A restoration expert in Egypt has been arrested for stealing a 3,000 year old bracelet and selling it purely for the gold content, with the bracelet then melted down with other jewellery. Obviously, this sort of artefact CANNOT be replaced. Ever. And any and all scientific value it may have held has now been lost forever. It is almost certain that this is not the first such artefact destroyed.
This type of thing is actually very hard to test without introducing your own bias.
It's fun watching people when they introduce their own bias and then claim it's the system.
Watson.
Speaking of Watson, Slate recently ran a retrospective article on IBM's Watson playing Jeopardy!. Coincidentally, it also mentioned when Watson made up the response that Toronto was a U.S. city:
https://slate.com/culture/2025...
I do it in that or less on my gas stove, and I need to use a smaller flame to match the pot size.
On my my list of worries, death by gas stove emissions is pretty low.
Ross Douthat recently had an interview with Breakneck author Dan Wang about China's accelerating pace of technological innovation:
https://youtu.be/ZNK3vNg13XA
Our space program got fired. We don't build anything here except layoffs. Only a matter of time before Google unplugs the Internet to deafening cheers. Then there won't be any more inconvenient headlines about the fact nobody has a job.
If it's the will of the person?
The basis of what is licit in law and ethics has never been personal will, although your will does make you culpable or praiseworthy for any normative act, whatever the case may be.
The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!
bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.
they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).
They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.
>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core!
c'mon, now.
*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape!
hawk
I think the real issue is warm parts of China selling to cold parts of India without including the features that aren't needed near the factory. We know lots about battery chemistry, but rural farmers have had more immediately relevant things to know about up to now and don't have a good source of information on this new thing the government is pushing, so they skip things that sound like luxuries and end up with something inappropriate for their purpose.
It's all bullshit-coated bullshit with a creamy bullshit center.
There is no trust in our workplaces, which means there will never be achievement or progress. Only fraud.
"It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel
