Amdahl's Law [1] is not your friend here. Even a thousand women can't produce a baby in one month. Trying a million things in parallel doesn't help much when the possibilities involve cosmic-level numbers and you need…
Even with automated experiments, the wet chemistry is slow. The kind of answer you might calculate in a second for a math problem could take many hours for the chemical reaction to occur. Biology grad students can spend…
All the data is encrypted and the key is held inside the secure enclave within the CPU. If the CPU fails then the data is unrecoverable.
The effect is a denial of service. Service is denied because the server is overloaded. The intent is at best callous indifference and at worst is copyright infringement. It’s comparable to broadcasting radio…
The news is that people download it so much that they saturate your server’s connection and/or peg its CPU or disk (whichever is the weakest link in the chain). We used to call this a Denial of Service attack but now…
Yes, the whole concept of an inn is to have a rest stop along a trade route. Well-trafficked routes would have inns spaced extremely regularly so that even travellers on foot could rest and eat (and drink) at least once…
Coffee has very similar processing to chocolate, can produce similar flavours with the right amount of roasting, but is not even close to the same thing due to the dramatically different fat content (both quantity and…
How'd you manage to write a 20 page paper in class?
Sure, if you want to carry 2 phones.
How's your banking apps run on that?
I think you missed the chicken and egg problem here: if you don’t have a good reputation, no one will read & verify your results. If 3rd party verification is the source of reputation, then how do you get started?
I think you still run into the problem that writers will vastly outnumber readers, so that risks turning the project into a write-only dumping ground. From there you have the same old discovery issues, where…
Those 5 corporations have an achilles heel: reviewers. If the AI-driven science future has its way, the reviewers at all the major journals will collapse under the weight of submissions. The effect will be a…
We might end up permanently retired and just spend our time entertaining ourselves. More likely we'll be permanently starving and fighting over the scraps in a dystopian world. If AI doesn't take off but instead remains…
Not musical, but definitely linguistic. There are many jobs for people to work as translators or to provide customer service in languages other than the dominant one.
But I don't really understand the "grief" by people who say they're losing their hobbies If you don't understand grief then I'm wasting my time. Sounds like I got suckered into arguing with an AI yet again.
Of course the analogy works. It’s an analogy, not an exact duplicate of the situation. The important parallels of the analogy are that: * Magnus dedicated his whole life to chess, just as many programmers have done with…
The Arial example that only fit 11 words was much more readable than the final result with 4 tiny lines of a nearly illegible low res bitmap font!
I do really like this! I had never even heard of 88x31 buttons yet when presented with a few of them I got instant nostalgia for the “old web” of my youth. I think it’s my age speaking again, but I would have preferred…
Swap it out for chess. Tell Magnus Carlsen he can't play chess anymore. Instead he gets paid to run a Stockfish team in an all-engine tournament.
It exists in the same sense that every story exists I’m sure Russell’s Paradox would have something to say about that. One might also consider alternative axiomatizations of mathematics with statements that cannot be…
And I think many more are just spaghetti code proofs that would benefit from abstraction and cleanup, but no one has had the time to do that.
I have been playing Zelda games since the late 80s. I have never felt the need to try to weave a cohesive timeline out of the entire series. Instead, I view the games as a combination of re-imaginings and direct…
The Yapese people have been doing the same thing [1] for centuries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
Why? I don’t need a centralized collection to search my own computer. Why couldn’t that extend to my own little corner of the web?
Amdahl's Law [1] is not your friend here. Even a thousand women can't produce a baby in one month. Trying a million things in parallel doesn't help much when the possibilities involve cosmic-level numbers and you need…
Even with automated experiments, the wet chemistry is slow. The kind of answer you might calculate in a second for a math problem could take many hours for the chemical reaction to occur. Biology grad students can spend…
All the data is encrypted and the key is held inside the secure enclave within the CPU. If the CPU fails then the data is unrecoverable.
The effect is a denial of service. Service is denied because the server is overloaded. The intent is at best callous indifference and at worst is copyright infringement. It’s comparable to broadcasting radio…
The news is that people download it so much that they saturate your server’s connection and/or peg its CPU or disk (whichever is the weakest link in the chain). We used to call this a Denial of Service attack but now…
Yes, the whole concept of an inn is to have a rest stop along a trade route. Well-trafficked routes would have inns spaced extremely regularly so that even travellers on foot could rest and eat (and drink) at least once…
Coffee has very similar processing to chocolate, can produce similar flavours with the right amount of roasting, but is not even close to the same thing due to the dramatically different fat content (both quantity and…
How'd you manage to write a 20 page paper in class?
Sure, if you want to carry 2 phones.
How's your banking apps run on that?
I think you missed the chicken and egg problem here: if you don’t have a good reputation, no one will read & verify your results. If 3rd party verification is the source of reputation, then how do you get started?
I think you still run into the problem that writers will vastly outnumber readers, so that risks turning the project into a write-only dumping ground. From there you have the same old discovery issues, where…
Those 5 corporations have an achilles heel: reviewers. If the AI-driven science future has its way, the reviewers at all the major journals will collapse under the weight of submissions. The effect will be a…
We might end up permanently retired and just spend our time entertaining ourselves. More likely we'll be permanently starving and fighting over the scraps in a dystopian world. If AI doesn't take off but instead remains…
Not musical, but definitely linguistic. There are many jobs for people to work as translators or to provide customer service in languages other than the dominant one.
But I don't really understand the "grief" by people who say they're losing their hobbies If you don't understand grief then I'm wasting my time. Sounds like I got suckered into arguing with an AI yet again.
Of course the analogy works. It’s an analogy, not an exact duplicate of the situation. The important parallels of the analogy are that: * Magnus dedicated his whole life to chess, just as many programmers have done with…
The Arial example that only fit 11 words was much more readable than the final result with 4 tiny lines of a nearly illegible low res bitmap font!
I do really like this! I had never even heard of 88x31 buttons yet when presented with a few of them I got instant nostalgia for the “old web” of my youth. I think it’s my age speaking again, but I would have preferred…
Swap it out for chess. Tell Magnus Carlsen he can't play chess anymore. Instead he gets paid to run a Stockfish team in an all-engine tournament.
It exists in the same sense that every story exists I’m sure Russell’s Paradox would have something to say about that. One might also consider alternative axiomatizations of mathematics with statements that cannot be…
And I think many more are just spaghetti code proofs that would benefit from abstraction and cleanup, but no one has had the time to do that.
I have been playing Zelda games since the late 80s. I have never felt the need to try to weave a cohesive timeline out of the entire series. Instead, I view the games as a combination of re-imaginings and direct…
The Yapese people have been doing the same thing [1] for centuries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
Why? I don’t need a centralized collection to search my own computer. Why couldn’t that extend to my own little corner of the web?