John Cuthber

Rice IS grain.

So, imagine I work in a Ti manufacturing plant in the UK (I doubt there are any but...) and I want to eliminate the competition, all I have to do is drop the tungsten carbide balls from pens into the vats of my competitors's molten Titanium. One quick question; given that molten titanium is white hot and reacts with oxygen and nitrogen, how do I achieve this?

It's an interesting bit of work. It could be "the sort of thing" that explains the origin of chiral molecules for life. But we will probably never know. The important thing is hat it's a possible explanation and that stops anyone writing off abiogenesis as "impossible",

Cool!

I'm sure many people in the UK will be gobsmacked to hear that.

"The first recorded use of the English word mouthfeel is in 1939. The Oxford English Dictionary describes mouthfeel as a food property like “tenderness in meat, crispness in biscuits, smoothness in chocolate.”" From https://inkstonepress.com/2019/04/10/mouthfeel/ This isn't very neo as logisms go.

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Apparently Trump is arguing with himself about the damage to the pool Time for the 25th. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1289045803310877

IQ is a measure of how well you do in IQ tests.

Aluminium forms a sesquioxide Al2O3. Each aluminium has one and a half oxygens combined with it. Similarly cobalt forms a sesquisulphide Co2S3 And so on. There's a joke use of the prefix in the word "sesquipedalianism" The practice of using long and obscure words in speech or writing. Derived from Latin for "a foot and a half long," But when the Romans used the foot as a unit of length, they called it a pes, so I think it's "fake Latin".

Yep, I know. And both are consistent sets of units. So E=MC^2 works if you are using slugs or poundals.

I'm just going to mention the slug and the poundal, then run away. Hope people had a nice Easter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundal

It gather AI (specifically chat GPT) fails a test that... isn't thought of as difficult. (See pic) But it's the confidence that worries me. As for "scheming" and "deception", all AI's seem to do it all the time. If I tell you that your neighbour has a black cat I might be right or wrong. And I might be wrong, because I'm honestly mistaken. But, given the nature of this interaction, not only do I know nothing about the (hypothetical) cat, I should recognise that I know nothing about it. So, for me to make a statement about it, with the implication that I have some knowledge of the cat, is a lie. I'm effectively dishonestly claiming to know about the cat. And that is still a lie, even if your neighbour actually has a black cat. And AI tells that sort of lie all the time.

TIL You carry just 1 dead body, and that's all you get remembered for.

"It's interesting to group silicon with both germanium and titanium." Chemically, they probably have more in common with each other than with carbon or lead. I wait for Iupac, having decreed in favour of sulfur, to set their sights on "fosforus". While we are at it, "helium should be "helion" or something, because it's not a metal.