AbouBenAdhem
@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 days ago:
As long as you don’t observe it.
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 3 days ago:
There’s a certain neurological disorder where people can look at their own reflections and believe them to be fake or inhuman. I would expect them to make posts very similar to this one.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Would ex-Canadians be able to run for President?
Why not? The current president is from South Africa.
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 4 days ago:
Same for those who hear the music in their heads whenever they see the title.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 week ago:
The optimist in me says they’re doing this to avoid piracy.
Won’t pirates just buy their source copies on a different platform, so now Amazon loses the original sale as well?
- Comment on If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy 1 week ago:
Although a chessboard has only 64 squares, there are 1040 possible legal chess moves and between 10111 to 10123 total possible moves — which is more than the total number of atoms in the universe.
You’d think a website called “LiveScience” would be able to put exponents in article copy.
- Comment on Your AI can’t see gorillas. 1 week ago:
They see them, they just don‘t want to alarm us.
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 1 week ago:
There are plenty of activities that are perfectly harmless when done by one person, but need to be managed when a bunch of people try to do them at once.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 1 week ago:
Nine and a h^a^
- Comment on Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident. 1 week ago:
I would emend that to: It’s easy to kill random people, but hard to kill specific people. (Which is a logical consequence of population density.)
- Comment on Nails are just vestigial claws. 1 week ago:
As are hooves.
- Comment on Calling immigranta aliens is going to confuse the fuck out of the UFO fans with their foi requests 2 weeks ago:
On the other hand, “Ancient Aliens” is a lot more plausible.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The defining element of the library isn’t the content, it’s that the library gives it a semblance of intentionality.
- Comment on Looking for list/website that documents llm fails 2 weeks ago:
Ask an LLM to find you a list—if it doesn’t, then you have a failure right there.
- Comment on We get more month per day in February than any other time of the year. 2 weeks ago:
With one exception: October 1582—when Pope Gregory switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar—had only twenty days.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Am I missing something, or does karma (as a cumulative per-user measure) not play any functional role in Lemmy anyway?
- Comment on Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons 1 month ago:
Between the various cortical layers and white matter, what part of the brain’s structure do these implants typically target? Do they sit on top of the outermost layer of some specific region of the cortex, or do they make long-distance connections to other brain structures?
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 1 month ago:
Along the same lines, do deaf people compose poems in ASL? What aspect of that language plays the part of rhyme?
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 2 months ago:
So instead of a simulation, maybe we’re living inside of some other type of thing we’re hard-wired to be unable to even think of.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 2 months ago:
Obligatory Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 2 months ago:
My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think Dick Cheney beat him to it.
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 2 months ago:
It’s a metric scale—just use centimoochies.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 2 months ago:
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he wasn’t hateful toward anyone.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 3 months ago:
When you say “by themselves”, you mean one person would still write the scripts manually, and AI would replace the grunt-work animation teams that shows like the Simpsons and South Park employ in East Asia?
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 3 months ago:
If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who want to add it to a public training set.
- Comment on Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them. 3 months ago:
There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.
- Comment on Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them. 3 months ago:
Prehistoric people leaving things in caves is practically the only way we still know about them, but that doesn’t mean humans normally hung out in caves as a permanent lifestyle. We have evidence of people making wooden structures in Africa long before the first cave paintings—and compared to structures, caves would have been cold and dark, unlikely to be conveniently located, and contested for by cave-adapted animals.
It’s because the caves were so shitty that subsequent people left them untouched for tens of thousands of years.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
Legally, yes. (But of course, the Supreme Court has turned interpreting the Constitution into a game of Calvinball.)
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