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Comment Re:Cold weather performance? (Score 1) 164

Never measured it but yes it is noticeable how much charge is lost warming the battery. It's not huge but it can be a problem. I plug in so I've never really noticed. We need to shift towards parking lots having charging. You used to have to stable and feed your horse while you visited... parking your horse wasn't free either... the city had to pay to have the roads cleaned; often! People are clueless wimps today.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 64

You're nicely illustrating the issue with AI reasoning. Humans "reason" mostly by deciding what they believe then coming up with truthy stories to support that belief. When confronted with actual conflicting evidence or proper reasoning to the contrary, they make up more stories to "rationalize" it, or, that failing, make excuses.

The reasoning systems are generally made up of an LLM, a bunch of more general purpose neural network layers, and some conventional logic systems. The neural network part comes up with what it thinks is true based on its training, tries to get its logic systems to support it, and, as we've seen, often ignores the result when it doesn't like it.

The problem with AI "reasoning" is that it's a pretty good copy of human "reasoning."

Comment Re:Fast track this (Score 1) 106

Actually it's not certain that would always make things worse, and it should work...if the tumor hasn't metastasized.

Not really. Attacks on tumors often trigger metastasis. Useful choices are removal of the whole tumor, burning out the whole tumor, or poisoning it in a way that will also affect the mets. Any partial local attack that is likely to just make the tumor spread.

Comment Re:Armchair scientists (Score 1) 76

Humans don't actually recognize quantities larger than three or four. Any bigger and you have to abstract it by counting one or two at a time. You might think you can recognize larger quantities without counting, but if you think about it they're things generally arranged into known patters: spots on a die for example, and you're recognizing the pattern, not the quantity.

So we can appreciate our own experience, and maybe an anecdote or two from a few close friends or family. After that it's all abstract.

Comment Re: Nonsense. (Score 1) 76

Step counting is pretty unreliable in general. I've worked with research step counters, expensive things dedicated to the purpose, and you still get people (recovering from surgery) that apparently walk 50k steps per day. Distance covered is better, but GPS is the best way to measure it and it doesn't work so well inside. Moving time is pretty good though, and can be measured fairly reliably.

But step counting is easier to gamify.

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