It’s a cognitive dissonance thing for collectors. They want the preserved, playable copy but they don’t ever want to break the seal because that lowers the value.

I bet there are a bunch of collectors out there in possession of empty game boxes (with placebo weights) that have been expertly resealed and then submitted to grading companies for a seal of approval.

The guy seems like a shill. A hired goon who successfully destroyed Ross’s movement, just like they planned!

Yes, though then we’ll have to test your blood to make sure.

I think it’s supposed to be a depiction of an attack in progress. Creepy!

Thanks so much!

What’s the weight of the salt? Salt can vary in weight per tbsp by as much as 50%, depending on how fine or coarse it is. For preserving foods the amount of salt is critical.

No, though there’s been plenty of marketing where they claim “we know how to build AGI.”

They have marketed ChatGPT as a general purpose AI from the very beginning, though the question of how to leverage that has remained open.

I was very careful not to use the term AGI for this reason. General intelligence tool isn’t the same thing. It’s a much weaker claim, yet it’s also a far stronger claim than any purpose-built software. The ambiguity is part of their marketing strategy.

If ChatGPT were marketed as a toaster nobody would bat an eye. The reason so many are laughing is because ChatGPT is marketed as a general intelligence tool.

Oh yeah. Stone bowl bibimbap is the best!

Seems like a great way to prolapse a colon!

Ohhhh okay! My coworker’s from India and she’s taken it upon herself to start teaching me her home cooking. She shares her lunch with me!

Wouldn’t that be gobi tikka masala?

Lemmy gonna downvote. I say what I say because I believe in it. I’m always open to changing my mind. I think a lot of the downvotes I receive are from people who don’t like the implications of what I’m saying but don’t have a pithy response.

No, humans aren’t weird at all. Read about parasites, River blindness, Surplus killing, Chimpanzee diet (note the abundance of monkeys in their preferred prey).

The only thing remarkable about humans is our success. We’ve been able to use technology to adapt to and survive in environments far from the ones we evolved in. Otherwise many insect species such as ants have been nearly as successful as humans, inhabiting every continent save Antarctica.

Yeah. I don’t see too many people citing Shakespeare for the estimated 1700 words he popularized or invented. Of course many of those words were created by someone else and Shakespeare picked them up from the common vernacular and started using them in his plays.

But that’s how it works. That’s how language works. Nobody owns it.

Integration: just think about driving somewhere in your car. How long it takes you to get there depends on how fast you’re going as well as the total distance you need to travel. This is easy to figure out if you’re going exactly one constant speed for the entire trip.

But what if you’re driving in the city and you’re speeding up and slowing down all the time? Maybe sometimes you even need to go in reverse which takes you further away from the destination! So the problem you have is that your speed is changing throughout the trip (sometimes even going negative when you’re driving in reverse) and you still want to somehow figure out how long it takes.

Perhaps you might have thought of a straightforward (albeit tedious) way of getting the answer: record your current speed and the current time in a notebook every so often and then multiply each speed by the time interval to get all these small slices of distance travelled, then add them all up at the end. Congratulations, that’s the idea behind integration!

There’s one problem though: your speed might be changing throughout each time interval so the answer you get has all these mistakes that just add up to give you an inaccurate result! Solution: make all the time intervals smaller! This way each time interval includes a more accurate speed, so there will be less errors when we add them all up. Thus the theory of integration is that we can make the intervals arbitrarily small (as small as we want) to get an answer as accurate as we want all the way down to infinite intervals of infinitesimal length which ought to give us the exact answer (and it does)!

Differentiation (calculation of derivatives): the opposite of integration. This takes an entire trip in the car and gives us the ability to calculate our exact speed at any instant in time. Unlike how we might calculate an average speed by looking at the total distance travelled over a time interval and dividing it by that length of time, a derivative gives us the exact speed at a moment in time!

Anyway I hope those two rough explanations help illuminate things a bit for you. Integration and differentiation (calculus) are actually way more useful than just for calculating speeds and distances. For example, the same ideas can be used to calculate the area of an irregular shape (divide it up into squares and add them all up, making the squares smaller helps reduce the errors around the edges) or the volume of an irregular container! Or the slope of a hill at any point on its surface! Or perhaps the lowest point of a valley (using a technique called gradient descent).

That last one is actually very commonly used in artificial intelligence as a training technique. There you’re trying to find the minimum point in some higher dimensional data, according to some rules you have. With gradient descent you use differentiation to find the slope and then you take a small step along the slope towards that minimum point, then repeat!

Love integration! Much more fun than derivatives!

Okay that looks really delicious! Well done!

It is both a gallery and a galley at the same time!