barelyauser

Can something posses extrinsic properties? Or are them a intrinsic property of external things?

Once I was told by a mechanic the following: if car companies where the ones liable for fixing your car, the design would look very much different.

Car companies choose what is simple to manufacture, but eventually making it very hard to maintain. If it where not for regulation, they would give you something that has a timer for breaking. That is how little they respect their customers.

Anecdotal (but at this point one of hundreds I've come across): older car had fuel pump accessible through a little sealed hatch. In current car the same pump was integrated into the fuel tank. It went bad. Guess what? You have to remove the whole fuel tank to service it. And that entails taking the exhaust out of the way. Car companies hate you.

I find that researchers choices of names for the sake of differentiation is more of a barrier than something helpful. Sometimes it feels like I know nothing, but in reality it is the name of the "technique" or phenomena that does not get parsed by my brain.

Things like "Compute-Optimal Sampling" sound just like any other made up gibberish that may or may not exist. Wordings like "memory-centric subsampling", "search based hyper space modeling", "locally induced entropy optimization" don't get parsed. And more often than not after reading such papers, I've come to find out that it is a fancy name for something a toddler knows about. Really disappointing.

Pretty much this. It was a huge disappointment for me to understand that even if I made a revolutionary discovery and doubled the yield of food crops, people would reproduce and the prices (and availability) of food would not change.

The Byte magazine is incredible. First time reading it. The archive.org collection is a gold mine for learning. Thank you very much for posting it.

Beam riding is also a thing. The missile is guided by a sensor in its butt, therefore making it harder to jam.

Also, the safest data is the one never sampled into digital format and stored in computer systems.

Perhaps they are not. What is really happening is the world is getting more complicated. And if people don't get smarter, or better informed, their capacity to create problems is going to increase.

So you are telling me that a certain linear city will also not materialize?

Would you rather have Cars as a Service?

Don't they use radar altimeters to get altitude? You don't need to rely only on image processing. You can even pull off stereo using a single camera since you are moving and know the altitude at every point.

People got very upset when chemistry proved that we are made of the same thing as "unalive" things like rocks. You can see the same now that we proved the same for intelligence.