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Comment · 1 day ago
Blame evolution. For 99% of our 300,000 year history, starvation not obesity was what killed homo-sapiens.
Comment · 1 day ago
Exercise does very little for weight-loss. You can fill up on calories far faster then you can exercise them.
Comment · 1 day ago
The biological drive for high calorie food and fat reserves are the problem in a environment where food-scarcity is not an issue.
Comment · 2 days ago
He is protecting a wanted fugitive, that's something.
Comment · 3 days ago
Their public messaging claims that LLM's may already be self-aware, may replace most of the workforce or even eradicate humanity but for legalese, it is just a dumb computer program. Can't have it both ways!
Comment · 3 days ago
If they already have a health specific model why aren't the others instructed to forward health related queries? Sounds to me, they are just trying to cover their ass; "Your honor, it is not our fault she didn't use the correct model"
Comment · 5 days ago
The importance of "proof" in math is to discover the reason and see if you can generalize or apply it somewhere else. A uncomprehandable proof is completely useless.
Comment · 5 days ago
They aren't programming robots. A lot of students, especially the ones who have not been taught from an early age the importance and rewards of knowledge, simply aren't interested in learning.
Comment · 7 days ago
Not likely. The Insurance industry will train their own A.I that says whatever they want it to say.
Comment · 7 days ago
The problem is that insurance won't authorize unless the doctor has a good reason to suspect a rare decease with expensive tests. Even then they will verify that the doctor has followed protocol and gone thru all the cheap tests first.
Comment · 10 days ago
A old brick-wall building is basically a pretty shell protecting a wood frame.
Comment · 10 days ago
The biggest problem with MOND is that it was hand-crafted with additional parameters simply to fit the data. What's missing is a reason or a mechanism by witch gravity stops following the inverse square. Scientists generally take a dim view of such theories.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann

Comment · 10 days ago
Unfortunately it is very common for people to spend 10 minutes using their "common sense" to find some simple explanation that seems to have defied the Scientist, rather then spend that time to read a quick article that explains the foundamentals.
Comment · 10 days ago
It is notoriously difficult to observe the galaxy from the inside. We know much more about other galaxies then our own.

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