Isn’t it a probabilistic extrapolation? Isn’t that what a guess is?

I learned on the internet 15-20 years ago or so. I’ve also done 5x5 and 4x4 they aren’t really much harder, I didn’t need additional info, but when I hit the parity problem on the 4x4 I just scrambled and tried again. I mean they are harder, but not astronomically harder.

My almost 8 year old is obsessed. I went through how to do a 3x3, and wrote out the steps and he has copied my instructions into a notebook. He can do it in 3 and a half minutes with his notes. He hasn’t managed without his notes yet but he has only been learning since Valentine’s day. He just woke me up looking for his notebook.

Earlier this week I met somebody that did a Rubik’s cube independently in the 80s. (My son’s classmates grampa).

Hoodoo? You do! Do what? Remind me of the babe!

I’m surprised P ended up that high, the amount of autotune in it sounds like AI speech synthesizer with articulation cranked all the way 11 where it just makes random weird sounds

59.1% AI-detection™ score

A small note: that I wasn’t trying to decide whether something was AI, I was trying to evaluate its creativity. So I actually thought A was real, but that it was extremely generic… I also suspected D was AI but trying to judge on creativity, I was unimpressed with the lyrics (not that creative) but I found the soundscape it created interesting. That’s a place where my (un)familiarity with the genre was a liability. I also found the pitch of “you” in “who are you” nrar the end to be creative, like in the wrong key but in a good way.

Also I only listened to each track once, then decided where to put it in the list. Like “top”, “bottom”, “near bottom but not worst”. And I placed them as I went. If I went through the list again I’d probably swap some but that would have taken way longer and I decided it was more important to be done. I probably should have done some spot checks at the end to make sure things ended up where I wanted.

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Great work. A few thoughts re: methodology.

• I despair for society’s musical inclinations.
• Not being able to understand the lyrics was a big impediment.
• Not being familiar with/fond of the genres was a big impediment.
• given those two limitations I think I may have inadvertently selected for intra-song diversity and that may favour AI generation since it’s a lot more work for musicians to change sounds in the middle of a song.

I’m very curious to see the results. Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner.

“was” vs. “is”

Fantastic, I’ll try to listen today

So I’m pretty ignorant of the top of the chart I’d be willing to be a guinea pig. Do you want to send me like 3 chart toppers and an AI song and I’ll see which one is most creative? Don’t tell me which is which.

The purpose of my idea is to average 2g without expecting people to function in 2g. Not just for the purpose of a weighted blanket

What about accelerating 1g for 16 hours of ‘day’, then 8 hours of 3g ‘night’. It would be one hell of a weighted blanket lol.

It’s a neat idea for sure, but the out of place artifacts are rarely/never as mysterious as people like Graham Hancock would suggest.

Younger Dryas wasn’t as catastrophic either. Nor are flood myths as unified.

It’s fun to imagine possibilities like that but I can’t conceive of how a society could advance to a nonphysical/digital technology paradigm without impacting the earth in enormously detectable ways.

I think it’s interesting to imagine a scenario like what if European explorers shipwrecked on a place like Rapa Nui, the most isolated inhabitable place on the planet. How many generations could they maintain knowledge of the globe, and their culture.

Obviously the Polynesians basically maintained their language (ie it was identifiable as a polynesian dialect) for ~500+ years in plausibly total isolation.

I was going to say you can envision Tau as a carpenter’s square measuring the diameter of the circle

No he’s not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham

Inches I reckon. .001= one thou

Aspen: you can tell it’s an aspen because of the way that it is.

The sooner they hire someone the less time they spend understaffed and the more they have to pay whoever the hire. It’s not a huge difference but it is also not zero.

It just won’t affect the company whatsoever.

When does a company decide to recruit? It’s when current employees can’t handle the workload and/or move projects ahead on schedule.

Not being recruited increases the hiring cycle time and means the development falls further behind schedule.

It’s not nothing.

Right handed and left handed? (Top image doesn’t follow right hand rule, Z should point towards camera)

Yeah we humanize them because it’s important to remember that essentially anyone that ends up in their position will behave similarly. They aren’t demons, they’re humans. We should stop putting people in their position.

I just assume there is some level of water in the ethanol part

Yes that’s where I was suspecting you could have taste altering salts.

Seems like ph sensor for alcohol would be expensive

I was just imagining pH strips.

I probably should evaporate the alcohol layer to see if I get any potassium carbonate back

that’s a good idea.