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Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you’re just doing a digital zoom you’re actually getting AI upscaling.

There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn’t allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn’t there.

I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called “the lowest you’ll experience” as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold, some people experience colder.

I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you’ll experience in America.

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Or even just wait for a single replication of actual superconductivity, rather than a vague reaction to magnetic fields.

To be clear, absolutely no one has replicated zero resistance, which is the only thing that matters for a superconductor.

All of the “successful replications” so far have just been tiny flakes of material moving in a magnetic field. No one has even got it to fully levitate, they all stand on one end, which any ferromagnet would do. One video demonstrated that a flake was not attracted to the magnet, which could rule out ferromagnetism. Even assuming that’s true it could still just be diamagnetic - pyrolytic carbon behaves exactly the same way and it’s not a superconductor.

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But the naysayers will argue that your problem is not novel and a solution can be trivially deduced from the training data. Right?

Yes, obviously. Unless @Serdan is publishing papers about their solutions to previously unsolved computation problems, we should assume that by “novel problem” they actually just mean “a mundane problem for which every step of the solution is trivial, even if they’ve never been combined in that exact order before”.

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What happened was, up until the early 2010s a lot of frontend developers were essentially designers who could write HTML/CSS templates, but not programs. When the industry shifted to client side SPAs they couldn’t follow, so there was a big backlash against the new “complicated” tooling, even though it’s no more complicated than any other domain.

I always wanted to write a response post, “How it feels to learn JavaScript in 1996”. Because yes, webpack is harder than flat JS files. But you have 1 billion tutorial videos to help you do it, and open source project skeletons to start you off, and Q&A sites to fix your problems for you.

Some of us learned JS before YouTube or StackOverflow or even W3Schools existed. When I got my first job browsers didn’t even have developer tools! If your code didn’t work you just had to guess why!