throwaway8503

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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Those are a lot of leaps to make about my motivations!
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Something solid ahead To clarify: I mean that, generally speaking, the presence of 'cloudy' water would presumably signify that the seafloor was close. In the open ocean, maybe a sea mount is surrounded by essentially a cloud of p
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Wouldn't the cloudiness itself be a signal? Presumably it's essentially clear of suspended particles, most of the time.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
>> Are light, radar, and sonar still not enough to detect obstacles that big? > Radar is useless underwater, light would also be useless for spotting anything in time to react at speed, and sonar isn’t routinely used because it com
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
I suppose it's a bit of a scotsman argument, but the turing test is to see whether an observer can correctly guess whether the interlocutor is _human_, so by definition the test would pass if the other correspondent was human. To the p
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
This is what I got on ChatGPT today. I assume it used GPT4: Prompt ChatGPT Actual Match 397,356 * 930,547 369,685,207,932 369,758,433,732 FALSE 36,330 * 26,951 979,458,630 979,129,
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
The problem seems to be with defining good tests for intelligence. FWIW, because GPT4 answers have a detectable pattern, they should presumably fail the Turing test. At some level, intelligence requires logic, rationality, and conceptualiza
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Since LLMs can't do arithmetic, one has to think there's more going on, at least in the arithmetic part of the brain, than is going on in LLMs.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
And a roommate of Richard Stallman at one point, AFAIR. the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it Indeed. His idea of attaching provenance to source of information used in models is a good one, and one that alr
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
From the given link: As of April 2023, the average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Cleveland, OH is $1,136. This is a 7% decrease compared to the previous year.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Luckily, this[1] is also reading zero at the moment. [1] https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Very cool. Reminds me of the retroreflectors on GLONASS.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
They've got 0.3m on World View 3, more than enough for what was shown in the gif Edit: you're probably right, actually.. the silver square on the lower section of landsat 8 is ~1.5m high (guessing from the image on wikipedia), so
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
The distance to the earth might have been coincidentally the same as the distance to the other satellite. LEO isn't that far up, the one that took the photo was only ~600km AGL.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
I'd just like to throw in a plug for what I think is the best-looking satellite: GOCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State... It's a gravity survey satellite. They get better measurem
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
I always feel a little dirty when I click on twitter links these days.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
works for me at the time of writing edit: not logged in (usually am not)
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
We can't say we weren't warned
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
If you had that you could (and I think this is GGP's point) have settings in the browser similar to phone privacy settings: allow cookies for (login || place || shopping cart || etc)
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
'electricite du magnetisme' would be a nice quadruple-entendre in French 1) electricity of magnetism => electrical side of the electromagnetic force leads to 2) electricity from magnetism => generating electricity from a mag
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
The fact that context matters so much makes it hard to avoid concluding that such relationships are not friendships in any sense of the word, they're just pleasantries to make the other parts of the context - the reason why you're
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
It's useful as an excuse for the OS to be continuously connected to the internet, which elides nicely into connecting to the internet for search results when you type something in the searchbox. And you can't argue that it's
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Hot take, but: the same issue is present in math, with the aggressive deprioritization of rote learning of arithmetic. People need a foundation upon which to build higher concepts; knowing your times tables is necessary to grasp division al
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
I think you're sort of half right
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
I suppose there would be a rough conversion between that value and photon count (at some wavelength range). I just imagine the error bars to be very wide.
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
If there's a way to get an integer value on the number of photons per cell in a camera sensor, let me know
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
Purely as a matter of esoteric interest, does anyone know of any affordable photon counting devices?
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by throwaway8503 3y ago
The impact the time cost has on careers is significant. From what I've heard through science media, it's not uncommon for planetary scientists to spend half or an entire career on a single mission to the outer planets.