In the industry, it’s called a “cell”. The term “battery” refers specifically to arrays of them.

This is correct.

This is erroneous. The term “battery” itself refers to doing just this. It is a battery (array) of cells.

Because having half of increments is useful. We might want 4.5 volts.

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Ah I see!

Well that makes sense. Yes, I was saying this “tongue in cheek” — stating the amusing fact that almost all of the earth’s land is opposite an ocean while making light of the humorous idea of digging a well through the entirety of the earth’s crust.

> You realise that Earth's oceans simply sit on top of the planet? The whole planet isn't made of water with land floating on top of it.

Yes? Maybe you don’t get what I’m saying.

> If you dig down through the earth, unless you're on top of a cave system or underground reservoir you will keep digging through solid material until you reach the mantle.

And then? What will happen if you keep going?

> At that point you would be long dead from heat exposure from the core of the planet which is a molten hot compressed ball of iron

Lol. Yeah. This is an r/whoosh

And if you do hit bedrock, just keep going. Almost all landmass is opposite an ocean on the other side. There’s only something like 1000 square kilometers of land overlapping with land on the other side of the earth.

Google hasn’t really changed. The internet has — because of google.

The internet is worse now. There are more content farms and SEO designed to fuck with the algorithm.

Because phones get hot.

They do have thermometers. Several of them in fact because a lot of integrated chips come with them. But they tell you the temperature of the chip in order to prevent it from overheating.

In general, you’re not going to find an external temperature sensor in any electronic device that isn’t designed for it because you need a large empty space around it — and phones are jam packed with battery capacity and antennas wherever they can fit them.

Any temperature sensor is going to be more likely to tell you the temperature of your screen, battery or hand than of the room it’s in.

Why?

They aren’t inherently valuable and certainly will be less valuable to the few who will make the most from AI.

If anything, the tech stocks that will gain money from AI are the only things guaranteed to gain value as other things fall when AI takes over.

I think new tools like this, are a cause for us to stop and reinspect why we ask students to write essays in the first place.

A lot of English teachers think it’s for the value of English itself. But English teachers are not tasked with evaluating students’ writing just for the sake of the English language itself. Instead is a proxy.

It is a proxy for critical thinking. If it’s too easy to get an AI to write something for you without engaging in critical thinking, then we need to reevaluate what ways we evaluate critical thinking skills.

The solution is not to continue to ask students to write things and look for more and more tools for detecting weather in AI has done it. The way to evaluate critical thinking is to change to a different metric.

For instance, debate.

Start with a topic, have students write about it if you want but instead of grading merely the written response, have two students pair off and debate the topic. Have a third takes notes. Read the comparative notes and evaluate how well students incorporated their reasoning from their essay into the debate.

If the student had an AI write the essay, but understands it well enough that they were able to use that logic to make their own arguments – then mission accomplished.

It’s also possible that events still happened before the Big Bang. Just not in any kind of cause > effect order. What started existing at the Big Bang was the arrow of time.

There could be time, just not space time with any meaningful relationships we would recognize constituting a recognizable “before” or “after” relationship. There could still be change as in your bubbling equilibrium theory.

Given it generates point clouds from descriptions, I wonder if the best application is VR rather than 3D printing.

They’re not but rigging isn’t a hard problem to solve.

Isn’t that exactly what I said?

> Just having someones social security number, doesn't magically give you access to anything.

There’s a ton of information baked into the number itself that you can gain access to merely by getting the number itself such as birth state, month, etc.

That’s not 100% true.

Up until 2017(?), the first three digits of a social security number correlated to what state you applied from down to a zip code level. The middle two correlate to a birth year for those first three. Only the last four are unique. But are actually serial in nature so that’s it’s feasible to predict a person’s SSN with enough data.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0904891106

They are different but I know the most about printing.

If you had to learn just one program it’d be Blender. Maya if you want to go professional. The blender tutorials are an excellent starting point for character modeling.

For 3D printing, you might want to try a solid modeling program. I’d recommend onshape. It’s a professional tool used by engineers that’s totally free and browser based so you don’t need a serious rig at all.

You can 3D print from a Nurbs modeling program like blender but you’ll spend a lot of time closing holes and fixing things.

What kinds of things do you want to make?

I can suggest where to start

Yeah. I mean it’s a whole different set of tools to allow more free form modeling.

It’s called gravity sketch.

This is why I got my quest. I wanted to have more fun with my 3D printer.

I’m working on a sculpture right now and have never had more fun in CAD. Super easy to learn compared to desktop “professional” tools.

That’s what I think AGI is.