Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

Oh, I only minored in math, I’m no expert either! Yeah, your explanation was really fine, I just thought the “sum of a geometric series” thing might ring a bell for some readers.

Yeah, that’s basically how I remember it, though it’s not always stats–the terms are used in other fields of math as well. A first calculus class typically includes a proof that the limit of the sum of an infinite geometric series (a + ar + ar^2 + ar^3 + …) tends towards a/(1-r) where a is the first term and r is the ratio of successive terms, provided that -1 < r < 1. (Otherwise the series diverges and the limit isn’t defined.)

It’s so frustrating. I’m planning to keep my current phone working for a couple more years if possible, but after that I really have no idea what I’ll do. Kinda hoping one of the other Linux phone initiatives gets going more by then.

Obligatory XKCD: https://m.xkcd.com/1428/

The speculation I saw was that it’s just Firefox in general. Folks were saying turning off ad blocking didn’t help.

I guess it’s not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.

For those like me who had to look it up, Bazzite.

Yeah, that’s not what I was disagreeing with. You’re right about that; I’m on record saying that capitalism is our first superintelligence and it’s already misaligned. I’m just saying that it isn’t really meaningless to object to generative AI. Sure the edges of the category are blurry, but all the LLMs and diffusion-based image generators and video generators were unethically trained on massive bodies of stolen data. Seriously, talking about AI as though the architecture is the only significant element when getting good training data is like 90% of the challenge is kind of a pet peeve of mine. And seen in that light there’s a pretty significant distinction between the AI people are objecting to and the AI people aren’t objecting to, and I don’t think it’s a matter of “a meaningless buzzword.”

I mean, not really? Maybe they’re both deep learning neural architectures, but one has been trained on an entire internetful of stolen creative content and the other has been trained on ethically sourced medical data. That’s a pretty significant difference.

There’s also “Book” by Robert Grudin. At one point

“If only I’d programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for. Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!”