TobyBartels

E1: You'll need a greater volume of feathers to make a kilogram, but the weight is the same: the weight of 1 kg. E2: A kilogram is a kilogram, but gold is measured in troy pounds, which are smaller than the usual avoirdupois pounds (0.3732417216 kg vs 0.45359237 kg). E3: A troy pound is so small because it's only 12 ounces, not 16. A troy ounce is still different from an avoirdupois ounce, but now it's slightly larger (0.0311034768 kg vs 0.02834952312 kg). (3/3, unless I redo all of this in grains)

A1: It's a trick question; they weigh the same amount. A2: It's a doubly trick question; the pound of feathers weighs more. A3: It's a triply trick question; the ounce of gold weighs more. (2/3, explanations in next post)

@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt I'm reading the censored word as ‘Omelas’, and I don't want to know what fresh horrors the French have come up with for that poor child.

@pencilears @fesshole At a Japanese restaurant, I'll order green tea ice cream and hot green tea, then pour the hot green tea over the green tea ice cream. (It works with other flavours of ice cream as well, often even better.) I'm posting this under my real name because I have nothing to be ashamed of, so be sure to credit me as the inventor.

@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @JacquesC2@types.pl @pigworker@types.pl @xenaproject@mathstodon.xyz It's strange to read about the history of the MIT AI Lab and all of the things that they developed that don't (or no longer) seem like AI. Maybe just as philosophy is the study of ideas that have not yet matured enough to become science, so AI is the study of programming methods that have not yet matured. So even if this transition work is technically done by a large language model similar to the ones that you mentioned, your hope is that it won't be AI anymore so it won't be slop.

@michelestrider@mastodon.social As a cross-country Amtrak rider from way back, I tell you that the observation car is the place to be. You can do all those things there; strangers in the passenger cars are trying to read quietly or take a nap, but strangers in the observation car are sociable and ready to talk. And it's immediately above the lounge car (the same car, just different levels) on all of the long-distance trains that I've been on, so you can pop down there for both food and beverages anytime you need them (although if your roomette reservation includes meals, then you don't want to skip the dining car altogether). Since I haven't ridden in a few years, it's possible that they dismantled all of this for covid and never put it back. But the cars are all prefabricated, so as long as the observation cars still exist at all, I doubt that they've changed much.

@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @JacquesC2@types.pl @pigworker@types.pl @xenaproject@mathstodon.xyz It seems to me that anything that translates careful but informal mathematical vernacular into a formal language, must ipso facto be AI. But that doesn't mean that it would be the kind of AI that you describe as unhelpful at the end of your post. Rather, it means that AI encompasses much more than those things.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network I'm reading this in the voice of the bait shop clerk in the Catfish Lake episode of The Simpsons.

@futurebird The narration shifted from second person to first person, so I thought that maybe we were shifting perspectives from 6L to 8L. But I guess we're still 6L.

@Phosphenes @davidtheeviloverlord @futurebird That's what I thought; the timing works out. Next time you dream this, @futurebird, please either dream about explicitly the prototaxites of the late Devonian, or dream that Pica caught a ray-finned fish. Otherwise your dream may wipe us all from the timeline.

@z3r0fox@mastodon.social @michelestrider@mastodon.social As I recall, you could get a little packet of apple cider powder and a styrofoam cup of hot water in the lounge car. But I always got the hot cocoa packet instead.

@ysegrim Yes, the trick in this variation is really about mass. Someone in a quoted thread pointed out that the feathers are probably stacked higher where they feel a weaker gravitational force too.

@catsalad ‘No time to explain’, but there's always time for alt text.

@NanoRaptor Clearly this means the AI generators were trained on your childhood journal.

@simontatham@hachyderm.io @fraggle@social.coop Apply the Bill and Ted principle: as long as you win, you can always go back in time *after* the game and set everything up just right. This means that you forfeit the game for causality violation if your first queen ever gets captured, but not otherwise.

@dtomvan@toot.cat @fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @foone@digipres.club All xkcds (except briefly the newest one) have been transcribed (and then some) at http://explainxkcd.com/908 (in this case).

@bw42 @itsfoss If you go back far enough, it eventually looks like a trash can. But everybody was environmentally conscious in the '90s.

@tiredbun Yeah, that affects #1 (but shouldn't be enough to affect the others), see https://furry.engineer/@ysegrim/116150798075208644

@pludikovsky@chaos.social @xahteiwi@mastodon.social It should be a quotation dash ― (U+2015)

@Adamski Saw the date, looked up the lifespan of a naked mole rat expecting to be disappointed, was pleasantly surprised instead. Party on indeed!

@TerrorBite@meow.social @freequaybuoy@mastodon.green @wikipedia@wikis.world : Since it has the same title and registration number, you'll be able to convince them that it's still the same boat and you can still use the non-transferable docking permit.

@TerrorBite@meow.social @freequaybuoy@mastodon.green @wikipedia@wikis.world : This must be the answer to the modern embellishment.

@xgranade You could say that progress is happening by quantum jumps (the size of real-life quantum jumps, not the popular understanding).

@bstacey I think it's automated if it detects a massive radiation spike.

@Wharrrrrrgarbl @futurebird Specifically the heat shock proteins.

@TechTangents@dialup.space Sounds cooler than ‘overflow error’.

@xahteiwi@mastodon.social @pludikovsky@chaos.social I normally don't use any spacing, because I'm not French. But if I'm trying to be, then I usually use U+202F (narrow no-break space). Unfortunately, many fonts make this a full-width or nearly full-width space. It generally looks better with U+2009 (thin space) if I have some other method to prevent line-breaking. (A zwj after the space helps, although it's not the proper use of that character.)

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Some of those are just circles. If a circle looks like a butthole to you, then that's on you. But the Walmart logo, that one's definitely a butthole!

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social You could do a holographic thing where it blinks as you move your head around. Or follows you.