Actual AI development has been held back a decade at least with all the bullshit spending on LLMs, and once the bubble pops hard it’ll be a huge effort to get any more into real AI development again.

Z values are measurement of how many standard deviations something is from the mean. 95% of your values fall between -2 and +2. Most “interesting cases” are about outliers, something that’s very uncommon. If it’s common, you don’t tend to write a paper about it. Nobody cares if someone had a slightly above average tumor, but if they have 50kg tumor, that’s publishable.

The survivorship bias plane shows a world war 2 chart of where the bullet holes were on planes. The conclusion famously isn’t to armor those parts often hit, but to armor the parts that weren’t hit, because no planes hit there returned to be recorded.

It’s almost as big as the Xbox360. We can reuse all the all the old memes

Next up: space boats in the space water.

To be fair, a hundred pages wouldn’t fit in the margins

Blaming someone else what the US did wrong is a proud US tradition!

The signs were placed by the Dutch. The signs were removed by order of the US government.

I learned that I can do a great anime-protagonist haircut, but now that I’m not in my early 20s anymore that’s not really my style anymore.

On the other end of the spectrum, if you just trim the tips off of your perpetual ponytail/braid, that’s easy too.

Everything in between needs practice, and ideally the ability to look at the back of your head.

How about we stop posting AI slop?

Int is knowing what you’re talking about

Wis is knowing when to talk

Cha is when people listen to you

That’s how you’re supposed to attach hinges to ironwood.

Because we’re not OK

I recall being a grad student, and one of my friends was super happy their paper was mentioned. The context was basically “Contrary to claims by [friend et al]…”

Only in this case, the Nazi is afraid, not the bug

The upper teeth are solidly in the “danger triangle” of the face. If those get infected, there’s basically just a highway to the brain.

Without dentistry, getting a cavity could easily lead to an infection, and without antibiotics, that could easily kill you.

People don’t really realize how lucky we are with modern medicine. People used to die from all sorts of things we consider trivial today

Bad teeth used to frequently kill people as little as a century ago.

Sounds like the people affected by this problem should use the rigid safetymeasures and procedures that financial instutions are req… what? They don’t have any? oh, well, that’s too bad.

Let me play the world’s tiniest violing for the immutable blockchain showing final and legal ownership.

It doesn’t move. Normally, warm air rises from the chicken wings, carrying the smell up into your nose. In microgravity, the smell can only drift along currents. If you’re not holding it “upwind”, you won’t smell it.

There are some funny stories of astronauts moving through the ISS and suddenly hitting a pocket of fart.

Wow, those are all terrrible ideas…

And there’s no smell untill it’s in your mouth, meaning that it comes as a total surprise!

Thats because in normal countries, the health insurers get to bargain for their treatments. Hearing someone say “we will buy 7 million treatments, but only at X cost” will quickly make the seller agree, and the consumer benefits.

In the US, insurers will happily just not buy treatment, and pocket your insurance money.