unprnncble
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unprnncble
@DuncanCV
There are many content filters, but this one is mine. Third person gendered pronouns are a myth.
شامل ہوئے Ekim 2008
99 فالونگ44 فالوورز
The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence by Stuart Riffle.
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Of course, to make the comparison, you do have to look at moles. Fish are so big that water is practically like water to them, and swimming motions work great! Suddenly everyone is shaped like an eel or a fish.
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Once you get big enough to have bones, the calculation changes. Legs are just really big cilia -- scoops that can extend, dig, and then fold in to pull back -- but with internal structure make them more effective. Cf. moles.
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The reason that bacteria have cilia is because at ~5–10 μm digging through water is comparable to digging through tar; a flagellum would just excavate a cone, a swimming motion would simply not move, and fins would be useless.
Peter Schmidt-Nielsen@ptrschmdtnlsn
Working under a microscope you really come to appreciate how at small scales everything is absurdly sticky, surface tension is insanely strong, and fluids are very viscous. And these scaling laws only continue! Bacteria probably feel like they're tunneling through glue.
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
Endless rounds of misunderstanding are induced by the fact that when normal people talk about "homelessness" they mean something like "erratic or alarming behavior in public spaces" which is:
a) Genuinely bad
b) Not clearly related to housing status
slowboring.com/p/the-two-home…
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
Apparently ticks are not a food chain keystone species, we have successfully eradicated a tick before (the Cattle Fever Tick), in 2023 the USDA started gene-editing ticks for future eradication efforts. The issue is just a slow lifecycle and money. Absolutely worth my taxes.
Nate O'Brien@nateobrienn
We need to eradicate the ticks Not enough people are talking about this It’s becoming an epidemic
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.
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@morallawwithin Ironically, "AI is just advanced autocomplete" has been a common and unimaginative response for about five years now.
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away?
Then I read a paper by Anthropic and the University of Toronto which has strangely received very little attention
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@Romy_Holland I'm not an expert of any sort, but letting your baby have some self-directed time in which they are calm and happy sounds like the only correct action. Upon reflection, it still sounds like the correct action. Waiting until they cry for you is good pre-language training as well.
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@StefanFSchubert It's a spurious and self-referential standard. When an AI cannot fold a shirt but can fold a protein, it won't matter how very much humans love shirts.
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Seems to me AI systems could be substantially better than humans at achieving real-world outcomes before having reached that point
François Chollet@fchollet
Human-level general intelligence is achieved when an AI system can approach a new task and figure it out, without human intervention, *with the same learning efficiency as humans*. If every new task requires human intervention, it's not general. If every new task requires brute-forcing, it's not human-level.
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Hot take: print books do not count as experiencing information. Human brains did not evolve to take in narratives or data in this fashion.
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
We have been surpassed:
AI written output exceeded human written output in 2025
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unprnncble ری ٹویٹ کیا
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.
My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.
acoup.blog/2026/03/25/mis…
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The current scurry around reading comprehension, and this post, are the same thing. Words are translatable based on your wordability, and some people have low wordability, so translating between languages is just too much word.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but despite looking, I've still never found a true example of a word/idea that cannot be translated into English. The English version may take multiple words, or even a sentence. It may lose its poetry. But it can be translated all the same.
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@BiolAndLangLife @StatisticUrban Of course, you can also make the argument that 'saudade' is not translatable from Portuguese to Portuguese.
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@BiolAndLangLife @StatisticUrban saudades has multiple meanings, but the core meaning is 'nostalgia'. It has a reputation is being 'ulta-nostalgia' simply because most bilingual people writing on the internet have a literary bent and are bad at linguistics. Hear it in the street, there's no confusion.
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Maybe I'm just ignorant, but despite looking, I've still never found a true example of a word/idea that cannot be translated into English.
The English version may take multiple words, or even a sentence. It may lose its poetry. But it can be translated all the same.
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