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Comment Re: So... (Score 2) 36

"However, quantum computing can, in theory, solve certain NP complete problem in polynomial time."

If you can solve one NP complete problem in polynomial time, you can solve them all.

Quantum computers can't solve NP complete problems in polynomial time. That is incorrect.
But it can solve some other troublesome problems that can't be solved in polynomial time with a conventional computer.

Comment But is it necessary? (Score 2) 163

The Sun sends out charged particles that hit the surface of the moon constantly. However, in many of the craters, the particles don't reach the crater flood because they are masked by the crater walls.

This causes a strong electrical potential difference. Ie. moon craters are essentially batteries. You should be able to connect a wire between the crater floor and the crater top that would cause electricity to flow and you'd get an endless source of energy.

Why bother with reactors when you can simply take a few wires?

Comment Re: I liked figure 5 (Score 4, Insightful) 58

Well, it's hard to make it sound "natural" when it's not your native language.

So people may use someone to check their English, or Grammarly, or an LLM.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that.

English speakers can feel all high and mighty about it. But remember, these other researchers are writing in their non-native language. And that can really sound "unnatural". That doesn't mean their work is less valuable.

Comment Transformative seems to me to be the key finding (Score 1) 92

The biggest win for AI companies is the ruling that AI is "highly transformative". If that holds then there's no ambiguity regarding "derivative works" vs "transformative works" and that means that we can use source code or movies generated by AI without being worried that the original authors of the works the AI was trained on will come and get us for copyright infringement.

I generally agree with this stance, but am a bit worried about when AI "memorizes". For example it could dump out a verbatim implementation of TimSort that was "derivative" or the original code. But this ruling strengthens the "transformative" interpretation.

As for "fair use".. yeah.. it's obvious that if you read something you don't have to pay every time you read it or any time you recall it. As long as you obtained the material legally, you should be allowed to learn from it. If this didn't hold we'd all be in trouble.

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