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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
GPT 4.5 even doubles down when challenged:
> Nope, I didn’t make it up — Marathon crater is real, and it was explored by NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars. The crater got its name because Opportunity had driven about 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles — a marathon distance) when it reached that point in March 2015. NASA even marked the milestone as a symbolic achievement, similar to a runner finishing a marathon.
(Obviously all of that is bullshit.)
Comment · 1 year ago
The nematode population is probably much closer to stellar figures
Comment · 2 years ago
Bryan Cantrill's rant about Oracle for those who haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s
> There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. [...] This company is about one man, his ego, and what he wants to inflict on humanity. That's it.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Imperfect" tunings are pretty common even in western musical instruments.
Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, for example, which are staples of pop and jazz, usually use what's called Stretch Tuning, wherein notes an octave apart are just slightly higher than 2:1 frequency ratios.
Comment · 2 years ago
What's the power source?
Comment · 3 years ago
Totally disagree!
The structure is clunky, but the payoff at the end is actually really good! Also the dumbness of the name is funny enough to work in the right context. With a little bit of editing this would make a great piece of flash sci-fi on something like nanoism.
Comment · 4 years ago
They literally don't have money in Star Trek. Their society considers itself to have advanced beyond the need for money entirely. This couldn't be further from the future envisioned by web3 people, who seem to want to further financialize, marketize, and commodify all of human experience and interaction.
[ChatGPT is bullshit ]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5