Scroll bars have always been both control (press here to move around) and indicator (how much of this document is there, and how far through it am I?). Always-on-screen scrollbars are only useless if you think that…
I mean, I think that's exactly the parent poster's point. It's not an absolute "can this person communicate efficiently on CommunicationBench 3.0-beta7". It's "would I, personally, do well sitting next to this person…
Not quite luck, there was a bit more to it than that. Temazepam has a bit different risk profile than some of the others. And the stop signal was developing tolerance; increasing dose would have been the exact thing to…
They really are extremely effective drugs when used correctly. That's why the calls to ban them (as seen elsewhere in this thread) are not terribly compelling. There's no replacement for what they do. That said: do not…
I think "exactly like their parents" and "exactly opposite their parents" are indeed the two most likely outcomes. (And congratulations on breaking the cycle. It's not easy.)
My personal opinion is that, under reasonable circumstances, if you type the words yourself (that is, if your fingers make the keyboard clack), you own them. That definition explicitly excludes copy-and-paste. The…
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial). Yes, you can just put down a CPU core, but that's really slow compared to a real CPU and a…
Some of that is also that what "native UI" means has shifted a bit. To look at Windows, Win95 had a thoroughly considered UI design that was very well adapted to both what it needed to do and the hard constraints on it.…
Sorry, I spoke pretty sloppily there. The point I was trying to make is that the CPU is a general-purpose creature and doesn't really care what you want it to do. If you had a CPU that could handle 1.2Tbps of Ethernet…
You don't really get an FPGA for capability. CPUs are much more capable, and they're general-purpose so they can do absolutely anything with about the same efficiency and just a little more code. You get an FPGA for…
Well holy shit. I didn't expect to wake up this morning and see the "outside" guy from my thesis committee (aka, the only one who wasn't a rubber stamp) winning the Nobel Prize. Francis isn't the first Nobel Prize…
It doesn't even have to be transparent! (I think.) Big red "FIRE" letters and either a visible handle to open or very obvious instructions would probably be acceptable.
Impressive! I wonder how stable this thing is, or if it can even be all that reliably purified out (if anyone wanted to). I've heard from reliable-ish sources that when tritium is introduced to the body it diffuses…
This works for deuterium to hydrogen, but only barely (0.06%!). And that's a 2:1 mass ratio. Uranium separation is 238:235, roughly, or 1.013:1. Not so easy!
The flip side to this is that when you do come across a forged PDF (and I have!), they can be really, really effective. Nobody expects them. There are usually tells in the metadata, but... there don't have to be.
Conglomerates in general, and especially Japanese ones, are heterogeneous enough that those are basically two different companies. The British "Fujitsu" was an acquisition that I'm certain they now deeply, deeply…
You don't do these things because they benefit your boss. (They might happen to, but that's not the point.) You do them because they benefit you. Not going to benefit you? There's lots of ways to say no to a…
The other powerful thing about being able to do everyone else's job is that you, personally, gain a lot of leverage, and in a lot of different ways. Someone else needs a favor? You probably know how to deliver.…
We may or may not have hit the physical point of no return. It doesn't really matter, because we obviously hit the point of political no return a long time ago. In too much of the world, nobody with any kind of power…
Fair point on BS 1363 not being EU, and about UK electricians not being incompetent (I actually didn't know they were careful unlike the continent -- that's just one of those things that once you have to deal with the…
They're all horrid to step on, so that's not really worth discussing. The US plug (NEMA 1-15P is the 2-prong version, or 5-15P for the most common 3-prong grounded) is actually pretty decent. They stay in sockets pretty…
Really? I thought they were trite and not particularly engaged with the source matter. Why did you like them? The one at the beginning was far more interesting.
> (I'm guessing) Please don't do this. It's not helpful.
