Strawberry76

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.

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.

"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.”

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

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.