The interesting part is that the warm phases seem to have been a lot hotter than previously assumed. I'd expect heated discussions about whether such temperatures are plausible given geologic and paleontologic evidence. If true, modern climate change may well turn out even worse than thought. 🧪
Great new reconstruction - years in the making - for global temperatures over the last 500 million years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into the dynamical limits of Earth’s climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and the broader Earth ...
"Some women can literally see more colours than men." danroachauthor.co.uk/2024/09/22/a...@gmusser.bsky.social who talked about the Inside/Outside problem 🧪
I recently attended one of New Scientists "Instant Expert" days in London. This one was focussed on consciousness and asked a lot of interesting questions...
Physicists at the LHC have measured the quantum entanglement of the spin of top quarks produced in proton collisions, reports @econover.bsky.social. It's cool because the energies are so high - a world away from the sedate conditions of a typical quantum entanglement experiment. 🧪
Top quarks and antiquarks produced in the Large Hadron Collider are entangled, a study shows.
Two uses I’ve found: (1) Gmail search. Keyword search is hard to get right and breaks down on complex queries. LLM-driven search in an app such as #Shortwave is a huge step up. (2) Illustration tools. I don’t use AI to generate an entire image, but automate area fills and fix blemishes in an image.
Ah, good examples. For my book, I went through the same process of reconciling double-descent with earlier notions of statistics.
Interesting. This would be a big mental adjustment, because I think differently when talking than typing or writing longhand. I don’t see how outlining or brainstorming—i.e. making lists of possibly disconnected ideas—could be ported from fingers to voice.
Why would you use an A.I. for the second of those tasks rather than interview an expert or read an article in, oh, for example, Sci Am?
What’s an example of common knowledge you’ve needed explained to you, and why did you turn to A.I. rather than than an encyclopedia, newspaper primer, or review paper?
As intellectually fascinating as generative A.I. is, I have found very few practical uses for it. What is your experience?
Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...@parshallison.bsky.social
Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches