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I can see the argument for not using ≥ for numbers only; you need at least one to be a variable since the “or” gives an implication of having the possibility of multiple values

Everything has a wave nature, but we rarely notice it for anything that has mass above the atomic level. DeBroglie wavelength is given by h/p. h is small, and for massive objects p is proportional to mass. Even for an atom, you have to look carefully to see effects of wave behavior

You’re discussing fiction. You can do whatever you want. If you have a physics question, strip out the nonsense and ask it in the appropriate subforum.

l recall something from several board software iterations ago, but the functionality changes with every update. We lost a lot of useful stuff with some of the changes.

I don’t think so. We have the sandbox for testing LaTeX, which can then be copy/pasted

Not necessarily - I think the conclusion is that if he happens to be on the spectrum it’s moot. i.e. not enough to declare him unable to discern right from wrong.

Or the Monty Python way.

Anyone who watched curling the previous three weeks had the chance to see lots of conservation of momentum in action.

jalaldn has been banned for repeatedly spamming us with topics that had been closed.

“with the new upgrade, called Mars Global Localization, Perseverance can match its own panoramic imagery to orbital terrain maps onboard, calculate its precise position and continue along its planned route without waiting for Earth-based confirmation. An onboard algorithm performs the comparison in about two minutes and can pinpoint the rover's location to within roughly 10 inches (25 centimeters), all without assistance from human planners” https://www.space.com/space-exploration/mars-rovers/nasas-perseverance-rover-now-has-its-own-gps-on-mars-weve-given-the-rover-a-new-ability

Moderator NoteThere’s nothing here that rises to the level required for discussion in Speculations. Your previous thread on this was closed and you were told not to bring it up again. That was in clear language, not in some cryptic message with new words.

First one certainly looks fake/AI. No vertical exhaust hitting the ground and disrupting anyone’s pants as it flies by. Second one should be kicking up sand.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english Passages written in the period, in 100-year increments “Before the mid 1700s, there was no such thing as standardized spelling. Writers spelled words as they heard them, or as they felt like spelling them, which is why the 1500s and 1600s sections look so alien, even when the words, underneath the surface, are ones you know.” “As you move backwards in time, the French and Latin loanwords that make up an enormous proportion of the Modern English vocabulary grow fewer and fewer. When you pass 1250, they drop off almost altogether. Where a modern writer would say he underwent torture, a 1200-era writer must say that he suffered pinunge instead”

I think there’s a thread for that

It’s how politics works, though, and law enforcement is partly political.

For what purpose? I assume you meant “dedicated”; do you mean it automatically renders the code, or that only equations would be posted? If it’s the former, I don’t know if that’s possible. If the latter, I don’t see that it’s practical.

There’s literature supporting the idea that some people on the spectrum can’t form criminal intent (mens rea) but I have no idea how one makes the argument for him in particular. Reading his biography in wikipedia I see he served in the Royal Navy as a pilot and commanded a warship, and held many positions of responsibility. Denying all wrongdoing seems to be a common tactic that we here in the US are seeing all the time with the Epstein class currently in charge. But the feeling I get is it’s not a matter of having the capacity to know right from wrong, it’s not caring, reinforced by a life of being shielded from consequences

I’m most familiar with what the navy did, but any large organization would be susceptible to it; all it takes is having disparate and specialized job tasks, and management mediocre enough to not know what the rank-and-file are doing.

That’s a big objection and it’s not just AI - a lot of tech has been pushed out as a product that should still be in beta test. Self-driving is another; people have admitted they need the data from an unready product out in the world in order to improve it. I’ve bought computer games that were/are doing rather significant “gameplay adjustment” updates for years after the initial release. I think there wouldn’t be this kind of pushback if AI actually did its job reliably. Another issue is the breadth of the rollout, the desire to put it seemingly everywhere, without regard to how appropriate it is. I’ve seen that happen elsewhere. When the US Navy rolled out a standardized computer system ~20 years ago (to make the IT department job easier), we had a similar resistance, because it seemed like it was a decision made by someone who only needed the Microsoft Office products on a Windows machine to do their job, and they decided that’s all that everyone else needed, too. It’s a lack of awareness of how others use the technology, which is a form of managerial incompetence

I wonder how long this has been building, with AI just being the latest tool. As came up in a discussion last year, Cliff/Monarch notes summaries of books have been around for at least 50-60 years, but you could ask questions that got into enough detail/nuance that you could tell who read the book. I can see how AI can be abused for essays/papers, but I’m not sure how AI comes into play for exams I saw some articles talking about bringing back blue-book exams (i.e. handwritten work) which suggests that academia had gotten away from that, and I was surprised. What have they been doing to test students?

Perhaps the question should be at what age is it appropriate to become a parent, since that’s a common and predictable result of sexual activity?

LOL You don’t cite a source for this, and what I found disagrees https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-mid-year-llm-market-update/ Anthropic 32%, OpenAI 25%, Google 20% Further, https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-center-energy-needs-are-upending-power-grids-and-threatening-the-climate “About 56% of the electricity used to power data centers nationwide comes from fossil fuels.” Data center alley in Northern VA is a prominent example of using grid energy. Memphis TN has been in the news for using methane gas generators, without proper approvals. You mentioned cloud services in your examples. Not all data is related to LLM use.

The faulty generalization fallacy. One example doesn’t rebut all the others. “It did not rain on Tuesday” does not mean “It rained last week” is false.

Because electric heat is always cheaper and more environmentally friendly? Because we never want to cool our houses? Cloud storage is not AI. Can be ≠ is

One site I scanned said it was part of her thesis, so it might be a while. Like I said, organ viability after death is known, so I’m not sure how controversial that aspect is. The assertion about consciousness probably is, but a conference talk isn’t evidence. I don’t know how you could test this - there’s a fairly short time limit to reviving people after blood and oxygen to the brain are cut off. I wonder what the Q&A was like for the talk.