Based on https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4, 1988 is the year from the dataset with the lowest temperature throughout June and July.
There are those who make strong arguments for the opposite. Once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
The number €115 is in the second chart as the per capita German expenditure on rail infrastructure in 2023. I don't see €477, but it's pretty close to the €480 figure for Switzerland in 2024. My guess is they saw an old…
It's saying that 40% of the tons of cargo loaded onto ships is fossil fuels, but this makes up about 50% of ton-miles, because fossil fuels travel further on average than other cargo. Not the easiest headline to…
This is the same calculation behind the observation "you spend much longer in front of red traffic lights than green ones". It's an interesting observation, but it's playing games with the meaning of "mean latency" and…
> What you want is 40% black onto white to have a similar difference in intensity as 40% white onto black, otherwise your darkmode font will look significantly different at the same intensity as your lightmode font.…
> There's no physical underlying lighting process, so it doesn't make sense to use physical light units. I disagree with you here. Text rendering specifically is incredibly complicated, but for antialiasing in other…
Yes for me (although difficulty varies depending on what you're trying to install). I would have started programming 2 years earlier than I actually did if my first attempt to install tools to run a programming language…
The article makes a coherent argument: a) Anthropic believe that AI is an extinction level risk and that they are the only leading AI lab which takes safety seriously. In combination this puts them in the position of…
Note that the US military is almost the only customer that Fable and Mythos could safely be sold to while complying with this directive.
I'm a bit more interested in what it teaches about the hyperbolic plane than I am in it's effectiveness as a note taking app (although the way it supports an exponentially growing tree does seem appropriate for…
> As seen after the Black Death, a scarcity of labor drives real wages up and lower the cost of basic goods and rent. Does this still hold when the majority of labor is no longer closely tied to a finite supply of land?…
I'm open to the possibilty of AI conciousness, and there is some desparation related to the concept of a higher being: There are many people who will categorically rule out the posibility of AI consciousness due to…
Very cool. I was expecting it to make circles bigger rather than making needles smaller. Take a near-circle consisting of N lines. As N tends to infinity, the near-circle would have a diameter close to N*L/π, so would…
Many people move to London when they want to make money, and move out when they want to do anything else. Pretending that London is independent of the rest of the country's children and retirees is misleading.…
Lena isn't about uploading. https://qntm.org/uploading
> I don't think it's possible to tile the sphere using more than 20 exactly identical pieces. I was wrong about this (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_triacontahedron). It still seems possible to me that…
Not quite - you need 12 pentagons in a mostly hexagonal tiling of the sphere (and if you're keeping them similar sizes, Gosper-islands force hexagon-like adjacency). I don't think it's possible to tile the sphere using…
No idea if they are doing this, but you can use Gosper islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve) which are close to hexagons, but can be exactly decomposed into 7 smaller copies.
Your other points are more relevant to the content of the article, but point 2. relates the practical consequences of undecidable type-checking, so I'll reply to that. I don't have a problem with compile time code…
Decidability of a type system is like well-typedness of a program. It doesn't guarantee it's sensible, but not having the property is an indicator of problems.
No. Being well typed is not a semantic property of of a program - in a language where it makes sense to talk about running badly typed code, a piece of code that starts with an infinite loop may be well or badly typed…
For many publications you could be critisizing, I'd agree with you, but Quanta usually reaches a higher standard that I feel they deserve credit for. Here's the Quanta article on the same thing [1]. It goes into much…
This is great. Since you've asked about bugs, I tried pushing the limits and found the following: A1: 100 B1: =100-A1 A2: =A1*(100-A1) A3: =A1*B1 A2 can be successfully set to anything reasonable (up to 2500) However,…
I believe that the important part of a brain is the computation it's carrying out. I would call this computation thinking and say it's responsible for consciousness. I think we agree that this computation would be…
Based on https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4, 1988 is the year from the dataset with the lowest temperature throughout June and July.
There are those who make strong arguments for the opposite. Once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
The number €115 is in the second chart as the per capita German expenditure on rail infrastructure in 2023. I don't see €477, but it's pretty close to the €480 figure for Switzerland in 2024. My guess is they saw an old…
It's saying that 40% of the tons of cargo loaded onto ships is fossil fuels, but this makes up about 50% of ton-miles, because fossil fuels travel further on average than other cargo. Not the easiest headline to…
This is the same calculation behind the observation "you spend much longer in front of red traffic lights than green ones". It's an interesting observation, but it's playing games with the meaning of "mean latency" and…
> What you want is 40% black onto white to have a similar difference in intensity as 40% white onto black, otherwise your darkmode font will look significantly different at the same intensity as your lightmode font.…
> There's no physical underlying lighting process, so it doesn't make sense to use physical light units. I disagree with you here. Text rendering specifically is incredibly complicated, but for antialiasing in other…
Yes for me (although difficulty varies depending on what you're trying to install). I would have started programming 2 years earlier than I actually did if my first attempt to install tools to run a programming language…
The article makes a coherent argument: a) Anthropic believe that AI is an extinction level risk and that they are the only leading AI lab which takes safety seriously. In combination this puts them in the position of…
Note that the US military is almost the only customer that Fable and Mythos could safely be sold to while complying with this directive.
I'm a bit more interested in what it teaches about the hyperbolic plane than I am in it's effectiveness as a note taking app (although the way it supports an exponentially growing tree does seem appropriate for…
> As seen after the Black Death, a scarcity of labor drives real wages up and lower the cost of basic goods and rent. Does this still hold when the majority of labor is no longer closely tied to a finite supply of land?…
I'm open to the possibilty of AI conciousness, and there is some desparation related to the concept of a higher being: There are many people who will categorically rule out the posibility of AI consciousness due to…
Very cool. I was expecting it to make circles bigger rather than making needles smaller. Take a near-circle consisting of N lines. As N tends to infinity, the near-circle would have a diameter close to N*L/π, so would…
Many people move to London when they want to make money, and move out when they want to do anything else. Pretending that London is independent of the rest of the country's children and retirees is misleading.…
Lena isn't about uploading. https://qntm.org/uploading
> I don't think it's possible to tile the sphere using more than 20 exactly identical pieces. I was wrong about this (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_triacontahedron). It still seems possible to me that…
Not quite - you need 12 pentagons in a mostly hexagonal tiling of the sphere (and if you're keeping them similar sizes, Gosper-islands force hexagon-like adjacency). I don't think it's possible to tile the sphere using…
No idea if they are doing this, but you can use Gosper islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve) which are close to hexagons, but can be exactly decomposed into 7 smaller copies.
Your other points are more relevant to the content of the article, but point 2. relates the practical consequences of undecidable type-checking, so I'll reply to that. I don't have a problem with compile time code…
Decidability of a type system is like well-typedness of a program. It doesn't guarantee it's sensible, but not having the property is an indicator of problems.
No. Being well typed is not a semantic property of of a program - in a language where it makes sense to talk about running badly typed code, a piece of code that starts with an infinite loop may be well or badly typed…
For many publications you could be critisizing, I'd agree with you, but Quanta usually reaches a higher standard that I feel they deserve credit for. Here's the Quanta article on the same thing [1]. It goes into much…
This is great. Since you've asked about bugs, I tried pushing the limits and found the following: A1: 100 B1: =100-A1 A2: =A1*(100-A1) A3: =A1*B1 A2 can be successfully set to anything reasonable (up to 2500) However,…
I believe that the important part of a brain is the computation it's carrying out. I would call this computation thinking and say it's responsible for consciousness. I think we agree that this computation would be…