People always warn about this but don’t understand it. It’s like saying be careful driving your car, you may get in a wreck. Or hey be careful don’t eat undercooked meat.
There are so few cases of this annually and as someone who lives in Asia and has eaten a lot of rice I think the warning is overblown.
I had giardia one time .. actually I still have it :(
I went to see the physician to treat it, a MD, at least I thought. The doc said he wanted to give me "ivermectin" to eliminate the infection(!!!). Ivermectin(!?!). is this a weird COVID quack? I don't see how a HORSE DEWORMER has any place in human medicine - I'd rather keep the giardia, thanks, then take some quack horse dewormer drug
I'm running the latest MacOS right now on a modest m4 Mini and it doesn't seem slow to me at all. I use Windows for gaming and Linux for several of my machines as well and I don't "feel" like MacOS is slow.
In any case, Chrome opens quickly on my Mac Mini, under a second when I launch it from clicking its icon in my task bar or from spotlight (which is my normal way of starting apps). When Chrome is idle with no windows, opening chrome seems even faster, almost instant.
This made me curious so I tried opening some Apple apps, and they appear to open about the same speed as Chrome.
Gui applications like Chrome or Keynote can be opened from a terminal command line using the open command so I tried timing this:
$ time open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app
which indicated that open was finished in under 0.05 seconds total. So this wasn't useful because it appears to be timing only part of the time involved with getting the first window up.
My first college girlfriend made me realize that I wasn't a fast thinker. In person our conversations didn't seem problematic to me, but on the phone she would respond too quickly to what I was saying. I wouldn't be able to get into listening mode in time to pick up on the beginning of her replies.
I suppose that different people just have different strengths and mine isn't quick repartee. Another unusual thing I've noticed is my inability to do my best thinking while music is playing. While working briefly at a company to help out some friends I was forced to hear music throughout my time working on location; it was terrible (for me). In school I always did my work in quiet settings.
I was a math major in college and music interfered with my math work more than other subjects. My theory is that math and music both rely on similar mental resources.
When I went to college, practically every student arrived with a slide rule. I bought mine when I was 14 years old. (I still have it, a Picket model N4-ES https://www.sliderule.ca/pickett.htm) We all learned to use them in High School and were expected to use them in our science and engineering classes.
In engineering and the sciences, multiplication, division, trigonometric, and exponential functions were necessary. In the late 1960s, there were four alternatives for computing these operations: books containing printed tables of values (good for 5 or 6 decimal positions of precision at best), desktop scientific calculators like the Wang 360--expensive and not very common. I remember using one only once at MIT, "real" computers (running FORTRAN programs on punched cards or perhaps APL), or the lowly slide rule.
Slide rules were everywhere that scientists and engineers roamed in the late 1960's. They had only three parts: a pair of fixed rulers, a sliding ruler that slid between the two fixed rulers, and a cursor, which is a thin precise line in a window that could be used to line up the positions on the rulers. The rulers were inscribed not with evenly spaced marks (as measuring rulers are) but with marks starting at 1 (not zero) and going up to 10 spaced logarithmically.
Just as two yard sticks can be lined up to measure 5 feet, a rulers of a slide rule can be lined up to calculate the sum of two logarithms and adding logarithms can be used to perform multiplication.
A typical slide rule had dozens of scales, with spacing corresponding to the trig functions, exponentials, hyperbolic trig functions, logs of logs, etc. A slide rule could perform almost any function needed for basic science and engineering. There were two limitations; slide rules couldn't calculate sums or differences, and they were only accurate for perhaps 3 digits of precision.
The limitations on precision was due to the difficulty in reading the scale accurately; the scales were only around a foot long. To get another digit of precision you'd need a slide rule with fine marking ten times as long as our portable slide rules. The MIT museum had examples of just such devices. Typically, the scale would be marked on the outside of a cylinder in a helical fashion. Such devices could then get more than four digits of precision. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_calculator for an example of a cylindrical slide rule.
In 1971, some of my wealthier fellow students bought the Bomar Brain. It was the first portable electronic calculator that I ever saw and cost $240. In today's dollars that would be roughly $1900. All the device could do was add, subtract, multiply and divide. One would still need a slide rule for trig, square roots, logs, etc. A few years later, HP and others came out with hand held scientific calculators and I retired my slide rule, which now adorns my home office in its original leather case (with the belt loop to carry the slide rule at your fingertips).
Coincidently, I'm vacationing right now, and in the lobby there is a case containing an original Thatcher Calculator on display (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Thacher_Calculat...), another variation of the cylindrical slide rule and invented around 120 years ago.
Yes... sorry I am thinking of some related topics in this area, not only just about rhinos. Elephant trade has a similar issue, and this is why my mind was in that space.
Humans too can be committed to beliefs that are not true. I have friend that believes in and regularly consults her "clairvoyant". I wonder if our AI assistants in the future will be vulnerable to suspicions or popular fantasies about the world, people, or even other AIs they interact with.
Isn’t commitment to beliefs that aren’t true part of the value of intelligence? Like right now multiple billion dollar companies are being built on different theories of the future of AI. They can’t all be true.
There have been decades of work on file name completion put into Emacs, nothing I’ve seen comes close. Currently I’m using add on packages vertigo, orderless, marginalia, consult, embark, and corfu to handle completion. These packages all work together to produce a crazy good setup, but in the past I’ve used helm, ivy, icicle, and vanilla Emacs. Every one of these open source completion frameworks works great.
Of course, I’ll never get back the time spent fiddling with my 1600 line Emacs configuration file.
Oh man, I've tried using Ivy, but it's terrible. I tried typing '~/.c/r/r' to quickly get to my RetroArch config file, and I immediately got stuck in '~/.cache'. With Vertico it Just Works (R). Icomplete (whose vertical mode is part of Emacs now) can also do it, but I prefer Vertico's UX as the way Return and 'C-j' work in Icomplete is opposite to what I naturally expect and rebinding them doesn't work that well.
This isn’t obvious to me. It doesn’t have to simulate itself in real time. It may not be able to simulate itself simulating itself. There may be proof of this using a diagonalization proof.
Consider programs that are quines, programs are able to output the exact source code of the program. See [1].
And there are abstract computers that can produce any computable output. These are called Universal Turing Machines, see [2]. UTMs can be specified with a remarkably small number of internal states, see [3].
I’m not saying you are wrong, but computability is full of unintuitive results, and the answer may be more subtle than what is revealed by “just thinking about it”.
My regular IDE is IDEA with a bunch of language plugins, so I think I have a reasonable idea where you're coming from.
The idea is to have a tool that can be either a lightweight text editor when you want that or a full on IDE when you want that, and potentially use a remote (could just be another machine on your desk or could've a container on a server) machine for the heavy lifting parts.
I like the premise, but the public beta (or whatever they're calling it) is a little rough to use daily, for me.
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