Arrhenius, 1889. Also re-discovered by anyone trying to put sugar in iced tea.

Cannot happen soon enough. I recently dealt with insurance issues that had the paperwork in the US and the bad scans thereof in the Phillipines. The two locations claimed they could not contact each other. That took a month to resolve.

Runners who strap their fitbit to the dogâ(TM)s tail for an hour each day have less aerobic fitness.

first is high school grades, but it is nearly impossible to equate or handicap different high schools.

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

If this craft has completed a full orbit. They refer to reaching orbital velocity or altitude, but I cannot find any reference to completing a full orbit of the earth. Ten launches without completing an orbit seems like a lot for something that is supposed to use 3 or 4 of these things rendezvousing in orbit to get to the moon and back in 2027.

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

Ground truthing (touchy term depending on if you are the ground based or spaced based nerd) is essential in getting a verification on the ground of what the bird sees. Once you have that calibration, the sat data is very reliable. And you cannot be on the ground everywhere, so the sat has greater range. This is an evolution of what the LANDSAT birds have been doing for decades. Source: have been working on earth resource monitoring education / citizen science for 30 years.

an athlete or a celebrity or a politician can stumble 20 times go down the wrong path for years, and somehow come back and win the big one and be elevated to a pedestal beyond compare. The scientist makes a few mistakes along the way and they and they are vilified.

He means money.
A search engine now makes money while almost inadvertently supplying useful search results.
See google results for the past year, shopping is now the top tier of results.
Sponsored results too. Gotta ad-incentivize those results.
Since COVID they have also convinced students that they are an operating system.
Used to be people gave up on a search 3 or 4 clicks deep. I believe that number now approaches 1.
Sorry, usually only this cynical *before* breakfast.

Really? How soon?
Not long. It'll probably happen with our lifetime.

I gave it two prompts this morning on topics in my field, and it gave me 1000 words each.
Mostly accurate with a few small errors. Since it was my field, I caught them.
If I were a student looking for a fast way out of an assignment, I likely would not know enough to catch them.
And if I were a student looking for a fast way out, I probably would also not bother to do the critical thinking needed to vet the results.
It probably makes low effort learners march in place.
It probably does nothing to people who bank on their own originality and abilities to analyze, evaluate and synthesize.
Seems to have some value in asking here is my work, did I miss anything? And further evaluating.
As you might with a colleague or editor.
But take everything with a grain of salt.

They were *late* to make a phone, and look how it turned out.
They were *late* to make a tablet and look how it turned out.
Siri is still more Knowledge Navigator than HAL.
Personally, Iâ(TM)d so far rather be handed a known reference by Siri than the synthetic stuff that pops out at the top of Google these days.
It may turn out to take an Apple amount of time to get everyday AI right. The current headline players still seem to be shaking everything out. Expert systems and machine learning is helping greatly. The rest seems not exactly ready for prime time or for a typical user to depend on.