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They mean 125um = sqrt(a*b), where a is the Planck length* and b the size of the observable universe (I didn't verify). Implying, 125um is some sort of middle ground. *Often said to be the smallest length with physical meaning.

Edit: Given that a is around 1e-20 and b around 1e27 I don't think the average is anywhere near that...

Re:Why it's so hard to build a jet engine on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:35PM (#43221522)
And PBS is Czech, to name one.
Re:Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @07:50AM (#42864308)
Until the cardiac arrest.
No, they are used in some classes of ocean passage races. IMOCA 60 is one such class.
Depending on your requirements for uptime, you could have a stand-by machine ready or you spin up a new one from backups.
Re:How I Think About Debt on Monday May 06, 2024 @03:12PM (#40278367)
Piketty's book (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) is most definitely not a fad. It is a result of serious research into historical economic data and anyone intellectually honest ought take it seriously. As anything in the social science of economics, it is subject to debate, but to call it a 'fad' is odd, to put it mildly.
Re:What Happens When You Quit Sugar? [video] on Monday January 01, 2024 @12:35PM (#38833517)
Out of protein or fats.

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Re:All of Physics in 9 Lines on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:14PM (#37201057)
In our current understanding of the world (quantum mechanics), the world is inherently probabilistic ("random", not deterministic) in the microscopic realm. There are differing opinions among physicists whether or not there could be a more fundamental layer of reality beyond this, and if so, whether it would be deterministic. Notably it could be said the mainstream view is that reality is not deterministic.
Whatsapp's in-app notification regarding the TOS change references an EU ruling, so this is the likely cause.
And would the drivers be paid more or less (and what of other conditions)?
GP said it was proof of power. Power can be used for good or ill.
Re:We Are All Animals at Night on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:26PM (#37026276)
Developers?
I mean, who drives 1200km in day anyway? But it is doable with todays EVs, many of which have ranges of around 500km or more, and only need a couple of hours of charging to drive 1200km (after starting with full capacity), during breaks you would mostly take anyways. Teslas, VW's ID.4, Hyundai's Kona electric and many more come to mind. Cheers for Toyota's research, though.
Re:Lazydocker a lazier way to manage everything Docker on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:13AM (#36784167)
Alternatively, run the dashboard script via SSH to get the output ($ ssh "host" "command").
Re:TikTok Extends the Wasteland on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:48AM (#36747609)
If someone consumes what you call useless content, why would they use AI to produce anything else? It's not as if there isn't useful content around, already.
Maybe, but it would still be better if the situation didn't detoriate further.
What you are describing, is not replication.
Even this would require somehow verifying the raw data. It's plausible a bad actor could "reverse engineer" their data from a pre-determined conclusion.

But yes, overall more openness is good. Still, the cost losing trust in society is very high (as you need to verify everything).

Re:Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:15AM (#35054953)
Sorry, but you have a logical fallacy there (affirming the consequent). It does not follow, that humans and LLMs have all same properties, even if they have one same property. ("sentient being is text predictor" does not follow from "text predictor is sentient being").
Re:ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:52AM (#35039227)
Plenty of laws governing knives...
Re:My favourite 3 lines of CSS on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:55AM (#34878120)
It will explain anything immediately. Correctly, not necessarily. Did you check the explanation holds water? Seems like it's back to googling anyhow.
Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:07PM (#34806990)
Well, not because of emphasizing, but because of there being a viable mechanism in the human case (reasoning being, one can only know that oneself has qualia, but since those likely arise in the brain, and other humans have similar brains, most likely they have similar qualia). For more reading see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

It is important to note, that neural networks and brains are very different.

Re:Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from? on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:01AM (#34665907)
Absolutely this, well put. I guess enough people misunderstand AI models to the point of treating them like they are not software. I guess this validates Clarke's third law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic).
Re:Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from? on Sunday February 05, 2023 @10:45AM (#34665781)
>Is this important?

Well yes, it's the whole crux of the matter. Laws govern human behaviour. As of 2023, only living beings have agency. If I shoot someone with a gun, the criminal is me and not the gun. Being a deterministic piece of silicon, a computer is perfectly equivalent. Sure, it is important to start a discussion of potential nonhuman sentience in the future, but these AI models are not unlike any previous software in legal issues. It's bizarre to me how many people are missing this.

Re:Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011) on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:06AM (#34592579)
If you are actually being serious, I would caution others from following your example. Houses usually require a certain indoor temperature to prevent problems from moisture buildup in the structure (walls etc).
Re:ChatCody, the GitHub Bot That Boosts Team Productivity on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:16PM (#34492691)
I suppose the productivity improvement comes from not having to wait for those same lines from a colleague?
To say nothing about the religious right...
Re:Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:43PM (#34359981)
On the other hand, all kinds of technology have been regulated to minimize adverse effects. The trouble with software is that it is evolving faster than regulators can keep track of, and it is very hard to police even if regulated.
Re:Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:39PM (#34359956)
That would just lead to an AI that makes better abstracts á la GAN.

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