Well, “many people” could be 100 Million and that is small compared to 8.2 Billion humans. But I think the ones who hold that opinion are countable in a few thousand at most, maybe 100,000. But it does not matter. The human species is large enough to have completely separated “team” taking independent viewpoints to
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Simulating the Evolution of Empires – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3tMNbFdCs It needs some statistics for many random runs. From that you can begin to make a visible model that can be calibrated to real world countries. I ran 50 year projections of all countries in the world in the 1980’s when I was at Georgetown University Center for
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I weighed an airplane… while it was flying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvtstq3ztI Grok convinced me that the sound pressure level that you can measure with microphones is the better way to go. It is not the same as the pressure from air molecules moving. But the two pressures can combined. If you know the model of airplane you
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Yes. So instead of a light weight “tokenization” now and very little curation and verification now the raw data, and no index of the raw data. It puts effort into finding the nouns and processes, embedded data, index it and convert to tokens. It attempts to make sure if it is talking about Moscow, Russia
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She Let the First Predator Bite Her — So the Rest Would See What Happens After | Sci Fi Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhSPJ12l9s In our world now, it is much based on dominant and submissive, predator and prey, strong and weak, rich and poor. But there is a third category – “just human”, that we all ought
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This is personal, so make your own choices and decisions. When the prices of coffee kept going up, I bought cheaper and cheaper brands of coffee, so they got more and more bitter. That meant I put more sugar and half&Half which also doubled in price. My monthly cost for “coffee” kept going up and
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The Stupidity of GDP per Capita – Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiymTzsZfoA Dear Type Ashton, I set up a database of all economic, financial, and social data from all UN and US federal sources for USAID and the US State Department in the 1980s when I worked for Georgetown University Center
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Veritasium: The Closest We’ve Come to a Theory of Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10_srZ-pbs Learning a little every day does not compound over time when the little pieces are not themselves expressed in a consistent way. All it does is accumulate in a pile, which collapses under its own weight periodically. Why learning linux means teaching yourself. https://www.facebook.com/reel/4007359546184441 A
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The War Aliens Fought for 473 Years Ended by One Human in 5 Hours | HFY | Sci Fi Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqX9q3YzYsU My comment: The Russians can agree to disarm completely. Rather than sloppy war, they can schedule destruction of facilities with no one harmed. That lets everyone test their best systems, and completely destroy useless
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Can You See X-Rays In a Cloud Chamber? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhwkIFoSNo Thanks! I have been wondering about this for 20+ years. Except I have not found a way to image the x-rays below 4 KeV, especially under 400 eV, over long periods at high frame rates. I supposed I should have devoted years to trying things like
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