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Wolframalpha comm2/1/2024 What it produces is always “statistically plausible”, at least at a linguistic level. It has coherent things to say, that pull in concepts it’s learned, quite often in interesting and unexpected ways. And what’s remarkable is how human-like the output is, not just at a small scale, but across whole essays. A Basic ExampleĪt its core, ChatGPT is a system for generating linguistic output that “follows the pattern” of what’s out there on the web and in books and other materials that have been used in its training. But now-thanks to the success of ChatGPT-as well as all the work we’ve done in making Wolfram|Alpha understand natural language-there’s finally the opportunity to combine these to make something much stronger than either could ever achieve on their own. And this means that ChatGPT can “talk to” Wolfram|Alpha just like humans do-with Wolfram|Alpha turning the natural language it gets from ChatGPT into precise, symbolic computational language on which it can apply its computational knowledge power.įor decades there’s been a dichotomy in thinking about AI between “statistical approaches” of the kind ChatGPT uses, and “symbolic approaches” that are in effect the starting point for Wolfram|Alpha. But they have a common interface: natural language. Wolfram|Alpha does something very different from ChatGPT, in a very different way. But it’s pretty clear that wonderful things are possible. We’ve just started exploring what this means for ChatGPT. It’s equally, if not more, important for human-like AIs as well-immediately giving them what we can think of as computational knowledge superpowers, that leverage the non-human-like power of structured computation and structured knowledge. And the point is that it’s not just important for us humans. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working. But I can also immediately call on Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha to tap into a kind of unique “computational superpower” that lets me do all sorts of beyond-human things. And in doing this my goal has been to build a system that can “computationally assist”-and augment-what I and others want to do. I myself have been deeply involved with the computational paradigm for many decades, in the singular pursuit of building a computational language to represent as many things in the world as possible in formal symbolic ways. And indeed one of the great achievements of our civilization over the past several centuries has been to build up the paradigms of mathematics, the exact sciences-and, most importantly, now computation-and to create a tower of capabilities quite different from what pure human-like thinking can achieve. Some of it is instead more formal and structured. And, as I discuss elsewhere, I think its success is probably telling us some very fundamental things about the nature of human thinking.īut while ChatGPT is a remarkable achievement in automating the doing of major human-like things, not everything that’s useful to do is quite so “human like”. Finally, and suddenly, here’s a system that can successfully generate text about almost anything-that’s very comparable to what humans might write. And even having watched developments in the past few years I find the performance of ChatGPT thoroughly remarkable. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time (about 43 years, actually). And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” »
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Red pill 44 2912/1/2024 Morpheus Manfred: We’re accused of misogyny almost daily. I mean, the real feelings being expressed here are hostility to women. It’s a big topic that has become taboo in our culture. We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity. The manosphere fundamentally became a surrogate father for the life lessons I never got. Good and nice aren’t attractive any more. What I saw in movies – where having a good heart and being yourself is all you need – that’s not what happens now. It’s not the way courting worked when my parents met. I found myself putting in all this effort for nothing, it was very defeating. And either she’d no-show, or cancel right before. You’d meet a girl, hit it off, get her number and agree to a date. Morpheus Manfred: Over the past 10 years, the flakiness of women has gotten worse. It was stacked against guys, and it was a very unpleasant experience. Morpheus Manfred: Having spent my 20s looking for female companionship, I noticed that the dating game wasn’t what I was taught – what my parents prepared me for, and what I learned from movies. I ask him what event led him to The Red Pill (his answers have been edited for length). He moderates the community’s 141,966 (and counting) members, and like most of them, describes himself as white, early 30s, male and conservative (he would have preferred Rand Paul to Donald Trump, but he likes Trump’s “watch-it-burn” style). Anonymity is sacred facelessness is the sacrifice it demands. T he head moderator of The Red Pill goes by the handle Morpheus Manfred, and when he agreed to give me an interview it was only by online chat. The answer to the question of how shitty men are, from this perspective, is “really pretty shitty”.īut an entirely different approach emerges with a slight shift in emphasis: how shitty are men really? That is, how does these men’s behaviour online translate into non-digital life ? The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not? Gamers on Xbox Live will be sexually harassed, inevitably. Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent. The first situates The Red Pill as another toxic technoculture on a spectrum of digital misogyny: on Twitter, any woman who says anything even moderately controversial will receive torrents of direct physical threats as a matter of course. Reading The Red Pill, then, offers two possible answers to the question “how shitty are men really?” The discussion threads are a mixed bag of rage and curiosity: screeds against feminists, advice on how to masturbate less, theories on why women fantasize about rape, descriptions of arguments with girlfriends, guides to going up to strangers on the street, and, most of all, workout schedules and diet regimes. In the hours upon hours I spent wandering this online neighbourhood, I saw mostly feral boys wandering the digital ruins of exploded masculinity, howling their misery, concocting vast nonsense about women, and craving the tiniest crumb of self-confidence and fellow-feeling. But the bulk of the comments are much more muted and, frankly, pathetic. There is plenty of vileness, to be sure – elaborate conspiracy theories formed out of pure misogyny and outright hatred of female independence. But judging The Red Pill by the most extreme statements of its members is, if not unfair, then at least inaccurate.
