagine how you're gonna enjoy this one", is indeed a selling point. It's one of the most common and enduring selling points.
> Better sound is not really a selling point to anyone in the real world.
Have you heard a recent 16" MBPro? They sound great. The Spatial Audio works. Maybe most people don't prioritize it, but it's a real quality of life thing. Same with deep black pixels: you don't know what the experience is worth until you have it. I value it highly.
The screens recently have been very good, but this one is better. Same with the sound. I'm glad it exists because it drives everyone to get better.
You’re reading negative valence in technical language that doesn’t mean it. ‘Extraction’ and ‘labor’ aren’t bad, they are technically descriptive. You extract fun and cuteness value from puppies and LeBron labors at basketball. Not an unhappy process in itself, though of course abusive versions exist.
That’s why your happy experience is not inconsistent with this description.
> There is no emperor distributing boons for the mathematicians of today.
This is a very weird take for an enterprise that depends almost entirely on grant money from either the taxpayer or charitable foundations.
If I present a novel, unique axiomatic system, with no intent that it refers to anything in the world, what is it a model of?
Video game NPCs that can hold a plausible conversation while getting the plot points in could be amazing.
Does any sheriff have better name recognition than the Sheriff of Nottingham, England?
Fleet managed devices already have it.
Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager can remotely configure it on managed iPads.
That reserves some crazy points for cheese rolling, which is utterly mental.
Yep I’m at peace with that. Just pointing out that EVs do have one consumable that costs non-trivial money.
Grandparent said they were on year four and seemed to be saying they were on the first set of tires, which surprises me.