AbouBenAdhem @ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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You only know the total mass, charge, and angular momentum of the black hole—you don’t know how those properties are distributed inside the event horizon. You see the apple approach the horizon and the horizon expands to encompass the apple-black hole system, but that information isn’t coming from the singularity at the center—it’s coming from the horizon.

One of the requirements for administering any department is being able to tell when it’s doing its job, and for his position that means being able to tell good policies from bad ones.

“Who do they think I am, the Secretary of Health?”

I guess Kamala Harris’s former campaign advisors found new employment.

Here’s a list of WP’s templates for adding social media links to articles—looks like they have one for Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_media_external_link_templates

AlphaEvolve verifies, runs and scores the proposed programs using automated evaluation metrics. These metrics provide an objective, quantifiable assessment of each solution’s accuracy and quality.

Yeah, that’s the way genetic algorithms have worked for decades. Have they figured out a way to turn those evaluation metrics directly into code improvements, or do they just keep doing a bunch of rounds of trial and error?

It’s just the name of Google’s AI division.

We’re not built for modern society.

We say this as if modern society were imposed on us by aliens—but we built it ourselves with the freedom to adapt it to our existing biological needs.

We just really fucked it up.

A pair of drift skates, with an interchangeable pair of crutches.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
― Mark Twain

Faux outrage?

Do you count audio books as reading?

The 3-leaf clover has religious/national significance in Ireland—there’s a legend about St. Patrick using it to demonstrate the unity of the Christian trinity.

The voice-over is usually trying to approximate the lip movements and timing as well as the meaning.

I think it’s like one person writing something down vs a bunch of people using a Ouija board.

Does my doppelgänger go to my workplace and do my job?

If he doesn’t, there’s your answer.

If he does, I’ll leave him to it and go read a book in the park.

But even landlords need to at least give notice before they can legally enter.

The most suggestive study I’ve seen was of squirrels (or crows?) who re-bury nuts at a later date if other squirrels were watching them bury the nuts initially. But it can still be argued that they’re just keeping a mental map with some nuts marked as “need to move” without remembering the specific experiences that made them think the original locations were compromised.

I don’t think it’s ever been conclusively proven that other animals have episodic memories. (Partly because it’s hard to tell whether they’re actually replaying an experience or just remembering the relevant information in a less immediate way, without being able to ask them.)

So the shareholders are declaring that Thompson’s killing successfully disrupted the company’s “aggressive anti-consumer tactics”.

It’s almost like they’re trying to encourage more of the same.