Totally! All these ideas are just a placeholder to make a note of something we can observe until we have a better theory.

Luminiferous aether was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space. [1] Eventually we found evidence that contradicted that idea.

Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects which cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be observed. [2] We are searching for direct evidence, but haven’t found any yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

This applies here too: See my comment above; most cosmologists are confident (And/or focus most work on) Cold Dark Matter, e.g. in an ellipsoidal halo around galaxies. I am not making a qualitative judgement, but dark matter is not used in cosmology papers as a placeholder.

It's a placeholder in the sense that we don't know specifically what it is though, right? No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example.

>No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example.

Don't astronomers call elements like neon metals? Maybe cosmologists don't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity

> No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example.

They will call that "baryonic matter".

No, they'd call them protons; baryons are a class of particles, of which protons are a member.

This is what a particle physicist use the term for. But for cosmologist on the question of matter composition they will use the term in different way. I was replying to exactly the quote from your reply.

The point is, it's already a theory to even suggest it's "matter" and not any other explanation.

It certainly doesn't matter yet.

I'll see myself out.

Yes; it's still reasonably broad. (MACHOs? WIMPs?) But this is still, in terms of all possible explanations for observations re rotation curves, and the Bullet Cluster etc, well defined. It includes a lot of possibilities, but also excludes.

Unreasonably narrow, rather! We have not convinced anyone, much less done the proper science, to stick to our guns so long that it is truly matter we are hunting to explain this phenomenon.

Why would you be compensated for removing the whitespace on either end of a string?

Be good and you can work anywhere you like.

I tried Claude and got this…

* What’s heavier? 9.99 kg of super dense lead or 10 kg fluffy feathers?*

Let me think about this step by step:

1. We're comparing two masses: * 9.99 kg of lead * 10 kg of feathers

2. The density of the materials doesn't affect their mass: * While lead is indeed much denser than feathers * A kilogram is a unit of mass, not volume * 1 kg of any material has the same mass as 1 kg of any other material

3. We can directly compare the numbers: * 10 kg > 9.99 kg

Therefore, 10 kg of feathers is heavier than 9.99 kg of lead. The feathers would take up much more space (volume) due to being less dense, but they have a greater mass.

I want test with the same API as my database, which means using the same database. Setting up an instance of Postgres/MySQL/whatever isn't hard. Maybe harder if you're using an online database that doesn't fit into a container, but that's a different problem.

90%?

When the source code for these LLMs gets leaked, I expect to see:

    def letter_count(string, letter):
        if string == “strawberry” and letter == “r”:
            return 3

        …

In of their release videos for the o1 -preview model they _admitted_ that it's hardcoded in.

Honestly I'm concerned how hacked up o3 is to secure a high benchmark score.

Does Fraidycat obfuscate the fact that requests are coming from Fraidycat? Said another way, are Fraidycat requests easy to identify as requests from Fraidycat?

I don't know. How could I check that?

Internations, a social platform for the expats & locals, actively encourages people to become event organizers. It makes sense to recruit people willing to host.

“I like Elixir.”

“Elixir has been an absolute joy to work with…”