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Surely the LLM trawls new material it hasn't seen before every time you ask a question ? This additional information and using fixed statistical weights will still result in a new output every time ie development, I hesitate to call it evolution.

(A long way) backalong in this thread I'm sure I introduced you the the master principle that you can use to explain almost all process in physics. The principle of minimum energy, otherwise known to engineers as the shakedown theorem. This defines the conditions for virtual particles from the Higgs, through electrons, nuclear reactions, chemical reactions, macroscopic mechanics and upwards.

Sorry I need your explanation.

It's a popsci book, but being german, it is accurate, so yes I would recommend it. Here is the flysheet. the book is for reading not studying. It is a good read. And note Fritzch had an earlier book too, along with many other properly scientific publications. However it is not about tensor calculus. If you are interested in that I would recommend Visual Geometry and Forms By Needham. It's much more up to date than MTW. But this is a digression if you really want to explore books on these subjects, we should do it in another thread. Markus had a thread like that when he was (self) studying the stuff.

I couldn't quickly find any graphs going further back. But I did post information relevant to the dates in a subsequent post. You made quite a specific quesiton and are now wandering around in both space and time. The 'Middle Ages' was a particular time period in European history, it did not occur anywhere else. Egypt at the same time was under the control of the growing Moslem empire and, like ancient Egypt quite different. One particular feature of the European middle ages is relevant to you question. At that time people were much more dispersed, there were almost no large cities. In the country people lived in houses that were two story high. The ground floor was used, especially in winter, to house livestock. People lived on the first floor above the animals, using the rising heat to warm the upper floor in winter. This close proximity must have led to the poor hygene referred to elsewhere. In England parish records go back this far so fair estimates of the ages at death can be made; many cemetaries have gravestones for children remaining to this day.

Interestingly there is a book by a german professor of Physics, the late Harald Fritzsch, on this very subject.

References ?

There is no need to apologise, but thank you for noting your background. I think it is very important to note my warning about language though because there are so many words that have different meanings in scientific and general discussions and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the intended use. For instance it is very clear when someone wants to talk about the 'Field of Baroque Music', that this is a general not scientific use of the word Field. But a person who is used to encountering such usage may be tempted to think he knows what Field means scientifically. We see many threads based on this simple misconception.

What the difference between sentience and cognitive capacity ?

Perhaps you would like to explain what is behind this question ? The ancient Chinese development fell bewteen the two stools of algebra and geometry so you have a case in point if you study that for an answer. Have you read Johnny Ball's book wonders beyond numbers ? You will find an unbiased introduction there.

With respect a layman is someone who knows little about the subject in consideration. She may be an expert in chinese painting and sculpture nonetheless. But I take you point the the Op needs to brush up on his mathematics and physics before pontificating on definitions used by others.

Just a small niggle. 'resonated' has a very specific meaning in science, which is not the way you have used it. It seems to me that one of the characteristics of 'drawing on every source' is that an AI will encounter and then adopt a lot of flowery common English with non scientific meanings to the scientific detriment of the output.

The thing is I would expect anything (alive or inanimate)) that can respectably called 'intelligent' to do more than just solve problems set by others.

Do you have a prediction for the cirtical temperatures of either of your candidates ? Did you test you method of prediction on any known (relatively) high temperature superconductor compound, say HgCa2Ba2Cu3O8 (mott temp 133K) ?

Public figures. If that is the case perhaps they have too much access to all the misinformation that abounds these days. Also I wasn't aware that LLms did any reasoning at all. But thanks for the report all the same.

There's a double whammy involved here. Mars is colder so more oxygen will be needed just to keep warm as a true martian. In my opinion that film is one of the best films ever.; it offers scientific insights into the question here. [aside] This is the sort of reasoning I don't think any AI can perform. [/aside]

I agree that such spaceships would be desireable. But I also remember that depends on two things. Firstly 'settlers' implies they do not intend to come back. This was the case with many migrations and settling in the past, to the Americas, Australia and Africa. Further these settlers endured voyages of sometimes several years. I would also suspect that the payloads of those early ships were comparable to what we could send to Mars, before trying to settle. Incidnetally have you seen the film The Martian ?

The mediaeval period di not extend into the 17 cent as far as I am aware. Did you look at the analysis I posted describing how many mediaeval villages were abandonded following the plague ?

I would be interested in looking at those. Any links please ? Why only free versions ?

To be brutally honest I don't anticipate any significant change to the presentation or quality- or lack of it - of the BBC weather service, from the user point of view. There is too much politcal overlay and arse covering from those who don't actually experience the weather.

Can we get back to the original question about the middle ages please. Here is a well balanced and summary of the influence on the Plague at that time. Apologies, the Philips Atlas of World History is large and cumbersome and difficult to load onto the scanner.

That is not reasoning, just efficient (from M$ ??) programming. I agree. I am talking about what distinguishes a human, for all their frailties and faults, form one of these constructs. One of these differences is the ability to look at something and discern something else that is not directly there or supplied. In the maths case in my day at that age range we had the GCE exam. In that exam we were given say a geometrical diagram with some information on it. And asked to calculate or derive something that was not directly obtainable from that information. We had to realise that a certain intermediate result was required, whcih would lead to the desired answer. Some decades later when I was attending the pre GCSE exam meeting for parents I asked "when wouold they start teaching the maths that was mnecessary to do this?" And was gobsmacked to be told "We no longer do that" So this developmental skill was left out and pupils today demand "Whats the formula for that?" Another example I have quoted several times here is the analysis of a photmicrograph of granite and Professor Swinburn's analysis and deductions from it. A beautiful example of non mathematical scientific reasoning. Humans have the ability to see what is not there, what might be there , what else is needed and so on.

You know and I know that isn't what I was talking about.

I didn't. But since you ask It's a process that is no sadly longer required or taught in middle school maths (13 - 16 years).

Did I not already acknowledge that in my reply to exchemist ? edit Actually I hate the inane input editor even more than I hate AI.