Readit Newsekelsen commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui
they grew old and died ?
sometimes not nearly so pleasant for them.
ekelsen commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
There's no reason you can't have 400 degrees in a circle and therefore 100 for a right angle.
It's a degree scale: you can choose any number you want.
Of course that's true, that doesn't mean you should.
ekelsen commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
When the US attempted to transition to the metric system, gas stations raised their prices per unit volume and the American consumer was convinced that the metric system was bad. I have family that think metric is bad because some fringe people thought there should be 10 hours in a day and 100 minutes in an hour, also something like 10 months a year, and the whole thing is bad because some awkward ideas were floated.
Here, it's a question of resolution, with a proven history that transitions screw the consumer, though maybe it won't be so. We're ok with arbitrary hundredths of a dollar, why were we not at thousandths? The American half cent disappeared a long time ago. You still need to include the cents in a tax bill that runs into the millions of dollars.
It's just an awkward stage in inflation. Eventually a US dollar will be worth what a Zimbabwean dollar was, and we won't have $100 bills anymore.
During the French Revolution, they tried to make a right angle have 100 degrees and even recomputed all new trig tables for this new standard. It obviously did not catch on :)
ekelsen commented on OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/treadump
ekelsen commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2
Is V1 recalculated based on the runway length at each airport / loading of the plane / etc.?
If you have a long runway and a long runout, you have a much higher V1 than a short runway with tall clearance right at the end, right?
Being tall doesn't automatically make you good or dominant at basketball, you can even be too tall. Wemby might just be at that threshold, but the unusual thing about him is his dexterity despite his height; such maneuverability and flexibility is trainable. I hear he also spent the summer training, likely harder than most.
No, but being short is completely disqualifying, so being tall is certainly a component of the physical traits that make you good at basketball. If you're 5'2" , it doesn't matter what other gifts you have -- you will not be a pro male basketball player today.
In tennis, being too tall is clearly net bad, but being too short is also definitely bad. 80% of male pro tennis players are 5'10" - 6'4", which is certainly not the statistics of the general population.
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ekelsen commented on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I feel like screenshots should be the last thing you reach for. There's a whole universe of data from accessibility subsystems.
and all sorts of situations where they don't work. When they do work it's great, but if they don't and you rely on them, you have nothing.
1. There's still overall fewer infections from high risk HPV types in these women.
2. It needs to be confirmed in ~10 years, but it seems very likely that women given the shots that protect against all high risk HPV types will see almost no infections from them.