Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Most common words in English
According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English.[3] According to a study cited by Robert McCrum in The Story of English, all of the first hundred of the most common words in English are of Old English origin,[4] except for "people", ultimately from Latin "populus", and "because", in part from Latin "causa".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
Monday, February 24, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Re: CO2 removal and farming
If I had a choice to spend money and resources to take CO2 out of the air, or not, I would prefer to leave the CO2 in the air. It is a valuable resource. It is plant food. It is part of the food chain. Nature has ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere.
The CO2 level has been declining for a hundred million years, reaching dangerously low levels before we got involved.
There is a much bigger problem to worry about. We have been in the Pleistocene ice age for the last 2.6 million years. We should be in the cool-down portion of the Malankovich Cycles, which will lead to the next period of mass glaciation. It is thousands of years away, but it is a bigger issue than short-term warming that will last just a century or so.
I like a joke I heard: How far are we from Nuclear Fusion? About 93 million miles. Maybe we are looking for it in the wrong place, and just need better ways to collect solar energy.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM Larry wrote:
This whole article was an Interesting read....
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
elo score AI meaning
https://www.google.com/search?q=elo+score+AI+meaning&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1066US1066&oq=elo+score+AI+meaning&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDgzNjdqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
An "Elo score" in the context of AI refers to a numerical rating used to measure the relative performance of an artificial intelligence model, typically based on a system borrowed from chess where models are compared head-to-head, with the winner gaining points and the loser losing points, allowing for a dynamic ranking based on their performance against other models; essentially, a higher Elo score indicates a better performing AI model compared to others in the same benchmark.
Key points about Elo scores in AI:
- The Elo rating system was originally developed by Arpad Elo to rank chess players, but has been adapted to evaluate AI models due to its ability to compare performance through pairwise comparisons.
- Head-to-head competition: Two AI models are pitted against each other on the same task, and a human evaluator or automated system judges which model produced the better output.
- Rating adjustment: Based on the outcome, the winning model gains Elo points, while the losing model loses points.
- Relative ranking: This system creates a relative ranking, meaning a model's Elo score indicates how well it performs compared to other models in the benchmark.
- Head-to-head competition: Two AI models are pitted against each other on the same task, and a human evaluator or automated system judges which model produced the better output.
- Elo scores are commonly used to compare the performance of large language models (LLMs) where different models can be evaluated against each other on tasks like text generation, question answering, or translation.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
Why Honey Badgers Don't Fear God or Lions
This might be a repeat. I really liked it. As a rule, don't screw with nature.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Discovery of the Most Exciting Habitable Planet Near the Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VTzVAbfPmg
I gather from this video that Earth-like planets in a habitable zone around their stars are rare.
Friday, February 7, 2025
10 DEADLIEST Decisions in Human History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zh8wssRY8
Some things would have been inevitable. Minus Columbus, Europe would have discovered the Americas eventually. The Vikings had a colony in Newfoundland in 1021 AD.
People can't be blamed for epidemics when the germ theory of disease was unknown.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
The Story of Chunk the Groundhog. Narrated by Gardener Jeff.
Been watching this guy occasionally on YouTube for years. There are only so many videos of groundhogs I can find entertaining, but it is cute.
https://youtu.be/3nS6OqHT7aU?si=0FS3JbHHy_hsJsAS
The guy fortified his garden but started putting out vegetables for the groundhogs so that he could record them for his YouTube channel.
A long time ago my father advised to never feed wild animals. You make them dependent. Animals know how to find food. However, I'm more worried about rabies, which is a deadly disease and especially common among raccoons. I've saw a video of a kind old lady feeding a bunch of raccoons. This can be dangerous.
https://youtu.be/3nS6OqHT7aU?si=0FS3JbHHy_hsJsAS
The guy fortified his garden but started putting out vegetables for the groundhogs so that he could record them for his YouTube channel.
A long time ago my father advised to never feed wild animals. You make them dependent. Animals know how to find food. However, I'm more worried about rabies, which is a deadly disease and especially common among raccoons. I've saw a video of a kind old lady feeding a bunch of raccoons. This can be dangerous.
VP Vance on Air Traffic Lawsuit
"We have a massive shortage of air traffic controllers. And, in fact, there have been a number of lawsuits from people who would like to become air traffic controllers against the Obama and Biden administration who are -- basically said, we were told not even to apply because of the color of our skin, because they were white people who wanted to be air traffic controllers, and under the DEI regime of the Biden administration, they weren't welcome...
Well, part of the reason why we have a shortage at air traffic control is because we were telling our air traffic controllers not to hire people because of the color of their skin."
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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