Jamie Oglethorpe

Tries to figure out how and why stuff works as it does.
Curates and

[Jamie Oglethorpe @palemale53]

@leighdunsford @wintonARK It'll be like the Tesla giga factories: built for a decade of expansion. It will be making stuff a long time before that. Plenty of space for expansion.

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@83dollaroring I'm really good at intelligence tests. I struggle with everything else. It's like Sudoku. Practice a lot and try things out. I've done them at fiendish levels, and I've just discovered a new trick, a pattern I'd never seen before. Solving IQ tests is easy when you think that way.

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@skdh It depends on your definition of life. I see it as convergent evolution with a single origin of life.

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@DavidBrin One of my alltime favourites, measured by my willingness to re-read it many times.

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@RobertFlemingPJ @NewsFromGoogle @ArtificialAnlys Just tell it to check its facts. I have this in my prompts:
"2. Verify recent events on the internet." You can use it as a second prompt when it gets stupidly pedantic.

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@skdh @demishassabis @wtgowers Google DeepMind and OpenAI are following different strategies for AI maths. OpenAI puts everything into a single model, while GDM's are specialised research tools. These carry less technical debt. I expect they will be more capable tools, somewhat like Wolfram Alpha for proofs.

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@SciGuySpace If that works, it could be worthwhile to have “left-handed” and “right-handed” tiles, which would complicate logistics and manufacturing a bit.

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@SciGuySpace The streaks are directional, suggesting that the plasma has a preferred flow. Perhaps the tiles could be designed with angled edges so that the leading tiles overlap the trailing ones, instead of square edges.

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@leecronin A nice grook!

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@PixieTrixComix Enough pages to keep going for YEARS!

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@PixieTrixComix Subscribed!

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@OGSilverback11 @Nature Why shouldn't we do both? The question isn't about making Mars habitable and poisoning the Earth; it is about healing the Earth while making Mars habitable. On Mars, we would be forced to develop technologies that help living more sustainably right here.

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@CJHandmer Liking your post had the "like" icon momentarily turning into a firing rocket. How cool!

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@SciGuySpace The Raptor team has some explaining to do

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@runaway_vol After Apartheid ended in South Africa, which rejoined the Commonwealth, the Queen toured the country. It was an obvious strain on her. The one time I recall her smiling was when she was entertained by a traditional Xhosa dance. The women were topless.

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@skdh @delmoi Famously, the Alpha Beta Gamma paper.

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@PixieTrixComix Worse days than Mom could have thought possible.

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@karpathy I tried asking Gemini 2.5 to format a math-rich document with LaTeX, and had to do a lot of editing to get it to work. I'm yet to try this with more recent models.

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I watched a video that contrasted SpaceX's test-and-fix approach with the conventional simulation-first approach used by others, such as NASA and Blue Origin. I responded that SpaceX's physics-based discovery lacked the data for simulation. The point of the first 11 flights and the earlier campaign was to discover the relevant data, and SpaceX is now transitioning to a simulation-first approach with V3.

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@Nature I'm quite prepared to pay attention to a long video, lecture, speech, or whatever if it is worthy of my attention. Many long-format items are padded with null items and repetitions. After some of this, I question if it is worth more time. It is easier to break away than before.