https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929
Social media is a service where people who know each other in real life communicate mostly about things happening to them personally. Online Publishing is process by which people, who largely don't know each other in…
Because the phrase 'social media' was coined to describe a very specific thing: people who know each other in real life communicating online about things happening to them in real life. There were and are plenty of…
Their primary information source was a random sampling of Reddit posts which they admit were "coauthored with the AI (who clearly wrote the vast majority of it)." These were on long-dormant Reddit accounts that suddenly…
New revenue model idea: Charge $40/month on a person's credit card; a subscription. This buys the customer miles. Whenever you want to go somewhere, you use your miles. I think it would work based on the fact that…
You're right! I wrote it backwards! I swapped the 95 and 100% in the post above. My claim is that the cops in the article are walking around drug testing widely. Not literally everyone they see but if they are testing…
I think it remains to be seen whether the various AI tools we have today are a net-negative or net-positive for society. Most inventions are a net positive: The steam engine, vaccines, chimneys. A few are net-negative:…
This has Base Rate Fallacy written all over it. If you had a drunk-driver-detection machine that output "positive" 95% of the time when the driver is drunk and output "negative" 100% of the time when the driver is not…
Your math teacher was wrong when he said, "You won't have a calculator" but he wasn't wrong when he implied "You need to learn this." If children are allowed to use AI as an omnipresent tool, what do you believe…
You misunderstood the article. Paul Graham isn't saying "Don't buy things based on brand", he's saying "Don't buy brand." It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help yourself more easily buy products that…
I really don't think any of that is true; it's just popular rhetoric. For example: "Buybacks concentrate cash in the hands of existing shareholders" is obviously false: the shareholders (via the company) did have cash…
> likely would have otherwise been put toward stock buybacks Stock buybacks from who? When stock gets bought the money doesn't disappear into thin air; the same cash is now in someone else's hands. Those people would…
Bad audio and bad foley doesn't get mentioned enough. I think it's why people are watching things with subtitles: the actors are on a blue stage that is completely silent having a quiet conversation and then the war…
Yes Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.
That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?
It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction…
So.. it's a composite and .. "transiting" isn't quite accurate either. hmmm :-(
So.. the owner made a mistake getting expensive menus printed and then corrected his mistake? Even if he didn't have to adjust prices due to inflation, surely restaurants adjust the items on their menus frequently. I…
You're better off guesstimating yourself than trusting contractors. The contractors are incentivized to severely oversize any AC units they install or else people leave bad reviews on their pages/listings when the…
> In what world is that true? It's true in this one. Companies will design drones that comply with the very detailed regulations and go no further the same way car companies don't put seatbelts, airbags, or auto-brake…
The systemic problem is that they didn't spend the engineer-week on it. It's only an engineer week. That pays for itself after avoiding a single drone crash to say nothing of avoiding a second lawsuit.
The discover and fix phase is over. In August 2025, the FAA announced Part 108 which codifies the rules. Up until now, companies have been operating under waivers. The comment period for Part 108 ends on October 6th.…
If a drone crashes, obviously no other drones should fly there until a human determines what went wrong and presses the 'resume' button. The fact that that system did not exist is a systemic problem.
Video games weren't as widespread, personalized, or diverse than they are now. That people who played video games in 2010 said that those were better is immaterial. This graph goes up through 2022:…
May I ask how religious (or woowoo) your partner is? The number of people who care about having an objectively true understanding of as much of reality as possible is disappointingly small and I suspect that these photo…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929
Social media is a service where people who know each other in real life communicate mostly about things happening to them personally. Online Publishing is process by which people, who largely don't know each other in…
Because the phrase 'social media' was coined to describe a very specific thing: people who know each other in real life communicating online about things happening to them in real life. There were and are plenty of…
Their primary information source was a random sampling of Reddit posts which they admit were "coauthored with the AI (who clearly wrote the vast majority of it)." These were on long-dormant Reddit accounts that suddenly…
New revenue model idea: Charge $40/month on a person's credit card; a subscription. This buys the customer miles. Whenever you want to go somewhere, you use your miles. I think it would work based on the fact that…
You're right! I wrote it backwards! I swapped the 95 and 100% in the post above. My claim is that the cops in the article are walking around drug testing widely. Not literally everyone they see but if they are testing…
I think it remains to be seen whether the various AI tools we have today are a net-negative or net-positive for society. Most inventions are a net positive: The steam engine, vaccines, chimneys. A few are net-negative:…
This has Base Rate Fallacy written all over it. If you had a drunk-driver-detection machine that output "positive" 95% of the time when the driver is drunk and output "negative" 100% of the time when the driver is not…
Your math teacher was wrong when he said, "You won't have a calculator" but he wasn't wrong when he implied "You need to learn this." If children are allowed to use AI as an omnipresent tool, what do you believe…
You misunderstood the article. Paul Graham isn't saying "Don't buy things based on brand", he's saying "Don't buy brand." It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help yourself more easily buy products that…
I really don't think any of that is true; it's just popular rhetoric. For example: "Buybacks concentrate cash in the hands of existing shareholders" is obviously false: the shareholders (via the company) did have cash…
> likely would have otherwise been put toward stock buybacks Stock buybacks from who? When stock gets bought the money doesn't disappear into thin air; the same cash is now in someone else's hands. Those people would…
Bad audio and bad foley doesn't get mentioned enough. I think it's why people are watching things with subtitles: the actors are on a blue stage that is completely silent having a quiet conversation and then the war…
Yes Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.
That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?
It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction…
So.. it's a composite and .. "transiting" isn't quite accurate either. hmmm :-(
So.. the owner made a mistake getting expensive menus printed and then corrected his mistake? Even if he didn't have to adjust prices due to inflation, surely restaurants adjust the items on their menus frequently. I…
You're better off guesstimating yourself than trusting contractors. The contractors are incentivized to severely oversize any AC units they install or else people leave bad reviews on their pages/listings when the…
> In what world is that true? It's true in this one. Companies will design drones that comply with the very detailed regulations and go no further the same way car companies don't put seatbelts, airbags, or auto-brake…
The systemic problem is that they didn't spend the engineer-week on it. It's only an engineer week. That pays for itself after avoiding a single drone crash to say nothing of avoiding a second lawsuit.
The discover and fix phase is over. In August 2025, the FAA announced Part 108 which codifies the rules. Up until now, companies have been operating under waivers. The comment period for Part 108 ends on October 6th.…
If a drone crashes, obviously no other drones should fly there until a human determines what went wrong and presses the 'resume' button. The fact that that system did not exist is a systemic problem.
Video games weren't as widespread, personalized, or diverse than they are now. That people who played video games in 2010 said that those were better is immaterial. This graph goes up through 2022:…
May I ask how religious (or woowoo) your partner is? The number of people who care about having an objectively true understanding of as much of reality as possible is disappointingly small and I suspect that these photo…