starling

physics phd student trying to understand thermodynamics of self-organized systems.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@TerminusPest @Howlingmutant0 Wouldn't one expect that the few women who do commit themselves to these things are those women who are best at it?

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

people will know you like odd and weird stuff, and then show you something zany or wacky. those are completely different frequencies my man

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@NoahTopper @JasonLHahn @vtlynch1 I think "dumb ___" is broadly the CS shorthand for "do-nothing ___" as opposed to a "smart ___" which makes a decision at some point (behaves differently depending on some data like filename or data within the file).

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@VioletFlame23 You can accept all claims, but this is setting the price "below equilibrium," so there will be a shortage (more demand than supply (e.g. doctor/nurse time, medical equipment).

You deal with the shortage, as always, with queueing/waiting lists or some kind of lottery system.

[taoki @justalexoki]

you do not want to turn this rock over

[starling @flocksofphysics]

I think I just had my first experience recognizing A Famous Person in public downtown and it's Lulu Garcia-Navarro of @nytimes The Interview

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@nosilverv What do you mean by "beyond"?

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books

[taoki @justalexoki]

bro literally did the prophetic past tense to break a 27 year old world record

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@matthen2 I asked ChatGPT to copy your homework and write an algorithm for box-counting dimension that seems to give the same fractal dimension for all the tested curves.

The number found is consistent with the dimension for the frontier of a 2D random walk: 4/3

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@matthen2 I asked ChatGPT to copy your homework and write an algorithm for box-counting dimension that seems to give the same fractal dimension for all the tested curves.

The number found is consistent with the dimension for the frontier of a 2D random walk: 4/3

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

THANK YOU FOR HELPING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES MODERATE REPUBLICAN NEW YORK CITY MAJOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@literaryeric Grant issuing bodies are not under the same constraints as the IRS.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@Probably_Human_ @scottleibrand @MTabarrok My point here is that one can receive 99% of the benefit of living in a beautiful neighborhood while not personally paying the beautiful-home premium.

e.g. buy a cheap house in a nice neighborhood and enjoy the view from the window while spoiling everyone else's view.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@Algon_33 @matthen2 That's a fair definition.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@scottleibrand @MTabarrok My point here is that one can receive 99% of the benefit of living in a beautiful neighborhood while not personally paying the beautiful-home premium.

e.g. buy a cheap house in a nice neighborhood and enjoy the view from the window while spoiling everyone else's view.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@scottleibrand @MTabarrok This just seems like a classic case of positive externalities.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@AaronBergman18 It's probably literally just (absolute purity today ÷ absolute purity in 2014) × 100

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@AaronBergman18 They're measuring relative purity as compared to 2014?