Mirodir @ Mirodir @discuss.tchncs.de

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We're dead center in the observable universe though.

I think the upper limits are mostly there for two reasons. To give the students a rough idea of what's expected in scope and also to protect the person from having to grade a 100 page thesis when they planned to grade a short essay.

That being said, there were a few times where they enforced strict page limits for us, but in those cases they would warn us about it explicitly multiple times.

I played it at gamescom last year. It was fun, but even in that short amount of time, some things started to feel a bit repetitive and I didn't like a few smaller design decisions.

That being said, I'll probably still buy it if the price is reasonable for what it is. And who knows, maybe they even polished out some of the gripes I had with it.

At least you have to preemptively activate this. Would be much stronger against counterspells if you could hold it open until a coubterspell is cast and then make your spell uncounterable.

I don't think it's more crime because more tension. It's instead a self fulfilling prophecy. Who do you think detects and records crime if not the police? Therefore more police in a area increases the number of crime data points in that area.

Other than "they're gonna stop paying you" there's also the risk of inflation making it so you receive way less overall, since I doubt the amount gets adjusted to match inflation.

But yes, if the jackpot is so high that you'd get 2+mil per month, assuming you're so worried about the dollar being worthless soon, you can still take the 2mil/mo and diversify. After a year you should already have plenty money to live comfortably for the rest of your life.

One field it impacts is radio astronomy. We can already see Musk's satellites mess with it (unintentionally) and it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Assuming each user will always encrypt to the same value, this still loses to statistical attacks.

As a simple example, users are e.g. more likely to vote on threads they comment in. With data reaching back far enough, people who exhibit "normal" behavior will be identified with high certainty.

In my experience, it is good at simple to medium complexity regex. For the harder ones it starts being quite useless though, at best providing a decent starting point to begin debugging from.

There was a scandal about her sleeping with six (not five) other officers, sometimes while on-duty (while being married herself).

A pyramid is built bottom to top, not top to bottom. That's also one of the strengths of the ISO format. You can add/remove layers for arbitrary granularity and still have a valid date.

It is dead AND alive before you check and collapses into dead XOR alive when you check.

But yes, the short description also irked me a little. It's really hard to write it concisely without leaving out important bits (like we both did too).

We can do that with the first sentence and flip it into German, replacing "lighter" with "fireworks". We get:

"Sie dürfen die Feuerarbeiten nicht mit in die Luftebene nehmen."

A lot of German speaking communities online do translate English loanwords into German words, often with the intention to create this funny effect.

13/13 Vehicle with Crew 2 that costs one mana to cast

That's gotta be Death's Shadow but as a Vehicle, right?

That's a very optimistic view. Not licencing your patent to your competition is absolutely a profit driven decision that harms the end user.

There's even a word for that called scurryfunging.

It was always meant to become a free game just like it's predecessor. This is just that transition.

Labor of Love award is specifically for older games that are still seeing love from the devs. I'd argue with them releasing a DLC of such quality that many people wondered if a DLC could win game of the year it deserves the nomination too.

Re LLM summaries: I've noticed that too. For some of my classes shortly after the ChatGPT boom we were allowed to bring along summaries. I tried to feed it input text and told it to break it down into a sentence or two. Often it would just give a short summary about that topic but not actually use the concepts described in the original text.

Also minor nitpick but be wary of the term "accuracy". It is a terrible metric for most use cases and when a company advertises their AI having a high accuracy they're likely hiding something. For example, let's say we wanted to develop a model that can detect cancer on medical images. If our test set consists of 1% cancer inages and 99% normal tissue the 99% accuracy is achieved trivially easy by a model just predicting "no cancer" every time. A lot of the more interesting problems have class imbalances far worse than this one too.

AI can be good but I'd argue letting an LLM autonomously write a paper is not one of the ways. The risk of it writing factually wrong things is just too great.

To give you an example from astronomy: AI can help filter out "uninteresting" data, which encompasses a large majority of data coming in. It can also help by removing noise from imaging and by drastically speeding up lengthy physical simulations, at the cost of some accuracy.

None of those use cases use LLMs though.