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Comment Re: What about the trees that fall over? (Score 2) 59

It's impressive to see the amount of damage humans have done to out natural environment.
Fortunately, others have demonstrated that "rewilding" is possible without a great effort. All you need to do is stop clearing and burning and let nature do the rewilding. When you consider that 70% of cleared land is used to support industrial meat production, a logical first step would be to let this land recover. There would be less meat but that is a good thing for human health as well as the environment.

Comment Re:Books (Score 1) 202

Books are the product of intelligent humans.
When you read a book you benefit from their intelligence.
Books themselves are not intelligent in the same sense that people are intelligent. They are static representations of the intelligent thoughts of people but they are not intelligent. Just as AI is not intelligent. AI just parrots random stuff it reads on the internet. Sometimes the AI output reproduces the intelligent thoughts of humans but there is no ability for independent intelligent thought.

Comment Re:There is no CS in the article (Score 3, Informative) 37

This article explains the algorithm and is targeted toward the non-CS audience.
It may be difficult for some people to understand but they do boil it down to simple terms.
Those who are interested can read the paper at:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F2502.177...

Submission + - For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time (quantamagazine.org)

mspohr writes: Time and memory (also called space) are the two most fundamental resources in computation: Every algorithm takes some time to run, and requires some space to store data while it’s running. Until now, the only known algorithms for accomplishing certain tasks required an amount of space roughly proportional to their runtime, and researchers had long assumed there’s no way to do better. Williams’ proof established a mathematical procedure for transforming any algorithm — no matter what it does — into a form that uses much less space.
One of the most important classes goes by the humble name “P.” Roughly speaking, it encompasses all problems that can be solved in a reasonable amount of time. An analogous complexity class for space is dubbed “PSPACE.”

The relationship between these two classes is one of the central questions of complexity theory. Every problem in P is also in PSPACE, because fast algorithms just don’t have enough time to fill up much space in a computer’s memory. If the reverse statement were also true, the two classes would be equivalent: Space and time would have comparable computational power. But complexity theorists suspect that PSPACE is a much larger class, containing many problems that aren’t in P. In other words, they believe that space is a far more powerful computational resource than time. This belief stems from the fact that algorithms can use the same small chunk of memory over and over, while time isn’t as forgiving — once it passes, you can’t get it back.

Comment Re:Taxes are backward (Score 1) 192

The government knows what you earned and has deducted from the W-2 information that employers are required to submit.
For the vast majority of people that is all of their income.
Most people take the standard deduction which since they don't have a lot of deductions.
It's simple to calculate payments and refunds from this. Many other countries already do this.
The US tax code is intentionally complicated because of all of the special loopholes put in by bribed politicians to cater to the rich. Most people aren't eligible for these.
Taxes are simple for most people. No need for special tax software.

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