so balloons appear to have negative mass, it's actually just the result of having lower density than the air. the upward force balances out with the gravity where the lbs/in^3 figure of its entirety matches that of ambient air. it's exactly the same as how an empty tank underwater floats, and a water filled tank underwater sinks.
or I guess one could say it's the bottom side getting more compressive load from air than the topside, given the observable effect, whatever floats our zep...
Attach hooks to the bottom of the blimp and send a guy in a heavy sled with hooks on it, with helium balloons attached to it, to the bottom of the blimp. Attach the sled to the hooks on the blimp, then get the guy to pop all the sled's balloons. The blimp will land on the ground gently, if the math is right.
I always thought the socially inept computer enthusiast who can't detect social cues was an anachronism by this point in history but then I started visiting hackernews.
>In the future, when humans die, their neurons will be sold and repurposed in local AI's.
In the future, humans won't need to die to have their neurons sold off as hardware for the AI.
Incidentally, that's the original idea behind the movie Matrix: humans are used as CPUs for the Matrix. The word is, the idea was too advanced for the audience and was dumbed down into "humans are batteries".
I guess we'll have to treat Morpheus as unreliable narrator, or assume that the real energy in the future is compute, and suddenly the movie makes 100x more sense.
Reminds me of the Metalocalypse on Christmas trees: "It's like having a rotting corpse in your house, but the corpse of a tree, you know? It's kind of baddass. It stands and then you humiliate it even further by hanging ornaments all over it,"
You can make anything metal if you try hard enough.
I am definitely going to do this now. But shouldn't the rest of the word be Greek too? Let's put on our necropodes to go for a walk? Or necropapoutsi? That's not a classical root.
I’d think you’d want the VOCs to be captured by something, rather than floating around in the air where you could breathe them in. Combined with a HEPA filter in the air circulation system, this should be a good solution.
Absorption is usually not a one-way street, though: Surfaces absorb gasses when the concentration in the air is higher than that on the surface boundary, but often also release them back into the air otherwise (which is why you can e.g. smell cigarette smoke in clothes – if they only captured it, there would be nothing for you to smell).
The only difference are some materials like charcoal, which does permanently bind many substances (but as a result can also saturate).
No idea which kind lime and clay are (i.e. "absorb and permanently bind with limited capacity" or "act as a buffer both ways").
> Combined with a HEPA filter in the air circulation system
Actually not that many types of things will bind to the carbon permanently, mostly it's the affinity for such a wide variety of contaminants to the carbon, combined with the porosity of the carbon structure which can have a very impressive amount of surface area to come in contact with the fluid being filtered. Whether filtering air or water. It hangs onto contaminants tightly.
Because carbon is such an effective adsorbent for contaminants, the partitioning coefficient for contaminants to remain in the solvent being filtered is lowered quite dramatically compared to so many other kinds of affordable alternative filtration media.
Most times people do need to afford to discard the carbon eventually, but it doesn't even really absorb contaminants like it's supposed to unless it is activated carbon to a good degree.
Activation only means that is it porous enough to begin with so it has enough surface area to be effective, then it is heated with adequate air exchange to about 250 Celsius for as many hours as it takes for virtually all of the VOC's or moisture it may have accumulated to be baked out. Then sealed up tightly, otherwise it can sit around for ages and gradually become saturated passively with any contaminants or humidity admitted through leaks to the ambient environment.
Sometimes, you can reactivate almost indefinitely to keep reusing the same carbon, and it works with VOCs because by their volatile nature they are basically baked back out easily and virtually completely each time. Different amounts of time if using different temperatures though, if equipped.
The stronger the activation, the more tightly with higher capacity the carbon wants to absorb things it encounters that are dissimilar to the fluid being filtered.
The article mentions that Apple paused the show due to geopolitical tensions and its own interests in the region (selling phones to middle eastern customers). Similar reasons to why they cancelled Jon Stewart’s show (which is also mentioned by the article). Slow horses doesn’t really have the same sensitivity - it’s a comedy, which gives it some cover.
Slow Horses is a comedy?! It has some humorous dialogue at times, but ultimately it’s a (rather violent and tense) political drama. Lighthearted and silly, it is not.
Yeah, there are probably a few multimillion dollar app ideas in here, but of insufficient complexity or lowbrow-ness for the typical HN reader (myself included). The nano-banana template idea or the Q&A Walkman, for example.
