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- Comment on Burrito 3 weeks ago:
The primary reason an MRI is expensive to run is that it has this magnetic field that must be maintained. This is a cost that is irrespective of whether they are running a scan.
So if you have an MRI for small animals and it’s not being used, you might use it for a hamster.
- Comment on Light 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it was almost wasted hitting some shitty pavement and causing even more of a heat island problem in this city. But instead, it not only gets the honor of interacting with me, it even serves a useful biological purpose.
- Comment on Do AI-Generated Image/Art Algorithms Plagiarise? | Atomic Shrimp 4 months ago:
I admit I didn’t watch the video, since it is 17 minutes and I don’t have time right now, but I’ll just throw something out there that I think is a good rule of thumb.
When you ask questions like this, “Do AI-Generated…” so and so, you can usually find a common-sense starting point answer by substituting, “Do human-Generated…” AI has the ability to plagiarize, and so do humans. AI has the ability to plagiarize even when it’s not asked to, and so do humans. Humans can even accidentally plagiarize, but it’s harder to say that AI does things accidentally.
This rule of thumb doesn’t always work, but neural networks attempt to simulate the way human brains function. Obviously, there are some differences. But it’s close enough to get a starting point.
It’s a complicated situation. A complicated question.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 5 months ago:
Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all.
- Comment on Time Traveling LIBERAL Has His Mind Blown 5 months ago:
Goddamn. I clicked through expecting it to be satire. Instead, it’s garbage right wing propaganda.
Like, the first thing it comes out with is that “In 2023, the left is all about starting wars, while the right is the anti-war side.”
Now I’ll have to block the channel so that YouTube doesn’t spam me with Prager shit.
Don’t be tricked.
- Comment on Mentally Deranged Behaviour 6 months ago:
When I read your comment, my monocle popped right off!
- Comment on Mentally Deranged Behaviour 6 months ago:
How about 4D Venn diagrams?
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 8 months ago:
This was probably over 5 years ago.
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 8 months ago:
I say “money”, but it was some sort of subscription. Like, become an X member and unlock the entire game sort of thing.
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 8 months ago:
This is an ancient project. At some point in the past, I went to this site and it was intentionally broken by its developers, such that it would only guess from a small subset of possible targets, and if your character was outside of that, it would act like it knew the answer, but wouldn’t say unless you gave them money.
I don’t know if that’s changed since then, because that experience ruined it for me, and I won’t be going back there.
- Comment on Panik 8 months ago:
If you have no interest in the result of the division, then you can also do the division in your head, without retaining the result, with about the same effort.
- Comment on Panik 8 months ago:
Another way to tell if 59271 is divisible by 7 is to divide it by 7. It will take about the same amount of time as the trick you’re presenting, and then you’ll already have the result.
- Comment on Panik 8 months ago:
I looked up a rule for 7, and it seems like it would take about the same amount of time as actually dividing the number by 7.
Meanwhile, it looks like the rule for 8 is to see if the last 3 digits are divisible by 8, which seems like a real time save for big numbers.
- Comment on Panik 8 months ago:
I only know rules for 2 (even number), 3 (digits sum to 3), 4 (last two digits are divisible by 4), 5 (ends in 5 or 0), 6 (if it satisfies the rules for both 3 and 2), 9 (digits sum to 9), and 10 (ends in 0).
I don’t know of one for 7, 8 or 13. 11 has a limited goofy one that involves seeing if the outer digits sum to the inner digits. 12 is divisible by both 3 and 4, so like 6, it has to satisfy both of those rules.
- Comment on Panik 8 months ago:
Also, any number whose digits sum to a multiple of 3 is divisible by 3. For 51, 5+1=6, and 6 is a multiple of 3, so 51 can be cleanly divided by 3.
- Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 8 months ago:
Are they even trying to change that reputation? The last I heard was that if you published a game app that was any sort of popular, you could expect it to be stolen and resold in China.
I also generally find it hard to trust any software produced in any totalitarian state.