One of the most basic safeguards -- necessary, not sufficient -- for AI and even general technology in healthcare should be transparency. Keep the model a black box (if you really must), but every single input, output,…
> bipolar I think this is more relevant than people give it credit for. While bipolar depression and unipolar (major) depression might generally be functionally indistinguishable from the outside, they seem to have…
Scroll bars have always been both control (press here to move around) and indicator (how much of this document is there, and how far through it am I?). Always-on-screen scrollbars are only useless if you think that…
I mean, I think that's exactly the parent poster's point. It's not an absolute "can this person communicate efficiently on CommunicationBench 3.0-beta7". It's "would I, personally, do well sitting next to this person…
Not quite luck, there was a bit more to it than that. Temazepam has a bit different risk profile than some of the others. And the stop signal was developing tolerance; increasing dose would have been the exact thing to…
They really are extremely effective drugs when used correctly. That's why the calls to ban them (as seen elsewhere in this thread) are not terribly compelling. There's no replacement for what they do. That said: do not…
I think "exactly like their parents" and "exactly opposite their parents" are indeed the two most likely outcomes. (And congratulations on breaking the cycle. It's not easy.)
My personal opinion is that, under reasonable circumstances, if you type the words yourself (that is, if your fingers make the keyboard clack), you own them. That definition explicitly excludes copy-and-paste. The…
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial). Yes, you can just put down a CPU core, but that's really slow compared to a real CPU and a…
Some of that is also that what "native UI" means has shifted a bit. To look at Windows, Win95 had a thoroughly considered UI design that was very well adapted to both what it needed to do and the hard constraints on it.…
Sorry, I spoke pretty sloppily there. The point I was trying to make is that the CPU is a general-purpose creature and doesn't really care what you want it to do. If you had a CPU that could handle 1.2Tbps of Ethernet…
You don't really get an FPGA for capability. CPUs are much more capable, and they're general-purpose so they can do absolutely anything with about the same efficiency and just a little more code. You get an FPGA for…
Well holy shit. I didn't expect to wake up this morning and see the "outside" guy from my thesis committee (aka, the only one who wasn't a rubber stamp) winning the Nobel Prize. Francis isn't the first Nobel Prize…
It doesn't even have to be transparent! (I think.) Big red "FIRE" letters and either a visible handle to open or very obvious instructions would probably be acceptable.
Impressive! I wonder how stable this thing is, or if it can even be all that reliably purified out (if anyone wanted to). I've heard from reliable-ish sources that when tritium is introduced to the body it diffuses…
This works for deuterium to hydrogen, but only barely (0.06%!). And that's a 2:1 mass ratio. Uranium separation is 238:235, roughly, or 1.013:1. Not so easy!
The flip side to this is that when you do come across a forged PDF (and I have!), they can be really, really effective. Nobody expects them. There are usually tells in the metadata, but... there don't have to be.
Conglomerates in general, and especially Japanese ones, are heterogeneous enough that those are basically two different companies. The British "Fujitsu" was an acquisition that I'm certain they now deeply, deeply…
You don't do these things because they benefit your boss. (They might happen to, but that's not the point.) You do them because they benefit you. Not going to benefit you? There's lots of ways to say no to a…
The other powerful thing about being able to do everyone else's job is that you, personally, gain a lot of leverage, and in a lot of different ways. Someone else needs a favor? You probably know how to deliver.…
We may or may not have hit the physical point of no return. It doesn't really matter, because we obviously hit the point of political no return a long time ago. In too much of the world, nobody with any kind of power…
Fair point on BS 1363 not being EU, and about UK electricians not being incompetent (I actually didn't know they were careful unlike the continent -- that's just one of those things that once you have to deal with the…
They're all horrid to step on, so that's not really worth discussing. The US plug (NEMA 1-15P is the 2-prong version, or 5-15P for the most common 3-prong grounded) is actually pretty decent. They stay in sockets pretty…
Really? I thought they were trite and not particularly engaged with the source matter. Why did you like them? The one at the beginning was far more interesting.
> (I'm guessing) Please don't do this. It's not helpful.
One of the most basic safeguards -- necessary, not sufficient -- for AI and even general technology in healthcare should be transparency. Keep the model a black box (if you really must), but every single input, output,…
> bipolar I think this is more relevant than people give it credit for. While bipolar depression and unipolar (major) depression might generally be functionally indistinguishable from the outside, they seem to have…