- Performing is fun. Making music with other people is transcendent!
- > I would have gone with Comic Sans
Funny, I would have gone with Tannenberg
- Quality is variable, but did any of those 12 encourage you to kill yourself?
If a therapist found to encourage any of their patients to self-harm would lose their license to practice and would likely face prosecution. The plagiarism machine should face the same level of scrutiny.
- The estimated lifespan of pressed discs is less than 100 years. CD-Rs are worse!
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/legacy/sp/NISTspecialpubli...
- From NIST:
One method for determining end of life for a disc is based on the number of errors on a disc before the error correction occurs. The chance of disc failure increases with the number of errors, but it is impossible to define the number of errors in a disc that will absolute- ly cause a performance problem (minor or catastrophic) because it depends on the number of errors left, after error correction, and their distribution within the data. When the number of errors (before error correction) on a disc increases to a certain level, the chance of disc failure, even if small, can be deemed unacceptable and thus signal the disc’s end of life.
Manufacturers tend to use this premise to estimate media lon- gevity. They test discs by using accelerated aging methodologies with controlled extreme temperature and humidity influences over a relatively short period of time. However, it is not always clear how a manufacturer interprets its measurements for determining a disc’s end of life. Among the manufacturers that have done testing, there is consensus that, under recommended storage conditions, CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R discs should have a life expectancy of 100 to 200 years or more; CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM discs should have a life expectancy of 25 years or more. Little infor- mation is available for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs (including audio and video), resulting in an increased level of uncertainty for their life expectancy. Expectations vary from 20 to 100 years for these discs.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/legacy/sp/NISTspecialpubli...
- This is designed for "fast" and "high power", but not for efficiency: it's not a combined cycle plant.
- Does it make anyone a little sad that we could have actual abundance with solar and wind and nuclear?
Also, this is only commercially viable because this regime has rendered the EPA functionally powerless.
- Depends on what you mean by fragile. CDs are really susceptible to bitrot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
Archival discs are made with gold backing, which is much more robust than the aluminum reflector used in mass-pressed discs.
- Batteries are also already DC and easy to make arbitrarily high voltage.
I wonder what the "trickle" power requirement is? Knowing next to nothing about shipyard logistics... 20MW?
- A person arguing in favor of LLM use failed to comprehend the context or argument? Unpossible!
- But why would Epic spend money improving or fixing their software? If they spend money developing their product then they can't spend that money on their adult playground of a campus!
- "I don't want to make a little bit of money every day. I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once."
- Typical numerical methods are faster and way cheaper for the same level of accuracy in 1D, but it's trivial to integrate over a surface, volume, hypervolume, etc. with Monte Carlo methods.
- All these boosters think we're on the leading edge of an exponential, when it's way more likely that we're on the midpoint to tail of a logistic
- America used to do that, but Jewish students started taking (and doing well on) the test, and later Black and Asian students had the audacity to be brilliant too. This led to America's "holistic" college admissions process.
For what it's worth, the USA isn't unique in adapting admissions to reject an unwanted minority. The most interesting mechanism has to be Moscow State University's Jewish Problems: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
- Feynman's Algorithm:
Write down the problem. Think very hard. Write down the solution.
- The French Republic has always existed in the nuclear age?
The French Republic has always been founded by De Gaulle?
- But what if a beanie baby was also a random drop? Then they'd be faddish and addictive!
- Firms are waking up to the risk:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/ai-is-too-risky-to-insure-...
Same deal here.