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1 hour ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

he more blames the Republicans for the current impasse

Rightly, so. Democrats are doing everything possible to get the help available while GOP blocks it to satisfy a rabid jingoistic base, and GOP controls the HoR.

haven’t watched your video, tho

1 hour ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

my reasoning tells me that in his case nature was the dominant factor

You misspelled imagination 

8 minutes ago, TheVat said:

I enjoy house wiring, but 8 AWG is not forgiving

No, it is not… especially not in the cold. Putting in a 220V service for some welding or a big blue power hammer or something?

IMO, he was basically suffocated to death.

Cost matters here. Of course the more powerful tech tends to replace the outdated tech. This is true across the sector and across history. The key limiting factor is how affordable we can make it and how broadly it can be distributed across society. 

The type of size measurement considered is also relevant. Overall volume seems to be less important than total surface area and complexity of the folds and convolutions, etc. 

Also, "intelligence" is a highly variable and oftentimes nebulous concept. Artists are often intelligent in different ways than mathematicians and plumbers are often intelligent in different ways from chefs or chemists, for example. 

Maybe but probably not

If only that were the only post you’d ever made here then perhaps the total failure to consider any context and broader historical posting trends might be more appropriate. But alas, you have made more than one post. 

He’s definitely getting better at this. FiveThirtyEight reports that he’s begun actively surrounding himself with prominent well placed leaders from South Carolina as a direct attempt to undercut any credit Haley might seize due to her time there as Governor. 

And yet his attacks on Bidens age stick and his supporters don’t care about his. 

2 hours ago, dimreepr said:

My very badly explained point is, yes they are, the tick frequency remains they same wherever we find ourselves in space and whatever speed we're going there.

Remains the same relative to what/whom? Your point isn’t badly explained. It’s wrong. 

On 1/16/2024 at 8:45 PM, iNow said:

It seems Trump called Senator Tim Scott (R senator from SC and who dropped out of the GOP primary) immediately after the Iowa results to request his endorsement.

He’s gotten better at it all this time around. Less sloppy. 

And today he got it. Senator Scott surrendered his integrity card and bent the knee

1 hour ago, dimreepr said:

Forgive my stupidity, but isn't time the 'tick' that we all experience at the same <insert word>???

Your tick and my tick are not the same. We're moving at different speeds. We are at different elevations with different gravitational potentials. When I'm on a plane and you're on the ground, our ticks differ. When you're walking and I'm still, our ticks are different.

The difference tends to be small at human speeds, but it is not zero.

There is also the issue of human awareness and how our awareness comes after the tick already happened, and when that awareness comes depends on our levels of fatigue, electrolyte saturation, and copious other neurological variables off topic here. 

As in my signature, "time is one of those concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition."  ~C. Sagan

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/sagan.html

Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems. Its performance matches the smartest high school mathematicians and is much stronger than the previous state-of-the-art system.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/17/1086722/google-deepmind-alphageometry/

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“This is a really impressive result,” says Floris van Doorn, a mathematics professor at the University of Bonn, who was not involved in the research. “I expected this to still be multiple years away.”

DeepMind says this system demonstrates AI’s ability to reason and discover new mathematical knowledge.

“This is another example that reinforces how AI can help us advance science and better understand the underlying processes that determine how the world works,” said Quoc V. Le, a scientist at Google DeepMind and one of the authors of the research, at a press conference.

When presented with a geometry problem, AlphaGeometry first attempts to generate a proof using its symbolic engine, driven by logic. If it cannot do so using the symbolic engine alone, the language model adds a new point or line to the diagram. This opens up additional possibilities for the symbolic engine to continue searching for a proof. This cycle continues, with the language model adding helpful elements and the symbolic engine testing new proof strategies, until a verifiable solution is found.

1 hour ago, Luc Turpin said:

Here is fine!

Stop being daft. This isn’t your thread. You’re not on staff. That isn’t your choice to make 

40 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

It would be nice to think that even though it's Iowa, 49% are at least able to avoid the Trump Kool-aid enough to consider voting for others.

There are 2.1 Million registered voters in Iowa.

Last night, only 110K of them caucused.

That's 5% turnout overall. About half of those, around 2-3%, declared for Trump.

Even if we look just specifically at those voting eligible constituents registered as Republican, approximately 85% of those stayed home and didn’t even bother to show up.

That 49% you cite is closer to 2% of the state… having a rather sizable impact on who gets to be the next POTUS with a huge per vote weighting. 

52 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

She needs to take a big step forward in New Hampshire.

I don’t think it will matter, especially if she can’t then carry the 3rd state in the primary (South Carolina) where she happened to serve as Governor. 

It seems Trump called Senator Tim Scott (R senator from SC and who dropped out of the GOP primary) immediately after the Iowa results to request his endorsement.

He’s gotten better at it all this time around. Less sloppy. 

90% reporting 

I’m unsurprised by Alberta since that’s oil country, but I’d love a more granular age breakdown that showed 18-24 separate from 25-44. 

39 minutes ago, TheVat said:

while the dryer tortilla wrapping is still cool.  Empiricism!  

Empán-iricism, as it were 

1 hour ago, geordief said:

Would the "back hole" be on the event horizon in that case?

No. It’s a misspelled autocorrect version of blackhole. Sorry for the confusion and not catching that in previous post. 

Yawn

The logical question back is, where is the backhole located if the universe itself (which is everything including all black holes) could fall into it?

1 hour ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

Maybe Desantis just doesn't seem dictator enough for them?

When the name brand Oreos are the same price as the storebrand knockoff “cream filled cookies,” you get the real thing.

The cult has selected their messiah and DeSantis will always be second fiddle to their preferred godhead.

His shtick has been to “out Trump Trump,” and voters seem to prefer the original. His poor management of his campaign and his annoying way of speaking and bot-like lack of normal human behaviors has only magnified that problem. 

2 hours ago, Luc Turpin said:

Just before the Big Bang <snip>, does space-time ceases to exist?

That which does not yet exist cannot cease to

It’s like interacting with an addict in withdrawal