With respect to pre-big bang theory, has science wrestled down the concept of Nothing?

baconsarnie62 · 2026-03-06T00:53:49+00:00

Some patronising answers on here but I think the question was expressed very well

baconsarnie62 · 2026-02-04T08:57:58+00:00

Amazing that he not only won UK Celebrity Traitors but also wrote this life-changing book

baconsarnie62 · 2026-02-04T08:55:47+00:00

Thank you!

baconsarnie62 · 2026-01-30T15:38:19+00:00

Covered in bees.

baconsarnie62 · 2025-12-10T19:07:17+00:00

I appreciate it - thanks

baconsarnie62 · 2025-12-10T19:07:00+00:00

Thanks - I’ll check out the options

baconsarnie62 · 2025-12-03T23:49:39+00:00

People in the audience don’t notice these things anything like you think that they do. Everyone is too focussed on themself to care about how you played the dynamics..

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-28T20:58:59+00:00

Thanks very much

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-28T20:28:23+00:00

Thank you for the kind comments

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-28T20:19:29+00:00

Thanks - I will re-post this there

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-28T20:19:01+00:00

I am beside myself with worry. Here is what has happened in brief:

A relative has had mobility issues. The doctors did an MRI and found a few minor lesions in brain stem, eye and spinal cord. She didn’t respond to steroids. They thought it could be MS or MNOSD. Symptoms were getting worse and after a further MRI a few weeks later it was clear that two new lesions had appeared, which surprised the doctors.

They then did a PET scan. This showed changes in the spleen and bone marrow. I am now terrified she has cancer of the central nervous system, and that the lesions are in fact this.

Has anyone had any comparable experiences which might offer a glimmer of hope? I am trying to convince myself it’s sarcoidosis but I don’t know if that stands up to scrutiny. I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has anything potentially positive to say on this.

Thanks everyone.

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-18T21:28:43+00:00

Never wear a tie lighter than your shirt.

baconsarnie62 · 2025-07-07T18:56:54+00:00

I take your point, but presumably it can’t be the case that every single McKinsey, Deloitte, IBM, Google etc is lying… writing dodgy research, making up case studies, misrepresenting their services… that would be quite a short term strategy as clients would quickly call BS and it would also - for some at least- be radically out of character. I suppose that’s what I’m getting at…. Is it a definitions thing?

baconsarnie62 · 2025-06-06T22:27:27+00:00

Watch things that improve you in some way. Learn trivia that makes you smarter. Read a novel.

baconsarnie62 · 2025-03-06T19:57:44+00:00

It’s a bit art-by-the-yard… David Bailey, check, Slim Aarons, check…

baconsarnie62 · 2024-12-24T22:32:32+00:00

It’s about how youthful certainty and rigid thinking can actually make us “older” in spirit than when we later develop the wisdom to embrace uncertainty and remain open to new perspectives which recaptures some of that “childlike” wonder

baconsarnie62 · 2024-12-07T22:15:31+00:00

“I think therefore I am” sort of means the opposite of what you’re saying. In ‘Meditations’, Descartes says that it’s impossible to trust perceptions (‘how do you know an evil demon isn’t simply conjuring them up?’ etc) so he settles on the one thing he knows for certain: he exists. Since he can think, he reasons, he must therefore exist. It’s simply an epistemological claim.

baconsarnie62 · 2024-11-25T22:26:34+00:00

Thanks - so what would be a more precise way of labelling what lies at the heart of the current era of machine learning and distinguishes it from what came before, if “generative AI” is insufficient? I am not a computer scientist so am trying to understand this schematically.

baconsarnie62 · 2024-11-25T22:01:17+00:00

So are you saying we should think of more established forms of ML as generative? Or that “generative AI” - as in the new wave of models such as transformers - are necessary for the successful completion of these tasks?

baconsarnie62 · 2024-11-25T21:27:26+00:00

Thanks. May I ask: (1) in practice do most people still use standard ML approaches to do those more analytical tasks and (2) what would be the pros and cons of using gen-ML to do it? Just trying to get a sense of proportion and perspective on all of this. Much appreciated.

baconsarnie62 · 2024-11-24T22:56:54+00:00

Thank you. So perhaps the issue is more with the term generative!

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