Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

That’s so cool! I visualized a way to explain fairly simply how AI can do this, treating DNA/RNA just like another language.

1) Via sheer computation, an LLM learns and documents patterns in a language, and can then predict which new patterns can be des…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

Correction and benevolence appreciated.

I lost sleep again, getting wind of even more horrible destruction in their cards by Thanksgiving or so.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Polititains with the power to endanger the health of their citizens should be the ultimate Null Set. Getting them out of office is the first aid and keeping them out of office is the prophylactic.

By the way. I made The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread for entertainment and leisure, so replies can be at leisure as…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And carcinogenity is discovered by tests on rodents that notoriously don’t extrapolate well to humans.

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

jakelafort wrote:
Perplexity has a misapplied word. Less. Should have been least. Does it simply copy paste?

The only place I see “less”, at least in Reg’s post, is in the word “tenseless”.

jakelafort wrote:
The free will and compatibilism was not very deep or convincing.

I admit to not being able to fathom the whole block universe concept, much…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Highly recommended.w

I like how it easily creates PDFs for any session. The PDFs (and other…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Presumably, the ionization and/or Carbon and/or Hydrophobic additives keep the Sodium from exploding, correct?

Yes, his explanation seems plausible to me.

I did some research on AI and learned that the statistics on dangerous incidents is as comprehensive as I expected, plus there’s a confounding delay of damage caused…[Read more]

Advancements and technical explanation (17-1/2 minute minus 70 second ad):

TheEncogitationer wrote:
It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

Maybe that’s what Sleepy Don is dreaming about. /smh

I don’t take the closed eyes as a problem as seriously as many do. The poor guy stays up until the wee hours on social media for us.

I am still trolling for fighter jet video…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But that doesn’t make for lines or melodies you remember and hum or sing while in the shower, folding laundry, or preparing a meal.

Well, this “you” (i.e. I) like it, and it gave me an earworm. I just now looked for a reaction with a translation, and the first one I found is still new… only 72 comments so far, and if you feel s…[Read more]

We have been becoming more and more visible via electronic mechanisms over the years, and eventually we will have to learn to live with this. Tin foil hats probably won’t help. So it’s futile to knee jerk against this kind of usage of WiFi, because it’s coming. Writing laws prohibiting things don’t act…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry and a Boston district shaped like a mythological salamander

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That was two years ago.

Yaeh, about 2-1/2 years ago was Pepsi Center, which was iconic. But you made me think, and I think my perspective’s different because about 95% of my TW experience is in watching reactors, especially first-time reactors. So I’m getting extra mileage on re-hearing their older stuff and seeing how amazed…[Read more]

Each tribe has its own “marae” which is their sacred community building where they attain a sense of ‘belonging’. It is prohibited for non-tribe members.  I was adopted as sister, and embraced into the shared flow of…[Read more]

Stories about all of them, that changed my perceptions of almost…[Read more]

Short:

”We Homo Sapiens just surround our wars with ideology and religion” is quite a profound statement.

This fits in with the behaviours of some of the far flung tribal groups I’ve lived with. For them, religion is a comfort, not a cause. They still have aggression, but the dividers between ‘them’ and ‘us’ are more commonly tribal root orientat…[Read more]

1) Call me naive, I only learned about mogging today. Here’s a 1 minute intro:

2) Here it is in a Hegsethian context, within the Trumpian context. I like the whole episode but jump into it where it serves comedic effect wrt mogging, leaving 9 minutes to…[Read more]