you: computers can reassemble strings of words that LOOK grammatically plausible like they have some kind of true meaning, but of course, the computer cannot recognize the difference between a well-formed phrase and a coherent argument
me: yeah thats true. but neither can humans
Legalise Sci-Hub
Ban copyright on scientific publications
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
don't say a site is dead if it's just morning because:
1. if you say that, people will actually think its dead instead of just morning
2. if people think its dead, they will leave
3. if people leave, then it will ACTUALLY be dead
i like this site, please don't encourage people to leave
This is a really good and complex webserial. It is fantasy(?) and starts out with a big magic-as-science theme, then <SPOILERS>. Read it here: https://qntm.org/ra
It even has an epub version!