To aid curious readers, the cell biology term for this (many genes to do X) is pleiotropy. The Wikipedia article [0] conveniently includes a discussion on its relevance in autism. [0]…
It sounds like you might be a physicist who disagrees?
This is from the interview on Hot Ones (released August 5, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXma6K9mzo&t=816s > Sean Evans: > I think a scenario lots of viewers can relate to is sitting on the couch on a Friday…
There is a mechanism for this, internationally usually named some variant of a Law Commission [0]. The idea is to look for laws that are technically in effect but can rarely or never be applied. For example, the UK Law…
Divided we stand, United we fall.
The almost-wrong simplification is that a nonlinear medium changes the wavelength of the light that passes through it. If you can control the nonlinearity, you can control the wavelength change and so change properties…
> can we not expect writers to just keep it brief? In essentially every situation, you cannot expect readers to read.
I recall from my own visit that the electrical transformers are supposedly original. So, the National Museum of Computing justifies calling its Colossus a rebuild rather than a replica, since it is made with some…
This is excellent. I wonder how deep the roots of pre-20th century computing systems go. Babbage, Lovelace and the Difference engine are well catalogued, and I have seen a Jaccard loom in a museum with my own eyes. What…
This seems untrue, especially for reddit? Using the 1/9/90 split [0] for creators/commenters/readers, it seems farfetched to suggest that reddit accounts (which benefits readers making an account to curate subreddit…
You are right. The grandparent post ironically uses word this in a cheapened, shallow way when they can use it freely in their own writing. You could argue this is the very sort of activity they were criticising when…
Tell that to the Pierce-Arrow company: makers of the first official cars for the white house, but they didn't survive cash flow problems from the great depression. Meanwhile, Ford survives.…
You would think, but there are many "sea lochs" along the coast that are salt water inlets (lagoons?), and Loch Long is one of them. I think it's a grey area (and perhaps the West coast of Scotland in general is too).
Yeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.
This seems to have an obvious counterexample? The name of the Streisand effect is from exactly the situation of a photo nobody cared about of Streisand's house from decades ago. The fact that it can be superficially…
Nazis, traditionally. Typing it out makes the comparison feel weak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Interesting to consider GPUs as the coal of the AI revolution. This is worth it for the mental image of heaping them into a boiler fire by the shovel load alone.
The common method for choosing the next output token for an LLM is sampling from a Boltzmann distribution. If you have seen the term "temperature" in the context of language models, that is a direct link to the…
Yes, but then it needs to be stored, and the price effects might encourage even more production. Previously this has led to events like the devastating Wisconsin butter flood [0] ("A firefighter reported flames 300 feet…
Arguably Crowdstrike's loss was due to a flaw in their product rather than PR. Disney's product (though not their core, I would argue) allegedly killed this poor woman - however it is the lawyers' behaviour, not the…
Clues must be related to the semantic meaning of the cards, so irrelevant clues are technically banned. So, a "sausage" strategy would be illegal on many boards.
Yes, I agree completely - I realised something was off in an espirit de l'escalier way not long after I posted. This is great news for my proposed box redesign!
This is an interesting view of how random number based security is compromised for economic practicalities (though the meanings of "security" and "compromised" might be overstretched here). For completeness, I wondered…
The argument I can imagine is already around (like for many potential AI applications): even if you know the law, such as if you are a lawyer, you always get representation because judges and jurors are prejudiced to…
3 throws per second is the rate of action required to perform juggling literally. The implication is that communicating between the miss that causes the fall and the event of dropping the ball must happen in less than 1…
To aid curious readers, the cell biology term for this (many genes to do X) is pleiotropy. The Wikipedia article [0] conveniently includes a discussion on its relevance in autism. [0]…
It sounds like you might be a physicist who disagrees?
This is from the interview on Hot Ones (released August 5, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXma6K9mzo&t=816s > Sean Evans: > I think a scenario lots of viewers can relate to is sitting on the couch on a Friday…
There is a mechanism for this, internationally usually named some variant of a Law Commission [0]. The idea is to look for laws that are technically in effect but can rarely or never be applied. For example, the UK Law…
Divided we stand, United we fall.
The almost-wrong simplification is that a nonlinear medium changes the wavelength of the light that passes through it. If you can control the nonlinearity, you can control the wavelength change and so change properties…
> can we not expect writers to just keep it brief? In essentially every situation, you cannot expect readers to read.
I recall from my own visit that the electrical transformers are supposedly original. So, the National Museum of Computing justifies calling its Colossus a rebuild rather than a replica, since it is made with some…
This is excellent. I wonder how deep the roots of pre-20th century computing systems go. Babbage, Lovelace and the Difference engine are well catalogued, and I have seen a Jaccard loom in a museum with my own eyes. What…
This seems untrue, especially for reddit? Using the 1/9/90 split [0] for creators/commenters/readers, it seems farfetched to suggest that reddit accounts (which benefits readers making an account to curate subreddit…
You are right. The grandparent post ironically uses word this in a cheapened, shallow way when they can use it freely in their own writing. You could argue this is the very sort of activity they were criticising when…
Tell that to the Pierce-Arrow company: makers of the first official cars for the white house, but they didn't survive cash flow problems from the great depression. Meanwhile, Ford survives.…
You would think, but there are many "sea lochs" along the coast that are salt water inlets (lagoons?), and Loch Long is one of them. I think it's a grey area (and perhaps the West coast of Scotland in general is too).
Yeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.
This seems to have an obvious counterexample? The name of the Streisand effect is from exactly the situation of a photo nobody cared about of Streisand's house from decades ago. The fact that it can be superficially…
Nazis, traditionally. Typing it out makes the comparison feel weak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Interesting to consider GPUs as the coal of the AI revolution. This is worth it for the mental image of heaping them into a boiler fire by the shovel load alone.
The common method for choosing the next output token for an LLM is sampling from a Boltzmann distribution. If you have seen the term "temperature" in the context of language models, that is a direct link to the…
Yes, but then it needs to be stored, and the price effects might encourage even more production. Previously this has led to events like the devastating Wisconsin butter flood [0] ("A firefighter reported flames 300 feet…
Arguably Crowdstrike's loss was due to a flaw in their product rather than PR. Disney's product (though not their core, I would argue) allegedly killed this poor woman - however it is the lawyers' behaviour, not the…
Clues must be related to the semantic meaning of the cards, so irrelevant clues are technically banned. So, a "sausage" strategy would be illegal on many boards.
Yes, I agree completely - I realised something was off in an espirit de l'escalier way not long after I posted. This is great news for my proposed box redesign!
This is an interesting view of how random number based security is compromised for economic practicalities (though the meanings of "security" and "compromised" might be overstretched here). For completeness, I wondered…
The argument I can imagine is already around (like for many potential AI applications): even if you know the law, such as if you are a lawyer, you always get representation because judges and jurors are prejudiced to…
3 throws per second is the rate of action required to perform juggling literally. The implication is that communicating between the miss that causes the fall and the event of dropping the ball must happen in less than 1…