Impossible! It’s © 1986

WTF!

Seems pretty good for 1.1 x .9, and for .9 x .8

I guess values must be pretty close

Interesting that early canines had a very cat-like gait

After some thought, I’ve decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as “Oceangate-gate-gate”

After decades of journalists attaching the suffix “gate” to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as “Oceangate-gate”

Were any of them any good?

For those unfamiliar, Henny Youngman, comedian

I know. Nothing stresses me out more than weighing mice

The more I see posts that say “I don’t get it”, the older I feel. I guess I never realised how much Larson’s comics reflected and commented on the time they were written

John Bolton. I only want to hear from this guy if he’s on the witness stand. I can’t believe he still gets interviews.

I love that those two have hats

Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.

So, I guess, while the LLM approach to AI does do a good job mimicking the effects of our intelligence, it probably can’t really recreate it on its own

etherized

First known use in 1847

Unlike Thagomizer, not a word coined by Larson

Videos shared by researchers show how the elephants respond to call recordings addressed to them. In one, an elephant named Margaret appears to almost immediately perk up to a rumble recording addressed to her.

It’s amazing to me that elephants use, among I would assume others, the name Margaret.

Unfortunately, this error appears a lot even in more “serious” sci-fi. Really breaks immersion, doesn’t it?

I’m really OK with this interpretation

Larson drew them often enough; he really should know better.

Volume 6 is anesthesia

Nothing says “science” like an erlenmeyer flask