The only thing resembling "babble" is the fact, once the unwashed masses steal a technical term to use wrong, there is no possible hope to convince them otherwise,
Except it wasn't the unwashed masses who labeled large language models "AI". It was the AI corporations (maybe "AI" should be in quotes here), who wanted it to sound sexier.
What's the hourly cost to taxpayers for flying an F16?
$22,000 per hour.
except for the hours in which the F16 crashes. Those hours cost $80 million/hour.
Fascinating; three completely disparate things, none of which have any relation to teleology, the nominal subject of the sentence.
"Wigner's Friend" is a thought experment, pointing out that in a strict interpretation of quantum mechanics, even conscious observers must be in an indeterminate quantum state until observed by an external observer. The least action principle states that the path of an object moving through a potential field is the one in which the action, the time integral of the kinetic energy minus the potential energy, is minimized. The second law of thermodynamics says that in any closed system the change in entropy, defined as the change in heat divided by the temperature, must be greater than or equal to zero; for a not-closed system, in order to decrease the entropy in one place, energy is needed (typically to be radiated as waste heat; i.e., life takes energy from the sun, and rejects waste heat to the envionment (which ultimately radiates it to space).) None of these have any relation to teleology, the philosophical concept that causality is driven by purpose.
And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?
The CLARITY Act failing is good for Bitcoin
You do understand that Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency that exists, right?
And which part: during my school time, I never have seen such a map, do you not grasp?
Correct: I do not grasp. I think you simply don't notice where the equator was, because it's so common for it to be below the centerline that nobody notices or pays attention.
I gave links to six examples of the common ordinary maps you see all the time; I could have given a hundred. Did not even one look famililar?
Here's a clue. If on a Mercator projection Antarctica isn't larger than all the other continents combined... the equator isn't centered.
All maps I have seen: have the equator in the middle of the paper. Where else?
You already explained where, and why. This is why they put the equator below the center:
So obviously "to save paper space" or "to have more details in the north" they put the "base line" down.
I've always assumed dark *anything* was nonsense.
"Dark" just means "we can't see it". Anything that isn't either emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, or reflecting light from something it's close to that's emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, is "dark".
The data is, if you look at the motion of the stuff we see, and calculate the motion based on the masses of stuff we see, the trajectories deviate. The obvious thing to guess is that it's the gravity of something (or things) we don't see. This has worked before-- for example, this is how Neptune was discovered; it's how close binary stars were discovered.
An alternate hypothesis is that there's some other force pulling or pushing on them, or else gravity doesn't work the way we think it works. Either way, you're hypothesizing something unknown.
every galaxy has a black hole. This is incorrect. Who says this?
Every large galaxy is believed to have a black hole. Dwarf galaxies (like the Magellanic Clouds) may or may not.
https://www.astronomy.com/scie...
https://astronex.net/why-is-th...
https://science.nasa.gov/missi...
The first links excluded Antarctica.
Exactly. That's what happens when you move the center of the map up above the equator; the bottom part of the map goes off the page. If you kept the bottom part on the page, the equator would be in the centered. By definition.
Did you not actually read what I posted that you're responding to?
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If a map would be a world map, the equator would be in the middle. Anything else would not make any sense.
A Mercator projection which actually showed the entire world would be infinite in size, because the north and south poles project to + and - infinity. Every Mercator projection leaves out parts of the world near the poles. However, the standard Mercator projections leave out more of the southern polar regions than they do of the northern polar regions. Which means the equator is below the center of the map.
I never saw a Mercator projection map where the equator was not in the middle.
I suspect you're so used to it that you don't even notice that in most Mercator projections the equator isn't in the middle:
https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w...
https://printable.rhinoplax.co...
https://image.shutterstock.com...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspne...
https://www.mapsales.com/map-i...
For comparison, here's a Mercator projection with the equator in the middle: https://www.alamy.com/politica... Antarctica is larger than all the other continents combined!
So... we get rid of the Flock-style cameras. What about the satellites that can read a text message through your car window
No satellite can read text messages through your car window.
I am not sure that the UN should be in the business of defining a "standard" map projection-- why shouldn't everybody use the map that they find most useful? But if they have to set one single standard map, I'm happy it's not Mercator, because, indeed, the Mercator projection is misleading on area.
In its defence, though, while Mercator distorts areas, it keeps shapes correct (locally), and it also keeps directions correct. Small-area accuracy and correct directions are more important than the large-area distortions for most practical use.
Any projection that keeps areas correct must distort shapes. You can't mash the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface without distorting something.
My favorite is the Lambert equal-area projection, which actually gives you the impression of being a projection of a globe, but you can't win-- all the projections have flaws.
I'll also note that the new UN standard map has moved the equator back up to the center of the map. Pretty much every Mercator projection you ever see has the equator moved toward the bottom, because (1) the far southern reaches are not important to people in the northern hemisphere, and (2) if you put the equator in the center, the Mercator distortion makes Antarctica absolutely HUGE, which puts too much of a highlight on how inaccurate the projection is.
I will also point out that the UN logo itself shows a polar view, different from ANY of the other views (but very clearly is favoring the northern hemisphere).
https://globalsymbols.com/uplo...
While true, personalized genetic alteration of medicine can be expected to remain quite expensive until the process is fully automated.
Exactly. Automation of processes that used to be expensive is an excellent example of how treatments that started out outrageously expensive become cheap and routine, and dirt-cheap genetic testing is the poster case for this,
Of course, in the US, nobody except the rich will be able to afford it.
The trend in the past has been that a medical treatment is incredibly expensive when first introduced, then decreases in price as it becomes further down the learning curve, until eventually it's commonplace.
Sure would be nice to be able to get away from requiring human donors.
I think the whole point is, yes there have been instances due to poor engineering but it can also be made very safe.
ICE cars are way down the learning curve. At this point, if they catch fire, it's because yes, ICE cars sometimes catch fire. It's no longer realistic to use the excuse that oh, it's a new technology, they will engineer out the bugs.
It is difficult to soar with the eagles when you work with turkeys.
