Death Valley is hotter than the river of molten lava flowing towards Grindavik in Iceland?
Death Valley is hotter than the river of molten lava flowing towards Grindavik in Iceland?
I agree that the focus needs to be on cutting emissions, and I share the concern for unintended consequences. But I don’t know if that concern justifies shutting down an experiment intended to identify any such consequences.
Ok, but protests need to be done “without distraction”? That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
The US Navy will convert its surplus oil rigs in the Pacific into active mobile military bases
The Navy has its own oil rigs?
So they’re using xenophobia to attack education, because xenophobia by itself isn’t malignant enough.
I assume we can’t actually resolve spatial detail on the planet, so the effect must have been spectral. Would it have been something like a spike moving through the visible spectrum as the planet transits its star?
“Wikipedia” —Lol
“US officials claim” —Lol
…Says the user who just posted a story sourced to Russian state media.
“I like it when companies game search engines by titling their promotional pages to mimic search query results.”
The Mac keyboard layout was largely inherited from the Apple ][ and pre-OSX systems, which were non-Unix. The original Unix keyboard layout differs from both Mac and Windows layouts.
The team’s measurements even suggest that the supernovae that virtually cleared the bubble of space in which the Milky Way resides was born in a cluster of stars within the Radcliffe Wave.
Wait, the Milky Way is inside of a bubble generated by novae which were inside a cluster which is inside the Radcliffe Wave which is inside… the Milky Way?
That varies by subreddit, which might actually help in training LLMs to recognize the difference.
That will remove your account from public view, but will it remove it from the data it uses for AI training?
If not, you’re just enhancing the value of their proprietary data.
Well, the Spartans were pederasts…
At some point someone’s going to train an LLM on material from successful scams to autonomously generate new scams, then wire the money to server farms to run more copies of itself.
And when they do get that call, many cops say, they’ve likely spent more time learning about their department’s sexual-harassment policy than about gunfighting.
Yes, that’s totally the underlying cause of all the issues facing police officers today.
According to the article there were seven other officers on site doing nothing, but Peterson was charged because his position as school resource officer made him an exception to previous rulings that officers don’t have an obligation to protect anyone.
I think the underlying issue is that there are different strategic requirements for general collective decision-making, on the one hand, and for outmaneuvering hostile institutions (media, police, etc.) on the other. Horizontalism may work fine for the first, but it’s too predictable and consistent for the second. Because institutions are adaptive, and once they can predict you, they can exploit you. A hierarchical organization with a small leadership can adapt more quickly, but then the bulk of the movement has no agency and the only way to maintain their commitment is through a cult of personality.
I was involved in some of the decade’s horizontalist protest movements, and the events in my city had some parallels to what they describe happening in São Paulo (albeit on a smaller scale): a brutal police response to an initial protest that got widespread media coverage, followed by a much larger protest whose participants weren’t necessarily ideologically aligned with the original one. And while it was ultimately no more successful, they did do one smart thing at first that doesn’t seem to have happened in Brazil: they immediately pulled all the newcomers into a democratic assembly to decide on the next course of action. The newcomers greatly outnumbered the original group, so the original group was giving up control and doubtless compromising some of their original goals. But in return, the newcomers became invested in the process, and that prevented them from getting suborned by external groups as happened in Brazil and elsewhere.
We still had issues of over-predictability, which eventually let hostile groups spin their own narratives and otherwise outmaneuver us; and we gradually fell apart out of frustration with our inability to counter that. But I’m not convinced that centralized leadership would have been the only solution.
The people responsible for developing Windows should never be allowed near any kind of critical infrastructure.
The reconstructions show that cooler periods—which had average temperatures as much as three degrees Celsius lower than the highs of preceding centuries for decades at a time—coincided with Roman reports of major pandemics
Obviously the cold air causes an excess of phlegm and threatens those with phlegmatic dispositions—Galen could have told you that. /s
Agreed—but note that in this case the information was only discovered because the organizations involved (Common Crawl and LAION) do show their data. We should assume that proprietary data sets have similar issues—but this case should be seen as an opportunity to improve one of the rare open data sets, not to penalize its openness and further entrench proprietary sources.