Isn’t one of the main functions of the brain / nervous system to “filter” noisy sensory input data to provide a coherent “signal” to perception? Perhaps a smaller or more specialized model could do that if we ended up packing the “skin” of the humanoid with various sensors.
In theory yes, a small(er) model to do almost anything exists in the problem space of all models.
The problem is getting to that model state. Evolution found these models by creating a ridiculously huge number of experiments with the cut off function being 'can it breed before it dies on a limited number of calories'.
At least at this point it doesn't seem likely we can find a shortcut beyond that necessary computation. Evolution did it with time and parallelism. We do it differently with scale and rapid energy usage.
Use your imagination. Any event that cannot be defined by low dimensional meaning (which there are myriad). The problem with the distinctions between event perception (what causes a car crash) and what AI assimilates is the arbitrary bottleneck of words, causal statements, images, deep reductions which are possible illusions of semantics like beliefs, motivations, desires.
Humans can take in a remarkable array of stimuli in order to perform tasks that are not cause and effect through optic flow. AI is stuck behind a veil of predicted tokens.
In essence, AI cannot automate mimicry of understanding even when the magic act demonstrates. Events are already tapeworms, but our skillset is so stuck behind the veil of folk psychology and f science, we are merely pretending we understand these events.
So a tapeworm format is probably somewhat like a non-causal contradictory event that may have infinite semantic readings. Think edges of paradox: Kubrick, Escher, Cezanne, Giorgione, Song Dynasty landscapes, Heraclitus, find the Koanic paradoxes of the East and keep conjoining them. Think beyond words, as thoughts are wordless, the tapeworms are out there, math doesn't and can't see them.
This is what's so jarring about meme-culture, which are tapeworms to AI as they are tapeworms to narrative containment culture, what might be viewed as academia/intelligensia/CS engineering/plain English media, the tapeworms are here, CS I think assumes the causal/semantic linkages are simple, meaning is low-bandwidth, but the reality is semantic is both limitless (any event) and illusory (meme-culture ie several memes in sequence). AI has no path in either case.
There are vast, unexplored sums of knowledge that LLMs can't automate, mimic or regurgitate. This is obvious simply from meme-culture. Try asking Chat GPT to derive meaning from Kirk's shooters casing engravings. Listen to the explanations unravel.
Once you attach the nearly limitless loads of meaning available to event-perception (use cognitive mapping in neuroscience where behavior has no meaning, it simply has tasks and task demands vary wildly so that semantic loads are factors rather than simple numbers), LLMs appear to be like puppets of folk psychology using tokens predictably in embedded space. These tokens have nothing to do with the reality of knowledge or events. Of course engineers can't grasp this, you've been severely limited to using folk psychology infected cog sci as a base of where your code is developed from, when in reality, it's almost totally illusory. CS has no future game in probability, it's now a bureaucracy. The millions or billions of parameters have zero access to problems like these that sit beyond cog sci, I'll let Kelso zing it
No one — human or LLM — actually knows the meanings of the phrases that Tyler James Robinson wrote on his cartridge casings. There's lots of speculation but he isn't talking, and even if he was we wouldn't know whether he was telling the truth. If you want us to take you seriously then you'll have to come up with a valid example instead of posting a bunch of pseudo-intellectual drivel.
You're proving me correct. The pseudoscience is CS, it has no game in events. The interdisciplinary search for semantics derived from events isn't pseudo-intellectual drivel, it's the central quest of key sciences and subfields that range into neuroscience.
Of course we can concatenate meanings from his behavior and clues, but these meanings are not accessible in AI or narratives. You're essentially throwing in the towel as proof legacy explanations have died in automation in AI.
Face it CS, your approach is bureaucratic, for enforcing the dead status-quo of knowledge, not for the leading edges.
Duchamp played the status game of arbitrary signals as representations for high status. He's not a chaos agent. He's a relic of a generation trying to get into galleries and museums for status. It's not even close to meme-culture.
Flush out your headgear oldster. Dada was a status gain group in a hierarchical system. Meme-culture is 21st C non-linear chaos deep in horizontalization. Take your academic art history takes to plain English status seeing magazines.
> Flush out your headgear oldster. Dada was a status gain group in a hierarchical system. Meme-culture is 21st C non-linear chaos deep in horizontalization. Take your academic art history takes to plain English status seeing magazines.
At once familiar and also utterly alien. Perhaps part of a ritual to honor the dead, or perhaps worn to scare children into eating their vegetables. We'll never know.
There you go, solved it.
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