Comment Re:Not the Fastest Car Off-Planet (Score 1) 91
Also, as if we hadn't suspected it, this confirms that the car is faster than the Mars Rover.
Comment Ver and Karpeles? (Score 1) 36
Them being involved, I would keep it quiet if I wanted to raise any money. MtGox ring any bells?
Comment Re:not a bad idea, but way too late... (Score 2) 75
Fuck that overzealous userbase. Last time I asked them for help with a problem, no answer came. Instead somebody decided to edit my post. Correcting spelling mistakes, that's fine, but I hardly recognized my own writing. After a few days I had solved the problem on my own and decided to share it. Apparently I didn't do that according to the rules and another nazi came in to point that out.
Comment Re:I stopped trusting Kickstarter entirely (Score 2) 27
Same at Indiegogo. Of the 12 projects I backed in short succession 5 of them failed to deliver. Two were an outright scam. The others were disappointing. One of them is now in bankruptcy after 9 years of promises to deliver "soon". I thought it would be fun to help these inventors but instead it only annoyed me because of the extremely poor communication.
Comment Re:Waterfall, Agile, whatever - it doesn't matter (Score 1) 235
Mod it up multiple times.
Comment I loved twin peaks (Score 1) 48
The owls are not what they seem
Comment Good thing Google is a US company (Score 2) 263
I googled:
How much is a decillion?
noun. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 33 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 60 zeros.
Sundar must be glad Google is a U.S. company.
Comment I know this one! (Score 2) 69
"If we had some sort of catastrophe six months from now, if we do detect there are models that are starting to autonomously self-improve, who are you going to call?"
Ghostbusters!!
Comment Inverted yield curve? (Score 1) 74
and the yield curve briefly inverted
The yield curve has been in an inverted state for over a year already. What's happening now is that it could return to normal. Normal being that if you want to lend out your money for a long time you get a higher interest rate, not a lower.
Comment Re:Again? (Score 1) 136
Exactly this. It is beyond stupid. Me, a law abiding citizen am being spied on while some druglord will ask his nephew to go to the library, read a book about encryption and develop an app so that he can chat discretely with other criminals. It's that simple.
Comment wobbly windows (Score 1) 42
Does it come with wobbly windows? (honest question)
Comment catastrophic forgetting (Score 2) 23
This is a dead end. One of the big unsolved problems in machine learning is catastrophic forgetting: chatgpt has to be trained with data we've got up to now and this costs millions of dollars in power consumption. A couple of months go by and there is new data we would to incorporate. Instead of adding that data, we have to retrain chatgpt again from scratch. It's like a child having to learn how to walk again if it wants to know how to ride a bike.
Various solutions to this problem have been proposed, but so far nothing that is close to ideal. ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2F... ) If you have a robot that moves around in the world and continually experiences new things you want to learn incrementally.
Submission + - Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling (economist.com)
SpzToid writes: No one doubts that wind turbines do indeed kill at least some birds. But a new analysis of American data, published in Environmental Science & Technology, suggests the numbers are negligible, and have little impact on bird populations.
Wind power has expanded dramatically in America over the past 20 years, from 2.6 gigawatts of installed capacity on land in 2000 to 122 gigawatts in 2020. Many studies have analysed the effects in specific locations or on specific bird species. But few have looked at the effects on wildlife at the population level. Enter Erik Katovich, an economist at the University of Geneva. Dr Katovich made use of the Christmas Bird Count, a citizen-science project run by the National Audubon Society, an American non-profit outfit. Volunteers count birds they spot over Christmas, and the society compiles the numbers. Its records stretch back over a century.
Comparing bird populations to the locations of new gas wells revealed an average 15% drop in bird numbers when new wells were drilled, probably due to a combination of noise, air pollution and the disturbance of rivers and ponds that many birds rely upon. When drilling happened in places designated by the National Audubon Society as “important bird areas”, bird numbers instead dropped by 25%. Such places are typically migration hubs, feeding grounds or breeding locations.
Wind power has expanded dramatically in America over the past 20 years, from 2.6 gigawatts of installed capacity on land in 2000 to 122 gigawatts in 2020. Many studies have analysed the effects in specific locations or on specific bird species. But few have looked at the effects on wildlife at the population level. Enter Erik Katovich, an economist at the University of Geneva. Dr Katovich made use of the Christmas Bird Count, a citizen-science project run by the National Audubon Society, an American non-profit outfit. Volunteers count birds they spot over Christmas, and the society compiles the numbers. Its records stretch back over a century.
Comparing bird populations to the locations of new gas wells revealed an average 15% drop in bird numbers when new wells were drilled, probably due to a combination of noise, air pollution and the disturbance of rivers and ponds that many birds rely upon. When drilling happened in places designated by the National Audubon Society as “important bird areas”, bird numbers instead dropped by 25%. Such places are typically migration hubs, feeding grounds or breeding locations.
Comment Re:I just get this (Score 5, Funny) 110
Mine won't say anything until I tell him where John Connor is
Submission + - MOND isn't dead yet: Paper argues that gravity changes at very low accelerations 6
porkchop_d_clown writes: MOND — MOdified Newtonian Dynamics is a hypothesis that Newton's law of gravity is incorrect under some conditions. Now a paper published at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiopscience.iop.org%2Fart... (and summarized at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2024-01-...) claims that a study does indeed show that pairs of widely separated binary stars do show a deviation from Newton's Second Law, arguing that, at very low levels, gravity is stronger than the law predicts.
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