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The human brain does not have perfect memory. It is not always logical. And more often than not it is motivated and influenced by "external" forces - health, hunger, sex drive, environmental conditions, luck, spiritual inspiration, or whatever. The perfect worker is purely logical and has perfect memory and no external influences - never gets hungry or sick or wants to be the boss themselves. The AI race is funded by folks interested in creating the perfect worker, not a human. I have to agree with the conclusions of this paper that they won't be able to make humans. (But they don't really want to.) The Vatican has also published interesting works on this idea. The question is - if you take out everything that makes it human, can you call it intelligent?


It's the old " I never used algebra in my job, but I did use things the football coach taught me" mindset.


considering that ~50% of all of our new scientific studies annually don't replicate, its far far worse than you might think.


Any citation for your "exact" claim here??


Reading a few headlines about psychology and extrapolating it out to everything, including hard sciences, most likely.

Ironically, shocking claims about the scope of the replication crisis are themselves difficult to replicate.


Yes, exactly. Medicine is progressing very quickly and I don't understand where these people get this idea that modern science is fake.

We have big and complex problems, sure. Yeah we're taking a stab at more complex issues, like anxiety and depression. Which, might I remind everyone, had a solution of "idk lock them up I guess" until about 40 years ago.


“Ah! I see you’ve got the machine that goes PING!”

https://youtu.be/VQPIdZvoV4g?si=19OCFyMXkpS96RWe


For that matter, American Science is fighting for its life too.


Getting a sql query to optimal performance is still much more of an art than a specific science. Having the LLM generate a query that appears to work (correctness issues aside), is much more likely than the LLM generating an optimal performing query. While this may not matter for one-off queries common in analytics, when you start worrying about scalability, even the tiniest tweaks can make a huge difference.


I wonder how hard these would be to steal?


The new head of the FAA promises to make flying safe again by getting rid of minority and women pilots.


Don't worry, us taxpayers will cover the damage.


Several hotels I've stayed in recently charged an "amenities" fee. When I asked what amenities one said it was for the free wifi and use of the lounge.


Check out this guy's work: https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2023_1/


The same artist has some excellent tutorials on how to implement a lot of those effects: https://bleuje.com/tutorials/


I have been looking for such an in depth tutorial on generative art for ages. It's decided, tomorrow is a day off for me to explore Processing.

Thanks!


Very cool. Instant follow. I also like: https://www.instagram.com/davebeesbombs/


Amazing.

It seems he did not share any source code, though.


This is incredible, thank you for sharing


awesome, thank you !


Wow. Thanks.


lovely


I'm another long time hackernews reader and banjo player. Back in the days when we used to work in data centers, I was pulling a long late night for some server maintenance with my banjo and I heard the night security guard come in on his routine patrol. I played a bit of dueling banjos (from behind a rack). He spun on his heels and got out of there. He didn't come back through again that night.


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