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There are numerous examples of pleiotropy in humans. Some genes affect more than one phenotypic trait. There are genes for straight and curly hair, and if an individual is heterozygous, they will typically have the phenotype of wavy hair. Most individuals with Tay Sachs disease die at a young age, typically by the age of five years.įigure 5.14.3 Three phenotypes of hair through the incomplete dominance model.Īnother good example of incomplete dominance in humans is hair type. This leads to the accumulation of lipids in the brain starting in utero, which causes significant brain damage. Homozygotes who have only defective allele, however, produce only nonfunctional enzyme. Heterozygotes who have one normal and one defective allele produce half as much functional enzyme as the normal homozygote, and this is enough for normal development. A defective allele for the gene results in the production of a nonfunctional enzyme. The normal allele for the gene in this case produces an enzyme that is responsible for breaking down lipids. As a result, the heterozygote individual produces only half the amount of normal protein as is produced by an individual who is homozygous for the normal allele.Īn example of incomplete dominance in humans is Tay Sachs disease. Generally, this happens when the two alleles for a given gene both produce proteins, but one protein is not functional. In this case, an intermediate phenotype results in heterozygotes who inherit both alleles. No antigen is associated with the O allele, so people with the OO genotype have no antigens for ABO blood type in their blood (type O blood).Īnother relationship that may occur between alleles for the same gene is incomplete dominance. This occurs when the dominant allele is not completely dominant. Similarly, both BB and BO genotypes have the same phenotype, with the B antigen in their blood (type B blood). As a result, both AA and AO genotypes have the same phenotype, with the A antigen in their blood (type A blood). The A and B alleles are dominant to the O allele. There are three common alleles for this trait, which are represented by the letters A, B, and O.Īs shown in the table there are six possible ABO genotypes, because the three alleles, taken two at a time, result in six possible combinations. Your blood type refers to which of certain proteins called antigens are found on your red blood cells. Traits controlled by a single gene with more than two alleles are called multiple allele traits. The majority of human genes are thought to have more than two normal versions, or alleles. Figure 5.14.2 ABO blood types per genotype.
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You must get to the next checkpoint before the clock runs out to remain in the race. Checkpoint mode – As well as the race mode, Extreme Car Driving Simulator also includes the checkpoint mode where you can compete against your standards.You will be surprised by how much stuff is hidden. Explore various places across the city and find hidden loot. Free mode – With this mode, players will be able to explore the large city without being hindered by vehicles.You can also enjoy multiple game modes with Extreme Car Driving Simulator to get the full experience. Make yourself a competent and experienced racer, master the skills and experience you have, and make other competitors respect you. Because of this, you should put in your best effort on every track. Professionalism and good driving skills are their strong suits. You will be able to enjoy exciting racing scenes with many formidable opponents when playing Extreme Car Driving Simulator. You still retain your street identity through your performances, preventing you from becoming a reluctant criminal. A player can pedal the throttle at a light speed or drift from one house to another without worrying about an accident or getting arrested. It is true that when you play Extreme Car Driving Simulator, you will be released into a city with no people at all, but just you and your car. So how do you find a space large enough for you to showcase your technique? Show your skillsĪlmost all of your practice and tasks take place on the street, where passersby and vehicles are available. Take the time to master Extreme Car Driving Simulator’s handling. if you’re not comfortable with the current controls.Īs for the controls, while you might think they’re easy to use, it’ll take some time for you to get comfortable with them. As a result, you can completely switch to a new steering style, gear, etc. The new controls don’t affect any of your driving options, including turning, changing gears, etc.Īside from that, you’ll find the control setup to be quite flexible since it can also be customized. No need to brake because of traffic or racing other rival vehicles, so you can perform illegal stunt actions and run full speed without the police chasing you!ĭrifting fast and doing burnout had never been so fun! Burn the asphalt of this open-world city! Features Of Extreme Car Driving Simulator: Controls are simpleĪxesInMotion Racing developers have made the game easier to play for new gamers with the setup of simple but complete control. And it is available for both android and ios users.Įver wanted to try a sports car simulator? Now you can drive, drift, and feel a racing sports car for free!īe a furious racer on a whole city for you. And so far it has been downloaded more than 100,000,000+ times. This time you must drive well, but in a real way.Guys Extreme Car Driving Simulator is the best car simulator of 2014, thanks to its advanced real physics engine. Driving is a different and entertaining driving game, which for once, does not ask you to participate in thrilling road races. And with this money, as you could probably guess, you can buy more and better vehicles for your trips around town.ĭr. The goal is not to go full speed through the streets of the city, but take the bends well, not crash, and ultimately, to drive responsibly.īy completing missions, depending on how well you do, you will receive an amount of money. The game has lots of different missions that generally require you to get from one point to another in the city, and then park your vehicle. Instead, it opts for a modal that lets you drive normal cars, in normal urban settings, and at normal speeds. Driving is a driving game that moves away from the classic sports racing model where speed is the key.
