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.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Did the Mormons invent a better alphabet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAI3g6zVyAI
As confusing as English spelling can be, especially to me, it evolved to its current alphabet maybe for practical reasons. English combines Old German, Old Norse, Latin, and French, leading to some odd spellings.
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.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
Glyphosate & Cancer: An honest look at the science
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My elderly mother died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma after having it for 24 years. She thought that Roundup could have been the cause. I don't think that it is possible to know.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
The last Samurai
The Avengers TV series was a British show and not that popular in the U.S. I remember seeing it as a child, but it didn't hold my interest.
Speaking of which, I briefly saw The Prisoner in the 1960s while my father watched it. He thought the show was weird, so we didn't watch any more of it. I saw it as an adult and liked it, but the finale was one of the nuttiest shows to air on television. I don't think they knew how to end the series, so they gave us a surrealistic ending. It was a weird ending to a weird show. The show has been occasionally parodied, for example on The Simpsons.
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