(I don’t necessarily agree with this GIF. But it is representative of how people feel.)
LA famously has those black balls over that one reservoir.
I suspect that they’ve considered it.
Wouldn’t white balls reflect more light and thus generate less heat? (I’m sure they thought of that too and have reasons…)
Matt_W
1690
The original Veritasium video is here:
If I remember right, the black color is more durable under sunlight and lasts longer.
Nesrie
1691
That’s pretty neat. Also you assume before you spend millions they would test with something other than kiddie pools, but what works works.
In case you wished to brush up on the Riemann Zeta hypothesis:
I’m exploring prime numbers with my son using Mancala beads by saying some numbers can be broken into equal parts of 2 or more, others can’t. It’s a fun little game.
Not sure where to put this, but I think it’s pretty good.
I’ve presented to Eric a number of times and have ongoing collaborations with his lab. He is scary smart - the kind of guy who looks like they are playing with their phone for an hour, then skewers you with insight and a photographic memory.
He’s also really good at explaining things to lay people, which may help the new administration a ton.
An old but awesome talk he gave at a storyteller group called The Moth that I think demonstrates his ability to communicate complex ideas for everyone to understand, and why they are important to you.
I have never heard of vampire finches.
They’re in the new Attenborough show.
Timex
1697
So, I think we’ve posted about GPT-3 before here… But really, GPT-3 is totally amazing and insane, and if it doesn’t destroy humanity, then GPT-4 definitely will, and I welcome that day.
Essentially, DALL-E is a version of GPT-3 trained to produce images from arbitrary strings of text.
I whine when it’s 65º in the house and my feet get cold without my slippers.
Northeast Greenland is still one of the most hostile regions of the Arctic, with only the Sirius Patrol of the Danish Army occasionally crossing the frozen expanse on dog sledges during the coldest part of the year. Back in 1906, when the Denmark Expedition launched, many parts of the region had not yet been mapped; that was a primary objective of the expedition, along with various scientific studies.
RichVR
1699
I clicked it and the answer is no.
RichVR
1701
So, how so? They didn’t prove it to within 99.9% probability. But they ruled out UFOs, sasquatch and other bullshit ideas?
What do you think is the explanation?
I was kidding — I didn’t click it! I will though. Never heard of any of it.
Update: enter your email to continue reading. Forever will I wonder.
I just clicked on the “Continue Reading” button. Never asked me for email. If it did I’d make sure there’s a an X button to dismiss it. If you really can’t continue the answer of the mystery is have you tried incognito mode?
What’s up with news articles these days with “Continue Reading”? I’d continue reading if it’s good.
No need for any sorry, it is I who was silly!
MikeJ
1706
Yeah I remember taking an intro to computer vision course about 2005 and the prof was talking about a “holy grail” of computer vision being a system that could solve the “post-card problem” of generating an accurate text description of most natural images. I don’t think anyone thought that 10 years after that there would be systems that made a pretty good showing on the post-card problem and 5 years after that systems could do a really good job on the inverse post-card problem.
