Richard G Clegg

Honestly though, I suspect both bears and sharks are pretty lax at data collection.

No no. That is humans killed by bears Vs humans killed by sharks.
I want to read bears killed by sharks and vice versa. (Tremendous home environment advantage in that fight.)

This data should be a matrix though. I want to know who prevails in bears v sharks or hippos v snails.

I think I can outrun the snail if it cuts up rough.

Ah yes. Often the case with old favourite games. I loved elite but I would not play it as a space trading game now. :)

Oh. Not tried that. I think the same person did Mewgenics which I did not like.

What is top right there? Some classics on that list.

Absolutely true.

I have liked old man's pub since my 20s. :)
The main frustration is much of my peer group now treats new technology like my 85 year old aunt being told that you can do that easily on the internet.

The full on industrial with exposed pipework not ceiling seems (I think) marginally better. There are people who like that "yelling in noisy space" thing but they are younger than me. :)

Yeah. This is just as the Russian economy started to look shaky through cheap oil. Putin must be rubbing his hands in glee. He is the real winner here.

And more complex. One thing is there is a big suppressed oil supply in Russia. Oil prices had been downtrending a while. It may also be the market knew it was likely so it was priced in. Nobody who thought about it was surprised by the attack. Indeed people were debating it beforehand.

Of the first game that is.

Ah... I can well imagine. I very rarely replay things so I don't like my first play to be on the "needs improvement" version. I did find the gameplay pretty gripping though.

The only people who have absolute certainty about them have absolute ignorance about them.

Waiting for it to be done with early access - which I guess might be a year?

You would be most welcome. :)

Brilliant. Would love to hear about what you are up to with them.

This is Don Knuth's write up of using Claude to solve a graph theory problem.
cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

In practice I find their summaries are really pretty good these days. I would say as good as a middle level first year PhD student in the specific discipline.

It's wild that a general problem solving technology that did not exist ten years has reached "not quite as good as the most qualified humans in that area" at a very specific skill. It makes them better than 95%? 99%? 99.9%? of humans at that task. (I could not summarize papers in, say, chemistry.)

The US last declared war in 1942 (UK the same). It is not a thing that happens in modern conflicts. Weird but true. "Declaring war" is essentially obsolete.

I did what the estate agent advised given the only expense I paid out would be paint and carpet.

I thought you were making it up at first. It looks like one of those designs you get if you let the winner of a children's TV contest do the design. I live on the road where the station was but I don't think that branding was visible anywhere on the remaining building.

Afraid I am in the "into them" category (despite the asshole who left the company). I liked the philosophy make beer some people really love and some hate. It is more interesting than making beers everyone is blandly OK with. I loved some (but not all) or their beers. You did not. That is ok.

It makes sense. When I am teaching the various forms of Fourier transforms I would rather the students spent their time understanding the interplay of the topics and eg the relationship between sampling and spectral duplicates than spend their time mememorising which equations need an - and a pi.

Ah... Then I fear you have thought about a level of subtlety that the designers did not have in mind for 2B.

Honestly it makes so much sense from a teaching perspective. I include such for MSc level modules (Fourier transform). There is no virtue in remembering where the minus signs and constants go, it is the techniques I want people to remember.

Is that canon? I saw nothing in game. I thought she was designed like that because the designer wanted people to cosplay as her.
(It also has the feel of Kojima years later saying that Eve has an unfortunate condition that forces her to wear skimpy outfits for medical reasons. Yeah right mate.)

I really dislike it but it is a thing Japanese culture (and especially Japanese geek culture) seems to have absolutely no problem with. I enjoyed NieR but that aspect was creepy.