how have I not seen this use of McDonald before?!

I hate google enough to pay 5$/mo for Kagi - it puts a smile on my face everytime I go to search and know that I’m not supporting google

one must repeat the search query >= 10,000 repetitions and then check for convergence

I deleted my FB account (originally opened in 2006) the day I saw zuck on the inauguration stage with the fascists, and honestly that was way too late too haha

Step 1: Enact tariffs. Step 2: Eliminate Taxes, and convert federal revenue to a tariff-funded system. Step 3: Anger international trading partners leading to reduced trade, thus reduced tariff revenue for the federal government. Step 4: Federal government goes broke and the oligarchy turns every town into a company town.

I was just daydreaming about how the future of ‘AI assisted web search’ might quickly destroy our grip on reality. For instance if my MAGA mother-in-law says covid vaccines contain magnetizing microchips, and I say no they dont, then she googles ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’, then the ‘AI assist’ automatically generates a video/article for ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’ 🤷 . I realize this is basically happening already, but this is terrifying and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how we can collectively hold on to reality beyond what we can confirm with our own five (or however many) senses.

I use LLM’s to help with math/science/coding, and the thing it screws up the most seems to be simple math (typically units/conversion issues) so I would be weary about gleaning financial advice from a chatbot.

ISMRM? edit : read your username and immediately knew the answer haha

i heard there’'s this just *horrible * site called sci hub that allows you to put in links from paywalled scientific articles and gives you access to read them and it works for pretty much every scientific paper out there…

wait are insects not considered ‘sentient’ ?