In order: 8 (sans sauerkraut & pickled veggies), 1, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2.

It’s what happens when a very naughty function tries to divide by zero.

I think it does accurately model the part of the brain that forms predictions from observations—including predictions about what a speaker is going to say next, which lets human listeners focus on the surprising/informative parts. But with LLMs they just keep feeding it its own output as if it were a third party whose next words it’s trying to predict.

It’s like a child describing an imaginary friend, if you keep repeating “And what does your friend say after that?”

The Russian equivalent of “you can’t fire me—I quit!”

Sure, it looks like foul play—but it’s also a perfectly natural reaction to driving a Tesla.

The only time orcas see humans is when we’re flailing practically helplessly in the water—they’re probably trying to save us from extinction.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Fish.

My apartment building turns 100 this year.

One of the crime scene cleanup photos shows a prominent pride flag in the window of the establishment, and the venue’s website says “Proudly Black-, Brown-, Queer-, and Women-owned.”

Could that have been the motivation for the attack?

There are three factors that might prevent you from using an online platform to share your opinion:

• The government might impose content restrictions on the platform

• The owners (or delegated moderators) of the platform might impose restrictions on its users

• The users of the platform might use its tools to police the opinions of other users.

“Freedom of speech” normally just applies to the first. Is that what you mean when you say you’re not “allowed” to speak freely?

So if I understand that right, the “per 100,000” figures aren’t for the exact populations, but for what the populations would be if the age groups were re-weighted to keep the age demographics constant?

Some thoughts:

• Florida had a striking increase between 2003 and 2008 that isn’t reflected by California or Texas. Did something specific happen in Florida in that timeframe?

• Texas seems to have been on a long-term downward trend until 2013 (while Florida was spiking). The subsequent upward trend is mirrored by Florida, but not California.

• What does “age-adjusted” mean?

• Does “per 100,000” refer to the entire population, or the population under 25? If the former, could some of the differences be accounted for by changing demographics?

The obvious solution would be to increase city staffing for the review and approval process.

The inevitable political solution will be to cut requirements for approvals, with negative impacts on safety and the environment.

Ancestors of Maximinus Thrax?

the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation

Are all those qualifiers even needed?

Are there any state or local agencies larger than the federal government’s? Are there any other countries with larger agencies? (China or India, maybe?)

Or can we just call it “the largest law enforcement agency in (western) history”?

Art is built on metaphor, which is an underlying connection between multiple meanings.

In semantic space, meanings are points while metaphors are vectors.

People often use Greek or Latin roots for new terms if they want them to be used internationally, without biasing usage to one language.

This was probably the case for Smuts, who was a committed internationalist and whose native language was Afrikaans rather than English.

Dont say Prometheus

Ok… it was Προμηθεύς.

The article is semiprotected—it’s possible OP already tried to make the edit himself and wasn’t able to.