electroweak

I think aircraft are so safe in this regard because, essentially, they are required to use a single international collision avoidance system that is well defined. And modern cars have AEB systems built by vendors aiming for commonality to meet worldwide rules.

But train traffic systems seem to be a hodgepodge of different systems, perhaps locally grown and driven by the local vagaries of politics and rulemaking.

What a surprising inversion of expectations regarding safety.

The US doesn't even have public single-payer healthcare. Maybe revisit that priority list.

How come we have collision avoidance mandated and working in 3 and 2 dimensions (TCAS, AEB), but somehow do not have it in 1-dimensional motion?

No apology, analysis or introspection. Why would anyone trust the 99% of their other businesses?

That's both sad and hilarious thank you. I'm either expecting too much or people aren't being motivated (repeatedly trained by reward?) to turn in an earnest effort. Like the llms are trained that is.

Would any teacher of, say, grade 4 students, reading this ask them to draw the same prompt and let us know the result? It would be so interesting to see how we differ from the machines, if at all.

Of all the Dr Seuss read to my kids the one that stands out is hard to find now: "I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew".

Probably rare because the young protagonist who over-judges the severity of his minor problem, gulliblly starts on a quest where he increasingly suffers worse, finally concludes the actual solution is to confront his problems with swift and blinding violence. I read it so many times I can still recall a good portion from memory.

My personal favourite was "Stig of the Dump", which still holds up today, unlike many from my childhood.

Humans propose; AI will dispose.

It's not clear from this progress that AI can formulate conjectures despite this new ability to solve them. So mathematicians still look like they have a job. Though instead of spotting far-off landmarks it's sounds more like they'll be chasing waves on a beach.

AI won't kill people - people will just get new tools for the job.

It must be so frustrating to write science-fiction now with the future changing so fast.

It may soon seem not worth living forever with our limited monkey-brains, watching the horizon of thought recede ever-faster from us.

I've had to replace the pump on a cheap amana NFW7200TW. Being a cheaper model it does not have a coin trap and the thin plastic vanes shattered (the coin rested fully intact). The pump had two part numbers, one a Samsung and another a Whirlpool (?). The point that may be interesting here is that when I asked at the part store for the whirlpool p/n they brought me the box at one price, and when I asked for the Samsung one they brought me the exact same box at a price almost $30 less. I didnt know they did SKUs like that, nor do I know how they account for it.

I'm reading Dero Saunders penguin classic which I picked up from a used book store. It's fine, but I'm at the point where the last 6 books of the original should kick in and Saunders treats it as an epilogue. I didn't even realize there were multiple abridgements when I started, and reviews of the others seem to include more about that and retain more of that special "Gibbonness" that's been so much delightful effort to parse. It's been a slow and halting first read I'm looking forward to a more uninterrupted story the second run through. I'll probably go for the Wormesly one and try to spot the differences. You only really start to know a great book after the second reading anyway.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Recently passed the bit where Ammianus complained the rich had bought up much of the property in Rome and turned so many into renters and gave stats to show it. Amongst his many other complaints.

Sadly found I could have been reading a better abridgement, which I'll get for the 2nd reading now.