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In a few years AI will become better at writing a good storyline, without the repetitive nature that most times will expose itself. A good story is a good story, but disclosure or category of AI written, or enhanced, should be the course. Most of the news, sports outlets are using AI for their...

Heavens to Betsy. The younger generation knows not how to look good and proper. Follow the rules. Have a famous actress wear a hair band on the wrist and it will become fashionable in the fickle best form of flattery is imitation. Good for a week, month of tryout, but it won't last on its own...

Something like that. The earth was what, slowing down in rotation and then it has sped up recently. A un-leap second would have to subtracted to adjust the time keeping. And adding in these seconds really balls up the works for all the facilities keeping their atomic clock in sync. Don't even...

I have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. By the looks of it, you are not all thumbs! Nice. What's next on your bucket list for us mortal humans to enjoy? after your book, now pool and deck, and whatever else? Something like a working compact fusion reactor to heat the pool seems to fit the bill ! : )

A great sentence! For an odd 70 years ( life span ) someone is presumed 'conscious'. At the end, does the 'consciousness' vanish, or continue in some other state not attached to physical mass, other than in the memory of other select 'conscious' humans. For animals and other life forms with...

A brief description of convention, and why it screws up learning the stuff. That, ΔU = Q + W, should be correct. The two ΔU = Q - W, or ΔU = Q + W are not so incompatible as they first appear. A definition could also be stated that any energy, added or removed, such as heat or work, to a...

A microstate experience is Brownian motion, where one can see a small speck of dust pollen being jostled around from bombardment of molecules of the liquid. While the macrostate temperature and pressure are for the bulk material, the local pressure at a point ( and temperature I presume although...

Gen Z and Gen Alpha, the first generations growing up exposed to all tech digital and now AI as well, are set to soon inherit 50% or more of the economy from the Boomers and Millennials. Being human this takes a bit more than 5 years. Sounds preposterous that the protestors of social justice...

As well as the "I" in "We" being a Boltamann brain.

There is corrosion of the circuit board, second picture, near the screws and components. Try to clean that carefully, and hopefully that ( surface corrosion ) was the cause of the problem.

Some video of the deluge. Viewer beware. ( I find she babbles a bit much, but that's just me, 229k subscribers she has ) 1. Question of where all the water came from. 2. Blocked lake upriver posing a risk of secondary water cascade 3. Seismic recordings were that of the deluge ( not an...

Some discussion from Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Austria and Glaciologist Simon Cook, University of Dundee, Scotland. Satellite image at the 1:42 mark.

Right. I incorrectly used the Cp for change in degree for water, instead of that for ice. Equations 1. Potential Energy of 1 kg of water at height E = m g h --> mass 1 kg, g = 9.81 m/s/s, h = 1200 m ( Assuming 1200m as height, and not glacial path length ) E = 11.8 kJ Temperature rise of 1 kg...

You might want to factual check for sensationalism in this one paragraph: Equations 1. Potential Energy of 1 kg of water at height E = m g h --> mass 1 kg, g = 9.81 m/s/s, h = 1200 m ( Assuming 1200m as height, and not glacial path length ) E = 11.8 kJ Temperature rise of 1 kg water from...

It is kind of difficult to high five on what the white stiff really is unless one can go and poke it with a stick. One reservation I do have is that the concrete looks to have surface that has been sealed. Any direct reaction of acetic acid and concrete would then have been hampered, and to...