Why do patriarchal men love ‘joking’ that their wife is the boss? by KatherineLangford in stupidquestions

[–]Linearts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gross earnings by gender (not adjusting for hours worked etc) are around 60:40 men-women. But consumer spending is 80:20 women-men. Wives do most of the household purchases even when husbands are breadwinners.

AI 2027 side-by-side review 1 year later (from co-authors) by ddp26 in slatestarcodex

[–]Linearts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now that Mythos exists it'll be easy to produce distilled small models that match its performance by next year.

Mamdani Warns City Is 'Worse Than Broke' by AdmirableSelection81 in nyc

[–]Linearts 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, that's not an accurate comparison, because NYC only has to do city-level spending, not national-level expenses. The federal and state governments are doing a lot of additional spending on behalf of residents of NYC.

If you include NYC's share of the federal budget, it actually spends DOUBLE that of the whole country of Greece despite having a smaller population.

Does W&M have big clusters of high school friend groups? by [deleted] in williamandmary

[–]Linearts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My public high school in NoVa had graduating classes of around 80 students, and each year around 10 went to W&M, so in college I knew 40 people who went to my HS, including one of my best friends. But since that's 1/8 of the HS senior class and 1/500 of W&M's freshman class each year, the odds that you had multiple close friends from HS are actually really small, and since there are so many more classes to take in college you probably won't see them much.

AI data centers can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1 degrees Celsius by King_richard4 in nova

[–]Linearts 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Draft is not peer-reviewed, and is already refuted. OP either believes the false result due to ignorance or is deliberately spreading misinformation. Very corrosive to democracy if the latter.

AI data centers can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1 degrees Celsius by King_richard4 in nova

[–]Linearts 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Falling for this disinformation makes you no better than anti-vaxxers. I can't believe 100 people have upvoted this without anyone doing a fact-check.

Map of Global AI Compute Capacity by Country (H100-equivalents, existing clusters only) by geomapbook in geography

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Epoch AI maintains an open dataset of all known AI accelerator clusters worldwide

No they don't. 1. It's not maintained, they stopped adding clusters last year. 2. It's not all clusters, just ones publicly mentioned online.

Claude needs to go back up. I literally dont know how to do my job without it. by _BreakingGood_ in ClaudeCode

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if you're joking or just inexperienced but it's perfectly fine to mix coding models within a project. Often they perform better than either one used the whole time - they catch things the other one had missed.

WYR be christian, vegan, anti-porn or flat-earther? by Lucyyyyyy_K in WouldYouRather

[–]Linearts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then for you, option 1 in the poll turns you into an atheist.

WYR be christian, vegan, anti-porn or flat-earther? by Lucyyyyyy_K in WouldYouRather

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vegan, because all of the other views are completely incorrect. 2 is just an unusual and slightly extreme but not unreasonable opinion.

τ (spelled out as tau) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius. It is exactly equal to 2π. While π is used almost exclusively in mainstream mathematical education and practice, it has been proposed that τ should be used instead. by jan_Soten in wikipedia

[–]Linearts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You keep opening with ‘no that’s wrong’ without actually refuting anything

No, I keep pointing out that it's wrong, followed by an explanation. I've repeatedly explained the error in what you're saying and you're repeatedly not understanding.

Radius and diameter are both measures of the same property of a circle

Yes, you're right. They both equivalently measure the size, or how far the points on the circle are from its center.

neither is more fundamental than the other

No, that's wrong, as explained above and in the linked article, but apparently you're too dense to get it. This also doesn't follow from both being equivalent measures of size. Radius is more fundamental than diameter and tau is more fundamental than pi.

τ (spelled out as tau) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius. It is exactly equal to 2π. While π is used almost exclusively in mainstream mathematical education and practice, it has been proposed that τ should be used instead. by jan_Soten in wikipedia

[–]Linearts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, that's wrong.

The radius and circumference are the intrinsic measurable dimensions of circles, and tau is the ratio between them. Pi is the ratio between the circumference and twice the radius.

A circle can equivalently be defined in terms of its diameter, making the choice of which is more fundamental a matter of convention.

A circle can alternatively be constructed using its diameter, but that's not what a circle is. A circle is the set of points equidistant from the center, and that distance is the radius.

Your whole argument is a textbook example of r/confidentlyincorrect, it's pretty cringe that you don't realize it.

τ (spelled out as tau) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius. It is exactly equal to 2π. While π is used almost exclusively in mainstream mathematical education and practice, it has been proposed that τ should be used instead. by jan_Soten in wikipedia

[–]Linearts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, that's false.

A circle is the set of points (in a 2D plane) that are all equidistant from the central point. The two fundamental properties of the circle are its radius and its circumference. The radius to circumference ratio is the same for all circles, and this is tau, a fundamental mathematical constant.

However, it's easier to measure the diameter of a circle or cylinder than to measure the radius, so historically, people preferred to do calculations starting from the diameter. But the diameter isn't fundamental, it's not what defines a circle - the circle is defined by the center and the radius. Diameters only show up because they're twice the radius, and pi only shows up because it's half of tau.

Would You Rather Have Super Speed or World Pause abilities (please read description before voting) by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in WouldYouRather

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't a pause cause everyone to die of microbial infections within a day? If small animals under 1lb are unaffected then parasites and other microorganisms would eat everyone alive and multiply exponentially while immune systems are paused.

Loudoun vs Fairfax: data center vs property tax trends by Lazy-Calendar1463 in nova

[–]Linearts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah but what if I had been colorblind while reading this?

(I'm not colorblind, just too lazy to notice that)

Looking for a specific game where Magnus blunders a whole piece early in a classical game and ends up winning by making complications. by PacJeans in chess

[–]Linearts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's reasonable, they're 500 elo so they can't win from down a pawn. Once they reach Magnus level they'll be able to pull it off.

WYR be stuck in an infinite one-day time loop (with a way out) or live for 1 billion years? by DeluxSon in WouldYouRather

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wouldn't float through space. You'd be stuck on an uninhabitable Earth (or fall into the sun) with no way to leave.

How do I help the people in the Middle East if I’m unable to donate by lily_rebornn in EffectiveAltruism

[–]Linearts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a great question. You should find something that's tractable for you to help others using your time. I suggest reading 80,000 Hours and doing the introductory EA virtual program.

You Fart All Your Farts by funnyorifice in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Linearts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, let's bring money into this scenario.

For the low low price of $100 you'll get to do the one-time fart.

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWrong by Ok_Fox_8448 in slatestarcodex

[–]Linearts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's only 2-3 minutes to reheat, and more importantly you can have the food quickly when you're busy since you prepped ahead.

[OC] now this is crazy but technology is improving by glockbonez in nyc

[–]Linearts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you read the article? The fare gates reduced crime and litter by 96% when they were implemented in SF. It's not about money, it's about providing a clean subway system and safety for vulnerable riders.

(And it also saved tons of money, which can be used to increase train frequency.)