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Bust a move 4 ps1 vs dreamcast2/1/2024 VS mode, which is a quick way to destroy friendships, it must be said, gains the addition of Chain Reactions in this game. This was a rather clever addition to the Bust-a-Move universe, and can quickly cause veterans of the game to rethink their entire strategy. Popping a bubble or two on one end causes the other end to fall slightly, threatening to cross that deadly end zone to end it all. The single player Arcade and Story modes boast a new pulley system, where each end of a rope on the pulley has its own set of coloured bubbles. It all gets rather stressful rather quickly, but this is what Bust-a-Move is all about.īust-a-Move 4 is the first game of the series to land on the PlayStation Network, yet I would be doing the game injustice if I didn’t consider that there were elements introduced in the game back on the original PlayStation that many readers may be unfamiliar with. as the screen slowly fills up, if the bubbles reach the bottom of the stage it’s game over. But for my mind this game happens to be the series’ high point, both in terms of offering raw content, and bringing new ideas to keep the base game fresh and interesting.Īs with other Bust-a-Move games, Bust-a-Move 4 also forces players to think quickly, with a strict time limit applying to each bubble shoot, as well as extra bubbles appearing on the screen at regular intervals. It’s been on all kinds of consoles since then, and there are more recent games in the series too. Sometimes it’s necessary to ricochet a bubble in order to get it to slot into the right place, and so Bust-a-Move, while simple, requires strategy that is very satisfying when pulled off.īust-a-Move 4 originally released in Japan right back in 1998. This is done by taking aim with a cannon-like device and shooting bubbles at different angles on the board until the connected with the other bubbles on the screen. Now with what is arguably the most complete version of the game available on the PlayStation Network, I had no excuse, and I’m addicted all over again.īuilt upon the charm and foundations laid by arcade platformer Bubble Bobble (none other than the arcade game that introduced me to videogames in the first place!), the Bust-a-Move series is a group of addictive puzzle games where the aim is to clear a screen of coloured bubbles by matching three of the same colour. Sadly, as arcades have declined, so too has Bust-a-Move faded from my memory… because, frankly, it’s not something I would buy a retail box to own. For me personally, I was always drawn to Bust-a-Move (or Puzzle Bobble, as it is otherwise known). Many of my peers were playing titles such as Time Crisis, Daytona USA and whichever iteration of Street Fighter was currently out. There once was a time, in he 90’s, when I would frequent videogame arcades.
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Mgtow google trends2/1/2024 He’s not really sure how to be single but he’s goddamn happy he is, and he’s sure as hell going out tonight. Now, after a long and difficult breakup, The New Lease On Life Guy has reemerged with a bang and is suddenly acting like he just got called down on The Price Is Right. He never seemed that happy in the relationship, but everyone just assumed they would eventually get married. He’s immersed in a fierce battle between his superhuman standards and his terror of being 40 and single-because 40 and single is not supposed to be part of The Total Package’s story.Īs long as anyone can remember, The New Lease On Life Guy had been dating his longterm girlfriend. Unsurprisingly, The Total Package is single. Oh and she also speaks French, plays tennis, sings beautifully, reads voraciously and she’s a history buff. And that’s just her public persona-at home, she’s fantastic in bed, a spectacular cook, loving, selfless, and devoted. He imagines her often-gorgeous as they come, she turns heads bursting with charm and charisma, she lights up every room she enters she’s a brilliant rising star in her career and beloved by her many friends. Yes, the woman fit for The Total Package will be the ultimate icing on his cake of perfection. There’s just one thing The Total Package seems to be having a hard time finding-a girl worthy of his greatness. The Total Package has a hell of a career going, but don’t you for a second suggest that The Total Package would be a workaholic-The Total Package is a family man. The Total Package is handsome-and you better believe he’s well-groomed. The Total Package is an athlete, a musician, and an avid traveler. The Total Package is smart-he went to a top college. If you want a case study in humanity, 30-year-old single guys have pretty much all the bases covered. It’s a motley crew.īut perhaps the motliest part of this crowd is the ever-growing group of 30-year-old single guys. Some will tell you that they’ve finally figured it all out and some more will say they feel hopeless for the first time in their lives. Find me a group of 30-year-old men and I’ll pick out one overgrown frat dude living with roommates, another guy who just dropped his two kids off at school, a few who are well into their careers and a couple soul-searchers looking for work. |