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Comment · 16 days ago
A crime is a violation of law that can result in prison time.

A civil violation can result in financial penalties but not criminal penalties (prison)

Comment · 16 days ago
What you are missing by waiting 5 years for an X-ray is that the rate of growth affects when the cavity needs to be filled.
Comment · 16 days ago
Climbing a mountain is different from flying a helicopter to the top
Comment · 16 days ago
AI systems have Reinforcement Learning
Comment · 1 month ago
A human cannot start a conversation. Every human conversation is predicated on the human being activated by its parents.
Comment · 1 month ago
The graph makes it pretty obvious that the effects isn't real. The newy steady growth in ratio 1910-1950 is more interest, but even so, the magnitude of variations is tiny.

If anything, infanticide is likely the cause of distortion. Look at China's One Child Policy.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's human-modified AI slop. No human is able to write so much so badly
Comment · 1 month ago
Interestiny, the article mentions that, in comtext of PhD students desperate to escape to industry labs.
Comment · 1 month ago
In addition, per OP's own source, Computer Eng and Comp Science have the highest Median Wage Early Career. That's a great trade for slightly higher unemployment rate.
Comment · 1 month ago
Engineering is a religion based on faith. Math is the god you follow :-)
Comment · 1 month ago
That's leaning into engineering, away from math. Heuristics aren't always accurate. Math history before proof is the history of delusion. Idea, heuristics, and motivation aren't nearly enough for correctness outside of a sandbox.
Comment · 1 month ago
LLMs have LLM intuition, not human intuition. (See the movie Her.)

LLM cannot reinvent Euclid from scratch, but a larger system including LLM might.

Comment · 1 month ago
Love is more important than breathing. It is and it isn't.

What good is an end you can't reach, or worse, you can reach but it's wrong?

Comment · 1 month ago
And now you see the business value of Nueralink with DRM.

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