To my knowledge, none of the negative sentiment regarding AI has ever been directed at its medical applications. Maybe the AI companies should instead focus on those things.

There was a little-known sequel to SimTower called Yoot Tower (named after Yoot Saito). It was a commercial flop, but I played it in the 2000s and again in the 2010s and very much enjoyed it! It had a lot of added customizability (more choices of restaurants and shops, for one thing). I would love to see that game recreated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltings%27_theorem

The reason for the confusion is that a smooth, projective plane curve of degree d has genus (d-1)(d-2)/2, which is 2 or greater starting at d=4. Hence the phrasing in the article, which is missing the “smooth, projective” hypothesis. The equation y = x^4 doesn’t define a smooth curve when extended to the projective plane, because it has a singularity at infinity.

- rauenes: ravens

- “all that heard him were adrade”: I’m guessing it means “were filled with dread”, maybe “were adread”

- I think deme is actually a conjugation of the archaic verb “to doom”, as in “I doom thee to the death”

- “none shall thy biwepe” would be roughly “none shall beweep thee”

Aside: typing this is hard on my phone, it’s so close to modern English that nearly every word gets autocorrected.

I also very much appreciate that they can natively connect to iPhones (this is also essentially the main reason I have an iPhone). This makes phone calls and music and podcasts very easy. (Whereas up until 2017, I used to dread phone calls.)

I actually tried Phonaks briefly in 2022 and hated them. Lots of controls to fiddle with (some with oddly unintuitive names), but that meant I was constantly trying to adjust it and was rarely able to just exist in the moment. I found them markedly worse in noisy environments - I basically couldn’t have a conversation in a restaurant.

http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j...

> […] I want to take a different approach in this blog. I think we should dismiss this finding, simply because it is impossible. When we interpret how impossibly large the effect size is, anyone with even a modest understanding of psychology should be able to conclude that it is impossible that this data pattern is caused by a psychological mechanism.

> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45. Or at the very least, our society would have organized itself around this incredibly strong effect of mental depletion. Just like manufacturers take size differences between men and women into account when producing items such as golf clubs or watches, we would stop teaching in the time before lunch, doctors would not schedule surgery, and driving before lunch would be illegal.

Compare with a hypothetical study saying: people say they prefer true inspirational personal stories to fake inspirational personal stories. But if you lie to them, they think the fake ones are just as good!

Obviously, this would not prove that they are “wrong” or “biased”. The whole point of stories written by people is that a _person_ wrote it, based on their actual human thoughts and experiences.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you just don’t like Obama. Didn’t like him before you read this article, don’t like him now.

Given your voting record and the fact that you’ve just criticized the democrats for two opposite courses of action in back to back posts (and I see your now several other posts hoping to find democrats mad at the DNC), I think you’re a plain ol’ conservative who’s inclined to find fault with the Democratic Party regardless of what specifically they do.

Edit: Patrick Condon (who wrote that biv.com article) seems terrible. Here he is opposing connecting UBC to Vancouver’s SkyTrain: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/01/29/Last-Voice-Against-Sky...