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Strawberry76 | 1 year ago | on: Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

A good one this year. Some past recipients, not so good...

So the scientific method is aspirational, a model to inspire. Like democracy, or fair markets: nice in theory, but rarely achieved (or achievable) in actual life. In that sense I guess it's good to teach kids about the idealized model.

Strawberry76 | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

I think it's pretty obvious that OpenAI had decided at an early stage that the new voice should resemble the voice of SJ in "Her", regardless of which voice actresses they then contacted and in which sequence.

Strawberry76 | 1 year ago

"The data set included 533 Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and 228 other major discoveries recognized in scientific literature.

... 25% of these discoveries did not employ the full scientific method. Specifically, 6% of these discoveries did not involve observation, 23% did not include experimentation, and 17% did not test a hypothesis."

“Empirical evidence thus challenges the common view of the scientific method,” Krauss writes, and “adhering to it as a guiding principle would constrain us in developing many new scientific ideas and breakthroughs.”

Strawberry76 | 1 year ago | on: Growing sodium chloride crystals at home

I hadn't seen this before. Will definitely try it. Knowing in advance that it might not work out.

Strawberry76 | 1 year ago | on: Fort Worth's tallest building sells for $12.3M, bought for $137.5M in 2021

Also in St Lous; in April, the former One AT&T Center that sold for $205 million in 2006 was just sold for $3.6 million.