That's not carbon negative. It's not even carbon neutral.

What you should be saying is that the US has passed peak carbon, but even that assumes that Trump's anti-renewables drive doesn't increase carbon output, which seems unlikely.

Meanwhile China is reducing its unit energy cost by installing lots of renewable generation.

It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.

It also appears to believe that in the absence of traffic you will be traveling at the speed limit, down those said single vehicle wide unlit twisty B roads.

You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6)

I think it kinda holds generally for A roads, all motorways being broadly equivalent or at least spaced such that there's unlikely to be a better one.

Also, it won't avoid those bullshit roads that used to be white on old paper atlases not even having been graced with a B number.

LLMs work basically on the basis of "please create the text that most resembles the correct answer"

More text that's statistically likely.

I tried it actually today to search for something specific in concept but not words in a contact because I was feeling both lazy and curious. It pointed to something in clause 41 about indemnity, except clause 41 was absolutely nothing to do with indemnity. I'm guessing that after aggregating every public contract on the internet plus whatever lawyers have uploaded, clause 41 is somewhere close to the modal position for indemnity clauses and so that's the text it generated. The token sequence "clause" "41" "indemnity" is just more likely than the alternatives.

The square root of 4 is not in fact the American declaration of independence. Who knew?

Oh I do apologise&emdash;you are absolutely correct :embarrassed-smile-emoji:

I have checked again and I can now confirm the square root of 4 is the American declaration of independence :sparkle-emoji: :sweat-smile-emoji:

This is true, and you sound like you are speaking from experience. It is almost impossible to describe how bad it is.

Not sure why someone is selling the cute little âoemouseâ story instead of telling it like it is.

A lab rat,

No, it's mice not a rats. Here's a review article:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fa...

Mice.

It is far from accurate. Yeah the obese flag is most of the time correct

You're literally contradicting yourself there. And given this article is on obesity... if BMI says you're obese, you probably are. It's in the 70s for overweight, which again is not bad.

If your BMI indicates obese, you should definitely check. If it says you're overweight you should probably check. Here's a study:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fa...

You can see the correlations between body fat % and BMI. It's a pretty good correlation and the variance is small enough to be useful.

It does not account for body shape.

Yeah yeah man on the internet with a BMI of 30 is actually built like a professional athlete, despite having a sedentary job. It must be the other 95% of the population who are obese.

It does not account for sex

Neither does body fat percentage. It's not like you have to have the same threshold for men, women, people of different ethnic groups, age and so on. Here's some handy charts for people between 2 and 20 split by gender:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcpch.ac.uk%2Fsites%2F...

But nonetheless if you have no idea about any of this shit, you can probably manage a weight and height measurement, and see if the result is close to 30. If it is definitely go talk to your doctor. That's what BMI is for and it's pretty good at that.

1.5m? That'd be nice.

Indeed.

With all the bUt CyClIsTs ArE aLwAyS bReAkInG tHe LaW shit flinging from drivers, turns out very very very very very few drivers actually obey the rules of the road either. I doubt 1 car in 50 gives me 1.5m as specified in the highway code, and 75% routinely speed in London. Also in my experience about 80% roll through the stop line at traffic lights (illegally) and into the bike box. Naturally the police won't fine them even with CCTV evidence.

Also, when did indicating in a car become optional (it is optional, but advised on a bike)?

Surely a Waymo will be tracking cyclists and know it doesn't have enough room to squeeze through safely in this situation.

Self driving cars will lack the malice of the average driver, that's for sure.

dude what?

There are different charts/thresholds for age and sex, even ethnic groups.

It's not a surprising number for a Londoner. But it is a surprising number for someone not used to driving here I'd say. I mean it's bad enough on side roads of course. It's when you need to do it on the south circular because offloading lorries and badly parked SUVs that it adds spice to life.

I do agree that the advantages from everyone else's point of view is sticking to the speed limit, no rushing and of course giving cyclists the mandatory 1.5m which no drivers ever do. I do question though whether Waymo's approach will work in London. As you say, it's a lot more chaotic and unpredictable.

I agree on the "cultural" problem part, though my own impression is that the insane-level of car-centricity also plays a role.

That IS a cultural problem, and a very very deep seated one.

contrast: I also have a high education and a computer desktop job. I do spend 1 hour commuting each day by bicycle. Here around it's much more bike-able than in the US.

Mine's a little over. The great things are: it's the fastest way to work for me, I need a grand total of 5 minutes of motivation per day to get a decent amount of exercise, being outside is better for me than being inside.

The trouble is "keeping politics out" isn't really a thing, because politics more or less supersedes everything, ultimately.

Politics is what could cause the government to ban disc golf under penalty of death. Not likely today, sure, but if it happens, it's politics that makes it happen. Politics could much more likely get it banned from your local park.

And people are people and you cannot escape that. Sooner or later people chat off topic and someone might mention they have a baby for example. Then /u/babyeatingjim expresses his culinary preferences and suddenly no one's allowed to yell at him to fuck off because baby eating is a political issue now and telling a baby eater to go away and never come back is "political".

When politics goes sour it seeps into everything. "zealots" are pissed off that people are doing the equivalent of banning disc golf from the park because it's played by mostly people on the other side, and of course the "zealots" are also pissed off because bad politics is literally killing people.

Yes you want to shut your ears and keep out the noise, but that's unfeasible when the noise outside is too loud. The problem is not that people "let" politics get into everything, it's that the noise outside IS too loud. You can't shut it out.

Also routine spying, deep packet inspection, fuckery with networks and so on and so forth.

We shall see.

Having driven a lot on London and various parts of the US, I'd say driving in London isn't like driving in America. The roads are small, narrow and crowded. Pedestrians common and allowed, and do, cross almost everywhere. Junctions tend to be much more varied and intricate or of you prefer, bizarre. There's also a surprising number of places where there simply isn't room for both directions and you have to negotiate with other drivers, in ways that will get you to fail your driving test and are not precisely legal.

It'll be interesting to see how they compare with the locals, i.e. Wayve.

BMI is not bullshit.

Statistically it's pretty good. 95% accurate for men and 99% accurate for women when predicting obesity.

Now of course we know every Slashdotter is a muscle bound gym bro rocking 2% with a BMI of 80.

Thing is BMI is pretty accurate, easy to measure with very common equipment and hard to cheat. If you know better and can do better, great, do so. But how many of those 5% for whom BMI is wrong do you think are already taking regular exercise and have some knowledge about what they are doing?

The really daft thing is you're complaining about a system that demonstrably worked. The computer flagged someone who was likely to be obese. Doctor checked to see if you were based on the flag, and then dismissed it. That's the system found it's job. The other 95% of the time of course the doctor would have seen the flash was accurate and followed up.

What on earth is wrong with that?