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golem14 commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
yndoendo · 14 days ago
It is 2025 and the best spell checker is a search engine. Numerous time an application will not provide the correct word. Only solution is to try the word in a search engine and try using in a sentence if that fails.

In my opinion, this is where ML/AL local model, no internet required, would be the most beneficial today.

Even had to use a search engine with, "thoughts and opi" because I forgot how to spell opinion before posting this. In application spell checker was 100% useless with assisting me.

golem14 · 13 days ago
Some new way of Stenography. That everyone can use. Would make taking notes so much easier.
golem14 commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
torium · 14 days ago
Funny that we know the same obscure youtuber.
golem14 · 13 days ago
Really not so obscure: 3.17M subscribers.
golem14 commented on A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/mooreds
golem14 · 22 days ago
Does China today qualify as dictatorship?

I think that’s an interesting question with probably no simple correct answer.

golem14 · 22 days ago
Also: originally, “dictator" was a magistrate appointed to hold sole power for a limited time during emergencies. This original, Roman sense of the word did not carry the negative connotations it has today.
golem14 commented on A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/mooreds
anonnon · 22 days ago
Lee Kuan Yew (whom the late polymath and Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger greatly admired) and Park Chung Hee are two examples that quickly come to mind. I distrust technocrats and dislike dictators, but pretending every dictatorship has been a disaster for its people is short-sighted.
golem14 · 22 days ago
Does China today qualify as dictatorship?

I think that’s an interesting question with probably no simple correct answer.

golem14 commented on A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/mooreds
Leary · 22 days ago
Did it with https://sites.google.com/site/jiaxiongyao16/nighttime-lights...

USA (2013-2023 CAGR: 2.3%) 2014: 6.2% 2015: -5.3% 2016: -1.8% 2017: 15.2% 2018: -4.9% 2019: 4.5% 2020: -5.4% 2021: 6.7% 2022: 14.5% 2023: -3.6%

China (2013-2023 CAGR 7.9%) 2014: -1.7% 2015: -1.2% 2016: -5.1% 2017: 53.3% 2018: -1.0% 2019: 7.5% 2020: 6.5% 2021: 11.4% 2022: 4.2% 2023: 10.8%

golem14 · 22 days ago
Well, how does it compare with published numbers?
golem14 commented on Why doctors hate their computers (2018)   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob
golem14 · 22 days ago
I wish schools would stick to paper and pencil homework. Getting kids to stay on task using a computer is neigh impossible.
golem14 commented on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Bluestein
golem14 · 22 days ago
Maybe more interesting: what’s the average reading speed per language, and what’s the variation? I know that reading speed varies a lot ( also depends on topic, a math textbook reads slower than an Ian Fleming book).

Are simultaneous translator’s brains different? They need to process two languages at once, and I never could do that even though I’m fluent in more than one language.

golem14 commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued   earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers
ninetyninenine · a month ago
This doesn't make sense to me intuitively. It must be a wave.

Imagine you have a fault line. There is a left side and a right side to the fault line. If the left side lowers with a shift then that shift MUST be localized to the area around the fault. Because if it wasn't then that means there's an elevation change across the board for everything to the left of the fault. You see how that doesn't make sense? So if the entire country of japan was on the left side of the fault then the entire country of japan shifts in elevation which is unrealistic.

So that means, if what you say is semi-true then the shift in elevation is localized to the area left along the fault but the elevation further left remains the same. It's like a slight dip or bump along the fault line. It must be like this because the alternative is just unrealistic. This MUST be what happens when tectonic plates "shift". You won't see the ENTIRE plate shifting in elevation.

With naive logic, one would think that the water simply fills the localized gap but given how deep the ocean is relative to the actual shift way down in the abyss I'm betting if you were on a boat on top of the fault you wouldn't notice anything. But the movement does create a slight imperceptible "filling" that you don't notice. This is a "wave" but it's invisible.

The wave will translate leftward if the movement of the "shift" was sort of in that direction, but you don't see it. BUT as the sea floor gets nearer and nearer to the surface of the ocean the energy of the wave gets squuezed into less and less ocean water mass (i'm remembering how tsunamis work now) and THEN it becomes visible. Right? Just imagine a sideways cross section. As the tiny wave travels from big ocean with huge depth to coastline with no depth the energy of the wave gets concentrated into a thinner and thinner layer of water.

My intuition just sort of converged with my obscure memory of how tsunamis work so I'm pretty sure this is what's going on.

So it is indeed a "wave" that is acting on wave like phenomena beyond simply "filling a gap". In fact say there's an elevation lowering on the left side of the fault by 1 meter. The resulting wave on the coast line hundreds of miles away will be a wave that extends upward by MORE then 1 meter above sea level which is the opposite of water "filling up a gap." That's totally a wave.

Additionally water from tsunamis always recede. This wouldn't happen if the "wall of water" was simply equalizing. If that's the case the water would never recede.

Any expert who says otherwise, let me know.

edit: Actually why the fuck am I using my intuition to explain it? Just cite a source:

https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/science-behind-tsunamis

tsunamis are 100% waves as explained in the link. Anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn't know what they are talking about, that includes the person I'm responding to. End of story.

golem14 · a month ago
Maybe the easiest way is explain it by volume of water coming at you. A 'normal' wave comes at you for maybe 2-5 seconds, then recedes. A tsunami wave might come at you for what, a few minutes? So moves more than 20x-50x the water than an equivalent 'normal' wave, which has no other way to go?
golem14 commented on US AI Action Plan   ai.gov/action-plan... · Posted by u/joelburget
torginus · a month ago
I heard the phrase: If you want the system to be fair, you have to build the system with the assumption your enemies will be running it.

Let's see how that shakes out in this particular case.

golem14 · a month ago
Person of Interest was pretty prescient …
golem14 commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
WalterBright · a month ago
I don't see where the win is here:

1. If the pilot hides his mental illness, a mentally ill person is flying the airplane.

2. If the pilot gets treatment for his mental illness, a mentally ill person is flying the plane.

P.S. When I was a teenager, I tried to join the Air Force to be a pilot like my dad. But since I wear glasses, there was no way. The AF was perfectly justified in not taking me, I understood that. I empathize with the rejected pilots, but that's the way it has to be. Life isn't fair. So I chose another career.

golem14 · a month ago
well in case 2, the pilot get treatment and a doctor will decide if she is fit to fly. That's not bulletproof but still better than case 1.

And to your other point, it's easier to give up on your dream job when young and start with a career that you are a fit for, than to be kicked out after a huge sunk cost and maybe even half way to retirement (illnesses might not be known until later in life). Just as disappointing, but not nearly as life destroying.

But I salute you, fellow four-eyes!

u/golem14

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