Why do we have elderly politicians in government making legislation about a field that young people know infinitely more about? Experts universally critique all the ways this law puts children in greater danger, yet we don't know that porn harms children—it's just assumed.
Why do we have elderly politicians in government making legislation about a field that young people know infinitely more about? Experts universally critique all the ways this law puts children in greater danger, yet we don't know that porn harms children—it's just assumed.
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DESI has made the largest 3D map of our Universe to date
Earth is at the center in this animation, each blue point is a galaxy: > 14 million galaxies in total up to 11 billion light years away
The gaps are the regions where our own galaxy blocks the view
There is such a thing as organic depression—people who have abundant health, loving relationships, and meaningful work but suffer from despair and profound sadness. They can transform with medication. Nearly every serious professional has seen it.
Med cautious > Anti-med
Kurt Gödel, who was one of Albert Einstein's best friends in his later years, found a solution to general theory of relativity that modelled a strange, unusual and rotating universe allowing for backward time travel
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I find Judge Goss's instructions to the Jury baffling. I wonder what they made of it.
Here is my paraphrasing of parts of it.
1. /You must base your decision on the evidence and using your knowledge of human behaviour about how people think and react./
Invitation to consider…
I don’t believe active discrimination against conservatives is the main reason academia is mostly liberal, because if you break it down by academic discipline, even math (5.6 to 1) and engineering (1.6 to 1) have more liberals.
Follow on to my earlier post on triangle subdivision. Using different definitions of center results in very different images.
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If what you're about to say is predictable, then it carries zero information as measured by Shannon entropy.
Information = Surprise.
Zero surprise => zero information.
OpenAI have trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”).
I described some of the most beautiful and famous mathematical theorems to Midjourney.
Here is how it imagined them:
1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."
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