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I don't know. I entered, trying to be popular but at least slightly? opiniated:

Tigana, Hyperion, A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Moby Dick

and I got a list. Sure, read all that or wasn't interested for reasons, I added (only Neuromancer on initial recommendations):

Neuromancer, VALIS, Quantum Thief, Towing Jehovah.

List did not get more interesting.

Book recommendations are still kind of difficult.


I don’t think past liked books are nearly enough information to provide a good book for you today. You need a lot more information about the state of someone’s mind.


You're talking to a dude. (in my case.) I mentioned 8 books.

I won't tell you exactly what to do, but one way to do it is to measure your surprise with me choosing each of those 8 books when you provide a recommendation back to me of what I should read next. I think I get kind of that experience talking to someone about books.

The algorithm didn't do that.


Talking to someone about books gives you so much more information than a book list. Their expressions, their accent, their energy level, their clothes, and many other things help to provide supplemental information.


If I provide that list, a (real) person doesn't ask me if I've read the Hobbit.


Other than capital does a lot of work in that argument. Companies will not pop up and optimize much less micro optimize the tradeoffs. This isn’t a stock exchange; it’s a real capital intensive product.


Counting in people rather than people-days is problematic, and then you get to qol-people-days. Saying murder is not helpful; see how folks have responded to you.


Line: The ADR of standard colonoscopy decreased significantly from 28·4% (226 of 795) before to 22·4% (145 of 648) after exposure to AI

Supprt: Statistically speaking, on average, for each 1% increase in ADR, there is a 3% decrease in the risk of CRC. (colorectal cancer)

My objection is all the decimal points without error bars. Freshman physics majors are beat on for not including reasonable error estimates during labs, which massively overstates how certain they should be; sophomores and juniors are beat on for propogating errors in dumb ways that massively understates how certain they should be.

This article is up strolls rando doctor (granted: with more certs than I will ever have) with a bunch of decimal points. One decimal point, but that still looks dumb to me. What is the precision of your measuring device? Do you have a model for your measuring device? Are you quite sure that your study, given error bars, which you don't even acknowledge the existence of, don't cancel out the study?


Either way, to be clear: the 28.4% -> 22.4% is human performance vs human performance (before and after "exposure to AI"). There are no numbers provided on accuracy with the use of AI.


Louisiana is the only jurisdiction which does not adhere to the general rule that a defendant may rely, in a criminal prosecution, upon inconsistent defenses.

(In other words: prove it. I get as many counterexamples as my lawyers can dream .)

Robert T. McGraw, Criminal Law: The Use of Inconsistent Defenses, 26 Marq. L. Rev. 167 (1942).


France is from the legal past that the US emerged from and it's a criminal prosecution so seems relevant.

Offering inconsistent defense has got to be thing in France, particularly during criminal prosecution.


>France is from the legal past that the US emerged from

The French legal system has been completely revamped by Napoleon far after the US independence, and has been so successful that countries invaded by Napoleon have retained his system after being freed from him.

Meanwhile the us system is still based on a mediaeval system where nothing is ever certain and everything depends on how good a lawyer you can pay.


Yes? That is just obviously correct given the judicial system for hundreds of years.

I get why you are outraged, but also: inform yourself. This is exactly what even minimally competent defense does and should look like.


How far do cables generally move power now in terms of hours, meaning time zone offset? This might seem like an odd formulation, but.

I /think/ formulating the problem this way means that 12h=power is always relevant. So: where are we?


Aside from your question (which I would rephrase as, How expensive is it to send electricity to a different time zone), another important question is, How expensive is it to ensure that the electricity continues to flow if our country's government angers some other country's government and that country has an effective military?


I can drive several large trucks through that sentence while answering no, so: no. There are so many ways to create a no there is an important point.

Related: you are in an audit. The auditor asks you if you know what the time is. Correct answer: yes.


I am currently limiting myself to 500 lines of (particle engine) code while listening to visual artists talking about their workflow in UE5 or Houdini, and Odin+Raylib are lovely to work in.

GingerBill has shouted out Go, but Odin doesn't particularly feel like a Go flavo(u)r.


To point out something that is a fail: I don't want to hear about how you simulated 10M particles on the GPU without acceleration forces.


Well at JangaFX, we can simulate a heck more than that on the GPU and you can apply as many complex forces applied to them as you'd like.


What is an acceleration force?


Probably you are missing sth because it’s so one sided.


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