Headlines like this are more pleasant than headlines about how the $100M project to implement SAP is five years behind schedule, how Deloitte has consumed tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to patient care, or that the new ERP system has lead to a total lack of accountability for patient outcomes.

Needs a mode where touching snow counts.

Just don't doomscroll until spring.

I was thinking the same. Grass is hard to come by in my neck of the woods right now. Maybe "touch bark?"

Google for “indoor grass”.

Walk 500 steps?

Probably by trying to do it from first principles.

Living in a container, playing with a Samurai sword… Neal we need you to go on TV and tell these people to quit fooling around.

They failed because they didn't fold the glorious Nippon steel themselves.

Humans are actually intuitively log scale thinkers. That is, humans without the kind of early arithmetic training that Westerners get will think more in terms of ratios than differences. There are theories it is more evolutionarily adaptive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-natural-log/

Isn't it also related to our physical perception? Both hearing and vision at least have somewhat logarithmic properties (e.g. response to point-source brightness, and hearing frequency response)

fibonacci retrace shows up in liquid markets a lot

Sounds like a Greg Egan writing prompt.

Baez and Egan are close friends, so don’t be surprised if you see it pop up.

Egan would probably be my first thought of somebody who could take a concept like that and make something well worth reading out of it.

Second thought would probably be Derek Künsken. (no claim he's necessarily the second best option but he's definitely the second author I've read recently enough to have the name of in brain cache to come to mind as "could almost certainly pull it off")

People just prompt themselves

I’d imagine longer term contracts not renewing or renewing at lower prices / lower volumes.

But can their AI quietly introduce a security exploit into a GitHub project?

Copilot already does this.

I dunno, the new Microsoft / OpenAI computer is named “Stargate,” that’s a pretty solid name.

I was disappointed that the lab assistant is not named.

I’m disappointed it has nothing to do with the logo programming language.