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Flow rate varies as diameter^3 and pressure varies as diameter^2 (assuming a given fan speed and all other variables the same) But that means the power varies as D^5, so there’s a tradeoff if you are limited by power. https://blog.fluidflowinfo.com/fan-performance-and-fan-laws/ (also given is variation with fan speed, so you can see how much you’d need to increase that if you decrease diameter)

I’ve never understood that argument, since we have examples of time passage that doesn’t rely on motion (radioactive decay). For that to work, you need an asymptotic behavior, but time doesn’t slow down as motion decreases - it speeds up.

My mistake.

Which, of course, was a lie There are no countries fitting this criterion. I provided a link. There’s only one country over 20% When you pretend you know the motivation of someone you often reveal more about your own motivations. You might describe these as “legal tricks” but they are still legal. What’s happening right now is illegal, and that’s objectively true, not rhetoric, and not an issue of how I feel about the president. . Yeah, right.

You have time and length in empty (i.e. no matter) space

If you ask a question and nobody has the answer, it won’t get answered. So if you want a useful answer you have to ask one that can be answered. (you can get responses that are not answers, as you can observe) If you propose new things, there has to be a scientific basis for the proposal.

Also because he passes the buck for anything bad. Gotta blame it on someone else.

Ask your question, but with “length” instead of “time” Why would it take energy to create length? It’s not a substance. It has no properties we associate with matter. Same thing with time.

The issue is who has authority to do this. Personal info is protected, and not even POTUS has authority to circumvent the protections, despite how the current president is acting. No conspiracy theory. This is all happening out in the open, and a lot of it is illegal. I doubt any POTUS has system credentials for any computer system. Why would they? Being elected doesn’t confer any special sysadmin knowledge. This all misses the point. Being elected president doesn’t suddenly invalidate the laws in question, or create new powers that aren’t in the Constitution.

Glad you get a laugh out of it, but when you throw around numbers and ratios without some kind of model to say why they should be meaningful, that’s what it is. CMBR is a thermal spectrum, i.e. a continuum, so I’m not sure what significance individual values would have. Especially without a model (based in physics) for them to be based on

Why view time as a comparison with energy and mass? Time is coupled with space, so you might account for time in the same way you account for length. We see that we need three spatial and one temporal dimension to describe a lot of the behavior we observe. Time does not transform into energy. Neither does length.

Whose post? You didn’t quote anybody. Who are Americans. So they gained "access to sensitive data of Americans" DOGE is neither. Security does not necessarily mean computer security. One of the elements of safeguarding systems is physical security. But giving access credentials to people that shouldn’t have it is a breach of computer security. DOGE is neither a department nor an agency. That’s part of the problem. Which is a separate issue that assumes that Musk et al. are operating in good faith. Indeed. HR departments already exist. If it’s just like HR, then no new group is needed. It also means legitimate functions will be sabotaged, which has already happened. Who decides what is foolishness and/or fraud? 100% of what? Tell that to the ~150 countries that have deficits https://countryeconomy.com/deficit All what crap? Profits? Countries aren’t businesses. And a dip in tax receipts is one reason why you might run a deficit

What happens in 2 years’ time will have a large impact

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You originally posted this in religion. Is this a discussion of religion, or science?

Trump can’t be prosecuted for illegal things done as part of official actions. That doesn’t extend to Elon, and the statute of limitations for some of these crimes will be longer than four years. Of course, Trump will probably pardon him, and others but that’s not foolproof, since state laws could be involved, and shoddy lawyering could leave loopholes. Trump’s immunity also doesn’t extend to international law. (Consider a scenario where the next president orders his delivery to the world court. Doesn’t matter if it’s illegal. Unlikely, but still possible) But Trump is pissing a lot of people off, including Republicans*, and that number is going to get bigger as the impact of these actions spreads. Not all of them are going to delude themselves into thinking everything is fine. Cutting funding will cause layoffs, and we’ll echo the economic trajectory of five years ago, without having a disaster/alleged hoax to blame it on. Also won’t be at the end of the presidency, so no good times to color the memory. *farmers whose water he wasted in California and others who used to sell to USAID, big pharma who use research from NIH, distillers and brewers who can’t sell to Canada anymore, just in a few weeks. Anyone who benefits from medical research (e.g. cancer). Who’s next?

So it’s pretty much irrelevant to what I was discussing. The LLMs we have access to are crap. Sorry if it wasn’t clear that this was what I was discussing. It doesn’t matter a whole lot if there are really good ones that we don’t have access to. That wasn’t the issue. You said, “Do you think AI can’t teach?“ and were given objections to the implication that it can. When there’s an AI available that can do the things listed, you can make a case for it being able to teach.

No, those are not my statements, those are yours. My statement was “true statements are true” which is a tautology. You asked for proof, and I gave it. You can’t rebut it by considering some other statement. As for your statement, give an example of truth contradicting itself.

Where are these perfect LLMs? Not ChatGPT, not whatever Google is using for its summaries. Not Apple. And whatever performance this mystery LLM has, (why isn’t it being adopted everywhere?) it doesn’t erase the bad performance of what’s widely used, because what I’ve seen is crap, and I won’t trust them until they’ve demonstrated they aren’t. As I said.

A tautology is a statement that is true by definition (in rhetoric, it says the same thing twice). “True statements are true” seems to fit that. By inspection. If you want a syllogism A tautology is a statement that is true by definition ‘True statements are true’ is true by definition Therefore it is a tautology Do we need this proof? I wouldn’t think so, but YMMV Can you refute it?

Just the AI part was moved there, because it’s not allowed in mainstream discussions, owing to these veracity issues.

Given the demonstrated performance thus far, LLMs are crap until proven otherwise, IMO. It’s being presented as a solution now, not that it might become a viable solution some day. Until it passes a Turing test, I don’t like deeming it AI anyway. To me, Faux Intelligence is more apt. Some of the examples above are machine learning, which is indeed a different beast (or set of beasts) than LLMs, and I agree it probably would be best to specify the implementation being referenced, much like we specify biology, geology, chemistry, astronomy or physics instead of just saying “science” since there are distinct differences between how they are conducted. Agree. Computers do certain things more quickly than humans, and that’s the advantage being exploited for e.g. pattern recognition using ML or in sorting through piles of data to attempt to summarize something.

! Moderator Note Not even a theory, but if it’s outdated, is there a point in discussing it? There isn’t enough here to support keeping it open in speculations