I recall reading something about some states either trying or succeeding to bring back debtor prisons.

It’s just a cleaver, a cutting board, and a lead apron with a hole in it.

I wouldn’t say zero scientific merit, but I do agree that some of their conclusions were overly strong. The “plausible” option really helped, rather than everything needing to be confirmed or denied.

Someone tipped me a tiny amount of some crypto coin on there, too. I did set up a wallet but then kinda forgot about it. Maybe I can pay off my place. Lol I remember it being one of the dumb ones, but tbh I thought they were all dumb. Still do, even if I did accidentally get rich lol.

Oh wow, just checked it. It was about 0.15 BCH and yeah, it has gone up considerably since I got it. It was worth maybe a buck or two, apparently it’s worth almost $80 USD today! That’s like a downpayment on a stick of RAM!

Over the lifetimes of the GPUs, many that benchmarked higher on nvidia early on swapped places as the AMD drivers matured.

I was using water from my RO filter and still am. I noticed it with other ice trays at other locations, but thought it was just something that happened to ice sitting in the freezer rather than coming from the ice tray itself, until I got one of those silicone sphere ice trays that only has a tiny bit exposed and noticed it was worse instead of better. It was also my first non-white ice tray, and I could clearly see the white film that remained on the silicone, which prompted me to buy the metal tray.

Fridge ice makers probably aren’t an issue because the ice doesn’t sit in the tray for very long (which also might be metal). They can sit in a plastic tub for a while before being dispensed, but they don’t have full contact with that plastic, and ice in the middle wouldn’t even have any contact until ice shifts around.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it depends on the type of plastic the tray is made out of, too. Like the silicone being worse might have been due to the plastic itself as much as the higher amount of contact with the ice.

And even without that, the metal one is just nicer to use. It is a normal tray with a metal grid attached to a hinged handle that easily breaks the ice. I’ve had a plastic tray partially snap while trying to twist the ice out, though even when they didn’t break, the ice would also sometimes refuse to break free.

In a central banking system, the central bank can create and destroy money from nothing. All banks can do it, though banks that aren’t the central bank need to hold on to a reserve portion which iirc is 10%, so they can loan out (effectively creating) 90% of deposits, which compounds (ie, if you deposit $100, the bank can lend out $90 of that, and if that borrower puts that $90 in their account, then the bank can loan another $81, meaning for the original deposit of $100, now $271 exists, and that $81 can be loaned against, too).

Congress can borrow money from the central bank or other banks. It’s also possible that they could seize the central bank and then just say they have the money and use that, though that’s how Germany ended up with stories of people using a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a coffee or diners paying when they ordered because prices would have gone up by the time they finished eating.

The whole “I have a degree” is an appeal to authority logical fallacy anyways, with this being one example why (people just lying is another, though hopefully that one doesn’t come up in a marriage).

And yeah, I’ve also gone through the “once preferred plastic cooking tools, now tries to minimize the amount of contact between plastic and my food”. And I wonder if it made it into that biology textbook the same way it once made it to the top of my preference list: stupid assumptions based on the look and feel.

Btw, if you don’t use ice very often and it ends up sitting in the tray for a long time before you do use it, I highly recommend metal ice cube trays. I’d notice a white film that wouldn’t melt and would float on top of water I put plastic trayed ice in. It had a bad taste… not a strong flavour, but a mildly unpleasant one. I still see white on ice from the metal tray, but it’s just trapped gasses because it doesn’t leave a film on the water and tastes just like frozen water instead of plasticky.

I also notice that frozen veggies smell like that flavour when they are still in the bag. Hard to tell how much of that ends up in the food because the food has a stronger flavour.

My guess is the loud bass vibrates dust particles that might clog up pores loose, or maybe helps with nutrient flow inside the plant. Like it’s affected by sound not music.

Though music might be generally better than most loud sounds because it’s one of the few cases where sound can be loud but isn’t also associated with something that adds more dust to the air, which might even give a net negative result.

You might get better results by going outside their channels and using legal options. Like not through the courts, but I think some jurisdictions have a law that you data must be deleted if a request is sent in writing or something like that. You might also be able to request they send you all the data they have (though this might cost money because they print it and mail it). I remember someone did that with their Tinder data for some article about how shitty Tinder is, though it depends on where you live.

I mean the masses are pretty fucking stupid and I don’t think following them is a good strategy for life.

Also, reddit was and somehow still is pretty popular and stack exchange is being killed by AI not discord, so that’s not really accurate anyways.

Still damned if he does because either he needs to mention specific things to limit the scope of the pardon and incriminates himself, or keeps it vague and she loses the 5th ammendment protections from talking.

I wonder if that was actually just an attempt to sell more copies by describing the clearly better control scheme as scary as a challenge to anyone who thought it sounded ok. Like I don’t think it took me long to understand that the Halo control scheme was a game changer compared to the ones that preceded it (other than mouse and keyboard).

But because there wasn’t anything better to compare it to, it didn’t feel that bad.

Metroid Prime transcended its crappy controls. Like one of the worst control schemes but still one of my all time favorites.

A lot of people are assuming that “having citations” is equivalent to “being right”. It’s not, it also includes one of the most frustrating cases of them being wrong.

Like for example if the citations all come from the bible. Or if the argument is about something personal like wanting more kids.

Over time, the more common mistakes would be integrated into the tree. If some people feel indigestion as a headache, then there will be a probability that “headache” is caused by “indigestion” and questions to try to get the user to differentiate between the two.

And it would be a supplement to doctors rather than a replacement. Early questions could be handled by the users themselves, but at some point a nurse or doctor will take over and just use it as a diagnosis helper.

(Assuming you meant “you” instead of “I” for the 3rd word)

Yeah, it fits more with the older definition of AI from before NNs took the spotlight, when it meant more of a normal program that acted intelligent.

The learning part is being able to add new branches or leaf nodes to the tree, where the program isn’t learning on its own but is improving based on the expeirences of the users.

It could also be encoded as a series of probability multiplications instead of a tree, where it checks on whatever issue has the highest probability using the checks/questions that are cheapest to ask but afffect the probability the most.

Which could then be encoded as a NN because they are both just a series of matrix multiplications that a NN can approximate to an arbitrary %, based on the NN parameters. Also, NNs are proven to be able to approximate any continuous function that takes some number of dimensions of real numbers if given enough neurons and connections, which means they can exactly represent any disctete function (which a decision tree is).

It’s an open question still, but it’s possible that the equivalence goes both ways, as in a NN can represent a decision tree and a decision tree can approximate any NN. So the actual divide between the two is blurrier than you might expect.

Which is also why I’ll always be skeptical that NNs on their own can give rise to true artificial intelligence (though there’s also a part of me that wonders if we can be represented by a complex enough decision tree or series of matrix multiplications).

Or suits so good at flight camera people need to also be pro ski jump++ level to keep up with them. Better, actually, because they have to do it while keeping the athlete in frame on a camera.

Same with the idea of “true names” in general.

Water loves touching itself.