So two things. First I suspect that it will be in the next decade we see an AI capable of fulling passing the turing test, 20 years is actually relatively conservative.

This. Honestly the panic about current AI trends is wild to me as most AI driven systems are fundamentally giant curve fitting programs. All they do is map input to output to the nth degree. I always want to explain to people it’s not unlike the curve fit tool in an excel chart, just with ALL the data.

So my theory on this is that Embarrassment/awkwardness is a bit like a particle with variable gravity. It exhibits an effect on the universe around it and directly warps space time depending on magnitude and proximity.

Proposal:

As someone who FINALLY is in PSLF, let me say it’s a absolute disaster of a program.

So as someone who both works in and teaches “Industry 4.0" the important part of 5G is merely bandwidth and ease of deployment in volume. It’s an enabling technology, not the most important thing. We’ve had most of these tools for ages. Most facilities have some internal wired/wireless system for managing production…

You’ve touched a nerve and I’m sorry for the following.

I do a lot of simulation academically, and let me just say, I find it hard to believe that it is greener to do real CFD work over a wind tunnel project. I have many hundreds of hours (for models that worked that I logged the time for) on a cluster in New England, and I am pretty sure the energy cost is significant if…

That’s really good to know! If I could ask how did you end up finding the short sales? We’ve been doing some zillow stalking but so far it doesn’t seem to be easy to find any property like that.

So my wife and I have been living quite a bit outside of Boston (~ 1 hour of MA driving) for a few years, being around trees was important to us. Right before the pandemic had enough money to be able to afford a starter house in our area and I am really wishing we had moved faster even though the rates were much…

The embodied energy in this system would mean you’d need to use it for hundreds of hours if not thousands of hours to break even on the cost. This isn’t engineering, it’s an art piece.

The plan since June was really simple, let the students back and then, once refunds are no longer an option close campus. To make it so it’s not a “thing” make it clear that we had to close because the undergraduates were not responsible enough.

I think I am the use case. I am a researcher who spends a solid 15% of my time working with paper notes from either my work, my students work, or some article that has been sent to me. I used the Remarkable 1 for a semester when it was loaned to me by my thesis advisor and I can’t tell you how really awesome for…

I am actually in the Moderna trial, so far it’s been pretty straightforward. I had a fever for a day and a half after getting it (I am hoping that means I am not in the placebo group) that I didn’t notice, and in theory it means I might be protected from the unwashed masses that is the freshman coming into my lab this…

I just want to thank you, I finished reading this article and prepped to have a mad rant in the comments about how wrong it was but you beat me to the punch and did a better job!

I worked for a coffee shop chain in the Boston area. Every Sunday morning at about 6:15 AM, an older gentleman, (Mid to late 60's, grey hair and decently dressed with a laptop bag) would come into the store and order a large black coffee with room. He would then take said coffee, go to our bathroom, and vomit red…

So this is beyond not surprising. I went to college (and was assigned a room with) a guy who played at a national level. His behavior towards women then and now remains one of the reasons we rarely speak. I remember going to a tournament with him and listening to him wax poetic about how women just want to be negged.…

Cool, I particularly love how amazon is now making PPE and people are fawning over that work on youtube now. Ignoring the fact they aren’t a medical company, the current push is literally going to put a ton of little manufacturing and medical companies out of business. 

There are a few types of EDM, not just wire. Mold makers use EDM all the time for complex internal geometry. (though undercuts are an issue as with all mold tooling).

So this article sent me down a rabbit hole I was not expecting. Unfortunately it was unlikely that they would have lasted much longer as a species. It turns out that genetically they had a lot of issues due to inbreeding and by the time humans got to them it was game over for the species.