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A couple of years ago I used the free version of ChatGPT to create a small program in a programming language I didn't much know. It did...

Totally agree. As with all things: the right tool for the right job. Useful as it may be for many other things, I would not use an...

I'm old and I want to get stuff done. I have other hobbies than programming web applcations. I just vibe-coded a complete GUI control...

Apparently a real installation. Tesla would be proud.

OK. Fair enough. That was not what I was suggesting. People keep talking about the dice being rolled one after another, and then...

This is wrong. The Wikipedia page explains clearly why there in an ambiguity. It's not about unreasonable assumptions. Insisting on...

In the co-rotating frame: - Coriolis Force is perpendicular to velocity so it's not doing any work. - The lateral force from the Earth...

Again though, remember: if you are at sea level the whole time, these forces do not come into play. Every molecule of water is subject...

No. My belief is thus: there is a best answer if we make some reasonable assumptions, and don't make unreasonable ones. The debate then...

I think you mean SR - everything is more complicated in GR. And "time moves slowly" isn't a good way of thinking about it anyway. In...

I agree. I was just demonstrating where questioning any assumption leads to. You have to read in context. Different than what? If the...

(I know we're essentially meta-analyzing now, as long as everybody agrees that the answer to the problem as intended is 1-in-11 and not...

That is a different problem.

I believe it is justified. If, in a problem simple as this, you cannot trust what are told, then it is unanswerable. They might as...

Than the other way, presumably.