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Comment · 4 days ago
Thank you for sharing this problem - I find the Monty Hall one pretty intuitive but this one is much twistier!

I have to say, I found your restated problem impossible to understand - I had to google the original problem, which was much more precise and clear:

"I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?"

Comment · 12 days ago
Well spotted!
Comment · 16 days ago
The video goes against my intuition for how much performance you can get out of cold gas thrusters. I wonder if someone could do some back of the envelope maths on how much thrust and impulse you can get from a setup like this?

My primary scepticism is how much the prototype weighs, and whether it can still jump with 2 passengers + 1000kg of batteries inside.

Comment · 17 days ago
How is it possible to drive 'dangerously slow'? Nobody should be driving at a speed (regardless of the limit) where they cannot react in time to a slow or stopped vehicle appearing ahead of them.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is there anything you can point to that demonstrates how journalism has been improved by AI research?
Comment · 1 month ago
Obviously inorganic, but watch them collect a tonne of votes anyway
Comment · 2 months ago
As a noob, how does the end user improve this? What's the best way to make the knowledge from the specialised wiki available to the LLM?
Comment · 5 months ago
If there are that many channels you watch regularly, what slice of the pie does each one get from your youtube subscription, a few cents?

You could possibly pick one channel you like each month and give it a one-time $5 donation, which would be equivalent to years of ad revenue from a single viewer.

Comment · 5 months ago
This whole comment section reads of Costco astroturf haha
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, according to wikipedia, only between 11-15% of bird strikes result in damage to the aircraft. Apparently large birds like geese are the main danger.

I imagine a similar distribution with drone strikes, as most drones do not weigh as much as a goose, at least of those in the hands of a typical idiot (who would fly in the path of a plane).

That's why 'very high fatality chance' doesn't seem right to me, but I can't find any statistics on it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Can you source this? I can't find any information on fatalities due to aircraft-drone collisions, topic of this article notwithstanding.
Comment · 3 years ago
Rugged cases exist?
Comment · 3 years ago
Who is going to write the content these AI are trained on?
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed completely. It is annoying how this is constantly brushed off by some people, especially the project contributors. We should just 'get over it'. Well I can get over it, but how can I pitch this to my boss with a straight face? Or deploy it to 500 users on company managed devices?

When the new hire is offended by the icon on their desktop that says GIMP, I should just say to them, "get over it"?

Comment · 4 years ago
Clearly experiences in this thread vary but I just had to throw my story in as it's the same as you. I've bought two Razer mice and quickly regretted it both times. It seems like their QA can burn you if you get unlucky!

Most recently the Viper Mini: After less than two years the main button clicks became spongier and spongier until they started erroneously reporting double-clicks. The razer utility is also a piece of junk! The logitech mouse I had between these two Razers lasted nearly 10 years and was only replaced due to cosmetic wear.

I got a higher-end logitech mouse this time and they now have this 'esports configurator' which lets you set up your keybinds, sensitivity, LEDs etc, and save it to the onboard memory - no need for an always-on utility app and your settings persist on different devices!

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