vithigar

They have a vested interest in their borrowers not dying. This manifests as not lending to people at increased risk rather than any kind of protective or preventive action.

C# .NET using reflection, integer underflow, and a touch of LINQ. Should work for all integer types. (edit: also works with char values)

// this increments i
private static T Increment<T>(T i)
{
    var valType = typeof(T);
    var maxField = valType.GetField("MaxValue");
    var minField = valType.GetField("MinValue");
    if (maxField != null)
    {
        T maxValue = (T)maxField.GetValue(i);
        T minValue = (T)minField.GetValue(i);

        var methods = valType.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredMethods;
        var subMethod = methods.Where(m => m.Name.EndsWith("op_Subtraction")).First();
               
        T interim = (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null,
            [i, maxValue]);

        return (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null, 
            [interim, minValue]);
    }
    throw new ArgumentException("Not incrementable.");
}

"Observable universe" isn't how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.

I also don't think that water drop fact is correct. The estimated number of stars in the observable universe is 10^24, which is about an order of magnitude more than 1 mol, and 1 mol of water is about 18g, which is quite a bit more than 10 drops.

Not even that. LLMs have no concept of meaning or understanding. What they do in essence is space filling based on previously trained patterns.

Like showing a bunch of shapes to someone, then drawing a few lines and asking them to complete the shape. And all the shapes are lamp posts but you haven't told them that and they have no idea what a lamp post is. They will just produce results like the shapes you've shown them, which generally end up looking like lamp posts.

Except the "shape" in this case is a sentence or poem or self insert erotic fan fiction, none of which an LLM "understands", it just matches the shape of what's been written so far with previous patterns and extrapolates.

Louise Belcher and Boo Boo.

Also super cheap power from Churchill Falls.

I had a dryer for a while that vented into the room. It didn't just spew damp air though. There was a condenser and collector tank for water that had to be emptied between runs.

"AI" isn't ready for any type of general consumer market and that's painfully obvious to anyone even remotely aware of how it's developing, including investors.

...but the cost benefit analysis on being first-to-market with anything even remotely close to the universal applicability of AI is so absolutely insanely on the "benefit" side that it's essentially worth any conceivable risk, because the benefit if you get it right is essentially infinite.

It won't ever stop

I'm the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory...

Or I could play some Elite...

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

Mouse, keyboard, monitor, another phone, storage, headphones, a car.

It depends on the size of the opening. If it's small that's no problem. You could block a 1 inch pipe at 10psi with your bare hand and be largely fine. It's a little less than 10 pounds of force assuming a round opening.

The problem is that the total force scales geometrically with the size of the opening. Make it two feet wide at the same 10psi and now you've got about 4500 pounds of force trying to push you though that opening should you find yourself in the unfortunate situation that it's been completely blocked by your body.