The Queen is back in town: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/106385692 ... cket_shelf

Find the cat!

For a bit of virtue signalling, from the point of view of Poincare recurrence theory (assuming that we live in some local system which is finite and measure-preserving somehow) they are not so stupid. And a techie would be just as lost in their woo...

Amanda, Amanda, Amanda… you had 1.17 job!

Could qualify to the category of mental health problems, but not low self-esteem - not ze smallest chance after your comments :oops: Rather maladaptive perfectionism. The hour hand in the picture is pointing noticeably beyond "50 minutes". It should be at 5/6 of the hour gap (25 deg of 30 ...

That’s the puzzle!

A simple puzzle I couldn’t solve… https://www.scientificamerican.com/game/math-puzzle-find-the-time/ I wonder if you’ll also have a problem. Coincidentally, reading a nice book about it at the moment: Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World :-D https://www.tronsmo.no/wp-content/upl...

Yeah, they poisoned the whole planet and got away with it for some peanut compensations.

I've just had a strange thought: how much mathematics can be afected by post hoc reasoning fallacy. Say a hypothesis is proven true in a rigorous and clear way. Why don't we continue to try proving that it's wrong. Maybe it's not binary/quantum!

I'm wondering what happened with ChatGPT. While the o1-pro version was pretty good/smart, the new GPT5 generation is practically useless. One of many examples of the problems: I give it two paragraphs of a research paper and ask to remove the redundancy. It returns literally the same text, proudly ...

I've requested assistance from ChatGPT several times for help with some non-trivial C language code. Unfortunately, it doesn't consistently provide error-free compilation results. Clean ChatGPT with Musk = GROK I'm just polishing my barge pole so I can point it at Grok. For general stuff ChatGPT is...

Bri-Nylon and the Tragic Story of Nylon's Inventor Wallace H Carothers - Flashbak

I wonder if Carothers' depression could have been connected tothe chemicals exposure at DuPont.

I'm wondering what happened with ChatGPT. While the o1-pro version was pretty good/smart, the new GPT5 generation is practically useless. One of many examples of the problems: I give it two paragraphs of a research paper and ask to remove the redundancy. It returns literally the same text, proudly c...

Me too!

RIP Jane Goodall
Probably the majority don’t realise that she completely redefined who we are.