No, they got faster at arithmetic, not mathematics. Most of the mathematics exams that I took carried the demand "Show your work". Rule based inference systems could (or were claimed to) do this in limited domains 40 years ago (Bundy, Lenat, Silver). Can an LLM reliably prove anything and deliver a verifiable chain of inference?

Upbringing and education to year 22 on the 12 watt assumption gives a brain training energy cost of 2.3 MWh. I wonder how this compares to current LLM training costs.

Marshall Brain's writing is plodding dreck. His blog carries an entry "The Case for Euthanizing Everyone at Age 65". You first.

An antidote to whatever manic stimulant that guy in the linked podcast was on.

Long ago we had public high school driving instruction in a simulator. Some of us discovered empirically that one could get a passing score by simply holding the brake pedal down for the duration of the exercise. Word got around quickly.

I was on a flight where, shortly after takeoff I noticed what appeared to be a loose access panel on top of the wing, with a stream of either pressure change mist or fuel coming from the trailing edge of the panel. I buzzed the flight attendant call, then when she arrived, described what I was seeing. A couple of minutes later, a pilot came back, looked, and thanked me for pointing it out quietly. We continued to the scheduled destination.

Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it!

The reason that "few people know" is because your claim is ignorant and false. Fixed price, defined term tender offers for repurchase existed before rule 10b-18 (1982).

The reporting is dismal. E-band is 1460-1360 nm, which encompasses the hydroxyl (OH) absorption peak of conventional fiber. An amplifier for this band seems useful for some new generation of low-OH fiber, but not as a drop-in amplifier to expand capacity of existing fiber.

The government will argue that the value of the house increased as a tourist attraction, and that the homeowner is liable for both tax on imputed income, and increased property tax.

Ideally, McKinsey will progress to consulting upon itself, causing recursive enshittification runaway and collapse into a singularity.

In other words, it's playing 20 Questions, and it let you keep playing for 10 more.

It sounds like they're telling a real WOPR here.

Y'all clearly haven't spent much time in Texas.

I am a grizzled veteran of Usenet alt.tasteless. Don't tell me that I don't know shit. I know pig shit from Iowa and Germany and from eating pig intestines, cow shit from Texas farms and California feedlots, aerobic human shit from Los Angeles (Hyperion), more anaerobic human shit from mountain trailhead vault toilets, and day-old human shit from clearing July 4 weekend clogged beach park toilets. Also, slaughterhouse runoff from deepest industrial Los Angeles, bloated and blown dead cow from Maui and Texas, and bloated rotting marine life that even turkey vultures would not touch. Shoreline interpolated between slaughterhouse runoff and Maui dead cow, with ephemeral notes of chitterlings (food waste), and trailhead vault toilet (buried diapers). Enjoy your lunch.