Those “richest people” lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.

Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inhaling-seagull

Paper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some “ocean-degradable plastics”.

Thanks for the link and breakdown.

It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.

“Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.

Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.

It does look like they don’t currently have any funding issues. They have 1.5 years of reserves and give about 15% of their income out in grants to other organizations. And like most web sites, the actual hosting costs are a relatively small part of their operation.

Haven’t played, but I found this (negative) review compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-Kd2BBpx8

He did play through the whole game.

Please don’t use folk’s medical condition as an insult.

First time I’ve seen someone mention Luck be a Landlord. Really fun game.

Roosevelt walked so Taft could waddle.

Oh. Sorry about that.

Incidentally Equifax’s new slogan

He ate all DeBussy?

Really though, the level of imperialism apologizing I’ve seen has been pretty humorous on this platform. Like people will say with a straight face that we need to support our client state Israel to secure our regional interests.

Is this being federated from some platform other than Lemmy? Because I have literally never seen someone support that position here.

Yeah, such a shameful lack of bigots’ POV.

Here’s the theme cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trp99eHyDyY

50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels

Maybe they could start them off with something easier, like Finnegans Wake

If it was primary research then it should have methodology.

But since the data is “cobbled together” from other sources, then it’s by definition secondary research (and should list those sources).

Sisyphean Effort is actually a thing

omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!

menu prices increased by only 3.7%

Worth noting this is a “difference-in-differences” study, so that change is estimating the impact of the policy alone. Folk’s observed changes will be a bit higher because they are also affected by national changes.