[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 1 month ago

Plenty of answers already.

I'd like to point out that it's not medicine alone, but empathy that changes natural selection. We have evidence of our ancestors caring for members of their tribe that would have been unable to survive otherwise.

But while in some edge cases (some diseases) you could make an argument that it's bad for future humanity for some reason, it's overall good, because it enables a larger population. And a larger population has a better chance of mutating to fit changing environments. Or to phrase it differently: diversification comes first, selection can wait.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago

Actually education is probably the largest selection factor. Educated people have less children than less educated people. Sometimes massively so. This is not necessarily linked with intelligence, it correlates more with socio economic factors.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 2 months ago

The info graphic suggests that they use the different cooling rate of the first and second layer to lock in the applied magnetic field of heat assisted magnetic recording.

They beat both layers

They apply a magnetic field to save a "1" bit

Both layers are magnetized to a "1" bit

The first layer cools down and locks that bit into place permanently.

They apply the magnetic field to save a "0" bit

While the second layer is still hot and accepts the "0" orientation of the magnetic field, the first layer is already too cold and will not change its magnetization.

The second layer cools down and locks that bit into place.

Neat!

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 31 points 2 months ago

I need the top ten majors with the lowest unemployment rates to make a judgement in this plot.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 months ago

Are the budgets calculated the same way in all countries? Or at least comparable?

I've heard that e.g. in Germany pensions for soldiers are not calculated as defence spending, because it's just a regular pension, the same civilians also get. However in the US the department of defense is directly responsible for that so it counts as defense spending. However I have no idea if that is true or if that is already considered in the 2% figure.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago

German psychiatrists be like:

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago

Only during totality.

You still need them if you want to see the moon creep across the sun.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 5 months ago

The rules aren't any different for AI. AI is not a legal entity, just like a pen and canvas are not. It is always about the person who makes money with facsimiles of copyrighted previous work.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 6 months ago

Ok I thought it common knowledge but maybe I should specify.

Datum is the singular form of data. Data is a collection of many single datums. If you have ten thousand anecdotes they do in fact become statistically significant.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 6 months ago

No, your clock is right 1440 or 86400 times a day. Not exactly twice.

The saying is "even a broken clock is right twice a day"

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 6 months ago

We don't digest cellulose, our intestines and appendix are not long enough. Compare our body plan to a horse or rat (giant appendix) or cow or sheep (multiple stomachs, filled with bacteria that break down cellulose). Cellulose goes right through. But that's the fiber that is always so highly praised and not actually a bad thing.

[-] throwafoxtrot@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, it's a datum - about how people feel

Performance numbers are easy to find. The prices have not been great and the 4060 is held back by its reduced memory speed, but it's a performance increase nevertheless. The flagship product, the one that shows what is currently possible in terms of GPU power, did show remarkable improvement in top performance.

I'm more salty about AMD not supporting ai workloads on their consumer gpus. Yes, ROCm exists and it will work on quite a few cards, but officially it's not supported. This is a major reason why Nvidia is still the only serious player in town.

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