From the article:

“Our technology can be thought of as ‘indirect air capture’ because the ocean will take more carbon dioxide out of the air above it to replace the carbon dioxide that we’re removing.” Hornbostel said.

It is absolutely ai. The experience of talking with chatgpt is so human like that it just blows my mind. What I’ve learned so far is that human brains aren’t nearly as magical as they seem.

I thought the main obstacle was the computing power to update 175 billion neurons with large datasets. You probably could generate a good llm just using Wikipedia, but I think it requires a room full of expensive video cards to do.

The Google response seems to agree with you, but this Berkeley study says the opposite:

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf

(Fixed link.)

Can you not just visit with him outside on some lawn chairs? Or does the outside smell as well?

Is this really a painting? It looks so real!

Uplifting news that isn’t boring (Bob did well in school his whole life.) and doesn’t imply bad things happening (the community came together to save Jill from a life in the slave pits of Hoth) is actually a challenge.

What would be an example that was interesting with no negative connotations? Maybe news of scientific and engineering breakthroughs? Children who rise above a good but boring life?

I play Switch games while on my treadmill. The split controller works perfectly for that and makes it easy to forget I’m walking.

Everything in this thread so far is normal stuff I could have guessed. Guns, metric, tipping, etc. Most of it has large groups of people in the country that agree, or at least know.

What are some non-obvious things? Culture shock isn’t about major political issues. It’s about universal things that turn out to not be universal.

For example, US people have a strong culture of how standing in line works. It’s basically a moral sin to butt in line unless you have someone holding your place. This is universal in the country. My understanding is that other countries differ. Is that true?

I assumed it was intentional.

The trick is to just respond with “Hi” then look away. Conversation over.

Playing Switch games while walking on a treadmill. I always found exercise boring before, but the split controller of the Switch makes it easy to play while walking.

I have found I don’t even notice I’m walking and look forward to it since I’m actually looking forward to gaming.

Dark Souls while walking is the best. I’ve walked about 140 miles in the last month.

Only thing I care about is that they keep the split controller design. It’s the only controller I can easily use while walking on a treadmill. Holding a controller with two hands while walking is awkward. The split controller allows me to swing my arms normally.

In some paintings the face seems more real than everything else.

I personally prefer silence over radio.

Everyone here is negative, but I don’t know why cable didn’t die 25 years ago when Netflix showed up. I certainly have not had any interest in it since then. Then again, I play games far more than I watch movies, so I am not a typical consumer.

Small sticky notes. That allows me to bookmark at a specific sentence rather than just the page.

Just celebrated my 111th birthday. Now I’m off to visit the Lonely Mountain again.

Rethinking Thin

The concept of calorie counting works. Just paying attention to how many calories all food has, results in changed behavior. At least, it did for me.

75% rye chips. The rest can be whatever