AbouBenAdhem
@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Obligatory Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 5 weeks 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. 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 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 2 months ago:
Legally, yes. (But of course, the Supreme Court has turned interpreting the Constitution into a game of Calvinball.)
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- Comment on Maybe the concept of nothing does not exist. Maybe the fabric of Spacetime is always there. 2 months ago:
According to quantum field theory particles are just fluctuations in fields that permeate all of space, so sure.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
Not with a typewriter, though.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why we need at least… two of them.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 2 months ago:
TIL Jürgen Habermas is still alive.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 2 months ago:
The McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem proves that, if an electorate is presented with a series of proposed policy changes and everyone votes according to their honest preference, the proposals can be fashioned and ordered in such a way that any policy can be made to win—even one that no voter prefers to the original.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
Many authors stipulate that their books must be sold on Amazon without DRM, so their readers can back up and use their books outside Amazon’s ecosystem. Does preventing users from accessing their files violate any conditions that were implied when people bought and sold books with that feature?
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 2 months ago:
The anarchist Mikhail Bakunin was born into Russian nobility.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 2 months ago:
It’s a state-level policy, and there have been a few states that were ahead of the curve.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 2 months ago:
Historically, all regular voting was done in-person on election day and mail-in ballots were a special exception (e.g., for people with disabilities). It’s only in the last few election cycles that voting by mail became the norm, and most people still use the pre-existing terminology.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 2 months ago:
First cousin once removed.
Maybe the websites saying “second cousin” are actually talking about the children of two first cousins?
- Comment on Are you tasty to mosquitoes? Study offers clues into when and why they bite 2 months ago:
They also identify compounds in human sweat that increase biting behavior in mosquitoes as well as bitter compounds that suppress egg-laying and feeding behaviors…
Is that how anti-malarials like quinine work?
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 3 months ago:
A typical use case is to forward a single port to the proxy, then set the proxy to map different subdomains to different machines/ports on your internal network. Anything not explicitly mapped by the reverse proxy isn’t visible externally.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 3 months ago:
Maybe he worked a few years at a temp agency?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 3 months ago:
The theory you’re referring to sounds like the free energy principle (or a variation of it).
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 3 months ago:
Yeah. In my case, though, a lot of my library consists of relatively expensive reference works that I use regularly and that would be prohibitive to replace if Amazon decided to play games with them.