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Yes, but what is the calculus of 1 copy of book divided amongst number of copies/usages of LLM which reference said material?

That's the innate disparity and unfairness here --- time was when one made a design which was physically instantiated and replicated, the copies would wear out and one would then earn money again on replacement copies --- this is just another example of the commons and other resources being grabbed by profiteers who use them to make money as opposed for public benefit.

That point was specifically addressed in the article.

Given that a compiler doesn't include a statistical model likely to create one's written Rust code, the compiled bytecode is quite clearly an expression of said writing.

Yeah, I was just discussing with a co-worker the concept of a hybrid document where editing controls and the content all exist in a single HTML file (prior implementations include various wikis such as: https://feather.wiki/ ) --- makes one wonder what an SVG or spreadsheet implementation might look like.

Depends.

To some degree, some folks esp. for "lights out" machining are just pushing buttons and loading/unloading pallets of stock/parts, but usually the job description for that is "machine operator".

A machinist is expected to understand feeds and speeds and how they interact with toolpaths and materials and tooling.

The big question of course will be how things fall out with the on-coming generation of 5-axis machines which are intended to be AI-driven:

https://toolguyd.com/new-ai-powered-desktop-cnc-machines-202...

Edited to clarify APOSD == the book _A Philosophy of Software Design_

Please ask John Ousterhout what his cut of this settlement will be, and whether or no he agreed to it and finds it acceptable.

A good example of the problem with this settlement:

It appears that LLMs have already incorporated APOSD EDIT: The text of the book _A Philosophy of Software Design_ ENDEDIT (which would seem to be illegal, since it is copyrighted). For example, I have asked ChatGPT questions about APOSD and it seems to be able to answer.

https://groups.google.com/g/software-design-book/c/_wl1DciZZ...

Sort of.

- I've often bought books with old/traditional covers which I like, but then a movie is made and the cover is "updated" to the movie tie-in version

- I've found at least one typo in pretty much every e-book I've ever read, and usually report them --- they rarely get fixed, which annoys me to no end (esp. if it's a copy were there cover has changed as noted above)

There's also the old news story about the kid who bought the pirated copy of _1984_ took class notes in it, and then had the copy deleted, which presumably is why when Microsoft took the ebook reader functionality out of Edge they issued checks to people who had used the note-taking functionality.

No, that's a convention from typing.

The actual approach used by a printer would be to be more generous with spacing material at the end of a sentence.

The relevant TeX commands are \frenchspacing or \nofrenchspacing.

Turning pages on my older Paperwhite is quick enough that I don't really notice it.

Reference materials and note-taking are why I got the Scribe and its larger screen.

Horses for courses.

Page size isn't that big a deal when the text reflows and can be resized as desired, except for when one wants to view a map or diagram. Before I got my Scribe I'd fire up the Kindle app on my tablet (or convertible) for such usages at need.

I can read and take notes and even web browse (insofar as browsing is supported on the Kindle browser) for hours on end and barely budge the battery percentage, while a tablet w/ an LCD screen would run through half or more of its charge for similar usage.

I rather liked my Sony PRS-505 and 600 for their 6.1" screen and that it would fit in a (large) shirtpocket.

My Kindle Paperwhite and Scribe Coloursoft go weeks between charges.

Well, Ted Nelson wanted that w/ Xanadu and Autodesk spent a fair bit of money on that....

I would be fine with a mode where the ads were corralled at the bottom of the page, but not loaded, with a disclosure triangle which would then allow me the option of viewing them if the content was credible enough that it seemed to me that the site content creators could be trusted to have signed up for ads which might have merit.

It would be a more useful reference if things such as "Icon Ideas" and "EDUCORP 8.0" could either be filtered out or were relegated to separate pages --- some sort of hierarchy would help a lot.

It contains the story of how Carl Sagan convinced the Voyager crew to turn its sensors towards earth so as to see if life could be detected using its quite minimal sensor suite --- I thought it had a link to the original published paper.

The fate of the Strategic Helium Reserve is a different issue and there are many articles and op. ed. pieces on it --- the Wikipedia article should cover this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

Well there is:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

for geometry.

(previously I was noting a physics PDF set as well, but it's apparently not well-grounded/is controversial)

Is it wrong that I was hoping for something along the lines of:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-would-we-know...

except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.

Keeping everything local in a file structure was a big part of my attraction to:

https://github.com/clach04/puren_tonbo/wiki/Tombo

Nice to see this approach carried forward.

No, Columbus.

Charming old site!

It would be neat to see it updated to something along the lines of:

https://507movements.com/

That said, most folks would be better served by:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16086997-why-knot-how-to...

or some other text with clear illustrations and instructions, or if one wants something comprehensive:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816629.The_Ashley_Book_o...

(note that in the literature, knots are referred to by their ABOK#)

The problem is, it's not very well structured.

The position of (for instance) the check # on a physical check varies quite widely, as can date position and format, and a fair number of them are still written by hand.

On top of that, I'm scanning thousands of these each year, and the invoice underneath the check ranges from the gamut of: "pristine copy just re-printed 'cause the customer didn't include one" through "bad inkjet photocopy of a photograph taken w/ a potato phone and then printed" and includes variations such as "customer included half-a-dozen invoices to be paid w/ one check, and if arranging them and the check _just so_ all will fit in the document camera window, saving a trip to the sheet feeder scanner"

A co-worker actually worked on this for a different program, one where actually sending in paperwork in good condition was expected and customary, but his system had a reject/failure rate of ~10% --- that would be almost 1,000 invoices each year for the program I am handling.

Maybe?

But it's at my day job, and it's because I was able to write a prompt which automates having Copilot review uploaded scanned PDFs of invoices with checks (and the bank line obscured with a pen, so no PII) and then write a batch file which renames the files per a file-naming convention, removing the need to open them in batches of 50, find the Invoice ID, re-save using that filename, then quit and re-launch Adobe Acrobat (if left running, eventually I run into a bug where it stops saving files), then run a .bat file which renames based on Invoice ID as a filename.

Problem of course is I've been running into a limit of number of allowed files per 24 hr. period.

Even if it's not less work, it feels like less effort.

It also makes writing more difficult --- the doubled-up pen movements help get ink flowing, esp. on certain letters at certain angles, esp. w/ a fountain pen.

Thanks!

I no longer regret that it has not yet made it to the top of my TBR stack (and is being removed instead).

Why this rather than Motion Mountain?

https://www.motionmountain.net/

One of the big regrets in my life is that the tiny rural county school system I graduated from couldn't find a math teacher qualified to teach calculus for my junior or senior year, which precluded applying to pretty much every college I was interested in.

With the wide variety of charter schools which were set up, I'm surprised it wasn't tried --- I would really like to see this educational mechanism revisited and re-tried --- seems like a good fit for remote learning (remote classes are academic and done at ability level, in-person classes are social and done by age level w/ peers.

Shift doesn't seem to constrain when editing an off-curve node, only when placing a new on-curve node via drag.

By definition, half of the population is of below average intelligence.

As my daughter said to her boyfriend in college, "Welcome to the upper half of the bell curve."

Those texts were a standard part of grade school social studies when I was young, and my children read all in the course of a typical public education long before graduating.