A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
I remember being taught that multiplication was all about “groups of”, so for 3x2=6, 3 groups of 2 equals 6 because you’re summing up the total number of objects in each group.
This makes sense to me, and more importantly, it’s logically consistent. For larger numbers, it’s the same thing; 54 groups of 392, when summed up, total 21,168.
But this garbage? 1x1=2? 1 group of 1 equals 2? That’s not how numbers work.
I couldn’t find the passage, but Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire had a quote along the lines of, “there were so many relics of the holy cross claimed in churches across Europe that one could assemble them into a small forest”.
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas
I’m of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, “pile”, that describes a general amount but doesn’t have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared...
So my wife and I were watching through Babylon 5 on Tubi. We’ve both never seen it and have really enjoyed it. We hit the end of season 4 and it really felt like the end of the show (I’m aware of the background issues and also that the season 5 finale was filmed for the end of season 4 but then shifted around) and we were...
Finished The Better Part of Valour by Tanya Huff. Book 2 of Confederation series. It took a long time to finish this, but I am still interested in the story....
I’m genuinely curious; given the historical basis upon which this spicy meme is founded, why would it be racist? Nobody is saying anything about race or religion, it’s specifically calling out one man, revered by billions, who married a child.
Yeah, that thought crossed my mind as well. “Muhammad” in it’s various different spellings IS the most popular name in the world after all. Still though, it’d be weird for anyone to claim that all people named Muhammad are ALL interested in 9 year olds named Aisha
This is a trip I did a few months ago now, from Makara to Owhiro Bay on the Wellington coastline. I’ve only done the trip once before, and the trip is tide dependent and requires meticulous planning, tides can run in excess of five knots along this coastline, so it’s important to have them working in your favour. The tidal...
Posted this in a random thread yesterday but figured it probably deserved more views. This is from a rainy day last August, near the peak at Pretty River Valley Provincial Park, Ontario, on the Niagara Escarpment. I watched the clouds rolling in, and then they rolled into and through the forest, creating an absolutely magical...
Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot (www.theverge.com)
Request to join No_Man's_Sky reddit (www.reddit.com)
Don’t have a specific question, nor anything to report right now, but I’d like to join the Reddit. Username @RiverKnight2018
Upgrade, please (lemmy.world)
TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory (math.ucr.edu)
A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
There’s a ton of evidence (midwest.social)
Purple Finch (edit: Not a Spring Cardinal) (lemmy.world)
My bad y’all Purple Finch...
Ship customization - quick summary
OK, Ship Customization seems to be very specifically limited in a few ways:...
AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. (wapo.st)
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas
WIP WEDNESDAY (lemmy.world)
It’s been a while since I posted. Nearly do e just the desert left.
At what number of grains of sand does a non-pile graduate into being a pile?
I’m of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, “pile”, that describes a general amount but doesn’t have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared...
Help motivate us to watch season 5
So my wife and I were watching through Babylon 5 on Tubi. We’ve both never seen it and have really enjoyed it. We hit the end of season 4 and it really felt like the end of the show (I’m aware of the background issues and also that the season 5 finale was filmed for the end of season 4 but then shifted around) and we were...
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 25 March
Finished The Better Part of Valour by Tanya Huff. Book 2 of Confederation series. It took a long time to finish this, but I am still interested in the story....
“I would be forced to mortgage”: Trump melts down on Truth Social as lawyers admit he can’t get bond (www.salon.com)
Trump fears he may have to “sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices”...
Too dank removed from memes.lemmy (sh.itjust.works)
Fort Lauderdale is looking at raising roads to battle rising seas (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Sad but true (sh.itjust.works)
Makara to Owhiro Bay (www.relive.cc)
This is a trip I did a few months ago now, from Makara to Owhiro Bay on the Wellington coastline. I’ve only done the trip once before, and the trip is tide dependent and requires meticulous planning, tides can run in excess of five knots along this coastline, so it’s important to have them working in your favour. The tidal...
The Cloud Forest at Pretty River Valley, Ontario (lemmy.world)
Posted this in a random thread yesterday but figured it probably deserved more views. This is from a rainy day last August, near the peak at Pretty River Valley Provincial Park, Ontario, on the Niagara Escarpment. I watched the clouds rolling in, and then they rolled into and through the forest, creating an absolutely magical...
What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it? (files.catbox.moe)
Just found the one linked, I like it but I can’t find the high resolution version, so I was curious to see where people get theirs.