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- Comment on IYKYK 2 days ago:
- Comment on The cell wall is the wall of the cell. 5 days ago:
Wikipedia says:
The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]
But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:
Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.
(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)
- Comment on game has multiple factions fighting each other 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess at all:
“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."
To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without manual intervention as this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still tend to lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.
- Comment on originality 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 3 weeks ago:
it’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.
(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on faen 4 weeks ago:
Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of “slut” to “sludd” in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 month ago:
this guy knuths how units work
- Comment on For reference 1 month ago:
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 2 months ago:
how far away does the water delivery come from?
- Comment on Report: X's DM feature is getting rebranded as 'XChat' 2 months ago:
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 months ago:
imo the pejorative connotation of that word is (like many expressions of homophobia) ultimately rooted in misogyny
“always has been” meme with “wait, it’s all about maintaining the patriarchy?”
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- Comment on BRASSICAS 3 months ago:
i am reporting this post for promulgating misinformation. this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is false: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is NOT actually ever called “wild mustard plant”.
- Comment on Unusual Pollinators 5 months ago:
thanks!
here is a side-by-side comparison of the neural network upscaling slop vs conventional zoom on the original:
and then of course there is the text:
AI-upscaled screenshot of the words “cannot BELIEVE” with many artifacts
😦
- Comment on ScIence 5 months ago:
The campaign hasn’t made any progress since 2011 when Wolfram Alpha added support for it, a year after Google did. Google’s calculator still does support it, though, so you can write queries like like “1Zbit/s * 1 year in hellabytes” (3.9 hellabytes), or “mass of the earth in hellagrams” (5.9 hellagrams).
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 5 months ago:
Would that not be 113?
🤦 indeed 😳 thanks
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 5 months ago:
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 5 months ago:
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 5 months ago:
this will become true in just a couple of years from now, assuming you represent age as a base-six number. (
4*6+5 == 2027-1998
) - Comment on My only problem now that my packages have arrived... 6 months ago:
Hold it down
- Comment on Get with the times, grampa 6 months ago:
they out here using “out here” two sentences in a row, smh my head
- Comment on you need to spend more of your afterlunch time for entertainment 6 months ago:
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 6 months ago:
- Comment on Just a little guy 7 months ago:
- Comment on Can you? 7 months ago:
i read it twice and somehow didn’t notice the word “do” appears twice 🤡
- Comment on Can you? 7 months ago:
where would commas go to make it make sense? 🤔